Buildbox Updates Are Going In Circles... No Real Advance In Adding Major Requests

BB updates are going in circles fix some bugs and another are created, with No real Advance in adding major requests...

Each update may contain one or two minor new feature a lot of fixes but adding more bugs to be fixed in the next update!!!


When you are going to take the customer requests curiously?

 

Let them do the work, they are constantly working on it. Since they don't have anyother thing to do but upgrade Buildbox.

 

I really get annoyed by these useless threads.. I recommend you to check out the changelog lists.

 

I'm not stopping them, am I?!

 

If you see it useless others see it important !

What changelog?!
What are the major request been added?!
Do you know when major requested features will be added?!

 

Do you expect major changes every couple of weeks? You clearly have no idea how developing softwares work.
Bugs are everywhere. Doesn't matter whether is a small-medium company like Buildbox, or a multi-billion, multinational corporation like Microsoft or Adobe.Things get better overtime, not worse.

https://www.buildbox.com/forum/index.php?forums/official-announcements.29/

 

I am a programmer in c c++ javascript php and I know what I'm talking about

Ok let us look at the link you provide above and here the main content

Code:

2.1.0
added: swipe controller
added: support for unified windows platform export
updated: added warning about circle collisions maintaining aspect
updated: creator includes main menu and game over by default
fixed: loading counter is stuck at 0
fixed: remove ads button not going away after purchase
fixed: opecity changes not appearing in scene editor
fixed: copy/paste creating 2 copies
fixed: custom font reverting to default
fixed: can’t edit collision shape in animation editor
fixed: using correct Z-index for dropped items in UI
fixed: tvOS now using 60FPS
fixed: name field in animation editor
fixed: remove unused loading bar properties
fixed: action button still active after death
fixed: removed characters from Start node
fixed: menu just not pausing world
fixed: comma causing crash in font size
fixed: text entry and drop menus acting up on mouse scroll
fixed: better naming for clones in outliner
fixed: issue with shooting sound duration
fixed: interstitial ads resetting score
fixed: issues with unlock button getting mixed up
fixed: many crashes

2.1.1
added: fullscreen button for UWP
added: unlock character for WebLink
added: one time purchase
updated: better support for AndroidTV, remotes and hardware buttons
fixed: exe export does not produce exe file
fixed: crash when clicking on world
fixed: windows to large for some screens
fixed: issue with rotation mapper animation with less than 360 frames
fixed: connection not updated when typing in new position
fixed: connected enemy bullt surviving after death
fixed: preview not closing when closing main window
fixed: rapid tapping post-death cases level to unlock
fixed: objects with 0 opacity set in editor are still clickable
fixed: intel hd 3000 cards causing OpenGL issue and crash
fixed: bottom scrollbar in scene toolbar not working
fixed: update resets coins and points
fixed: issue with unmuting sound
fixed: accelerometer not working
fixed: selected animation does not show in multiple unlock
fixed: multiple and single character unlock not synched
fixed: file crashes after jumping for a time
fixed: crash when deleting nodes on mind map
fixed: preview single scene not working
fixed: score not starting from 0
fixed: pause music while showing Vungle ad on UWP


2.2.0
added: component system for worlds
fixed: around the world gameplay
fixed: flag is disappearing in future scenes
fixed: single unlock characters not appearing
fixed: fixed wake up UI after conversion
fixed: crash when adding objects
fixed: multiple unlock characters not appearing
fixed: character sticking at checkpoint
fixed: motor buttons not converting properly
fixed: can't grab object handle only when overlapping scene handle
fixed: image direction fixes
fixed: crash during preview

2.2.1
fixed: not able to select affected asset in transform
fixed: deleting object may cause crash
fixed: clicking gameplay layer may cause crash
fixed: action animation only playing first frame
fixed: world component state not saving
fixed: full screen action animation not centering when overlay
fixed: possible crash when removing unused level objects


2.2.2
added: ability to set bgm on Start node
fixed: back jump sometimes not working correctly
fixed: character unable to share component action
fixed: gameplay action slowing objects but not characters
fixed: scene duplication causing scenes to reorder
fixed: ads not showing on devices
fixed: core lib not building for uwp export
fixed: start scene removed during BBDOC conversion
fixed: component action not activating on collision
fixed: not able to change direction of on-way collision
fixed: action animation not layering correctly
fixed: crashes at game over
fixed: duplicate character not using ghost jump
fixed: bullets being duplicated
fixed: duplicated character losing collision shapes
fixed: crash when dupicating character
fixed: atlas optimization causes hang

From above :the main added items are three or four and some of them are just a repeated feature

Now go to request forum and look how many requests that been asked several times for example: credited when killing enemy, life bar, multiple object select ...etc very long list..

I'm not saying to add all requests but some of them are a must.

Customers of BB and as a game builders they see what other software's contains, they need important features that will help them build Competitive game that are missed from BB.

Major features that will affect the game directly not side feature that will not help building a better and Competitive game..

 

Right, bugs are existing in all software. But minor bugs are accepted, crashes are not. Especially if there is a very minimal support for recovery. When a crash leads to data loss, data corruption and data inconsistency then there is a very valid point to criticize the product.

And it is super easy to implement an auto saving and incremental saving (or file versioning system) which would avoid most of the frustrations.

 

I must admit that I would prefer a much quicker support when it comes to bugfixing. It really seems that with a new update only a few are fixed and much more are created. The strange thing is that the new ones do not have anything to do with the bugfixes from the changelog. Like the ads for Android not working in 2.2, how could that possibly go wrong with the fixes they did? New features also work mostly 50% of how they should (like the purchase 1 time button). This doesn't look very professional and sounds to me that behind the scenes a chaotic development is going on. It even seems out of their hands sometimes. With the price tag this should be handled different in my humble opinion.

Being said that, I don't have a clue how difficult it is to develop a software like Buildbox. This is in no way a accusation but rather an opinion from a worried customer who loves to work with Buildbox. I'm lucky because my game in development is working almost 100% as I want it to (Buildbox 2.1.1). There is only one bug that really bothers me and it is the flicker when changing from one UI to another. The worst thing in my case is that when this bug will be fixed I won't be able to update because Buildbox 2.2 already has changed some mechanics regarding the rotation of actions that doesn't work anymore with my gameplay. So I have to live with this bug and hope others won't notice. On the other hand, I really am praying that there is no additional bug I don't know about with ads when exporting my game. And well, this I think, says it all. A customer that needs to pray to make things working isn't really a happy customer at all. Therefore I can completely understand your opinion lqifqkt.

I'm not a negative person though, there are a lot of moments when working with Buildbox when I come across a feature I didn't know about and silently give props to the developers for making it happen. Like the UI animations or the event observer. Man are these cool things to play with. After all I believe that Buildbox is still in the very early stages and we have to give it time to evolve. As the signature from Sean says: Restrictions breed creativity! This is always true and with Buildbox probably a little more. Great games like Color Switch or Slip Away were made with Buildbox (and I know of a few others that are pending release) and this makes me confident to keep trying myself.

 

Indeed releasing an update with major bugs is not a professional way

Thank you

 

Thank you for this post

I started this post to open BB developers eyes and say:

"We don't want to reach the end of the year where 2.5 is released and BB game builders prefer using 2.1, or reaching the end of the year and life bar or any simple request is not included"

 

Shooting an enemy and increasing a score has been pretty standard since tank battle in like 1980 or whenever...before there was even arcades using I television...I would certainly feel that would have been a BB v1.0 thing.

 

A Live Support/Chat function would be awesome...

 

This is already possible!

 

How?!

 

I did not know this. No didn't find a way and there is even a BB customer feature request for it. Aren't enemies always objects?

 

I'll publish a bbdoc in another thread. Give me some minutes.

 

Thank you. We really appreciate it.

 

Done: https://www.buildbox.com/forum/index.php?threads/reward-coins-points-for-killing-enemies-bbdoc.5697/

 

It would solve everything, If it has beta and stable channel.

Those who can't wait for new updates can still enjoy the new releases more frequently but can understand it's beta and might have issue, Also that will help BuildBox support team to address most issue and bugs reported by a wider testers, While other customers can still update safely on the stable releases, And understand what changes and fixes got addressed.