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Developments

With Puzzobomb in a "Nearly working properly" state, I figured I oughta get it tested on my iPhings.
But when I tried it, it broke.. Not sure why..
I think the level loader might be too much for the thing, so will probably strip out the need for compressed level data, and see if the game can cope with oodles of big strings instead!

Meanwhile, I tried popping Letter Lattice onto the iPhone. More as a test than anything.
I needed a half-a-dozen tweaks to my "ready to compile" sequence since the last time I compiled to iOS.
The Asset Library no longer seems to recognise my Launch Screen images. Not sure what that's about.
Additionally, I'm not sure when the icon sizes all seem to have changed, but indeed none of my previous icon sizes seemed to fit anymore. So I had to rejig all that stuff, too.
I also added This Fix to stop the game from killing any background music, which is nice.

Then I faffed about changing the app's name and all that stuff.
It wasn't "too" big of a deal, but having changed the app name, you can't then recompile from Monkey, as Monkey expects the app to have the old name, and it all gets very broken.
So, you pretty much get one shot, once you've renamed it. Otherwise it's a case of deleting the iOS Project folder, and starting all over again from Monkey.

Not the best scenario, but since most of my games are pre-stress-tested on the PC first, it's not "too" much of an issue.

What was an issue is that Letter Lattice is barely playable on a tiny little iPhone screen.
I'll have to rejig it to make better use of the screen's ratio, I think.

Hmm.. :

Daily Doodle : Rockin' Out

Platdude and his friend have formed a coverband.
Tonight, they'll be banging out their favourite tracks by the band Mega Heavy ThrottleNoize.

Misc..

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