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Aha!

Spent most of today going through my giant checklist, doing lots of the little un-attempted things.

1. Finish the framework!
This is the biggest item on the list.
I'm currently considering cobbling together a half-assed version so that I can start releasing my first few Windows games.

Have I mentioned how much I hate doing menus!?!

Note : These posts were originally posted to Patreon as a Subscriber bonus. Now that Patreon's imploding, I've decided to start reposting the contents here, instead.
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Inside Jay's Notebook - 001

When typically coding, I tend not to use pen and paper. Over the many years that I've been doing this, I've found my mind to be perfectly adequate for storing bits and pieces, and jumping between all the many random and crazy ideas that I generate.
In addi...

After a day spent trying to track down the issue(s), I've finally got WinSock to return exactly what I expect it to return!

I can't rest yet, as I need to foolproof the values being returned, and also then get it working on things other than Windows...
WinSock is strictly for Windows, so .. It's going to be a system-by-system rewrite to get everything on the same level.
But I'm about 50% confident that I'm able to send requests from the Windows editions of the ga...

I posted Benchmark 2 over on Socoder, yesterday.
You can Download the Benchmark here.

I struggled for about an hour with C Strings, or rather Char* strings.
They're a total pain in my backside, so at the start of the project I opted to do something that I thought would be "quite clever"

Most folk seem to be giving me successful results with yesterday's benchmark test program.
If you haven't already, Do so here!

Developments

I've been working on basic String functions, since last night.
Left, Right, Mid, Trim, SplitTxt and other generic "Basic-like" functions that I'm going to be relying on because I'm rubbish at doing C-strings.

After the hours (literally about 5 hours) of installing stuff, I finally got the basic android gradlew.bat file to compile, only to discover that that didn't actually compile the full thing, and instead just compiled the c++ stuff into a .jar file that Android Studio then had to take care of to compile it into an .apk.

So far, no progress on the box.
I decided to attempt to get my simple Hello World code to additionally run on Android, so I started by looking into "Android compile C++"
Various sites suggested I need the Android NDK and to look at the included examples.
The examples, of course, weren't bloody well included, and I had to hunt for those, too.

"Hello World" claims the title of the box.

I give up.
Over the past 30-odd hours, I've tried a boatload of languages, and although all seem capable in their own particular ways, none of them seem to do everything that I need them to do.
I'm still annoyed that GLBasic doesn't do sound-pitching.
Seriously, WTF?!

Each week, after a game's release, people submit their thoughts on whether they liked or disliked the results.
If you'd like to join in with the feedback, leave a comment on the game, (URL "mailto:Jayenkai@Gmail.com">email me), or just (URL "https://twitter.com/Jayenkai">Tweet) at me!
This week's game is (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/2017/07/release-2017-30-monsters-ate-my-cheesecake/">Monsters Ate My Cheesecake!)

RSKGames

Overview: A dark room of maze, a torch ligh...

Developments

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

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Also available (URL "https://soundcloud.com/alodare/sonically-versus">on SoundCloud).

Developments

Yesterday went nicely.

People seem to be doing this list, all over Twitter.<br>
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Figured I oughta give it a go.

A generic coin collector. Sorry!!

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Developments

I'm starting to get the feeling that my mind doesn't want to bother with the HERO remake.
Hmm..

Developments

Still working on getting SoCoder back to full strength, but things are slightly easier now that GoDaddy have finally uploaded that damned backup that I asked for, about 3 days ago.
*tsk*
Now it's a case of shuffling file about, and making some nice strengthy tweaks to the site.