The framework isn't quite running properly on MacOS, so today will probably be spent trying to get that going. For some reason, since the recent MacOS Security Update, I don't seem to be able to Remote-Desktop into the Mac via the WinLaptop. Hopefully it's just some weird thing, requiring a reset or something, and not a hole that's been closed, making it unusable.. Hmm.. :\

After a day spent trying to track down the issue(s), I've finally got WinSock to return exactly what I expect it to return! I can't rest yet, as I need to foolproof the values being returned, and also then get it working on things other than Windows... WinSock is strictly for Windows, so .. It's going to be a system-by-system rewrite to get everything on the same level. But I'm about 50% confident that I'm able to send requests from the Windows editions of the games. *sigh* T...

I knew something annoying would crop up. I just knew it!!

I probably shouldn't, yet, but I feel that things are at a decent enough point that I can make a start on things. I still have oodles of things to add to the Engine, like proper load/save functions, and doing online URL requests for the online leaderboards. And, of course, I've still not got the new engine running on iOS, yet. That definitely needs doing!

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

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.

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

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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.

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!

"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.

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First game uploading to the new site. Will it go well?!

<h1>Developments</h1> So, I guess that's the bulk of the new site working.

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Yesterday was spent shuffling a fairly large number of files.

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I'm not far off the end of the long-haul.

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I really need to start tackling the upload functionality on the new site.

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Continued to work on New AGameAWeek, yesterday.

( width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xR_d2VxJQ1w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> Also available (URL "https://soundcloud.com/alodare/pulpish-joking">on SoundCloud) Oops. Far too busy wrapped up in New AGameAWeek that I totally forgot to post this, yesterday. Sorry!

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Yep.. I said I wouldn't get AGameAWeek done, this week...

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Yesterday was mostly Admin-based stuff that won't be noticeable to any visitors!

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Yesterday was spent working on "New Post" functionality for the new site.

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Things are progressing fairly well, over on the in-dev replacement site.

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As I continue to create a nice new script to encompass all of AGameAWeek, you can chart occasional progress (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/agaw.php">right here, on the preview page.)

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I found myself, yesterday, wondering about the issues of mixing everything together.

..!?! (URL "https://josephmallozzi.wordpress.com/2017/09/01/september-1-2017-dark-matter-cancelled/">They cancelled Dark Matter)?! WTF?!