Already the scaling is causing quirks!!

I did a little coding, yesterday, but nowhere near enough to be worthy of blogging about. Instead, I sat and played quite a lot of Words With Friends (Username : Jayenkai, if you want to join in) and watched a ton of random bits and pieces on YouTube. I've been watching a lot of Disneyland-Secrets things, lately, and I'm not really sure why. TPMVids filled an alarming amount of my time, last night. Either it's the hot weather, or it's my mind's way of saying "Hey, I wrote this wh...

I can happily code in all kinds of weather, but when it's sunny, things start to slow down a whole bunch.

I might add a few extra functions for primitive drawing, or maybe a setting somewhere or something. It's not too much of an issue, in that I know why it's drawing things at different scales, but it'd be a little easier if I didn't have to worry about whether something's going to be "The same scaled position as the larger desktop version" or "The exact location on the screen"

Although the 3DS games I've posted so far have looked reasonably well presented, there's been some horrible scaling and colouring issues all over the 3DS code! Today I took the time to fix up a lot of the issues, and now I'm quite confident that scaling is no longer an issue, as long as you stick to percentages of the screen, rather than exact co-ordinates. Exact co-ordinates don't do any fancy scaling, as I've found that tilemaps and the like start to get a bit screwy if you assum...

With the 3DS onslaught in full swing, and this week's game being delayed, what better time than to stop and pause, and think about the other myriad of things that I'd like to do..?!

D'oh! Well, I did say that Franken-Hopper was a little bit *too* difficult. .. Now it's the exact opposite. Needs more death, now. Today's been a weird day, code-wise!!

I tried to compile "On a Space Shooting Trail" for 3DS tonight, but it wasn't having any of it! Seems that my habit of creating giant arrays, at launch, isn't very good when it comes to trying to then run them on the limited 3DS. It seems that if I "alloc" the big arrays at a later point, they tend to work better than if I try to just declare "I'm having a ginormous array, here!", right at the start of the code. The task, then, will be to rewrite a significant part of "On a Space Shooting T...

After spending hours retweaking the 3DS part of the framework, I'm now mostly confident that everything's a little more compatible.

Today has been one hell of a long haul.

After each week's release, I'm literally bombarded by player's thoughts and comments. Let's take a look at what RSKGames thinks of this week's game. You can Download Bungee Stars here.

@RSKGames

Not much was revealed about this week's game "Bungee Stars", so it was a pleasant surprise to play this fun little game.

I promised over on the GBAtemp forum that today would be the day for the first 3DS Homebrew test release, with or without working music. Unfortunately, it's without working music 39)( But it does contain biscuits, so that's ok! If you head over to the Roland Eats a Stale Biscuit page, you'll find a lovely little .3dsx download button. Mmmm..

Here's how yesterday went. 1. Create the logo, do the screenshots, prepare the assets. 2. Compile the Windows version. 3. Test the 3DS edition. 4. Tweak the 3DS edition. 5. More 3DS tweaking. ... 2184. Extra 3DS tweaking. 2185. Realise there's no time to post the actual game.

@RSKgames asks "Why not take the plunge into the Switch Devkit."

Looks like the Switch's Homebrew doors are currently being blown wide open.

After each game's release, I get a huge influx of opinions and thoughts from a variety of different people. Let's look at RSKGame's thoughts for this week's game! You can Download Micro Clampett here.

@RSKGames

I remember playing Mini Clampett last year. It is a very addictive game and as it was the first game to get the online scoreboard feature, lot of competition was there to get the highscores. I tried the hard mode today and got nowhere near top 5 highscores, the huge...

Clampett's returned in this odd little platforming game.

I tried out Flappadiddle again, today, and it was very very broken!!

I need to double check, but I think the big Grid[] array might be having issues.

I said I was going to work on a Mini Clampett sequel this morning, so I cloned the project folder and opened it up, and then went "Hey, I bet I know what's wrong with the 3DS Engine.."

Yeah, I really don't have a lot of RAM to play with in the 3DS, do I!?!