Over on SoCoder, Rockford suggests that the reason my quad-based images are looking skewed is because they're lacking a 3D element. I guess that makes sense, but I was really hoping I could do some nice quad-based sprites, without resorting to a third dimension. Bah, humbug. As it stands, I can "kinda" warp the sprites around, but they look a bit weird when doing it.

Unclaimed Marbles

Also available On SoundCloud. I appear to be in a fairly musical mood, this week. Hopefully that continues, and I can get music working in my framework without going slowly crazy!!!

Developments

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

Yesterday's framework test seems to have gotten negative reviews, with a common .dll issue cropping up along the way. I've uploaded a quick fix, this morning, so if you'd like to give it a whirl, be sure to let me know how well it works.

Boy, that took some doing!!

Lack of Developments

Seriously, though. How broken could it possibly be!?

Having finally decided that Emscripten is definitely broken, and/or just not doing what it's meant to be doing, I've hit a bit of a roadblock with the new Framework.

Developments

After spending hours, yesterday, trying to get Emscripten's OpenGL GLES 3 to draw a single triangle, I'm starting to wonder if it even actually works..

It's taken me all bloomin' day to find a way to get Emscripten's "C++'ish" compiler to compile, again.

When it's a C++

So, time to kill my Monkey-X Android SDK. I knew going in that this would be a chore, but blinkin' eck, that's an understatement!!

Developments

I'm fairly happy that I won't need to re-tweak the project, so having compiled the OUYA, Win and HTML5 editions of the game, I closed Monkey.

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

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.

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Developments

This week's game is near enough in a playable state.

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.

I'm finally happy with the "Third Time's a Charm" dungeon layout generator.

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