In order to cut off previous edition's scoreboards, I opted to change the game from #552, to #553. Unfortunately, this has resulted in the random number generator changing, and all the levels are now completely different!! Currently playing through all the levels again, to be sure they're all working. Release, maybe tonight? Maybe earlier.. No idea!

I'm fairly happy that Flappadiddle-Doo is ready to go. Over the next hour or so, I'll recompile, get all the assets redone, and get things uploading. Meanwhile, last night was spent watching the 3D Printer printing the second test SoCoder ball.

Been playing the Windows edition of Flappadiddle-Doo for most of the day.. .. Playtesting, honest!! Had to play through the "World" levels over and over, just to be sure they're doable. Tweaks yet to be done, include making the "Bonus Multiplier" a bit more obvious. I'm not sure how best to do that, but it'll probably just end up being a star-system or a red/amber/green light thing... You'll know what I did, once it's ready! Once that's done, I'm going to spend the r...

Today's plan is exactly the same as yesterday's plan. It's like Deja Vu, all over again.

A bit late in the day to realise you'd only coded half the blinkin' online scoreboard stuff!! True, the Framework was happy to send the score data to the server, but ... Then what!? I'd not coded ANYTHING about receiving the data back, parsing the data, popping the scores and player names into internal memory, and then displaying the online scores to the player. D'oh! So, that's what I've been working on all day, today. As a result, the game might be del...

\o/yeay\o/ First test print that's at least vaguely decent.

The 3D printer finally managed to start printing, last night. It managed about 8% of the print, before the print "popped" off the mat, and everything went horribly awry. Bah, humbug.. I'll probably have another attempt at it later. Since it's my birthday, I'll be sitting about and being generally lazy, today. Nothing much more to say than that! Lazy Jay wins, today..

The game's a little closer to release, as I've stress tested all the "Main" levels.

Flappadiddle-Doo's main menu now has Worlds 1 to 6 listed, as well as Endless 1 to 6 too. The unlocks work, the extra characters are in, and everything's golden! Once everything's up and running, you'll be able to play through and unlock everything as you go. Hurray!!

The 3D Printer arrived. I spent most of the day doing the setup.

Yesterday was spent rearranging bits of my bedroom to (hopefully!) fit a 3D Printer in there. If it doesn't fit atop the chest of drawers, I've got an emergency plank of wood that it should fit on, but it'll have to temporarily be on the floor until I can find somewhere to plonk the plank of wood!! Need more space!!!

A conversation over on SoCoder inevitably led to me ordering a 3D Printer, because.. *shrugs* It's my birthday next Friday, so if I needed an excuse... There it is!

Spent about an hour, last night, trying to figure out how to get the "Home Directory" of an App, from MacOS, using just C++.

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.

"Episodes 1, 2 and 3 of Stargate Origins are now available online" said the tweet. I hurried to the Apple AppStore, downloaded the StargateCommand app, and promptly paid £19.99 for "Full Access"

First step of adding Story Mode is to add something worth playing for. There be birds to select!!

It's hard to focus on the actual game, when instead I'm spending time fixing all the quirks in the framework.

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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Stupid iOS! "Alert" says the debugger in XCode. And that's all. Quite what that means, I've no idea. Could literally be anything.

AHA!!! .. Can't show you any of the results, yet, though, as the entire framework's graphical stuff is currently all commented out, until I convert everything from GLFW to GLES. But that's a VERY important step in getting the thing up and running on iOS. Previous attempts have spewed out thousands of Linker errors, but now I'm fairly confident that I vaguely might maybe know, roughly, what I might have been possibly doing wrong!! .. I think! There's now "only" 44 warnings to ...

Plenty of stuff got done, yesterday.

World 2 will be a bit leafy.