Everything's now nice and playable. It's a little bit difficult, but nothing you can't master with a little practice.

Todo-list contains things like giving the game a name.
I'd like to retain the "Fiery Fourth" name that Eikon started, but there's very little "Fiery Fourth" remaining in this game, if I'm honest!!
... And yet...

So, title, then the usual screenshots, compiles, etc.
The game should hopefully be finished and ready to go at some point tomorrow, but I might hold back to add extra bits and pieces. I guess we'll see after I playtest the thing, tonight!

And come up with a name..!

OK, now I'm really confused!!

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Added a bit of greenery to the background, this morning, but had to rejig a bit of the 3DS's code so that the scaled-up sprites looked nice and "Nearest Neighbour", instead of .. Like they did an hour ago!!

Pixel scaling FTW!

I'm going to have to add a trail to the player, though. It's extremely easy to lose track of where you are, when it all gets hectic.

But, yeah, looking good

This week's game now has audio, as well as oodles of death.



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There's a nice new pool game available on iOS by @helvetica called Pocket Run Pool. (.com)

People keep asking me on Twitter what it's like, because apparently I'm some sort of super-picky gamer when it comes to Pool games.

My thoughts are that it's a really nice and fully formed "Ball" engine, that feel superb, and doesn't have of the annoying things that I usually tend to pick at when playing a Pool game.
It's almost as if @helvetica's been reading my many rants about rubbish Pool game issues, and has built his game up to avoid many of those bugbears.


View on YouTube

The game isn't "Proper Pool", it's more of an "Arcade Game based on Pool", in that you try to earn as many points as you can using the various onscreen numbers.

You have lives and a score counter, and things add up based on pocket-based bonuses.

It's really quite a nice game, and a nice set of physics, and I'd highly recommend it.

Go pot some!

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Blockman Gets "Something"
Spike Dislike
JNKPlat 2018

Three classic AGameAWeek games that I really think should exist on the 3DS, more than anything.

An Alien Deathmatch would be nice, too

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I've spent roughly a decade working in multiple scales, resolutions and ratios.
I've dealt with Android, with it's 57,000 different possible resolutions. I've handled iOS with portrait/landscape orientations. I've coped with Windows with a bazillion different possible window sizes..

But 3DS, with one single screen resolution!?!
AARGH!!!

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Today's been a bit of a crazy day of maths, as I wrangled the numbers in order to get things to look vaguely accurate onscreen.
The player's no longer colliding with the floor correctly, but at least now the little squishable creatures are all behaving like they should.

Next to be added, a few powerups!

A lovely salad for dinner, but a single slice of cheese was enough to kick off a killer migraine!

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All 3DS games have been recompiled, today, so they all now feature the most recent version of the framework, and are bundled into cia/3dsx packages.

Roland Eats a Stale Biscuit now has working music, On a Space Shooting Trail lets you fly further into deep space, and a couple of other minor fixes have been made along the way.

Enjoy, hacky folk!