Spent most of this morning working on Error Messages.

Bah, humbug! After spending hours writing a lovely function, the other week, which takes .png images and chops them down to 1/16th their size, so that they work better in the 3DS's memory, it seems that the memory required to load those initial images before chopping is actually too much for the poor little 3DS to cope with. After having tried the same engine with the same images, but pre-scaled down, the whole framework is running a LOT better. This means that.. A ) I'm going to have to do al...

Yeah, I really don't have a lot of RAM to play with in the 3DS, do I!?!

It works, but like I said this morning, I really need to fix the scaling quite a bit to get everything working properly. But, yeah.. Our familiar Framework Menu! Woot!

OK, today's aim is obvious. Extra Squishiness in the Bug Department!!

Success!!

I can now launch, quit, relaunch, requit, re-relaunch, home, resume, sleep, resume, and quit the 3DS Framework, over and over, without it crashing!! Turns out, I had "gfxInitDefault();" occurring twice. Such is the chaos of my framework, took me bloomin' ages to find the bug.

I'm currently unsure whether I can get the framework running on 3DS at all, or at least, not in it's current condition.

Yesterday, I spent about 3 or 4 hours wrestling with DevKitPro, trying to figure out the best way to get my Framework running as 3DS Homebrew.

Oh, pants.. The iPad got down to 40% before crashing, today, and once plugged back in stated it had 3% battery remaining. That's really not good...

iPad died at 30% battery again, last night. That's not a good sign. Ignoring the imminent failure of my own technology, I spent most of yesterday trying to get iOS and Android working again, but failing to get anything going whatsoever.

It doesn't help that my keyboard occasionally does double-taps, so about 5 or 6 deleted versions had me typing things like moodel, or cllick.. You can actually see a couple of double spaces in this version, but I figured they're passable! Bah, humbug.

I intended to get a lot of other stuff done, yesterday, but my mind wandered off into the realm of "Fun multiplayer thing I can add to SoCoder".

Had a nice long game of Super Scrabble against Mum, today, and the games last much longer, as expected! Took about 2 hours, or thereabout, before one of us had won*.

Today's attempts at the online fixings didn't work out.. Again! I'm totally lost as to how to do that. Bah, humbug! So, instead I started work on the next game. I'm not 100% sure if this'll work out, but I'm aiming to make a sokoban-esque crate pushing puzzle game. It might end up taking a couple of weeks, as I'll need to somehow come up with a nice way to generate levels. .. Or actually make them!!

Spent about an hour cursing at Android again, last night. "Hey, why not download out wonderful Android Studio, which makes everything a breeze!" ... Bah, humbug..

The 3D printer finally managed to start printing, last night. It managed about 8% of the print, before the print "popped" off the mat, and everything went horribly awry. Bah, humbug.. I'll probably have another attempt at it later. Since it's my birthday, I'll be sitting about and being generally lazy, today. Nothing much more to say than that! Lazy Jay wins, today..

The game's a little closer to release, as I've stress tested all the "Main" levels.

The 3D Printer arrived. I spent most of the day doing the setup.

"Episodes 1, 2 and 3 of Stargate Origins are now available online" said the tweet. I hurried to the Apple AppStore, downloaded the StargateCommand app, and promptly paid £19.99 for "Full Access"

Stupid iOS! "Alert" says the debugger in XCode. And that's all. Quite what that means, I've no idea. Could literally be anything.

I spent a bit of time looking into Pico-8, yesterday, (Spurred on by SkyBerron posting this teeny weeny version of SpikeDislike) but it's a wildly different language than I'm used to. Lots of little bytesized bits of code, and a methodology that I'm just not used to. I'm sure that, with a little more poking and prodding, I might learn to code well in the language, but for now I think I'd much rather be sticking with my new C++ Framework. But the bug is already starting to niggle awa...