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Oh dear, that hasn't gone down very well, has it?! Hmm.. First up came the issue with the Level Generator. Things seemed to break fairly late in the project, meaning that different systems were generating different sets of levels. For this reason, the online scoreboards were removed, as they'd be impossible to properly compare between all the different level sets. Doing test after test after test, right up until the last minute, led me to accidentally upload a broken version of the game. .. And no...

If you've downloaded RetroRaider-3 at any point today, you might want to re-download the game. Whilst stress testing my level generator, I accidentally left a few "quirks" in there, including a cheat mode, and a "feature" that locks the game up and doesn't let you play. Ooops.. A fix has been uploaded, so if you're stuck with the broken version, you should go and grab the new one. The broken version sees the current level end if you hit the V key, and the whole game lock up if you try to load levels...

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Hours! Literally hours I spent yesterday, sifting through the level generator code.

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I'm getting near to the goal, now. The game seems to have a good feel, and I spent about 20 minutes last night ensuring that every single one of the 81 (9x9 grid) levels would generate without any crazy array-out-of-bounds errors.

Watching

I watched the UbiSoft E3 conference, yesterday.

( width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/327594652&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true">> ^ RetroRaider III's current Ingame music. The titlescreen music is (URL "https://soundcloud.com/alodare/journal-undertakings">here) Both might change.. We'll see!

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(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/logo.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/logo-1024x512.png" alt="" width="750" height="375" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-7558" /> I've got "RetroRaider : Three Crystals" up to a decent standard, but it's not quite 100%.. It's barely 80%.. Heck, the bullets don't even collide with the enemies! I still have to create music for it. I also need to construct so...

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Yesterday was such a long, tedious day of database/site coding.

I figured I should give a brief explanation as to how I'm generating the levels in RetroRaider. This might become a regular series, so if you find this stuff interesting, be sure to let me know in the comments or email or twitter or whatever.. For RetroRaider, the map is split into an 8x8 grid, and each of those are split into a top and bottom. For the sake of making things easier on myself, I decided to make an 8x16 grid.

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RetroRaider3's coming along quite nicely, now.

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I've started this week's game with a bit of Level Generation.

Each week, people share their thoughts with my games, and I like to make little community topics where I can answer/comment on their comments! It's a comment-o-rama!

@TimeKillerGames

I find a little more effort could be put in to the title screens of some of your more recent games. Why not do what you used to do, and add a little more visuals of some kind to it?

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A stupid annoying dripping noise kept me awake, last night.

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I recreated another 4 of the classic SoCoder themes into SoCoder2 yesterday.

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Having gotten most of the important bits of SoCoder2 into place, I started work on a couple of themes for the thing.

( width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/325392926&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true">> Also available (URL "https://allihoopa.com/s/QDPcTTaW">on Allihoopa)

Every week, RSKGames submits a lovely review of that week's game! If you'd like to have your own thoughts posted in similar bloggy posts, you can either (URL "mailto:Jayenkai@Gmail.com">email them), post them as a comment, or let me know via (URL "https://twitter.com/Jayenkai">Twitter.)

RSKGames

Title: Well chosen title for the game. The blend of the pink and yellow circle between the blue title looks great.

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Another week begins, and I wonder what game will be created?

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There's no audio in this week's game, yet!

Gaming - ARMS

Had a play of the "Test-Punch" demo of ARMS, at 1am, last night/this morning.

( width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/U9D4L74iLFQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> Also available (URL "https://soundcloud.com/alodare/sonically-upwards">on SoundCloud).

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The basic engine for this week's game is coming along fairly well, but I'm currently unsure whether to go for Mode A or Mode B..