Developments

Yesterday was spent doing four tasks.
1. Converting recent ALChoons to work with NeonPlat's ingame music engine.
Not all of them were a success, mind! Some of the more frantic choons ended up being a bit of a mess, so have been scrapped.

2. Recreating some of the "Hat" powerups from NeonPlat Adventures 1. I've now turned all 6 of the turret enemies into "8 bullets" hats.
I'm not sure how to display "bullets remaining", as at the moment, the character's looking a bit .. um.. chaotic!!


3. Continuing to prepare for the huge amount of recompiling I'm going to be doing over the month ahead. I'm pretty sure everything's ready to go, now, but that extra "Quit" button on the main menu is ... twitchy. I need to see if I can fix that.

4. So far, everything I'd attempted had glitches and awkward bits, so it was inevitable that the last thing on my list would be a complete and total disaster.
For #4, I figured I'd do a "quick test" of NeonPlat Adventures 2 onto my iPad.
Much like last week's test, it would simply be a case of "Drag folder to Mac, plug in iPad, hit compile, sorted.."

Except that didn't happen.
Instead, it wanted to do updates. Updating XCode and iTunes to match the new iOS on the iPad.
So I left it doing that for a couple of hours, and came back to find it was STILL DOING IT!!!?
Apple's servers must've been chaotic last night, because I know for a fact that my internet was racing ahead at full pelt.
Stupid thing..

I left it overnight, and will have to attempt that again, at a later point today.

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Daily Doodle : Lock Keeper

There's usually a Lock Keeper hanging around to help do this bit, but today Platdude's having to do everything himself.
Hopefully he doesn't break everything along the way!

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