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

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!

I started work on the "Enter Your Name" screen, yesterday, but ended up doing something vaguely, but not entirely related!

Yesterday ended up being much more productive than I intended it to be. With the Linux re-installation, the CPC coding and the ALChoon, I managed to get a fair amount of stuff done.

Seems like I might need to restart the MacOS project files..

For a long time, I've been "putting up" with a bizarre issue with my laptop's soundcard. No matter the drivers I use, or settings I tweak, the soundcard seems to keep falling asleep. If you try to play a sound (via ANY media program/app/windows dialogue/etc) it'll "reboot" leaving a 1.5 second gap before it starts any audio. Give it a 3 or 4 second delay of no-audio, and the soundcard seems to fall asleep again.

v1.0 of my new version of the Icon Resizer. Completely rewritten over the space of today. You can Download Icon Resizer 2 v1.0 here Icon Resizer 2 takes a selection of icons, at whatever sizes you CAN be bothered to make, and outputs a whole array of (mostly iOS) different sized icons that you can use in your games. With the addition of some Screenshots and your game's logo, the tool will also generate all manner of screenshot sizes, as well as generating a bunch of Banners and Headers and thing...

With my new Data-Start and Data-End elements in place, reading data from the server is infinitely easier.

I spent most of the night, switched off from coding, and instead watched a lot of YouTube stuff. Lots of complaining about YouTube's stupid new Ad-Revenue rules, meaning hundreds and thousands of vloggers are being hit hard. In addition, @Geekanoids is having a terrible time after a burst pipe caused oodles of damage to his Studio. In many ways, YouTube isn't the greatness it used to be, but annoyingly they've pretty much destroyed any and all competition, so people are stuck with it. ...

I spent most of yesterday, once again, trying to get Android to work.

Yesterday was spent mostly watching a lot of progress bars. Not a lot I can do when both the MacMini and Laptop are sitting there copying insane amounts of data over to the new NAS drive.

I'm sure there's a better name for this, which probably already exists, but this is a method that I've evolved since doing Army of Flags, and it seems to be working well for me and my enemies! Thought I'd share.

A bit of blind coding, last night.

Weeee!

Starting to think I should probably just make an XCode project.

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...

A simple AddCredits command, as well as default credits and a bit of scrolling, along with a nice swirly background. It all comes together to make a nice and simplistic little credits screen.

A nice and simple (and awfully familiar looking) options screen. Next I need to implement the options, since they're currently not actually doing anything at all! But, yeay, options!

I spent FAR too long working on a Triangle, yesterday.

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

Today I've been working through what will and won't be part of the "Framework". That is, what values and settings and functions should be "Framework", which should be "Engine" and which should be "The Game".

Spent tonight going through my todolist, checking things off, and generally fixing a few things that aren't quite up to 100% yet.

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!

Most folk seem to be giving me successful results with yesterday's benchmark test program. If you haven't already, Do so here!

If you can, please give this benchmarker a run. It's a simple little tool. Unzip it, run the .exe, and watch as three "Bloke" sprites circle around for a little while. Don't touch anything. The benchmark tool will do it all for you. Running through a bunch of sprite-pushing tests, blending methods, and audio streaming, too. It'll also flip to fullscreen to check there, too, so be warned if you're watching any other media on your PC at the time!!! Once it's done (about a minute...

Developments

I took last night off from development, but that didn't mean I stopped developing!

Developments

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