I was doing the compiles for this week's game late last night, and as I sat in front of the Mac I figured I might as well try to do the trailer on there.

I thought that, for this game, having a string of enemies would result in a more difficult enemy to beat.

Here's roughly how the game's looking, so far.

No coding, last night, as I realised I didn't have any of my iOS Backups on the new laptop. The whole process isn't as scary as it once was, and iTunes is gradually learning to behave itself over the decade or so since I started using it. But it's still slow as crap..

Well, that doesn't sound right!!

Don't you love it when, after a recent Update, Windows always opens the browser up. You always expect the page it leads you to will be full of actual information about what the windows update just did. .. But, no. It never does. It's always the exact same generic "Windows Help" page that tell you absolutely nothing. After this morning's update, I could barely read the generic Windows Help page, because my laptop's screen was too dark. Hmm...

Boy, it's not fun trying to doodle a bunch of mazes for Blockman games. I HOPE that I'm sticking with the current 25x15 maze size, because having to remake all these maps would drive me slightly crazy.

Spent most of today rewriting the track converter tool.

I've been trying my best to work on the car racer thing, but after the past few days of tweaking the 3DS Homebrew stuff, the racer's certainly been neglected.

I think I've got a decent method for doing tracks.. Maybe.. The method goes like so. 1. Draw track onto 64x64 image. 2. Convert to string of text. 3. Add strings of track-text into sourcecode. 4. Convert string of track-text back into positions of pixels, and draw onto the buffer. 5. Drive! Seems to work. Next will be adding track-tracking so the game registers as you drive around the track.

Spent a few hours yesterday digging through code, neatening things up, and fixing what bits and pieces I could.

For a long time, I've been "putting up" with a bizarre issue with my laptop's soundcard. No matter the drivers I use, or settings I tweak, the soundcard seems to keep falling asleep. If you try to play a sound (via ANY media program/app/windows dialogue/etc) it'll "reboot" leaving a 1.5 second gap before it starts any audio. Give it a 3 or 4 second delay of no-audio, and the soundcard seems to fall asleep again.

I spent most of yesterday, once again, trying to get Android to work.

Yesterday was spent mostly watching a lot of progress bars. Not a lot I can do when both the MacMini and Laptop are sitting there copying insane amounts of data over to the new NAS drive.

iOS and Android are both still missing from my compile-target list. Yesterday's Mac attempt was (finally!) successful, but the iOS version requires a hefty rewrite of the graphic and input functions from GLFW3 to GLES, because iOS is awkward!!

Probably should've got back into the swing of coding, yesterday, but spent most of the day playing with my new GPD Win.

My monthly calendar reminder popped up, last night, to remind me to do all of my "full" backups.

OK, the mouse stuff seems to be working with overscan, now, which is good. Additionally, the Game Controller code appears to be kinda ok. I've set up the engine/framework/etc to assume all controllers are "The player's input", so I'm going to be doing 1-player only stuff until I can be bothered to faff about with it some more and implement multiplayer controller code! Unfortunately, I don't 100% trust what GLFW3 is telling me. The controller input list here is suggesting that DPad Up...

Yesterday was a horrific day.

I swear, if I see another system update, this week, I'm going to go crazy..

I haven't got around to tackling Streams, yet, and have spent all morning working on audio loading functionality. Mainly that the thing kept breaking when trying to load too many files. Typical memory leaks and the like were fairly rampant, too. But I've persevered, and I think it's more or less stable, now.