- 30 Minute Exercise Fundamental Level Option Added - 1 May 2023
30 minute fundamental level exercise option now added. This was requested by player The Professor, so thank you for this suggestion and also for player feedback about the new foundational level. It has been a little longer than usual for an update as I was on holiday for 3 weeks in April but back to it now. More updates coming soon. Have a great week :)
- 20 Minute Time Added to the New Foundation Level - 13 March 2023
* 20 minute time choice added to the new Foundation Level. + Bug fix for Foundation Level where if core exercises were switched off it in 'Settings' it was glitching out the algorithms in the 10 and 15 minute time bands. Will get working on adding new exercises, plus more player suggested improvements for further updates.
- 15 Minute Time Added for the New Foundation Level - 27 February 2023
* A 15 minute exercise time added to the new Foudation Level. There is now a 10 minute and a 15 minute option in the new Foundation Level. A 20 minute option is being built for the next update. Thank you for the valuable feedback letting me know that the new level is welcomed by players. Cheers, Kevin :)
- New Foundation Level Added - 31 January 2023
After many requests from players to bring out a foundation level for absolute beginners or beginner seniors, a 10 minute Foundation Level workout has now been added. This new level has no ground exercises, just purely standing exercises that are beginner friendly. Ideal as a more gentle introduction before tackling Beginner Level. 15 minute and also 20 minute exercise options for Foundation Level are being developed and tested and will come out soon. Also, text in a few of the rest periods will now appear in the scrolling 'tips' reminding players that they can use the spacebar to pause and unpause the game for rest, any time extra rest time is needed. This is one of the many updates coming aimed at absolute beginners. After the 15 min and 20 min options are added, 8 more exercises will be added before adding instructions for every exercise outside of game play, then adding the ability t…
- Foundation Level Coming in January - 8 December 2022
Just a quick announcement to say that I am working on a Foundation Level for Boot Camp Fitness. This will take time to implement, test and revise but should be ready to be released as an update in January. Thank you for players' suggestions requesting this introductory absolute beginner level. I really want to support players new to exercising and players who for whatever reason require a more gentler level / introduction to exercising regularly. Player suggestions such as adding modifier exercises, the ability to skip exercises and complete instructions for every exercise outside of gameplay will eventually be implemented in the near future also. This level will not include any ground exercises or advanced exercises and will be mainly standing low impact aerobic exercises. There will be 3 time selection options - 10 minutes, 15 minutes and 20 minutes, as if a player can go beyond 20 mi…
- New Core Exercises Added - 13 October 2022
New core exercises added: Accordion Crunches Side Crunches Standing Ab Twists Windshield Wipers From helpful feedback from players there have been some requests for a 'Foundation' level. A kind of true beginners level, so I will begin working on this for a near future update. The player 'Professor' has pointed out the need for the configuration to skip exercises and also for modified exercise options. This helps navigate exactly what needs to be added in future development. More added exercises are to come and also the new foundational level. Thank you to players for your support and encouragement for this project, and also for helpful constructive criticism helping to shape the game.
- Bug fix for notification sound randomly not sounding - 25 August 2022
A small bug fix thanks to Jojomo who noticed that the exercise notification sound sometimes didn't sound for the end of exercises during strength exercises. In the end, found a notification bell script that was not enabled in the Squat Hold exercise's code. For example, if WIde Grip Push Ups transitioned into Squat Holds the end of the Wide Grip Push Ups notification sound would not sound. This should be fixed now. A high five to Jojomo for spotting that and letting me know.
- More new exercises added. - 22 August 2022
New core exercises added: * Janda Crunch * Hundreds * Dead Bugs * Full Leg Plank March + Jojomo noticed the sound notification for Wide Grip Push Ups wasn't triggering. This didn't happen on testing on my PC, but I will keep testing and will keep an eye out for if this happens and fix this if I encounter it. Maybe it happens when switching to a particular exercise from Wide Grip Push Ups, so I will double check the code for notifications on all exercises over the next few weeks. Thank you for all the encouragement by players to improve this app and also for all the ideas lately for sister apps that can run alongside Boot Camp Fitness in the future.
- New Exercises Added - 3 June 2022
* Reach & Twist added. * Jab (to head level) added. * Double Jab added. * Jab then Front Uppercut added. New exercises added. I will get cracking on adding more exercises and regular updates now that I am back from a holiday break. I have a lot more hours now in my daytime job, after Covid, so have less time than when I was in the lockdowns, but I will aim to get an update out about every 4-6 weeks. I will continue to add to the game/app and improve it. In this phase still adding new exercises. Setting a specific time to work on the game consistently seems to be the key when working a full time job and programming for a hobby. More exercises on the way. Cheers, Kevin.
- Diet Ideas Taken Out After Player Feedback - 22 February 2022
* Diet Ideas section scrapped after player feedback. Awards can now be accessed from the main screen. * Developer on holiday till 20th April but will be back with more updates early May. This is a bit of a strange update, as I am subtracting something rather than adding to the game, and here is why: Metsushiro gave me some fantastic feedback in which he pointed out to me that the Diet Ideas section was the one part of the game where disappointment was felt. So I spent about 3 weeks researching nutrition and diet related information and asking physique coaches about how they advise their clients. The idea I had was to totally overhaul the Diet Ideas section, making it more autonomous, as in the player can choose a diet from list of different ideas, rather than just one suggested idea. I made up the graphics and was ready to surprise Metsushiro with a totally new Diet Ideas section. Howev…
- 2 New Configurations in 'Settings' Added - 27 January 2022
* 2 new configurations added to toggle on or off viewing calories and time left when exercising. Pingu gave me some very helpful feedback that viewing time left whilst exercising can make working out seem longer for some players. So players can now toggle these on and off in 'Settings' now. Obviously just not viewing the time would not have been enough, as players will be able to get an idea of time left by the amount of calories burnt. So viewing calories burnt can be toggled on or off as Pingu suggested. Calories will still be counted and totalled up, even if viewing them being burnt in real time is toggled off. In a few weeks' time I will bring out an update I have been working on which is inspired by Metsushiro's helpful feedback.
- More Exercises Added - 10 January 2022
* Halo Slams added. * Sprinter Skips added. * Fast Feet added. * Superman Planks added. + Low Round Kicks re-animated. Halo Slams have been added now to give two variations of slams. BloodyWarrior gave me feedback saying that Slams were enjoyable to do, so I added this variation. The Halo Slams variation bring obliques into play more, where as standard Slams are great for lower back strength. Fast Feet and Sprinter Skips will show up if jumping exercises are enabled. Fast Feet is arguably not a jumping exercise, but if someone has turned off jumping exercises not to disturb neighbours below in an apartment or hotel room, the Fast Feet exercise is going to make a lot of noise. Superman Planks I found feel nice to do as great for core work and stability. Thank you for supporting this game and wishing you the best of success in this new year :)
- New Exercises Added + Fixed Room Selection Button Glitch - 21 December 2021
Added 4 new exercises: * Power Skips * Sprinter Steps * Slams * Rotational Chops + fixed a glitch where switching from the Lobby Room to the Metro Room was not functioning properly, plus found and fixed a bug when game testing, on the room selection panel. Power Skips will not show up if a player has jumping exercises turned off in Settings. Really enjoyed doing Slams as great for ab work and a whole body exercise. Power Skips were weird to do at first as this was a new exercise for me, I felt like I was dancing in a Mary Poppins musical at first, but after a while they became familiar and fun to do. November was a no go on any updates as quite a few life events hit me throughout that month. However, back to normality now and will make up for this by adding more and more exercises. It is exciting as the array of different exercises is growing steadily bigger now for more and more variat…
- 5 New Exercises Added - 22 October 2021
* Pivot Punches added. * Crouch to Stand added. * Knee Cross Body added. * Standing Oblique Crunches added. * Pulse Squats added. * Compiled in YYC once again for better game speed. + coded in extra checks to combat the glitch that Perry reported, where every blue moon no room would be selected causing the game to flip out and crash. Those Standing Oblique Crunches are really fun to do. More new exercises on the way :)
- Bug Fix - 13 October 2021
Perry kindly let me know about a bug that was happening in the last build. The bug I would guess has been caused by switching compilers, so I have rolled back to using the VM compiler instead of the YYC compiler.
- Whole Game Optimised to Run Smoother and Faster - 10 October 2021
* New more efficient sprite loading system added to all exercise levels and times. * Each exercise sprite given its very own texture sheet to reduce texture swaps for better efficiency. * Game compiled in YYC using C++ instead of a Virtual Machine compiler for higher game speed and fps. * Code optimisations, such as scripts hard-coded in to reduce script calls for even more game speed. * Chance of player AVs flagging up this game as a false positive is now 10 times less likely as this update was compiled using YYC, as well as all future builds. In a nutshell, the game now runs much faster, more efficiently and smoother. Plus the blue bar lag glitch is now fixed and the chance of player AVs flagging this game up as a false positive for a virus is now 10 times more unlikely. Players may have to take their exercise speed down 10% to 20% on some PC systems as the sprites load and run faster…
- Optimizations Part 7: New Sprite Loading System for 40 min Exercises - 6 October 2021
* New more effective sprite loading system added for 40 min exercises at all levels. Only the 60 minute algorithms to re-code now . . .
- Optimizations Part 6: New Sprite Loading System for 30 min Exercises - 1 October 2021
* New more effective sprite loading system added for 30 min exercises at all levels. Only the 40 min and 1 hour workout algorithms to change to the new sprite loading system now. Once I get these done I have an idea of how to put a stop to some players' AV checkers from flagging this game up as a false positive. Thank you to players for letting me know that this new sprite loading system has beaten the blue bar/time lag bug/glitch. Fantastic news!
- Optimizations Part 5: New Sprite Loading System for 20 min Exercises - 27 September 2021
* New more effective sprite loading system added for 20 min exercises at all levels. Fantastic news that the sprites / exercises are loading a lot smoother now from player feedback. This motivates me as I know that these optimizations are actually working. I will now get cracking re-coding the 30 min exercises onto the new sprite loading system and will release another patch update soon.
- Optimisations Part 4: New Sprite Loading System for 10 and 15 min exercises - 24 September 2021
* Improved sprite loading system added to all 10 min and 15 min exercise algorithms at all levels. Before, the corner exercise was destroyed (as an object instance) and then recreated (as a separate object instance) when it moved to being the main exercise. Now it is not destroyed, but instead re-sized to be the main exercise. In a nutshell, only one sprite texture file is being loaded instead of two on each exercise change. Which I hope will cut texture sheet loading by 50% and maybe get rid of the blue bar lag glitch that some players are experiencing. If anyone who has experienced the blue bar lag glitch wants to test this that would be great. Just launch any 10 min or 15 min exercise and notice the sprite loading performance, then launch any of the 20, 30, 40 or 60 minute exercises which are still on the old sprite loading system and see if it makes a difference. If it does, please…
