Developments

After spending hours, yesterday, trying to get Emscripten's OpenGL GLES 3 to draw a single triangle, I'm starting to wonder if it even actually works..

It's taken me all bloomin' day to find a way to get Emscripten's "C++'ish" compiler to compile, again.

When it's a C++

An unexpected addition to the comments, as @RSKGames decides to give us a lovely "Top 15 Games of the Year" list!
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As we have come to the end of games this year, following is my top 15 (10 was not enough so 15) AGAW games this year.

15. Pigeon's Treat

Each week, Player's pass their thoughts on the crazy random games I make, and I go over their comments, commenting on their comments.
It's a Comment-o-Rama!
If you want to join in. Comment!!

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Overview: Endless dungeon exploration with huge amount of monsters to kill. All the monsters have escaped from the ''The Dangerous World of Castles''(TDWOC) to inhabit the dungeons.

Developments

Last night I did a lot of work on the basic "Draw Rectangle" stuff.
The game script calls the Core script, which stores the draw command into a buffer, then later the System script is the one that actually draws the requested things onto the screen.

A few hours later, and this has emerged.

The simplest form of input is Keyboard input.
So, today I started to look into that.

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.

I've given up with Android for now. I'm going to carry on without it, and maybe in the future once I've regrown my hair, I'll be able to pull it out all over again, trying to get the bloomin' thing to work.
Meanwhile..
That'll be it running as a Mac.exe (or whatever a Mac app is, nowadays)

So, time to kill my Monkey-X Android SDK.
I knew going in that this would be a chore, but blinkin' eck, that's an understatement!!

The monsters return in this crazy dungeon romper.

Developments

I'm fairly happy that I won't need to re-tweak the project, so having compiled the OUYA, Win and HTML5 editions of the game, I closed Monkey.

Yaha!!

^ That'll be debug output from iOS, by the way.

Developments

I decided not to work on the Framework, yesterday, and instead focus on the more immediate issues.

Developments

Things are looking great for this week's game.
The balance is now just-right, and I'm getting more or less similar scores on each play-through, which is usually my sign that I've done a decent job at making the thing play at the same level each time.

Ugh.
I wasn't expecting my first attempt at iOS/XCode to run smoothly!
The main complaints from the dozens of error messages, were warning me that "C++ Expects Types" when declaring and using functions.
Well, no.. It doesn't..

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Developments

This week's game is near enough in a playable state.

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.

I imagine future Daily Blog posts might end up reading roughly the same way, for a while..
"Today, I coded more of my new Framework..."
and that's about it!

Today's been all about Emscriptn, which is the tool I'll be (hopefully!) using to convert C++ to HTML5 projects.
First issue, the compiler didn't know how to include extra includes, so my "I can do it all via the command line" didn't quite work out, already!!

I really need to finish off this week's game!

Nothing much at all is different, and I'm afraid this is mostly a "For Futureproofing" update to the game.
iPhoneX's silly screen ratio was making it so that Sheepy would leap right off the top of the screen.
I've fixed that. .. I think!
Although, in all honesty, I'll need someone with an iPhoneX to double check it.

"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?!

OUYA's been dead for a couple of years, now, but it seems that Razer's latest plan is to replace "Android TV Gaming" with "Android Mobile Gaming", and .. well, I've written about that, before.

Enemies are currently letter x's whilst bullets are letter o's.
The game is nice and fast, and as RSKGames suggested in a comment, it does indeed have a "World of Castles" vibe going on.
The regular AGameAWeek deadline is pretty much imminent, so I think I'm going to let it whoosh past, and instead give the game the attention is deserves.
Chests and Treasures and Hearts and Potions and a whole bunch of evil do-ers roaming around the dungeon.
That's probably the best w...