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Developments

Having poked and prodded at that damn controller code for about a month, I opted to rip the whole thing out and redo from start, yesterday.
Took me about 4 hours of tweaking before the thing started to show decent progress.
After a little more time, things were looking up, as for the first time ever, my Archos Gamepad merged into one single controller!

Developments

All the main pieces of the menu system are now in place. Or at the very least, you can now start the bloomin' game again!!
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Pick a World, pick a Zone, start the game, get through or die, complete levels to unlock more worlds, rinse, repeat!
The basics are in. The generator's generating, the levels are selec...

Developments

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Yesterday was spent tweaking various difficulty settings. There are 11 (0-10) available difficulties being coded into the level generator, and this video shows what happens at Level 3.
Level 0 is easiest, with fewer easier to manage baddies, whilst level 10 is full of spikes and nasty Duck-Turrets.
Today I'...

Developments

Yesterday's task was to get basically collectables, items, that kind of thing to work properly.
I haven't yet added the whole lot, but thought that one useful "collectable" might be a checkpoint.
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Melodical Developments

Last night I re-rendered and uploaded the entire (URL "https://archive.org/details/PrecariousAlBum">Precarious Al Bum to Archive.org)
Annoyingly, I forgot to trim the tails on the tracks, so they all end with about a half-a-second of silence. Ooops..
I'll have to poke around in Archive.org's settings and see if I can update the files, but I imagine they're probably going to have to stay like that.

A couple of months ago, I mentioned this game in passing..
(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/2009/08/y2w2-tetripong/">TetriPong)
And immediately started looking into remaking it.
It was just after I'd released ChuckABall, was midway through BounceABall, and considered this as a possible extra "ABall" game to fit alongside them.