{"id":494,"date":"2026-08-02T08:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T13:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcade.fairiesdreamsfantasy.com\/Blog\/?p=494"},"modified":"2026-08-02T08:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T13:55:07","slug":"maintenance-update-for-opossum-ride-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcade.fairiesdreamsfantasy.com\/Blog\/archives\/494","title":{"rendered":"Maintenance Update For Opossum Ride Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Version 0.0.8.7 has a bug that caused levels to repeat arbitrarily, along with a duplicate background-music.<\/p>\n<p>*This is the update for a stable edition of this game.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Bugs Fixed<\/h2>\n<ul>Fixed repetitive level cycling.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed repetitive background-music.<\/li>\n<li>Reduce some hard coding errors.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a description system that is too short. Now a long description is provided.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why This Maintenance Release Matters<\/h2>\n<p>To fix a problem with an immediate update to this game.<\/p>\n<p>This is key to ensure this game is functioning correctly.<\/p>\n<p>This maintenance release is my first encounter as I code a game. However; this is a critical way for me to ensure this game works properly.<\/p>\n<h2>What&#8217;s Included<\/h2>\n<p>Replaced a generic lounge arena with a new Grand Orchard arena with 5 levels inside (available after the garden arena.<\/p>\n<p>Added frogs and owls to this game.<\/p>\n<p>The previous version of this game did have background-music introduced as a way to add more artistry. However; due to use of hard coding and magic numbers&#8230; we have to ensure this game is more modular.<\/p>\n<h2>Why We Chose To Use Mathematics To Make Music Instead Of Using Pre-Recorded assets<\/h2>\n<p>We are doing this mathematical experiment as we build\/refine this game. However; this game is built without any shortcuts. This is key to ensure this game runs smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>Despite modern internet, and high storage disks&#8230; we are still doing these experiments that are meaningful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Version 0.0.8.7 has a bug that caused levels to repeat arbitrarily, along with a duplicate background-music. *This is the update for a stable edition of this game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[55,4,41,7],"tags":[108,117,133,185,184,152,69],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-development","category-opossum-ride-adventure","category-stable-updates","tag-adventure","tag-bugs","tag-levels","tag-maintenance-release","tag-music","tag-opossums","tag-updates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcade.fairiesdreamsfantasy.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcade.fairiesdreamsfantasy.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcade.fairiesdreamsfantasy.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcade.fairiesdreamsfantasy.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcade.fairiesdreamsfantasy.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arcade.fairiesdreamsfantasy.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/arcade.fairiesdreamsfantasy.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcade.fairiesdreamsfantasy.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcade.fairiesdreamsfantasy.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcade.fairiesdreamsfantasy.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}