I've been continuing my experiments with a future form of JMTrackr.

Yesterday wasn't a very productive code day..

I made my first ALChoon for 2021 yesterday.

Alan writes

.. Possibly others have alerted you to this already. Since you write a lot of "choons", I thought of JNK when I saw this:

Wasn't making any gamedev progress again, yesterday, so instead shifted over to Music.

Hey, you remember that Racing game I was doing?!

Yesterday turned out to be a musical day.

1. SoCoder newsletter. It's practically done, just a couple of last minute tweaks. 2. ALChoon. I haven't got one, this week. Aaaargh! I tried something, on Monday/Tuesday, but it didn't go anywhere. I've not had the musical mojo, this week. 3. Foldapuz Post.. Why haven't I done this week's Foldapuz post?! 4. Finish off Space Clusters on Petit Switch/SmileBASIC. Oh my.. What a busy Thursday!

Sat down to get evening code session going. Extra work on this week's SmileBASIC game. Instead, however, I opened up KORG Gadget and started work on a piece of music. 2 in the morning, I finished. 2 in the blinkin' morning.. And I'm not 100% happy with it. The thing flows well enough, all until the bridge, and then it sounds kinda clunky. I think I need to rework that a little. So, today's plan is to fix that up, and then get the game done. I also need to find a few more thi...

A few weeks ago, I was supposed to go for my Flu Jab, but that didn't happen. (I had a rather bad day, health wise, and couldn't make it.) Today, we do it all again! It's stabbing time, on Halloween!!!

Yesterday I spent a good couple of hours working on a couple more XM Modules for the Browsercade.

JMTrackr is a Music Randomisation engine, which can create an endless variety of music, based upon a set of prewritten melody patterns. If you've a Switch, and have downloaded SmileBASIC, you can grab a copy of the game using the Public Key...

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I've gotten JMTracker up to a semi-working state, but still have to add test settings for things like Tempo and Instrument selection, as well as a proper Load requester. But so far, so good, and it's a vaguely decent output.. I think!! Although only a proper set of melodies and actual ingame usage will tell for sure..

This morning, I posted a picture with Greenie at the side of the Four in-a Row board, and wondered if I should attempt to integrate Greenie into the game, somehow.

I spent about 3 or 4 hours playing around with KORG Gadget, last night, and managed to create another couple of ALChoons for future Friday postage.

Over on SoCoder, Spinal asked all about my old JMTrackr tool/player. This is the second time it's cropped up in the past few days, (It was mentioned on Facebook a day or two ago) and it's got me wondering if I should attempt a new version of it for the C++ Framework... and more importantly, for JNKPlat2018. You can learn more about JMTrackr here.

Well, not "nothing". I did at least do another ALChoon, yesterday.

Things I've attempted and failed, today.

The Pulpish AL Bum is now almost complete. Just one last track to go.

Developments

Nothing happened, yesterday.

A brief roundup of the things I've managed to accomplish, during 2017.

1. Online Scoreboards

It's been a long time since I last had online scoreboards in my general AGameAWeek games. iOS's GameCenter made me lazy, and I could never be bothered to implement anything more complicated into my Framework. But this year, I opted to take on the challenge, so right at the start of this year I added an "Enter Your Name" thing into my framework, and tied the scoreboard system to the server....

Also available on SoundCloud or in the Pulp'ish Album. I know it's not Friday!

Also available on SoundCloud or here, in the Music Archive.

Also available on SoundCloud, or the Pulpish AL Bum.