Success!!

I did a rather large bulk of coding, yesterday. Enough to get the top-screen on the emulator to finally change colour!

All appears to be going OK on the 3DS front, but now I need to take the loaded image data and shift it over to video-ram.
And this is where things start to break down!

I can now launch, quit, relaunch, requit, re-relaunch, home, resume, sleep, resume, and quit the 3DS Framework, over and over, without it crashing!!
Turns out, I had "gfxInitDefault();" occurring twice. Such is the chaos of my framework, took me bloomin' ages to find the bug.

So, the R4 3DS i Gold + (or something) turned up last night, at around 6pm, and I spent the next two and a half hours faffing about to get the Homebrew Launcher installed onto my old 3DS.

This racing game really doesn't seem to be going anywhere.

Spent most of today rewriting the track converter tool.

I've been trying my best to work on the car racer thing, but after the past few days of tweaking the 3DS Homebrew stuff, the racer's certainly been neglected.

After a bit of a breakthrough, this morning, I've now got THIS displaying on the 3DS.
This is potentially a good sign.
Now all I have to do is code all the stuff that gets sprites and sounds loaded into memory, and then outputted from the 3DS somehow.
Should be a cakewalk!!

I'm currently unsure whether I can get the framework running on 3DS at all, or at least, not in it's current condition.

Yesterday, I spent about 3 or 4 hours wrestling with DevKitPro, trying to figure out the best way to get my Framework running as 3DS Homebrew.

By which I mean, the controls are nice and decent, and the track is also quite nice ('ish!) but the scaling is all off.

I think I've got a decent method for doing tracks.. Maybe..
The method goes like so.
1. Draw track onto 64x64 image.
2. Convert to string of text.

OK, today I need to work out the track generation, as I didn't do a bloomin' thing on the game, yesterday!!
Instead, I faffed about with looking into 3DS Homebrew and figuring out things, there.

Everything seems nice and stable with the Win/Linux/Mac framework, but it's a shame that Android and iOS aren't currently part of the journey.
What better time then, to choose to take a really odd detour, and see if I can squeeze in a little extra.

This week's game might end up carrying over to next week, as I still have an awful amount to do, and not a whole lot of time left for this week.
(Plus, it's Easter Weekend, and we've got family showing up, so there'll be less coding time for Jay!)

Arrrgh!! Buffers!!

Having attempted a whole host of other ideas, this week, I'm currently back to driving a car around a small track.
Top-down, 2D, probably timer-based.
Today will be about getting the physics to work, and figure out exactly what style the game will take.

So, I scrapped the Sheep Herder engine, and started a new "time trial based" engine instead.
I got a classic Thrust style gravity ship, popped it at the start of the track on the top left of the screen.
Fire for Thrust and then left and right.

I'm trying my best to figure out a nice control scheme for this Sheepdog game, but the two main methods don't appear to be working out.

I spent most of yesterday fiddling around with lots of different control methods for the Sheep Herding game.
After a number of methods, I've settled on having "Come" and "Go" buttons.

I'm not happy with the way the little sheepdog turned out, and spent ages last night trying to make it look a little more canine, and less like a rat!!
I still haven't quite figured it out.
.. I'm certainly no artist!

Links : Tweet - Game Mentioned
I suppose I could do a racer, this week..?

Quite a busy day, yesterday. Not only did I get the game finished off and posted, I also then tackled a couple of website things that I'd not yet bothered to do.

With each release comes an influx of feedback from the many people who've played the games.
This week, @RSKGames takes a look at an underwater Snake clone.
You can Download Slithering Waters here.

@RSKGames

I've finally found the time to add a "Latest Scores" section to the Scoreboard page.
Click the upper-left "Latest Scores" button for an up to the minute list of the most recently posted scores.
Simple but effective!

Time for Generic Snake Game #29304732!