Still not 100% sure on the gameplay of this, but it's definitely looking more gamey with those planets added into the mix!

I'm fairly sure I know what kind of game this is going to be, but trying to find just the right balance between "crazy visual effect" and "fun game to play" will be the challenge over the next few days.

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Added Planets.
Lots and lots of planets, handy for all manner of things.
The "Form" slider will also allow you to generate textures, rather than planet sprite image, which can come in handy for making spinning textured ingame planets.
Be aware, however, that "Repeating Texture" mode is somewhat slow due to all the circles it has to draw!!

I *think* something might be interesting...!

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The Puzzobomb ProcGen isn't going very well. The levels are working, but they're not very hard at all.
No matter what I try, I can't seem to find a good way to make some proper puzzles.

Hmm..

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Since I created Foldapuz, I've been posting all the updates to a single updates.html file, and.. As much as that's been functional, it's also been growing and growing and growing.

JNKsg (The unnamed Sprite Generator thing) has been created in much the same way, with a similarly expanding updates.html file charting the progress of the site.

Today I decided that's probably not the best way to do it, and so I've taken the contents of both of these update pages and (with a lot of database hacking to falsify their dates!) have archived them into this very blog.
From here on, any interesting additions to either sites will appear at the top of this site, much like any other regular update, but with the addition of specific tags, can easily be accessed directly from either the Foldapuz site or the JNKsg one.

You can find the Foldapuz Blog posts here, and the JNKsg Blog posts here.

Sorted, and with the added ability to comment on the updates, which wasn't possible with the previous basic .html file. Hurray!

Yesterday I started work on a Puzzobomb Level Generator.



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So, what game's next?
With all the Foldapuz development, my head's currently full of little puzzle game ideas that don't quite work (literally) on paper, so I expect the next game to end up being something to do with one of those ideas.

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A slight tweak to the Maths Maze generator, as it was making some puzzles far far too easy.

I've now added a "20 or above" limit to the goal, which should help increase the difficulty level a little, as the previous day's puzzles all seemed to be a little too simplistic.
I might yet tweak it a bit further to avoid repetition, but for now it's good enough.

Today's the day I have to go for my medical, and talk about how bitterly depressing it is being stuck in the house all day, every day.

Everything's been posted early, all daily chores are done, and I'm now going to get a few hours sleep before having to head all the way into the center of Manchester.

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