This Tuesday we're kicking things off slowly. Each Tuesday through February, I'll be adding to Flappadiddle-Doo, to bulk it up beyond the original concept, and fixing up any quirks in my new Framework along the way. But once we hit March, I'll be heading into the regularly unplanned insanity of AGameAWeek.

So, yesterday didn't go as planned.

Lots of background stuff, today.

People might look at the fact that I spent all day, yesterday, working on an "unrelated" Icon Resizer project, but the new framework needed a new version of the tool.

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...

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.

Have I mentioned how much I hate doing menus!?!

Weeee!

The new control system is coming together nicely, but the redefine functions are a bit messy, right now.

Yeah! Linux success!! That's two systems that can now access (kinda) web based data. A good sign that things are slowly coming together!

I swear, if I see another system update, this week, I'm going to go crazy..

So, after having read up on URL access for a couple of hours, I managed to get about 0% through it, yesterday. I might actually end up trying to find a proper book on the subject, and having a good focused read-through. .. Although I imagine any book would probably focus on Win/Linux, and not the cross-platform usage I'm after. I've really coded myself into a pickle, here!

Yesterday was full of background tasks. I added a HSV colour function, fiddled with line-thickness, got a vague "plot" working.

Developments

I've been working on basic String functions, since last night. Left, Right, Mid, Trim, SplitTxt and other generic "Basic-like" functions that I'm going to be relying on because I'm rubbish at doing C-strings.

Unclaimed Marbles

Also available On SoundCloud. I appear to be in a fairly musical mood, this week. Hopefully that continues, and I can get music working in my framework without going slowly crazy!!!

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!!

Developments

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

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.

Each week, Player's pass their thoughts on the crazy random games I make, and I go over their comments, commenting on their comments. It's a Comment-o-Rama! If you want to join in. Comment!!

RSKGames

Overview: Endless dungeon exploration with huge amount of monsters to kill. All the monsters have escaped from the ''The Dangerous World of Castles''(TDWOC) to inhabit the dungeons.

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.

A few hours later, and this has emerged.

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.

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