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 be used to...

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 Men Chicken??!

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!! Noodle Three

Yesterday, as I watched the empty scoreboards once more, I decided it was probably about time I "switched them on" properly. -=-=- Note : In order to activate online scores on my recent games, hop into the options screen, and Enter Your Name.

After the release of each game, an influx of wonderful feedback is submitted by the players. Let's take a look at what RSKGames thought of NeoPlat Blast! You can Download NeoPlat Blast here.

@RSKGames

Overview: The player has infinite number of bombs which he can use to break the platforms and kill the bats that gets released from the breaking platforms. Only way to lose a life is to come in contact with the bats.

A silly game title popped into my head, late last night, and I've been trying to figure out what sort of game it might be.

Someone over on the GBATemp forums mentioned Centipong being one of their favourites of my DS Homebrew collection. To be honest, I never did solve the "What Comes Next" issue with that.

It's time to have a blast, with NeonPlat.

I got all of the compiles done, late last night, but was too tired to then upload everything, so that'll be today's task. Uploading isn't so easy, nowadays, as I've oodles of places to upload to. Here, GameJolt, Itch.io, and then crossposting links to SoCoder and GBATemp, each one with their own set of images that need posted, and other such gubbins.

This week's game is currently alarmingly difficult. With all the little bats floating around inside the cramped space, it can be extremely difficult to make simple moves without getting caught out.

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!!

Noodle Two

I spent most of yesterday struggling to put together a SoCoder Newsletter for this week, since I'd mostly neglected it due to watching all the E3 stuff. Meanwhile the gamedev is pretty much in the same situation it was on Tuesday, so I really need to focus on that, today.

Don't you love it when, after a recent Update, Windows always opens the browser up. You always expect the page it leads you to will be full of actual information about what the windows update just did. .. But, no. It never does. It's always the exact same generic "Windows Help" page that tell you absolutely nothing. After this morning's update, I could barely read the generic Windows Help page, because my laptop's screen was too dark. Hmm...

Man, I hate writing platform game collision code! Those darn diagonals always freak out..

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!!

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!!

I've often wondered about stats like this, so today I built a quick little took to make a little stat list for me. (55%) 499 3DSBrew (17%) 158 Windows (14%) 132 Linux (11%) 106 MacOSX Downloads (since May 1st) of games created using my new C++ Framework.

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

As each game gets posted, the feedback occurs. Let's take a look at the feedback from Blockman Gets Retro! You can Download Blockman Gets Retro here.

RSKGames

Overview: While last years Blockman game was a platformer this year's Blockman game is back to the roots maze puzzle game where the player has to traverse the maze, eat the required quantity of yellow dots to cross each of the levels. Blockman cannot move backwards and cannot traverse a path already traveled unless there is a ...

I've been focusing on JNKPlat much more than I should've, this week, and neglecting to get the Metal part of the framework up and running. That'll be today's task. Because I REALLY need to do that!

JNKPlat 2018

A new JNKPlat 2018 adventure is in the works.

Maybe I'm coding this wrong, but I swear I'm doing everything the way I'm supposed to!!

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.

At the same time as I'm trying to get the Mac/iOS Metal stuff to work, I'm also trying out lots of techniques for tilemaps on 3DS.