Added Planets. Lots and lots of planets, handy for all manner of things. The "Form" slider will also allow you to generate textures, rather than planet sprite image, which can come in handy for making spinning textured ingame planets. Be aware, however, that "Repeating Texture" mode is somewhat slow due to all the circles it has to draw!!

I *think* something might be interesting...!

The Puzzobomb ProcGen isn't going very well. The levels are working, but they're not very hard at all. No matter what I try, I can't seem to find a good way to make some proper puzzles. Hmm..

Since I created Foldapuz, I've been posting all the updates to a single updates.html file, and.. As much as that's been functional, it's also been growing and growing and growing. JNKsg (The unnamed Sprite Generator thing) has been created in much the same way, with a similarly expanding updates.html file charting the progress of the site. Today I decided that's probably not the best way to do it, and so I've taken the contents of both of these update pages and (with a lot of datab...

Yesterday I started work on a Puzzobomb Level Generator.

So, what game's next? With all the Foldapuz development, my head's currently full of little puzzle game ideas that don't quite work (literally) on paper, so I expect the next game to end up being something to do with one of those ideas.

A slight tweak to the Maths Maze generator, as it was making some puzzles far far too easy. I've now added a "20 or above" limit to the goal, which should help increase the difficulty level a little, as the previous day's puzzles all seemed to be a little too simplistic. I might yet tweak it a bit further to avoid repetition, but for now it's good enough.

Today's the day I have to go for my medical, and talk about how bitterly depressing it is being stuck in the house all day, every day. Everything's been posted early, all daily chores are done, and I'm now going to get a few hours sleep before having to head all the way into the center of Manchester.

Added Maths Maze. A simple roam around a maze, totalling up scores to reach the target. Although these puzzles have multiple solutions, the "proper" method should only require four moves. Aside : It's been a few weeks since a new Puzzle game popped into my head, but lying awake at 3am seems to help!

At around 1am, I was starting to drift off to sleep, when suddenly.. "POUNCE!" A late night idea popped into mind.

Shoot the Barrels. Save the World.

Most of the game is now functional, and I'm fairly happy with how it's turning out. Today will be about Balancing the game, to make it so that I can get further than Level One in Hard Mode!!

I got a fair amount done, yesterday, and am now nearing the stage that the game's ready.

Couldn't seem to get much done at all, yesterday.

The game's really starting to come together, now.

I ended up putting the three floppy disks back into Futrino, last night. As much as the game has a different sort of "world", the idea of collecting the three disks to complete a level is still simple enough to understand, and provides the difficulty of having to destroy all the barrels in order to find those disks.

Weapons are now functioning much better.

With a single "it follows you around" enemy type in place, I spent a good hour or so trying to find the right feel for the game.

There's still no baddies in the game yet, but shooting barrels is at least functional.

I really need to organise some of the recent additions. Foldapuz and the JNKsg Sprite Doohickey still don't have proper links, and I've been saying for AGES that I need a single "Tools" page to deal with all of those.

I added these things to the Sprite Generator, yesterday.

Added Geometric Icons, which creates symbols and icons that might be useful in some kind of sci-fi environment, maybe for signage or GUI elements or things like that. To be honest, they're not as vibrant and recognisable as I'd like. I could probably do a better job, if I spent more than about an hour trying to do it, and might return to them in the future. Also added Gems, which should be fairly obvious!

I think my head's a bit sleepy, right now! Must be all the Advent of Creativity that's done me in, or the three or four glasses of Baileys that I had over Xmas!

Hmm.. Yesterday didn't go very well at all.. The plan was as such. 1. Design Barrel sprite generator. 2. Put barrels into game, with boxes and crates and other such things. 3. Get the game vaguely playable.

Added Barrels, and placed them within the Boxes and Crates generator, since they typically tend to have the same kind of function. Not much more to say about these. Barrels are Barrels!

Spent yesterday fixing up a few issues with the latest Sprite Generator, before getting it all uploaded to the server.

Added Top Down Walls for dungeons and mazes and whatnot. These walls are based on the walls I created about a decade ago, for Alien Deathmatch, and come in 4x4 sheets of tiles, with wall paths that should cover the majority of wall requiring purposes. If you're in need of more specific tiles, you'll just need to improvise. Hopefully they come in handy for future wall-based projects!