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.

Today's been about neatening the engine in places, and also adding a Random Number Generator.

Developments

I've already added a few "Power" features to the framework, even at this early stage.

An unexpected addition to the comments, as @RSKGames decides to give us a lovely "Top 15 Games of the Year" list! Thanks As we have come to the end of games this year, following is my top 15 (10 was not enough so 15) AGAW games this year.

15. Pigeon's Treat

Flappadiddle's cousin with limitted flytime.

The simplest form of input is Keyboard input. So, today I started to look into that.

After the hours (literally about 5 hours) of installing stuff, I finally got the basic android gradlew.bat file to compile, only to discover that that didn't actually compile the full thing, and instead just compiled the c++ stuff into a .jar file that Android Studio then had to take care of to compile it into an .apk.

Yaha!! ^ That'll be debug output from iOS, by the way.

Developments

I decided not to work on the Framework, yesterday, and instead focus on the more immediate issues.

Developments

Things are looking great for this week's game. The balance is now just-right, and I'm getting more or less similar scores on each play-through, which is usually my sign that I've done a decent job at making the thing play at the same level each time.

So far, no progress on the box. I decided to attempt to get my simple Hello World code to additionally run on Android, so I started by looking into "Android compile C++" Various sites suggested I need the Android NDK and to look at the included examples. The examples, of course, weren't bloody well included, and I had to hunt for those, too.

Today's been all about Emscriptn, which is the tool I'll be (hopefully!) using to convert C++ to HTML5 projects. First issue, the compiler didn't know how to include extra includes, so my "I can do it all via the command line" didn't quite work out, already!!

"Hello World" claims the title of the box.

I give up. Over the past 30-odd hours, I've tried a boatload of languages, and although all seem capable in their own particular ways, none of them seem to do everything that I need them to do. I'm still annoyed that GLBasic doesn't do sound-pitching. Seriously, WTF?! An Amiga 1000 could do that in 1985.

OUYA's been dead for a couple of years, now, but it seems that Razer's latest plan is to replace "Android TV Gaming" with "Android Mobile Gaming", and .. well, I've written about that, before.

Sleepy Jay took over, yesterday. I knew what coding needed to be done, but nothing productive was happening at all. I tried a few things, including building a nice random dungeon generator, but.. .. Boy, that didn't end up nice, at all! Today I might scrap what I did, and redo-from-start. I know I can do better than that!

Developments

I spent AGES working on a new Level Generator for Sheep, yesterday.

Each week, players send in their thoughts for that week's game. Or, at least, RSKGames does! If you want to submit your own thoughts, stick 'em in the comments, or email them in. This week's game is Sheep Goes Right

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Overview: A totally different AGAW game in terms of art style and music but with the familiar mix of twist to the gameplay mechanics and attention to detail. A pleasant surprise is that the game is not endless, it has finite levels and ends with ''...

It's about flamin' time!!

Developments

I've got a basic scoring method in the game. 3 stars instead of 3 sheep, but basically a case of "Beat the level on your first try for 3 stars, 2 stars if you lose a life, 1 for losing 2, and anything beyond that gets no stars." A tally is on the right hand side of the menu, and that's pretty much all the scoring there is.