Dive for the Stars

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Last night, I saved my test level!
Unfortunately, it uncovered further complications.

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The button layout chaos continues..

I'm going to try to make the gui for the level editor do as much as it can without needing buttons!!

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It's been 30 weeks since I last tackled Horizontal Shooter.

The last time, I used BlitzMax.
It was wonderful, and gave me all manner of nice swirly effects for those lovely background lines.
Mmm..

Until it came to running it on other systems, whereby a huge amount of incompatibilities arose, and the game kinda fell on it's arse and died.

Oh dear.

30 weeks on, let's give it another go!
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I didn't get nearly as much done, yesterday, as I'd planned.
Or at least, not all the elements of yesterday's checklist, anyway.

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Level editing was such a simple plan, at the start, but with every little thing I tweak, the whole process gets more and more complicated!

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I've currently got the engine running with a level grid of 40x25, but the game can cope with any number of ratios, as long as the level data still fits within the confines of 1024 bytes.

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As I start work on the editor's GUI, something's suddenly struck me.

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Planned to do coding, today. And, though I did do some coding, it wasn't anything to do with the Framework!

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A few weeks ago, someone who obviously hadn't played Centipong enough to enjoy it, decided to complain away on the comments.

Shitterwing's complaint was as follows


Now, I don't mind complaints, but there's two things wrong with that complaint.
1. But... Centipong kicks ass!!!!
2. Pong vs Tetris? WTF is that!?
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I spent most of yesterday working my way up to the Editor, but not quite reaching it yet.

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The scoreboard admin page has been "broken" for a long while.

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You might not have noticed, but in the 2018 Framework, the two main control schemes are ever so slightly different.

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First step of adding Story Mode is to add something worth playing for.
There be birds to select!!

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I spent most of yesterday struggling to put together a SoCoder Newsletter for this week, since I'd mostly neglected it due to watching all the E3 stuff.

Meanwhile the gamedev is pretty much in the same situation it was on Tuesday, so I really need to focus on that, today.

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Last month, I subscribed to the ZenPop Ramen selection.
The box appears, then over the coming weeks, I review each of the noodles.
Last month's collection can be found in this SoCoder Thread, but I figured it might be something entertaining to crosspost here, too.

Do let me know if you hate this idea!!

Noodle Two

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