I struggled with RetroRaider Amiga methods for a short while, before eventually giving up.

RetroRaider on the Amiga kept me awake for most of the night.

I'm now finding myself wondering how do-able RetroRaider would be on the Amiga.

A decade is over, and what have I done? 373 games, created a new blogging script for here, rewritten the Socoder forum, started a few new sites and more! Oh, and a brain tumour! It's been a wild and crazy decade, and over the next few days I'll be looking back at the best (and worst) games from the decade. 2010 - BlitzMax 2011 - Touch Control 2012 - The Bad Year 2013 - Monkey-X 2014 - OUYA!! 2015 - The Gap Year 2016 - Forget-V 2017 - Cuddle Me 2018 - Ringing the Changes 2019 - Overl...

A decade is over, and what have I done? 373 games, created a new blogging script for here, rewritten the Socoder forum, started a few new sites and more! Oh, and a brain tumour! It's been a wild and crazy decade, and over the next few days I'll be looking back at the best (and worst) games from the decade. 2010 - BlitzMax 2011 - Touch Control 2012 - The Bad Year 2013 - Monkey-X 2014 - OUYA!! 2015 - The Gap Year 2016 - Forget-V 2017 - Cuddle Me 2018 - Ringing the Changes 2019 - Overl...

Allen writes.. Not sure if you still develop for OUYA but I play all of your games on there and I had a game idea that I wanted to share with you. Oh, how I miss the OUYA.

Developments

Oh dear.. Where does the time go!?

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...

Laura Plat is back, and she's searching for Crystals

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As per usual on a Thursday, most of yesterday was spent on "other" stuff.

( width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CfWm5MIWnjk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> I've decided that AL's next Bum should be a Pulpish one. "Something Borrowed.. Something New.." Track one is above, and is merely a test. I've still got a few more of SonicALly to finish off before I can officially move on to the next one!

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Took most of yesterday off, from coding.

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.

( width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/--R3b5fsZwo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> Also available (URL "https://soundcloud.com/alodare/sonically-windy">on SoundCloud).

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Last night, I lay awake watching the glorious joyful results of people having voted the right way.

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(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/524_003.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/524_003-1024x605.png" alt="" width="750" height="443" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-7528" /> Hey, would you look at that!!

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I'm enjoying my long lazy weekend!

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That thing at the top of the page..

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I've attempted about three different gametypes, this week, and have pretty much abandoned them all! Hopefully today I can manage to get at least one of those working properly.

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Yesterday was spent tweaking a few odds and sods that I never really got around to doing previously. I, of course, added a few extra levels, and I added "OUYA Controller Button Icons" to the main menu, so it's marginally more obvious that you can use the shoulder buttons to open the Options menu and Scoreboard. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/HeavilySubtle.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/HeavilySubtle-1024x597.png" a...