I still have half the game to code. I've no logo, no audio, no icons, no screenshots. Things look rather bland and repetitive.
And it's already Sunday Morning.
Eeek!

I haven't really got a goal in mind for this game, yet, and it's currently just a case of "Keep going, and avoid the gunfire".
It's quite fun to play, but there's no real sense of accomplishment.

Tonight and tomorrow will hopefully bring that into place.
Additionally, I'll probably give the player a health bar, since 3 lives really don't last very long in this game!!

Enemy and Item spawning are now functioning, but I've yet to add any bullets to the strawberry's gun.

The new laptop was supposed to be arriving today, giving me yesterday to finish off most of the important pieces of this week's game.
Instead, the new laptop turned up yesterday, meaning I pretty much wasted the entire day playing Mr Reinstaller.

What kind of baddies attack a fridge?!
What would be the arch rival of a chiller cabinet!??!

Not really 100% sure what's going on here, if I'm honest, but the game now features a pogo-stick-hopping refrigerator.
.. Because..
.. ... *shrugs*
Tomorrow I need to come up with a more interesting set of gameplay elements than "Try not to fall into the chasm".
Some proper enemies would help, I imagine.

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.
Noodle Six

Well, that doesn't sound right!!

Progress : The ball has gone.
Now the main character hops up and down, instead.

In order to make the Bouncer format work properly, I'm going to need to give the player a different kind of control scheme.
I'm almost tempted to strip away the "constantly bouncing" form of the ball, and go for something more like Soccer Kid on the Amiga.

Each release brings a wave of thoughts and comments.
Let's have a peek at RSKGame's thoughts on this week's puzzle game.
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@RSKGames

A very relaxing puzzle game with right mixture of difficulty with 225 levels.

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.
Well.. Guess it's time to eat...

My mind wanders back to a game idea, long long long ago.
Super Bouncer (2003!) never got off the ground because I knew I'd need really big levels, and I couldn't be bothered to make them!
(This is a running theme)
With my modern day proc-gen methods, I could probably get a decent random-path generator up and running to keep the game varied enough to be interesting.
Couple it with better collision detection (really, anything would be better than the old test version!) and it h...

Link up for a happy robot!

OK, the game's been "final" compiled and bundles are ready, so today will be all about uploads.

Things certainly aren't "too" difficult, at least not up to the level of "Biscuit", but the variety of levels is much more interesting, and a few levels are a little more taxing than they were yesterday.
.. that only took half the day!!
Now I just need to finish the actual game, get a game title added, do logos and screenshots and start preparing the bundles.
.. basically, everything that I normally do on a Sunday, but haven't yet had time for.
Oops!

I have NO IDEA how it happened, but at some point yesterday, the face on my Misfit Phase cracked.
I must've hit it, or something, but I really can't remember doing that.
Hmmm..

Getting close to the finishing line.
Tomorrow I need to think up a name, add some sounds, do the screenshots and icons and whatnot, and then we're ready for compiling.
First, however, I might see if I can make the levels a "little" bit harder.
There are a number of rock-hard levels, but they're few and far between, and the game doesn't push you onwards as a result.

Saturday.
Not feeling like everything's going to be done in the next couple of days!! Eeek!

I left the level generator to build me a decent number of levels, for a while, and have now got the game engine to load the level in, and display it onscreen in a half-decent way.
The next step is to draw some proper gfx, and come up with a nice new character for the game. .. Or should I use Roland again?! Hmm..

I need to come up with a nice concept for the art style of this week's game.
Hopefully I can easily manage to do bog-standard sprite recolouring on the actual "path" tiles, but I'll have to draw all the different angles and things, for the turns they could take .. Urgh..
At least they're only one-way paths, and won't do crossovers or anything like that. That would be extra complicated!

Spent all day trying to work out a nice way to generate these kinds of puzzles, and I'm fairly certain that the current method works to within a decent standard.
The general gist will be that you need to walk out a path between the two similar coloured blobs, and that links them up.
A typical colour-path sort of thing.
As stated earlier, I've worked hard to get the level generator to come up with the most fiendish levels possible, but it also makes some nice simpler levels that can...

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.
Noodle Four

The repointers are nearly done with the larger side wall, and will be starting on the back wall either later today, or tomorrow.
The noise is still echoing through my head, and I'm still finding it extremely difficult to code.
But it's nearly over.
Unfortunately, game code is still coming along at a slow pace.

Today is day three of getting the house repointed, and it's really not helping my code-mood in the slightest.

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!!

Yesterday, as I watched the empty scoreboards once more, I decided it was probably about time I "switched them on" properly.
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