Today's been a struggle and a half! If you've been following me on Twitter, today, I apologise for the ranting..

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So I guess I need to learn about OpenAL, today...

First step, trying to get OpenAL to compile.

Over on SoCoder, Rockford suggests that the reason my quad-based images are looking skewed is because they're lacking a 3D element. I guess that makes sense, but I was really hoping I could do some nice quad-based sprites, without resorting to a third dimension. Bah, humbug. As it stands, I can "kinda" warp the sprites around, but they look a bit weird when doing it.

Unclaimed Marbles

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I finally figured out what was up with my scaling. It was all down to the fact that Spritesheets get automatically given an 8-pixel gap around all sprites. The maths that resulted from that slight tweak were insane!!!

Today's been about neatening the engine in places, and also adding a Random Number Generator.

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32 pixels are winding me up!

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Also available on SoundCloud Happy Halloween! ... OK, maybe not the spookiest choonage I've ever done, but it was the only thing that seemed to pop out of tonight's unplanned ALChoon session, so it'll have to do!

Today's tweaks have been numerous and varied, although mostly concentrating on controller based stuff. As in the Monkey framework, F1 toggles Debug Mode (the framerate on the bottom), and F11 now toggles Fullscreen mode. Clicking on the screen draws a rock, which looks like a sponge. I've not begun doing Multitouch, yet. If you've a gamepad at hand, be sure to plug it in and then push various face buttons to do something. Let me know if ANYTHING works!! I'll be posting a more com...

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I've already added a few "Power" features to the framework, even at this early stage.

Although, when I say "Bitmap Fonts", it's more fundamental sprite functionality! But I'm doing it to the bitmap font, so that's what gets counted..

Another basic task undertaken.

Yesterday's framework test seems to have gotten negative reviews, with a common .dll issue cropping up along the way. I've uploaded a quick fix, this morning, so if you'd like to give it a whirl, be sure to let me know how well it works.

Spent most of this morning rewriting bits of the basic Image Loader, to work with Spritesheets instead of individual sprites, and then additionally to fix the filename stuff. A few basic errors have also been implemented. I'm near enough ready, now, to start working out the Threading stuff, but for the sake of testing, here's the latest download. Starting to get slightly larger, now, since it also includes 2 images, but otherwise everything's at a more or less maintainable size. .. I thi...

Notebook

I've added another page from my old Notebook onto the Patreon page, for Subscribers. If you'd like to take a peek at some random GameDev notes and scrawls from about 15 years ago, that's the place to look!!

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Remarkably, loading a png wasn't all that hard.