Weekly Buzz – 05/04/18

Hello Collectors,

A long time ago, in a Wallaverse far, far away… May the Fourth Be With You! We hope you have a great Friday (or Saturday) and an even better weekend. Who won the coffee vs tea debate? I’m not sure we’ll ever truly know.

Behind the Curtain

We have implemented our new way of creating items for future drop times. This change was made for the Informing The Cops item, to which we didn’t hear any negative feedback about how smoothly that went. Win in our column! Based on this successful test, we’re going to be moving forward with this new method and would appreciate feedback from those involved with the drop, between items #1 and #1000. Thanks for helping!

Development continues on 2.2.5, but most of our growth this week has been on building up the backend of our code. We’ve made improvements on various API calls, to hopefully speed up the app’s response time.

The Chase continues as Lolly smashes her way onto the set. What comes next in this extremely quiet film? You’ll find out soon after this brief intermission.

Tons of rare items are still sitting in the Mixerpool, just waiting to come out! If you need to check and see what’s still in there, our recommendation is to utilize ItemBrowser.

Our 2.0 anniversary sale is still happening at the online store. Remember, the sale ends on Monday!

Recent Item Highlights

Player Unique Spotlight

With more and more Player Uniques coming out, we want to spend a respectable amount of time learning more about them. Our Player Unique Spotlight this week highlighted Indigo. You can read more about this unique here.

Indigo

This Week In WallaBee History | April 30th – May 6th

May4th, 2012: Postcard released as the first item in Life’s a Beach, the first ocean inspired set of many more to come.

May 2nd, 2015: The last two items in Great American Road Trip released, (Hawaii and District of Columbia) forcing players to get creative and figure out which item Hawaii mixed with in order to finish the set. Since President Obama was in the White House during that time, and had previously been the Illinois Senate, one needed to mix Illinois with Hawaii (his alleged birth place) in order to gain the final item. The problem with this was Illinois was release a month prior in this 51 item set, so it didn’t show up very often. Fun times.

May 4th, 2015: Rosette released, with its many variants, as the first item in General Election 2015. As a fellow player at the time, I was sure that these would be used for some devious mix, where a certain variant would mix with a future item to produce the winner of the election. Needless to say, that never happened… but they are very pretty!

May 5th, 2016: I may have added another Pouch Creature to the set, frustrating many players. Sorry about that.

May 6th, 2017: We released the Munzeeman Comic to celebrate Free Comic Book Day. It would be nice to see more from this masked hero.

Room For Growth

We have compiled a list of issues that we are currently working on. If you find something that doesn’t fit into this list, please reach out to us and let us know.

• Battery drains like crazy
  • Under investigation.
• Forum Notifications/Count are missing
  • Coming in a future update.
• General slowness
  • Under investigation. Ram Issue.
• Layout Issue (Android Specific) – Entering the app through a push notification, from a landscape-based app, makes the layout freakout.
  • Investigating.
• Random Crashes (especially on older devices)
  • We have discovered that the ram needed for the app fluctuates way more than it should, sometimes peaking over 1gb, which can cause older devices to crash. We are investigating what is causing this, so that we can enhance app performance.
• Store purchases hang up for a long time
  • We’re currently working on this. Should be mostly resolved with our new changes.
• Unresponsive Buttons
  • Under investigation.

Any additional questions, comments, concerns? Email: support@wallabeegame.com

Weekly Buzz – 04/28/18

Hello Collectors,

It’s been a fun week so far! Let’s keep the ball rolling onto next week!

Behind the Curtain

We have made our first steps toward fixing the ‘spinning wheel of death’ that appears during the release of a new item. This process hasn’t been completely installed yet, as we realize that the changes we have made are negatively impacting normal play. As we work through optimizing various API calls, we will continue issuing items. No need to email us about experiencing slowness during a drop, as that’s to be expected at the moment. We hope to begin testing item releases using the new way of creating items sometime next week. Until then, have a great weekend, and best of luck during the next few drops. If you missed the last blog post about this, you can read up on it here.

Development continues on 2.2.5, with some bug fixes and the beginnings to promises made long, long ago. There hasn’t been much development on this feature yet, but it can be traced back to October 2013 as the date of origin. More to think on here for you all, but we’re excited to see this coming together.

On a personal note, Kelsey and I would like to sincerely thank everyone who helped us announce the sex of our soon-to-be daughter! How many people can say they’ve done a gender reveal through an online game? To my knowledge, not many. We appreciate all the kind words from the community. I will respond to messages soon. It’s been very hectic, as one might think. To clear any confusion with the announcement, she has not been born yet – her due date is in September.

Recent Item Highlights

Player Unique Spotlight

With more and more Player Uniques coming out, we want to spend a respectable amount of time learning more about them. Our Player Unique Spotlight this week highlighted The Disc-Integrater. You can read more about this unique here.

The Disc-Integrater

This Week In WallaBee History | April 23rd – 29th

April 25th, 2014: Espresso Machine released as not only the first item in WallaBucks, but also the first set item created by artist Robbie Smith. Also on this day, the Wolwocks House Cup (2014) winners were announced. You’re welcome.

April 23rd, 2017: April’s Earth Day released to celebrate this huge, blue marble we all call home. Remember to recycle (your items)!

Room For Growth

We have compiled a list of issues that we are currently working on. If you find something that doesn’t fit into this list, please reach out to us and let us know.

• Battery drains like crazy
  • Under investigation.
• Forum Notifications/Count are missing
  • Coming in a future update.
• General slowness
  • Under investigation. Ram Issue.
• Layout Issue (Android Specific) – Entering the app through a push notification, from a landscape-based app, makes the layout freakout.
  • Investigating.
• Random Crashes (especially on older devices)
  • We have discovered that the ram needed for the app fluctuates way more than it should, sometimes peaking over 1gb, which can cause older devices to crash. We are investigating what is causing this, so that we can enhance app performance.
• Store Item and Icon don’t match during drop
  • Under investigation. At the moment, there is a chance that the previous item image will linger, even though the item has updated to the next one in line (viewable by the honeycomb price and set icon).
• Store purchases hang up for a long time
  • Under investigation. We’re so sorry for those effected by this issue… which should be everyone during a drop. Other times, it runs like a champ.
• Unresponsive Buttons
  • Under investigation.

Any additional questions, comments, concerns? Email: support@wallabeegame.com

Weekly Buzz – 04/20/18

Hello Collectors,

Sorry we missed you last week! We’re still here and kicking with two weeks worth of updates for you. Enjoy!

Behind the Curtain

WallaBee Update 2.2.4 was released this week, with some fun new aspects to the game. Players can now better organize their Uniques with built-in sorting and easy to understand categories. The Market got a small facelift with the ability to buy certain items whenever you want. No need to stalk the stores for hours just to find some sushi (about time). Speaking of stores, there’s only two for the meantime. We removed Retrobee and Mixing Mayhem to help test app processing and battery consumption. Other stores may come and go with app changes and holidays. To read up on all the changes made in this update, please check out the Update Notes.

Ivory Coins are back! Player Unique owners receive Ivory Coins when certain milestones are reached with their unique. These milestones include having a certain number saved or distributed.

• Saved: 500,600,700,800,900,1000,1200,1400,1600, etc.
• Distributed: 25k, 50k, 75k, 100k

Benson has hit the street with even more numbers than before: 50! Check and see if any are in your neighborhood! Remember, he only visits Verified Monuments – so make sure your monuments have a check mark on the top-left corner.

We will be conducting some tests for an upcoming gameplay feature. Please don’t be alarmed if you see a new item and don’t know how to get it. All things will be revealed soon!

Recent Item Highlights

Player Unique Spotlight

With more and more Player Uniques coming out, we want to spend a respectable amount of time learning more about them. Over the past two weeks, our Player Unique Spotlight has highlighted The 40mph Couch Potato and Foraging Fox. You can read more about these uniques here.

The 40mph Couch Potato

Foraging Fox

This Week In WallaBee History | April 16th – 22nd

April 19th, 2017: We spent Another Night In The Forest looking for the elusive sqauatch, with only an old photograph as evidence.

April 20th, 2014: Bunny Scissors released, allowing the previous year’s Easter Box to finally be opened! What was inside? The Easter Hen, of course. Mixing a colored egg with the Easter Hen would hatch an Easter Chick… talk about Eggshausting.

April 22nd, 2016: The greatest item of all time came out. We won’t tell you what it was, you’ll have to tell us. #WallaBeeTrivia

Room For Growth

We have compiled a list of issues that we are currently working on. If you find something that doesn’t fit into this list, please reach out to us and let us know.

• Battery drains like crazy
  • Under investigation.
• Forum Notifications/Count are missing
  • Coming in a future update.
• General slowness
  • Under investigation. Ram Issue.
• Layout Issue (Android Specific) – Entering the app through a push notification, from a landscape-based app, makes the layout freakout.
  • Investigating.
• Random Crashes (especially on older devices)
  • We have discovered that the ram needed for the app fluctuates way more than it should, sometimes peaking over 1gb, which can cause older devices to crash. We are investigating what is causing this, so that we can enhance app performance.
• Store Item and Icon don’t match during drop
  • Under investigation. At the moment, there is a chance that the previous item image will linger, even though the item has updated to the next one in line (viewable by the honeycomb price and set icon).
• Store purchases hang up for a long time
  • Under investigation. We’re so sorry for those effected by this issue… which should be everyone during a drop. Other times, it runs like a champ.

Any additional questions, comments, concerns? Email: support@wallabeegame.com