I spent a fair amount of time, yesterday, working on a new feature for Foldapuz.

I added a simple new game to Foldapuz, last night, but .. Would you believe it.. It didn't show up on today's default layout. D'oh!

Yesterday was mostly spent adding little tweaks and tiny elements to JNKPlat.

Apologies if you've seen the server go up and down at an annoyingly frequent rate over the past 24 hours. I know I have..

(YouTube) A demo should be available soon.

Spent most of yesterday wrapped up in bed, sniffling and with a sore throat. Flu season is here, early!

This has been one heck of a long journey!!

As I attempt to build Menu Two, I'm also having to tweak bits of Menu One so that everything flows well between the two.

Menu Two is infinitely more complicated than Menu One. Whereas menu one was simply a set of buttons on the titlescreen, menu two needs to list hundreds of levels.

The Editor definitely needs a decent GUI, but I'm unsure whether I'm better off with a simpler one, or something a little more fully featured.

I spent most of yesterday working my way up to the Editor, but not quite reaching it yet.

This week, RSKGames is one of very few players who've bothered to take a look at a bland and tasteless Generic Snake clone. You can Download Generic Snake Game here

@RSKGames

All the trailers, screenshots and the hype from the devlogs for the generic snake game might have confused the regular readers of the blog what is all the fuss about. I guess the hype was about the story in the generic snake game.

For the past 24 hours, I've been wondering if I could somehow compile bunches of games into bundle.exe's

100 NOW compilations, and what do we get?! Track Listing That's a bit of a shit selection, isn't it..? I mean, I can understand why they did that. Every NOW needs to have modern tracks, and this one additionally has to celebrate the past. .. But.. Really.. Would it have killed them to have got a selection of modern artists to rerecord the original track listing of the original NOW 1? ..? That's what I'd've done. *sigh* What a wasted opportunity.

"I know", says I, "I'll write tomorrow's SoCoder newsletter now, so that I don't have to do it in the morning, and can instead get right back to doing the important coding!" Nope.. Instead I was up until 3:30am doing the newsletter, and then didn't wake up until after 10, thus completely losing all the time I'd managed to save! D'oh!

Always evolving, the Framework needs more Scoreboard tweaking. I was hoping to get this done, over the past week, but the Radial Warning complications and lack of gameplay, ended up shifting my focus.

Here's roughly how the game's looking, so far.

Yesterday I got the majority of the Fridge elements into place. The fruit is squishable, the milk is drinkable, and the levels continue for a certain length, and then end abruptly.

I have NO IDEA how it happened, but at some point yesterday, the face on my Misfit Phase cracked. I must've hit it, or something, but I really can't remember doing that. Hmmm..

Yesterday, as I watched the empty scoreboards once more, I decided it was probably about time I "switched them on" properly. -=-=- Note : In order to activate online scores on my recent games, hop into the options screen, and Enter Your Name.

I'm now happy that the bats are balanced well enough for the gameplay to be nice and playable. Had a good play on both Desktop and 3DS and things seem to be running smoothly enough. The graphics on 3DS are a bit smooshed, but .. They're passable. I think.. Maybe! Todo : Needs a background graphic of sorts, and then logo, icons, etc.. Should be ready in the next day or two.

I spent most of yesterday trying, over and over, to get the regular standard mode to feel right. After hours (literally hours!) of playtesting, I'm fairly sure now that the basic levels are at least mostly beatable.

Spent most of today trying to find the right feel for the controls. I'm still not 100% happy with them. Although they feel ok with the tapping of keyboard keys, they feel totally wrong when trying to play with a DPad, which is odd, because I tend to think of those two things as being very much the same thing. Anyhoo, other than that, the game seems to be coming along nicely, although I've yet to add anything new into the mix. I'm currently trying to think of interesting ways to add a bit m...

This morning's a newsletter day, so that all needs doing first, but then I'll be heading into the game and trying to figure out exactly what style it's going to take. I'm fairly sure I can get some kind of gameplay working for this week's game, but it'll be a case of finding the right balance between what the level generator can come up with, and the way the player controls.