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.

I've currently got the engine running with a level grid of 40x25, but the game can cope with any number of ratios, as long as the level data still fits within the confines of 1024 bytes.

You can Download the "Gold - 10" collection from itch.io. It has 11 games in it, one for each of the 10 years I've been doing this..!?!

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 didn't get an awful lot of gameplay implemented into this week's game, yesterday, but the basic bits and pieces are in the engine. I've decided another remake's in order, and am focusing on NeoPlat. Not NeonPlat, the happy neon Desktop game, but NeoPlatDS, the little Original DS game about landing on floors, or something!!

That's the end of my "Week Off" Let's have a look at what I accomplished.

JNKPlat 2018

A new JNKPlat 2018 adventure is in the works.

Saturday. My "week-off" is nearly over. As I look back at what I've achieved this week, I'm somewhat astounded by how little I've managed to get functioning correctly.

Today I'm going to reattempt the "Draw tiles to a buffer, draw the buffer" stuff.

I spent quite a while, today, trying to come up with a nice fast tilemap technique for 3DS. On the Desktop edition, I can draw to a buffer, then draw the buffer to the screen, but due to memory limitations, that's not quite as easy to do on the 3DS. I've tackled a few different ways, already, but none of them seem to be helping in the speed department. Essentially, I'm getting about 30fps out of a screen full of 8x8 tiles, which is absolutely horrendous when you consider that I used to be...

God damnit, Apple..

There's a nice new pool game available on iOS by @helvetica called Pocket Run Pool. (.com) People keep asking me on Twitter what it's like, because apparently I'm some sort of super-picky gamer when it comes to Pool games. My thoughts are that it's a really nice and fully formed "Ball" engine, that feel superb, and doesn't have of the annoying things that I usually tend to pick at when playing a Pool game. It's almost as if @helvetica's been reading my many rants about rub...

Already the scaling is causing quirks!!

I promised over on the GBAtemp forum that today would be the day for the first 3DS Homebrew test release, with or without working music. Unfortunately, it's without working music 39)( But it does contain biscuits, so that's ok! If you head over to the Roland Eats a Stale Biscuit page, you'll find a lovely little .3dsx download button. Mmmm..

Here's how yesterday went. 1. Create the logo, do the screenshots, prepare the assets. 2. Compile the Windows version. 3. Test the 3DS edition. 4. Tweak the 3DS edition. 5. More 3DS tweaking. ... 2184. Extra 3DS tweaking. 2185. Realise there's no time to post the actual game.

Getting some really unexpected number issues that I'm fairly sure I shouldn't be having!

My adventures into 3DS Audio are looking a little bit closer.

I need to double check, but I think the big Grid[] array might be having issues.

I said I was going to work on a Mini Clampett sequel this morning, so I cloned the project folder and opened it up, and then went "Hey, I bet I know what's wrong with the 3DS Engine.."

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...

OK, step 2 complete.. Only took about a week!!

Three little squares..

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

This racing game really doesn't seem to be going anywhere.

This week's game might end up carrying over to next week, as I still have an awful amount to do, and not a whole lot of time left for this week. (Plus, it's Easter Weekend, and we've got family showing up, so there'll be less coding time for Jay!)

Having attempted a whole host of other ideas, this week, I'm currently back to driving a car around a small track. Top-down, 2D, probably timer-based. Today will be about getting the physics to work, and figure out exactly what style the game will take.

So, I scrapped the Sheep Herder engine, and started a new "time trial based" engine instead. I got a classic Thrust style gravity ship, popped it at the start of the track on the top left of the screen. Fire for Thrust and then left and right.