I finally figured out what was up with my scaling. It was all down to the fact that Spritesheets get automatically given an 8-pixel gap around all sprites. The maths that resulted from that slight tweak were insane!!!

Today's been about neatening the engine in places, and also adding a Random Number Generator.

Developments

32 pixels are winding me up!

Today's tweaks have been numerous and varied, although mostly concentrating on controller based stuff. As in the Monkey framework, F1 toggles Debug Mode (the framerate on the bottom), and F11 now toggles Fullscreen mode. Clicking on the screen draws a rock, which looks like a sponge. I've not begun doing Multitouch, yet. If you've a gamepad at hand, be sure to plug it in and then push various face buttons to do something. Let me know if ANYTHING works!! I'll be posting a more com...

Developments

I've already added a few "Power" features to the framework, even at this early stage.

Although, when I say "Bitmap Fonts", it's more fundamental sprite functionality! But I'm doing it to the bitmap font, so that's what gets counted..

Another basic task undertaken.

Yesterday's framework test seems to have gotten negative reviews, with a common .dll issue cropping up along the way. I've uploaded a quick fix, this morning, so if you'd like to give it a whirl, be sure to let me know how well it works.

Spent most of this morning rewriting bits of the basic Image Loader, to work with Spritesheets instead of individual sprites, and then additionally to fix the filename stuff. A few basic errors have also been implemented. I'm near enough ready, now, to start working out the Threading stuff, but for the sake of testing, here's the latest download. Starting to get slightly larger, now, since it also includes 2 images, but otherwise everything's at a more or less maintainable size. .. I thi...

Notebook

I've added another page from my old Notebook onto the Patreon page, for Subscribers. If you'd like to take a peek at some random GameDev notes and scrawls from about 15 years ago, that's the place to look!!

Developments

Remarkably, loading a png wasn't all that hard.

Boy, that took some doing!!

Lack of Developments

Seriously, though. How broken could it possibly be!?

Having finally decided that Emscripten is definitely broken, and/or just not doing what it's meant to be doing, I've hit a bit of a roadblock with the new Framework.

Developments

After spending hours, yesterday, trying to get Emscripten's OpenGL GLES 3 to draw a single triangle, I'm starting to wonder if it even actually works..

It's taken me all bloomin' day to find a way to get Emscripten's "C++'ish" compiler to compile, again.

When it's a C++

An unexpected addition to the comments, as @RSKGames decides to give us a lovely "Top 15 Games of the Year" list! Thanks As we have come to the end of games this year, following is my top 15 (10 was not enough so 15) AGAW games this year.

15. Pigeon's Treat

Flappadiddle's cousin with limitted flytime.

Each week, Player's pass their thoughts on the crazy random games I make, and I go over their comments, commenting on their comments. It's a Comment-o-Rama! If you want to join in. Comment!!

RSKGames

Overview: Endless dungeon exploration with huge amount of monsters to kill. All the monsters have escaped from the ''The Dangerous World of Castles''(TDWOC) to inhabit the dungeons.

Developments

Last night I did a lot of work on the basic "Draw Rectangle" stuff. The game script calls the Core script, which stores the draw command into a buffer, then later the System script is the one that actually draws the requested things onto the screen.

A few hours later, and this has emerged.

The simplest form of input is Keyboard input. So, today I started to look into that.

After the hours (literally about 5 hours) of installing stuff, I finally got the basic android gradlew.bat file to compile, only to discover that that didn't actually compile the full thing, and instead just compiled the c++ stuff into a .jar file that Android Studio then had to take care of to compile it into an .apk.

I've given up with Android for now. I'm going to carry on without it, and maybe in the future once I've regrown my hair, I'll be able to pull it out all over again, trying to get the bloomin' thing to work. Meanwhile.. That'll be it running as a Mac.exe (or whatever a Mac app is, nowadays)

So, time to kill my Monkey-X Android SDK. I knew going in that this would be a chore, but blinkin' eck, that's an understatement!!