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2nd March 2011
This week saw the launch of "<a href="https://monkeycoder.co.nz/">Monkey</a>", the next-generation of BlitzBasic.
<img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/monkey1.png" alt="" title="monkey1" width="332" height="56" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1233" />

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Monkey-x , Glbasic , Monkey_or_glbasic , Spikedislike
6th March 2011
Oh, Mark.. What have you done!
I was happily coding away at AGameAWeek, and now I'm stuck in this odd Will I/Won't I scenario, unsure as to what to do next..
I spent a few hours playing with Monkey again, Yesterday, and am still unsure which is the better path.
Monkey has no recolouring for sprites. That's a pretty big deal, and is a bit of a biggy when your onscreen text is sprites. No sprite colors means one text color.
Even my Tandy TRS 80 could do more than one text c...
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Monkey-x , Glbasic , Monkey_or_glbasic
Focus.... Blog
6th March 2011
Another day pondering about the should/shouldn't monkey issue.
Another day wondering if I shouldn't just be writing a game..
I should be focusing on the important bits, but instead, my minds contemplating what could be.
We're in March.
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Monkey-x , Glbasic , Monkey_or_glbasic
10th March 2011
<a href="https://agameaweek.spreadshirt.co.uk/stroke-my-munky-A10741539/customize/color/4">I just thought of a really good game..</a>
but... .. Not entirely sure how doable it'd be.
.. hmm.. another time perhaps..
Anyhoo, Monkey.
Views 42, Upvotes 10  
Monkey-x , Glbasic , Monkey_or_glbasic
18th March 2011
A few hours with Monkey today.
A game idea was planned (finally!) and attempted, but I realised I had rotation issues.
Tried and tried to get the rotate and scaling working together with numerous results.
One time the sprites were rotating away from their midpoints, another they were scaling all over the place, and on and on it went..
Views 27, Upvotes 4  
Monkey-x , Glbasic , Monkey_or_glbasic
21st March 2011
I have a game!
It's written in <del>Munky</del> Monkey!
But... Am I ready to buy the language yet?
hmmm..
Views 46, Upvotes 15  
Monkey-x , Glbasic , Monkey_or_glbasic
22nd March 2011
Silly me put the name "Chicky Crosses the Road" into a variable, then forgot to put the variable on the titlescreen!
D'oh!
sod it..
Live and Learn!

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Monkey-x , Glbasic , Monkey_or_glbasic
22nd March 2011
About 40-odd times I've decided "Right, let's give GLBasic a try!!"
This morning, I was finally ready to actually do that!
...
And then, right out of the blue, and totally co-incidentally, a twitter conversation began with <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/Indie_DIJ">@Indie_DIJ</a> about that very language.
Views 63, Upvotes 7  
Monkey-x , Glbasic , Monkey_or_glbasic
24th March 2011
<img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/byemunky.png">

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Monkey-x , Glbasic , Monkey_or_glbasic
25th March 2011
Coming soon : A whole new world!
I finally made my choice, and it's GLBasic.
Hopefully that choice doesn't come and bite me in the ass later.
For now, I'm going to be rebuilding all that framework goodness.
Views 34, Upvotes 8  
Monkey-x , Glbasic , Monkey_or_glbasic
26th March 2011
I think I'll either be limiting myself to 100 sprites/60fps, or 200 sprites/30fps, for iPhing games.
...
That's quite a lot, though!
Pics below

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Monkey-x , Glbasic , Monkey_or_glbasic
27th March 2011
<a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/photo.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/photo.png" alt="" title="photo" width="320" height="480" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1285" /></a>
hmmm....

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Monkey-x , Glbasic , Monkey_or_glbasic
28th March 2011
1. No sound pitch.
Jinkies Munkies, What the Funkies!?!?
Simplest example.
You know in Horizontal Shooter, when your weapon goes "SQQEUUUUEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"..
Views 45, Upvotes 9  
Monkey-x , Glbasic , Monkey_or_glbasic
28th March 2011
Bad time to be swinging again, Jay...!
20x(640x32) images + 10x(64x64) images.
That can just about struggle to run at about 22fps on an iPod Retina.
Then you've got text to go over that, and another 10x(64x64) for badges..
Views 54, Upvotes 11  
Monkey-x , Glbasic , Monkey_or_glbasic
28th March 2011
A Pro/Con list might've helped beforehand!!!
Fuck it, 70 quid down the drain..
carry on.

Views 37, Upvotes 8  
Monkey-x , Glbasic , Monkey_or_glbasic
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