When I coded my BlitzMax edition of NeonPlat Adventures (Still online, still free, still available, still awesome, still getting the odd blog post on sites!) I threw things in, wherever they seemed appropriate.
I coded randomly, as I usually do.
I didn't worry about memory issues.
I didn't even give a munky about how many sprites were hurtling all over the screen. (My 2-year-old framework takes care of that.. Hit F12 for your system's stats.)
As I attempt my conversion t...

Hurray!
Everyone can play NeonPlat Adventures.
Look at it go!!!
Weee!!!

<a href="https://bit.ly/NeonPlat_Adventures">NeonPlat Adventures : Available now for Windows, Linux and MacOSX</a>
Inside, a list of all the features I had or hadn't planned, and why they are/aren't in there!

Oooh, I got to click the "Release" tag today!
Not done that for a while!
The game is out, right now, and is available at..
1. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=268">The Jayenkai Archive</a>

Tomorrow's the day you all get to play!
Had a last minute email, last night, from Shadow1w2, filled with some really nice ideas that would be great to implement.
Thing is, we've hit the point of no return.
I'm off to work all day, and tomorrow's the release.

Couldn't be arsed doing all the building and hosting, and especially couldn't be arsed doing the whole "design a half-decent looking site" thing, so I gave up trying and used Google Sites instead!
<a href="https://bit.ly/NeonPlat_Adventures">NeonPlat Adventures : The Minisite</a>
Job done!
Game : Sunday!

This took WAY longer than expected.
Step one, compile the Windows exe.
Click.
Job done.

Today's long, long, long day of development was 100% iOS related.
Having put it off entirely yesterday, I figured I'd better port that level builder doohickey.
I opened TextEdit on the Mac, copied the level builder function from BlitzMax, and set about converting it, line by line, to something that XCode would compile for iOS.
800 lines of code, an estimate of "should only take a few hours, surely!" and then a completely exhausted Jay who just about managed to get the thing working...

I should've spent today doing more iDev.
I didn't.
Already I'm looking at the iDev stuff, and going "uuugh..."
Try again tomorrow.

When I launched the original demo of NeonPlat Adventures, way way way way way back in September, I made a complete backup of the game, code and everything.
I thought it might be fun to look at it, and the progress it's made, by release date.
To be honest, I'd mostly forgotten I did that.

Oh yeah, iDev annoys the shit out of me..
Never mind, carry on.
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Coming up shortly, Jay attempts to reconstruct his level construction gubbins, one line at a time.

I wasn't aiming to do the Final Beta until about Wed/Thursday this week.
Today, the Final Beta went out.
A few days early, but there was nothing more I could come up with.
The game is done.

For a while, today, you started the game with 8 lives instead of just 5.
Then a few people on Twitter suggested I should put it back.
If you can't complete it, don't blame me

And I've still got a todo-list as long as my leg!!!
If I want a few people to beta-test the final-ish edition, that's gotta be done by about Wednesday, I think.
So, I have about 5 days or so to get everything done, now.
After that, hope for the best, and get everything bundled for the coming Sunday.

Before I headed off to work, I made a new little video.
Or, rather, I tried to make a "little" video, yet it inexplicably ended up at over 300Mb!!!
WHAAA!?!?
So, with an approximate 450 Minutes remaining on the clock, I left for work, and the upload continued.

I'm sitting here trying to come up with a multitude of silly Badges/Accomplishments/Awards, and inexplicably getting nowhere.
Not sure why.
I DID have a list.
I think it might've vanished during my iOS upgrade sessions.

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I think I'm full of the evil man-flu..
.. or rather, I hope that's what it is!
Spent last night in a strange awakened stupor, and then spent a good 5 hours completely zonked out.
eek!
I got a few bits and pieces done last night, though, so that's ok

And I'll be doing nothing again, today.
.. well..
.. I say nothing..
What I mean is, I don't have a great big 12 item checklist to do, and I won't be struggling to type by the end of the day!!

MMMMmmmmm........!!!
(If you're bored, why not look back at previous blog posts, read between the lines, and see if you can spot how much that damn calendar's been ticking me off!!!)

Today, I became a complete and total recluse!
It was the only way it was all going to get crammed into the day.
Let's go through last night's list, shall we?

I've done a LOT of work since yesterday.
All 50 hats are in, 50 chrs are in, and I've stripped out a whole bunch of annoying quirky bugs.
There's one really annoying "Got stuck again" issue that I need to weed out, but I can't figure out the best way to do it, so I'll point it out in the beta tomorrow, for those who are getting it.
SPOILER ALERT

Gah!
Extra hats today!
I now need about 3 hats, and annoyingly I think I might need an extra bunch of baddies, which also means more hats!
D'oh!

Tonight, I started implementing a few of the hat suggestions, from a couple of days ago.
This really is a mad dash, at this point, as I desperately try to get hats and badges all bundled into the game's code, ready for the Friday beta.
There's still going to be masses of things missing from Fridays beta, like a Game Over screen, and an Adventure Complete! thing.. stuff like that.
But for the most part, yet again, this will be a nice release candidate.
..It won't be releas...

Today's been total utter chaos.
I wrote a bunch of little Badges (Awards?!) the other day, so I've spent today trying to wrangle the code together so that they actually work.
See inside for some oddly missing information.

First up, be aware that these aren't working yet, so the bit where one of the achievements would appear to be mostly impossible without the others, is actually down to the fact that they're 6 items apart, and nothing to do with anything that's been earned yet!!!
.. having said that, here's the first screenshot of the Achievement table that I've been working on, today.

This is the plan.
Week 1
This Friday I'm launching Beta2, so I have until Friday to add an alarming number of things.
I thought I was on track, but then realised I needed...