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

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.

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!!

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

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.

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 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 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.

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

RSKGames

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 ''...

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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.

Now available : Poke 5,n on iOS. \o/

I drew and animated a fish, last night. Granted, a fish isn't that hard to draw, or animate, but after a "What game can I do next" session, that seemed like a good idea.

I need to remember that the new blog uses BBCode, not html like WordPress used to use! About ten times, whilst posting yesterday's game, I accidentally stuffed things into html elements, and the server had a whinge at me. D'oh!

As each week's release gets mentioned across the web-o-sphere, I trawl through comments and reviews, and post some feedback to the feedback!

RSKGames

Overview : A 3 X 3 puzzle block with a target pattern that players need to match within the given time limit. Game has one of the five different game modes per puzzle with a limit of 5 moves

Also available on SoundCloud

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Quite a large chunk of gamedev done, yesterday, but worryingly nothing much to show for it!

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Aaah, GameDev!

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

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

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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?!

Don't panic!!

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Hit that wonderful moment yesterday, when a bunch of code suddenly transforms into a game!

(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Simulator-Screen-Shot-21-Aug-2017-13.45.36.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Simulator-Screen-Shot-21-Aug-2017-13.45.36-1024x768.png" alt="" width="750" height="563" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-7903" /> Thwackity Puttz is now available (URL "https://itunes.apple.com/app/thwackity-puttz/id1273729273">on iOS devices, from the AppStore)