Whilst doing Foldapuz, I added in a Chess Font which helped make a couple of nice chess puzzles for the site. Both ideas seem to suit pen'n'paper quite well, but another idea I had is definitely more of a Videogame Logic game.

Definitely needs a better title than that!

Well, the game's definitely "working", but that doesn't necessarily make it a fun game.

I'm fairly sure I know what kind of game this is going to be, but trying to find just the right balance between "crazy visual effect" and "fun game to play" will be the challenge over the next few days.

The Puzzobomb ProcGen isn't going very well. The levels are working, but they're not very hard at all. No matter what I try, I can't seem to find a good way to make some proper puzzles. Hmm..

Yesterday I started work on a Puzzobomb Level Generator.

So, what game's next? With all the Foldapuz development, my head's currently full of little puzzle game ideas that don't quite work (literally) on paper, so I expect the next game to end up being something to do with one of those ideas.

Today's the day I have to go for my medical, and talk about how bitterly depressing it is being stuck in the house all day, every day. Everything's been posted early, all daily chores are done, and I'm now going to get a few hours sleep before having to head all the way into the center of Manchester.

At around 1am, I was starting to drift off to sleep, when suddenly.. "POUNCE!" A late night idea popped into mind.

Most of the game is now functional, and I'm fairly happy with how it's turning out. Today will be about Balancing the game, to make it so that I can get further than Level One in Hard Mode!!

I got a fair amount done, yesterday, and am now nearing the stage that the game's ready.

Couldn't seem to get much done at all, yesterday.

The game's really starting to come together, now.

I ended up putting the three floppy disks back into Futrino, last night. As much as the game has a different sort of "world", the idea of collecting the three disks to complete a level is still simple enough to understand, and provides the difficulty of having to destroy all the barrels in order to find those disks.

Weapons are now functioning much better.

With a single "it follows you around" enemy type in place, I spent a good hour or so trying to find the right feel for the game.

There's still no baddies in the game yet, but shooting barrels is at least functional.

I really need to organise some of the recent additions. Foldapuz and the JNKsg Sprite Doohickey still don't have proper links, and I've been saying for AGES that I need a single "Tools" page to deal with all of those.

I added these things to the Sprite Generator, yesterday.

I think my head's a bit sleepy, right now! Must be all the Advent of Creativity that's done me in, or the three or four glasses of Baileys that I had over Xmas!

Hmm.. Yesterday didn't go very well at all.. The plan was as such. 1. Design Barrel sprite generator. 2. Put barrels into game, with boxes and crates and other such things. 3. Get the game vaguely playable.

Spent yesterday fixing up a few issues with the latest Sprite Generator, before getting it all uploaded to the server.

Have a great night. May the end of the year be a little bit less bitter than the rest of the year's been, and lets hope that everything goes well in 2019. .. It never does, but we can dream! -=-=- As the year draws to a close, I guess my "bonus time" must end, too. It's time to focus on a more realistic AGameAWeek schedule, and start making some decent games once again. Futrinos will be first, but I doubt I'll get it magically finished by tomorrow, the first Tuesday of the year. Ex...

The new game needs boxes. Where can I get boxes?!

I thought I was a dab-hand at iPhone "tweaks", but today's issue has be rather flummoxed.

The first project for the year will be a new version of Futrino.