Initial conception, and first test of printed foldable layout. The layout seems workable, and if I continue to make the puzzles in that aspect ratio it should be fairly functional as a pocketsized booklet. Left the idea to ferment for a week!!

The Test button is now on the top left, next to the save button. The tile-menu is now on the bottom left instead of the right, leaving quite a gap on the bottom right of the screen. I might need to tweak that a bit!

The Editor definitely needs a decent GUI, but I'm unsure whether I'm better off with a simpler one, or something a little more fully featured.

(YouTube) The video above shows a bunch of the stuff I've been doing, today. The travellators were working the other day, as was the ability to hop up onto a ledge. But pretty much everything else is new. ..or at least, new to this edition. If you're a fan of previous JNKPlat games, this should all be fairly standard stuff.

I had a nice day off, yesterday, playing with the Logo generator. There's still a few other things I'd like to add, like gradients and possibly borders, outlines, embossing, and that sort of thing. But for now I think I should probably head back to JNKPlat.

It's 1pm, already, and I've barely started my day. Yet again, I did that thing where I stay awake writing the SoCoder Newsletter, "to give myself more time in the morning", but then am so tired that I end up spending all that "extra time" asleep. Totally backfires... .. ... Every week!!

I can save TWO levels, now! In fact, I can save four! Wowie!!

Last night, I saved my test level! Unfortunately, it uncovered further complications.

Level editing was such a simple plan, at the start, but with every little thing I tweak, the whole process gets more and more complicated!

I've currently got the engine running with a level grid of 40x25, but the game can cope with any number of ratios, as long as the level data still fits within the confines of 1024 bytes.

I spent most of yesterday working my way up to the Editor, but not quite reaching it yet.

The basics are coming together well enough, aside from the odd controller issues.

You might not have noticed, but in the 2018 Framework, the two main control schemes are ever so slightly different.

Over on the NintendoLife site, I just wrote the following comment about the latest Switch Picross title.

With so many games to play, there's oodles of feedback for each. Let's see what RSKGames thought of this week's game!

@RSKGames

Overview: A fast paced circular bullet hell game. I liked it better than the ''Orbital Projections'' and ''The Trouble with Vents'' which till day I can never play properly. (I had to look both of those games up! I've made too many games!!)

Seems like @RSKGames has helped to uncover the reason the leaderboards are so bloomin' empty.

A couple of days ago, I posted this short "Trailer Template". (YouTube) @RSKGames has commented! A bit more information text message in the video about the number of levels and goal of the game would have been nice.

Having spent a good few hours wrangling the object/baddie spawning, I've finally settled on a playable game.

I tested this week's game on 3DS, last night, and it's all manner of slow, hitting 20 fps quite often for no apparent reason.

It's been a long time since I did regular Trailers and Videos and things, but I've decided to attempt it with the new setup. A trailer-esque thing for last week's game. Thoughts/suggestions are, as always, welcome.

My mind wanders back to a game idea, long long long ago. Super Bouncer (2003!) never got off the ground because I knew I'd need really big levels, and I couldn't be bothered to make them! (This is a running theme) With my modern day proc-gen methods, I could probably get a decent random-path generator up and running to keep the game varied enough to be interesting. Couple it with better collision detection (really, anything would be better than the old test version!) and it has the potenti...

OK, the game's been "final" compiled and bundles are ready, so today will be all about uploads.