I've just spent the past couple of hours trying to fix a really stupid bug in the game logic. All of a sudden, enemy rooks could leap over your pieces. I looked into the code, and ... Yeah, I can see how that's happening. The issue being, of course, that to fix it I'd need to rewrite a significant chunk of the movement code, and probably break a whole bunch of other things along the way. I don't often give up on a project due to complexities like this. Usually if I DO give up, its ...

All the focus for this game has been on its balancing, and I've barely touched the graphical style at all.

A small prod from a user on Twitter made me wonder about the validity of getting the Framework finally running properly on iOS/Android, and so I took the challenge and came up with ...

Shoot the Barrels. Save the World.

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.

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 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!

The time of Advent is nearly over, and BOY am I glad!!

Since the web-app has its own GUI along the top of the screen, I can't rely on the OS's pinch-to-zoom like I was hoping to.

I did a major rewrite of the layout code, today, and it broke EVERYTHING!!! All "Yesterday's Solutions" are no longer valid for today, and all puzzles have been re-generated. The reason is so that the layouts can be expanded to MANY more puzzle types. Previously the Layout format was 8-characters, meaning you have up to 62 different puzzle types (A-Z, a-z, 0-9) Although I'm not 100% sure I'll ever reach that limit, I figured it was probably a good idea to bump that number a little, since...

Those last few tweaks have taken up most of the day!

Spent most of today figuring out the best way to organise all my home photos.

Spooky goings on at Foldapuz!! I hope you all have a wonderfully sinister Halloween.

There's a number of quirks on the new server, but for the mostpart things seem to be more or less functional.

The Test button is now on the top left, next to the save button. The tile-menu is now on the bottom left instead of the right, leaving quite a gap on the bottom right of the screen. I might need to tweak that a bit!

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!!

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.

Although August 13th isn't a significant date in my health matters, it is the date that I wrote this rather lengthy blog post, back in 2012. It's now become a bit of a tradition for me to post an annual update on this date. Other Jiggity Posts The posts are given the title "Jiggity", because my original post was titled "Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig"! *shrugs* It's a handy keyword when searching for these health posts.

The Tumour

A tumour/cyst/blob was wedged in my he...

I might end up delaying the game until tomorrow. After a weekend full of yucky flu conditions, the coding's been a little slower in pace.

Should be ready a some point tomorrow, but there's been an awful lot of bug fixing, tonight!!