Dizzy Dwarves

26/08/2022

ADIB 73. With the last bug squashed like road kill, we embarked on another final round of testing. To give you an idea of what that involved, that was completing all 40 levels again to confirm everything was working as expected on all levels. At this point that was less fun!!

01/08/2022

Absolutely thrilled to have had the opportunity to chat with the awesome Syndicate Y and talk a little bit more about our game and our journey in building it. Even better to be introduced alongside the new website! Check it out!

Syndicate Y Interviews - Interview with Pete and Jase from Dizzy Dwarves %dizzydwarves %mobilegame

29/07/2022

ADIB 72. One trade off we had to live with however was a max speed we had to keep the game to in order to minimise our lag issues. For a game based on speed and reaction time, having to throttle our speed was frustrating. On the plus side, this max speed was still pretty fast!

28/07/2022

ADIB 71. It wasn’t all bad news, some of the benefits to come out of our pain:
- rethinking some of our level designs, leading to a better product
- optimised code
- more efficient algorithms
- optimised assets leading to a much smaller app install size

Silver linings!

26/07/2022

ADIB 70. As frustrating as it was to realise we had spent mths trying to fix something we had no control over, at least we now knew what we were dealing with! We could finally move forward trialling different solutions knowing the root cause. Way better than fumbling in the dark!

26/07/2022

Today I learnt FTFY does not stand for F that F you… 😂😂

19/07/2022

ADIB 69. After mths of fixing and testing, we had exhausted pretty much every idea we could think of... Then we discovered documented issues with CPU throttling when batteries overheated. It explained a lot of what we were experiencing - we had finally tracked down our gremlin!

18/07/2022

ADIB 68. We went on this cycle of fixes for a while. The last bug was really annoying and took us mths of effort to diagnose and resolve. We were experiencing intermittent micro lags for some reason. With a game dependent on reflex and split second timing, it was a show stopper…

17/07/2022

ADIB 67. After a few wks of fixing and testing, we finally appeared to get the dwarf’s motion back to smooth again. Aaand of course, just as we did that, we somehow re-inherited our old alignment issue. This would be a pattern we would become all too familiar with.

16/07/2022

Here’s a Dizzy Dwarves montage with the character we created in honour of Ellen. Hunt us down on iOS and Android!

11/07/2022

If you’re a fan of the game, one of our fans has created a subreddit for the game. Please feel free to join the community!

The (unofficial) subreddit for Dizzy Dwarves fans. If you’ve stumbled upon this indie mobile game, help me grow it!

10/07/2022

Here’s a short glimpse of another level and enemy type from Dizzy Dwarves. If you love super challenging games, you will definitely enjoy this challenge!