I *think* I've now sorted the save-file issues. After hours of stress testing, which showed up oodles of issues, I've inevitably decided that I should make the values Unsigned, since in 99% of my games, the scores tend to go up, not down.

Over the past few weeks, I've noticed my highscores seemingly vanish for no reason. I initially put this down to the fact that I was compiling over and over, and occasionally deleting the build folder, thus losing the save file. Yesterday, I finally wrote a stress test for the save files, and was shocked to find that, indeed, it's losing highscores.

Spent a few hours yesterday digging through code, neatening things up, and fixing what bits and pieces I could.

Seems I've broken a few bits of the framework, this week. RSKGames has reported that the music seems to stop after a few seconds. Not quite sure why that might be, but it's definitely something to look into.

Our second test of Flappadiddle with various improvements and tweaks and hopefully a better all-round experience.

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Yesterday was supposed to be a day full of Mobile-Dev, but instead, I simply spent the day relaxing, and playing an alarming amount of Flappadiddle!

Yeay! Thanks to all for testing. Rychan - I see the hitbox detection has been improved somewhat also which is cool A little more forgiving, this time. The original game was a little "too" mean when it came to bird vs flame hits!

If you haven't yet tried out Flappadiddle-Doo's first release, please give it a try, and let me know how well it does or doesn't work on your given system. Thanks for trying.

First test!

We'll call this the proto-test, since I'm still not 100% sure things are going to run AT ALL, let alone well!!

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Oh, the joys of having the ability to generate your background from tiles

Hello. Welcome to a test! You can Download Linux Test 2 here Please note : This isn't a game, it's just a test! This is the current version of the framework, and you'll notice it's not quite at 100%, just yet. I've still oodles of stuff to do.

Planned to do coding, today. And, though I did do some coding, it wasn't anything to do with the Framework!

Got oodles of stuff done, yesterday, although to the player not a bit of it is noticeable!

Lots of background stuff, today.

I *think* I've figured out how to "create" XCode projects programatically.

I spent most of last night fiddling around with my new toy, Vocaloid.

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.

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. ...

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If you're a frequent visitor, you've probably noticed the occasional MySQL "Too many connections" error cropping up on the site.

The big file transfer continues, and last night it managed to copy my massive Mod Archive across. Over 180,000 files overnight! Wowie!!

iOS and Android are both still missing from my compile-target list. Yesterday's Mac attempt was (finally!) successful, but the iOS version requires a hefty rewrite of the graphic and input functions from GLFW3 to GLES, because iOS is awkward!!

Nearly..!

Things I've attempted and failed, today.

1. Finish the framework! This is the biggest item on the list. I'm currently considering cobbling together a half-assed version so that I can start releasing my first few Windows games.

After all the gift giving, comes random spending on yourself!

Note : Boxing day is what we in the UK call the day after Xmas Day. I'm not sure why it's called that! Wiki! The day went rather uneventfully. A lazy morning, waking up rather late, but then using most of the morning to prepare for what was to come.