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I've got a quick pathfinder working on Blockman Gets "Something", now, so all levels should be bearable, with targets that make sense and are indeed possible.
Might be insanely hard to find that path, but I'm fairly confident that it's working the way it oughta be.

I spent most of yesterday trying, over and over, to get the regular standard mode to feel right.
After hours (literally hours!) of playtesting, I'm fairly sure now that the basic levels are at least mostly beatable.

I spent ages yesterday finding the right balance.
Playing Blockman Gets and Blockman Gets More, there's a distinct feeling that something's missing from More.

A rather productive day, today, as most of the audio got finished off, the level creation worked out well, and 3DS controller tests now feel much more comfortable.
I'm now trying to come up with interesting concepts that might expand the basic game, but as usual I'm worried that doing so might break the very logic of the game. I'll really need to think hard about what does and doesn't work in the game, and might even split it into its own "arcade mode", rather than break the main game...

I mostly switched off, yesterday.

It seems that if you have a .php file inside a folder, then it gets its own error_log file, meaning all this time I've been having a little error log grow inside an old abandoned folder, because I forgot it had a broken .php file in there!
.. Oops!!

Spent most of today trying to find the right feel for the controls.
I'm still not 100% happy with them.
Although they feel ok with the tapping of keyboard keys, they feel totally wrong when trying to play with a DPad, which is odd, because I tend to think of those two things as being very much the same thing.
Anyhoo, other than that, the game seems to be coming along nicely, although I've yet to add anything new into the mix.
I'm currently trying to think of interesting w...

The gameplay fits nicely into multiple screen resolutions, but what do I do about the main GUI?

Boy, it's not fun trying to doodle a bunch of mazes for Blockman games.
I HOPE that I'm sticking with the current 25x15 maze size, because having to remake all these maps would drive me slightly crazy.

Going through my list of "games I probably should do using the new C++ Framework"..
I should probably do something a bit like this..
Thoughts?!
I think I'll strip it back to the original "just a plain puzzle game" mechanic, and then see where I can go from there.

After every game's release, the influx of feedback is intense!
Let's see what @RSKGames thought of this week's game.
@RSKGames
Overview: A fun little endless side scroller with lot of jumping and endless supply of enemies.

I'm not 100% sure about those trees...

Have a super squashing time.

Whilst rushing to complete this week's game, I found myself with less than an hour's battery remaining.
I quickly opened up two virtual boxes, Linux 32 and Linux 64, and rapidly compiled both versions of the game.
I then compiled the Win edition, and 3DS, too.
Then I opened up the Mac via Remote Desktop, only to find it wanting to do a bazillion updates.

You know you've made far too many games when you struggle to come up with a title for your newest game, and end up with...

A nice cool night, with oodles of rain outside.
Aaah, normal Bolton weather has returned.
That's my first proper lie-in since this summer-spell hit, a couple of weeks ago.
A nice long sleep, and I'm now wide awake and ready to take on the many thing that I have planned!

Everything's now nice and playable. It's a little bit difficult, but nothing you can't master with a little practice.
Todo-list contains things like giving the game a name.
I'd like to retain the "Fiery Fourth" name that Eikon started, but there's very little "Fiery Fourth" remaining in this game, if I'm honest!!
... And yet...

OK, now I'm really confused!!

Added a bit of greenery to the background, this morning, but had to rejig a bit of the 3DS's code so that the scaled-up sprites looked nice and "Nearest Neighbour", instead of .. Like they did an hour ago!!
Pixel scaling FTW!
I'm going to have to add a trail to the player, though. It's extremely easy to lose track of where you are, when it all gets hectic.
But, yeah, looking good

This week's game now has audio, as well as oodles of death.

There's a nice new pool game available on iOS by @helvetica called Pocket Run Pool. (.com)
People keep asking me on Twitter what it's like, because apparently I'm some sort of super-picky gamer when it comes to Pool games.
My thoughts are that it's a really nice and fully formed "Ball" engine, that feel superb, and doesn't have of the annoying things that I usually tend to pick at when playing a Pool game.
It's almost as if @helvetica's been reading my many rant...

Blockman Gets "Something"
Spike Dislike
JNKPlat 2018
Three classic AGameAWeek games that I really think should exist on the 3DS, more than anything.

I've spent roughly a decade working in multiple scales, resolutions and ratios.
I've dealt with Android, with it's 57,000 different possible resolutions. I've handled iOS with portrait/landscape orientations. I've coped with Windows with a bazillion different possible window sizes..
But 3DS, with one single screen resolution!?!
AARGH!!!

Today's been a bit of a crazy day of maths, as I wrangled the numbers in order to get things to look vaguely accurate onscreen.
The player's no longer colliding with the floor correctly, but at least now the little squishable creatures are all behaving like they should.
Next to be added, a few powerups!

A lovely salad for dinner, but a single slice of cheese was enough to kick off a killer migraine!