Spent yesterday making the game look and feel as good as I could, but STILL haven't added any pickups!

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..

Player goes right, bullets are working, baddies appear, deaths and kills. All is working well.

I seem to be making a new Horizontal Shooter. Thus far, I've got bullets and a trail working, but I'm not sure if I'll be keeping the "Catch a bullet" mechanic of previous versions.

Each time I release a game, the thoughts and comments come rolling in. Let's take a peek at this week's thoughts.

RSKGames

I find Flappadiddle Doo having the smooth gameplay like its predecessor and the polish found in ''Sheep Goes Right''.

Awww, the lovely lovely thick snow.

OK, let's get things kicked off properly.

I'm fairly happy that Flappadiddle-Doo is ready to go. Over the next hour or so, I'll recompile, get all the assets redone, and get things uploading. Meanwhile, last night was spent watching the 3D Printer printing the second test SoCoder ball.

Been playing the Windows edition of Flappadiddle-Doo for most of the day.. .. Playtesting, honest!! Had to play through the "World" levels over and over, just to be sure they're doable. Tweaks yet to be done, include making the "Bonus Multiplier" a bit more obvious. I'm not sure how best to do that, but it'll probably just end up being a star-system or a red/amber/green light thing... You'll know what I did, once it's ready! Once that's done, I'm going to spend the r...

Today's plan is exactly the same as yesterday's plan. It's like Deja Vu, all over again.

\o/yeay\o/ First test print that's at least vaguely decent.

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.

Flappadiddle-Doo's main menu now has Worlds 1 to 6 listed, as well as Endless 1 to 6 too. The unlocks work, the extra characters are in, and everything's golden! Once everything's up and running, you'll be able to play through and unlock everything as you go. Hurray!!

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

Yesterday was spent rearranging bits of my bedroom to (hopefully!) fit a 3D Printer in there. If it doesn't fit atop the chest of drawers, I've got an emergency plank of wood that it should fit on, but it'll have to temporarily be on the floor until I can find somewhere to plonk the plank of wood!! Need more space!!!

A conversation over on SoCoder inevitably led to me ordering a 3D Printer, because.. *shrugs* It's my birthday next Friday, so if I needed an excuse... There it is!

Spent about an hour, last night, trying to figure out how to get the "Home Directory" of an App, from MacOS, using just C++.

I *think* I've now sorted the save-file issues. After hours of stress testing, which showed up oodles of issues, I've inevitably decided that I should make the values Unsigned, since in 99% of my games, the scores tend to go up, not down.

Over the past few weeks, I've noticed my highscores seemingly vanish for no reason. I initially put this down to the fact that I was compiling over and over, and occasionally deleting the build folder, thus losing the save file. Yesterday, I finally wrote a stress test for the save files, and was shocked to find that, indeed, it's losing highscores.

"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"

First step of adding Story Mode is to add something worth playing for. There be birds to select!!

It's hard to focus on the actual game, when instead I'm spending time fixing all the quirks in the framework.

Spent a few hours yesterday digging through code, neatening things up, and fixing what bits and pieces I could.

Seems I've broken a few bits of the framework, this week. RSKGames has reported that the music seems to stop after a few seconds. Not quite sure why that might be, but it's definitely something to look into.