The monsters return in this crazy dungeon romper.

Developments

I'm fairly happy that I won't need to re-tweak the project, so having compiled the OUYA, Win and HTML5 editions of the game, I closed Monkey.

Yaha!! ^ That'll be debug output from iOS, by the way.

Developments

I decided not to work on the Framework, yesterday, and instead focus on the more immediate issues.

Developments

Things are looking great for this week's game. The balance is now just-right, and I'm getting more or less similar scores on each play-through, which is usually my sign that I've done a decent job at making the thing play at the same level each time.

Ugh. I wasn't expecting my first attempt at iOS/XCode to run smoothly! The main complaints from the dozens of error messages, were warning me that "C++ Expects Types" when declaring and using functions. Well, no.. It doesn't.. It's working fine in both the Windows and HTML editions. XCode expects types.. Not C++. C++ is fine without!

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Developments

This week's game is near enough in a playable state.

So far, no progress on the box. I decided to attempt to get my simple Hello World code to additionally run on Android, so I started by looking into "Android compile C++" Various sites suggested I need the Android NDK and to look at the included examples. The examples, of course, weren't bloody well included, and I had to hunt for those, too.

I imagine future Daily Blog posts might end up reading roughly the same way, for a while.. "Today, I coded more of my new Framework..." and that's about it!

Today's been all about Emscriptn, which is the tool I'll be (hopefully!) using to convert C++ to HTML5 projects. First issue, the compiler didn't know how to include extra includes, so my "I can do it all via the command line" didn't quite work out, already!!

I really need to finish off this week's game!

"Hello World" claims the title of the box.

I give up. Over the past 30-odd hours, I've tried a boatload of languages, and although all seem capable in their own particular ways, none of them seem to do everything that I need them to do. I'm still annoyed that GLBasic doesn't do sound-pitching. Seriously, WTF?! An Amiga 1000 could do that in 1985.

OUYA's been dead for a couple of years, now, but it seems that Razer's latest plan is to replace "Android TV Gaming" with "Android Mobile Gaming", and .. well, I've written about that, before.

Developments

With the basic dungeon generator up and running, I spent most of yesterday adding in enemies. At the moment, the game is FAR too difficult, and definitely needs some kind of balancing.

I'm finally happy with the "Third Time's a Charm" dungeon layout generator.

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Sleepy Jay took over, yesterday. I knew what coding needed to be done, but nothing productive was happening at all. I tried a few things, including building a nice random dungeon generator, but.. .. Boy, that didn't end up nice, at all! Today I might scrap what I did, and redo-from-start. I know I can do better than that!

Developments

I spent AGES working on a new Level Generator for Sheep, yesterday.

A few tweaks have to be done to the frontend of Sheep Goes Right. RSKGames has noticed the Credits screen is an absolute mess, and that there's no Back button on the Level Select. There's also a weird jiggle to the level select when you first load the game.

Each week, players send in their thoughts for that week's game. Or, at least, RSKGames does! If you want to submit your own thoughts, stick 'em in the comments, or email them in. This week's game is Sheep Goes Right

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Overview: A totally different AGAW game in terms of art style and music but with the familiar mix of twist to the gameplay mechanics and attention to detail. A pleasant surprise is that the game is not endless, it has finite levels and ends with ''...

It's about flamin' time!!

Last night's midnight sheep-testing did NOT go smoothly. Bloody iPhoneX's fault, again...

Developments

I've got a basic scoring method in the game. 3 stars instead of 3 sheep, but basically a case of "Beat the level on your first try for 3 stars, 2 stars if you lose a life, 1 for losing 2, and anything beyond that gets no stars." A tally is on the right hand side of the menu, and that's pretty much all the scoring there is.

Developments

More work on Sheepy, yesterday, and a fair amount of play testing. I've got worlds 1-5 working nicely, which will be the PC/HTML editions. The Pay-for Premium iOS edition will go all the way up to 20, but that means more and more and more and more testing!