( width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/330336953&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true">> "Liquid Xigua Syrup" is the ingame music from Thwackity Puttz.

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Heading back in time, once more, I found myself working on the Workshop, yesterday.

As each game is released, and player comments are posted, I'll try my best to make these posts as complete as I can. Feel free to leave your own comments, and I'll add them to the pile. This week, player's thoughts on (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/0407">Thwackity Puttz)

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Guess I have to start thinking up another game, now!

Golfing! Thwack the ball for all it's worth.

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The golf game is turning out fairly well, and is *almost* release-ready.

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Oh.. Workshop... :

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Yesterday I got the ball-thwacking physics working to within a half decent standard.

( width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MBc619ilrsg?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> Also available (URL "https://soundcloud.com/alodare/sonically-yellowed">on SoundCloud).

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Not an awful lot got done on the game, yesterday.

Developments

(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/525_002.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/525_002-1024x605.png" alt="" width="750" height="443" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-7602" />

(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/525_001.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/525_001-1024x605.png" alt="" width="750" height="443" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-7599" /> Note to self : Make sure the "levels" are generating the same, before moving ahead!! This is approximately the game I'll be making this week. Tonight's been a nice productive night of getting the basic generator up and running...

Oh dear, that hasn't gone down very well, has it?! Hmm.. First up came the issue with the Level Generator. Things seemed to break fairly late in the project, meaning that different systems were generating different sets of levels. For this reason, the online scoreboards were removed, as they'd be impossible to properly compare between all the different level sets. Doing test after test after test, right up until the last minute, led me to accidentally upload a broken version of the game. .. And no...

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Last night's final set of uploads was done about 11pm, in an attempt to fix up a few "quirks" which had arisen during my battles with the level generator.

If you've downloaded RetroRaider-3 at any point today, you might want to re-download the game. Whilst stress testing my level generator, I accidentally left a few "quirks" in there, including a cheat mode, and a "feature" that locks the game up and doesn't let you play. Ooops.. A fix has been uploaded, so if you're stuck with the broken version, you should go and grab the new one. The broken version sees the current level end if you hit the V key, and the whole game lock up if you try to load levels...

Laura Plat is back, and she's searching for Crystals

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Hours! Literally hours I spent yesterday, sifting through the level generator code.

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I'm getting near to the goal, now. The game seems to have a good feel, and I spent about 20 minutes last night ensuring that every single one of the 81 (9x9 grid) levels would generate without any crazy array-out-of-bounds errors.

Waiting...

For the past day and a half, my laptop's fan's been kicking off like crazy. Watching Task Manager, it was all down to Windows Modules Installer Worker, working away in the background, killing all CPU, Memory and Disk access for what must've been about 12 hours in total.

( width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Fy9lxj3862E" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> Also available (URL "https://soundcloud.com/alodare/sonically-xtra">on SoundCloud)

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As per usual on a Thursday, most of yesterday was spent on "other" stuff.

( width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CfWm5MIWnjk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> I've decided that AL's next Bum should be a Pulpish one. "Something Borrowed.. Something New.." Track one is above, and is merely a test. I've still got a few more of SonicALly to finish off before I can officially move on to the next one!

Developments

Took most of yesterday off, from coding.

Watching

I watched the UbiSoft E3 conference, yesterday.

( width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/327594652&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true">> ^ RetroRaider III's current Ingame music. The titlescreen music is (URL "https://soundcloud.com/alodare/journal-undertakings">here) Both might change.. We'll see!

Developments

(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/logo.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/logo-1024x512.png" alt="" width="750" height="375" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-7558" /> I've got "RetroRaider : Three Crystals" up to a decent standard, but it's not quite 100%.. It's barely 80%.. Heck, the bullets don't even collide with the enemies! I still have to create music for it. I also need to construct so...

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Yesterday was such a long, tedious day of database/site coding.

I figured I should give a brief explanation as to how I'm generating the levels in RetroRaider. This might become a regular series, so if you find this stuff interesting, be sure to let me know in the comments or email or twitter or whatever.. For RetroRaider, the map is split into an 8x8 grid, and each of those are split into a top and bottom. For the sake of making things easier on myself, I decided to make an 8x16 grid.

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RetroRaider3's coming along quite nicely, now.