Blog - ✂️ - 25 - Where's the Game?

25th August 2025

Oops. Got sidetracked, there.

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One down, fifty eight to go. Ugh..

The Mod Era is now all tagged with Loop points, and you can play the album with or without loops, in standard mode or faux-extended inside the Jukebox.
Niiiiice!
Next I need to enhance Browsercade and JSE so they can both make use of these new extended versions. I'll be allowing mini-scripts for the looping, too, so you can write something like PlayMP3("Mod_NeoPlatDS - Ingame","IAABAABABBABBAABABO") and it'll play the intro, then loops A and B as specified, then the Outro.
You could even kick a track off without the intro if you wanted. Mmmm..

This gives you a much more versatile amount of musical functionality, without me needing to include 3 or 4 versions of each track.. Which is nice. Because I did consider doing that, and it would've taken bloomin' ages to do!

Anyway, this is a reasonable shortcut, and now all I have to do is dig through all the tracks and set all those flag, and code the new functionality, and ...
AAaargh!!!

Meanwhile...

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Over in SmileBASIC the first game in the new Framework is coming together nicely.
In fact, it's pretty much done, but the framework isn't quite finished yet.
I need to add a couple more elements into the Framework, like I still (still!!) haven't added the Achievement functionality properly.
I need to somehow get a little "Badge Get" jingle in there, and then add a little popup thing. Shouldn't be too hard, but I need to consider all possible places they might pop up.

I've added "GUIBar" as a default score display, and it has the ability to show Lives, too, so I might look into having the Achievement popups show up around the area that it's drawing that.

Mmmm..

The level is defined by the "Start" text, so change the name, or set it to a date, or whatever, and the level will be different.
As well as that, there's a little face on the snake. This, too, is autogenerated based on the "Start" text, and I think I'll be able to make use of this in quite a number of games, which is a nice little unexpected bonus feature!
It was originally only done so I could test the "Start" functionality, but I ended up keeping it!

I'm tempted to rename this game to The Masked Snake.
... But I need to code a way to do multi-line titles to the framework before I can do that, because it doesn't fit on the screen properly

Meanwhile, Meanwhile...

I haven't finished off doing this week's Shoebox game, yet. Kinda got sidetracked with the music-looping stuff! Oops!
Today I'll try my best to finish that off, and see how far I can get with it.