Wednesday was my Mum's 60th birthday, so she spent a couple of days over with my Sister. She arrived back, yesterday, and as a surprise I decided to attempt to bake her a cake!!

You might've noticed that, since yesterday, the Poetry Corner now has a little crappily designed scroll image.

Added a new logic puzzle, Linjat, to the Fold. Dots show areas that must be covered, whilst the numbers suggest the length of a "line" which must be placed either horizontally or vertically. There's an online version of the game here, created by the author of the puzzle. Permission to duplicate the puzzle type has, of course, been asked for and granted by the author Juho Snellman

In order to get SpikeDislike Classic (or is it Classic SpikeDislike?) to work as universally as I can, there's been a lot of Delta Timing tweaks, alongside a bunch of 3DS Scaling-Issue related stuff that had to be done.

After each release, an influx of a comment bombards the pages of the site, and we get to see what people thought of the game. This week, RSKGames has decided to chip in, with thoughts of the gravity based, planet blasting game, Orbital Annihilation. You can play Orbital Annihilation here.

RSKGames

In Orbital Annihilation the player has to wait till the planets are aligned at the right positions in the orbits to fire and destroy the selected planet. Takes a bit of patience and timing to ...

For the past few months, I've been back and forthing on a way to get this to look half-assed on the 3DS. The main issue is with the Starfield, vs the 3DS's LED "haze" (Or maybe that's because I'm using a Original 3DS as my Homebrew unit!?) The slow-to-react LED is causing really horrible "clarity" issues. When you moved, the stars turned to a dark grey whilst the screen tries to catch up. If you stopped, and it has time to draw them fully, they become hard and white. The constan...

I've just spent the past couple of hours trying to fix a really stupid bug in the game logic. All of a sudden, enemy rooks could leap over your pieces. I looked into the code, and ... Yeah, I can see how that's happening. The issue being, of course, that to fix it I'd need to rewrite a significant chunk of the movement code, and probably break a whole bunch of other things along the way. I don't often give up on a project due to complexities like this. Usually if I DO give up, its ...

Today's tweaks have finally made the Chess game a bit more lively. A bit more fiddling and, hopefully, I should be able to get the difficulty back to something fairly decent. Right now it's still a little bland, and games can carry on for far too long without much of a threat, so a little more "look ahead" and things should be golden!

Yesterday didn't all go as planned!!

Got an email, this morning, from someone who was slightly perturbed by the fact that my RSS hasn't updated since 8/26/2017. When I switched from using Wordpress to my own blog script, one of the lost features was RSS. Mostly because I was too lazy to code a feed, but also because I wasn't sure that anyone actually still used RSS. This morning's email suggests that, somewhere in the world, at least one person still reads their RSS feeds once every couple of years. So, today I'll pro...

OK, the engine's now at about 75%. The opponent AI isn't quite right, and needs a little extra tweaking, but for the most part the actual logic of the game is in place.

Definitely needs a better title than that!

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...!

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 datab...

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.

At around 1am, I was starting to drift off to sleep, when suddenly.. "POUNCE!" A late night idea popped into mind.

The game's really starting to come together, now.