Our second test of Flappadiddle with various improvements and tweaks and hopefully a better all-round experience.

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Plenty of stuff got done, yesterday.

I had to rejig a small amount of the framework, yesterday, to allow me to access the controller's thumbsticks separately from the d-pad.

(YouTube) Finally got the Bonus Eggs working the way they should. You can now collect them, flap around with them, and earn extra points by having them with you. Next up is adding Flame Bars back into the mix, to make the levels a little more difficult to navigate around. This time I'm hoping to make the levels a little more manageable, as the previous game occasionally spawned things in insanely implausible positions!!! But, yeah, things oughta be ok with this scoring mechanic. The scores I...

Yesterday ended up being much more productive than I intended it to be. With the Linux re-installation, the CPC coding and the ALChoon, I managed to get a fair amount of stuff done.

So, yesterday didn't go as planned.

Planned to do coding, today. And, though I did do some coding, it wasn't anything to do with the Framework!

Got oodles of stuff done, yesterday, although to the player not a bit of it is noticeable!

Lots of background stuff, today.

Seems like I might need to restart the MacOS project files..

Starting the iOS thing from scratch, due to my usual case of overcomplicating things!

I *think* I've figured out how to "create" XCode projects programatically.

The framework's looking quite stable, but there's no guarantees that it is! As such, I'm currently thinking of making February a full month of Flappadiddle 2. Each weekly release will be a slightly more fixed up edition of the game, and hopefully over the course of February, I can build the game up to a decent enough standard, and drag the Framework along with it. So.. That's the plan! February 2018 will be Flappadiddle2 Month!

People might look at the fact that I spent all day, yesterday, working on an "unrelated" Icon Resizer project, but the new framework needed a new version of the tool.

v1.0 of my new version of the Icon Resizer. Completely rewritten over the space of today. You can Download Icon Resizer 2 v1.0 here Icon Resizer 2 takes a selection of icons, at whatever sizes you CAN be bothered to make, and outputs a whole array of (mostly iOS) different sized icons that you can use in your games. With the addition of some Screenshots and your game's logo, the tool will also generate all manner of screenshot sizes, as well as generating a bunch of Banners and Headers and thing...

Since I'm having to deal with html-responses in a raw fashion, I'm seeing a few quirks in the way that the different servers send their replies.

I spent most of the night, switched off from coding, and instead watched a lot of YouTube stuff. Lots of complaining about YouTube's stupid new Ad-Revenue rules, meaning hundreds and thousands of vloggers are being hit hard. In addition, @Geekanoids is having a terrible time after a burst pipe caused oodles of damage to his Studio. In many ways, YouTube isn't the greatness it used to be, but annoyingly they've pretty much destroyed any and all competition, so people are stuck with it. ...

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The new server has a great virus-scanning feature, which blocks any downloads should the file contain any kind of possible dodgyness.

You'd be amazed how many errors have cropped up in the AGameAWeek script! The previous server was setup to display major errors onscreen, rather than logging them, but the new server logs EVERYTHING!!!

If you're a frequent visitor, you've probably noticed the occasional MySQL "Too many connections" error cropping up on the site.