It's 1pm, already, and I've barely started my day. Yet again, I did that thing where I stay awake writing the SoCoder Newsletter, "to give myself more time in the morning", but then am so tired that I end up spending all that "extra time" asleep. Totally backfires... .. ... Every week!!

I can save TWO levels, now! In fact, I can save four! Wowie!!

Last night, I saved my test level! Unfortunately, it uncovered further complications.

Level editing was such a simple plan, at the start, but with every little thing I tweak, the whole process gets more and more complicated!

I've currently got the engine running with a level grid of 40x25, but the game can cope with any number of ratios, as long as the level data still fits within the confines of 1024 bytes.

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

The basics are coming together well enough, aside from the odd controller issues.

You might not have noticed, but in the 2018 Framework, the two main control schemes are ever so slightly different.

Over on the NintendoLife site, I just wrote the following comment about the latest Switch Picross title.

With so many games to play, there's oodles of feedback for each. Let's see what RSKGames thought of this week's game!

@RSKGames

Overview: A fast paced circular bullet hell game. I liked it better than the ''Orbital Projections'' and ''The Trouble with Vents'' which till day I can never play properly. (I had to look both of those games up! I've made too many games!!)

Seems like @RSKGames has helped to uncover the reason the leaderboards are so bloomin' empty.

A couple of days ago, I posted this short "Trailer Template". (YouTube) @RSKGames has commented! A bit more information text message in the video about the number of levels and goal of the game would have been nice.

Having spent a good few hours wrangling the object/baddie spawning, I've finally settled on a playable game.

I tested this week's game on 3DS, last night, and it's all manner of slow, hitting 20 fps quite often for no apparent reason.

It's been a long time since I did regular Trailers and Videos and things, but I've decided to attempt it with the new setup. A trailer-esque thing for last week's game. Thoughts/suggestions are, as always, welcome.

My mind wanders back to a game idea, long long long ago. Super Bouncer (2003!) never got off the ground because I knew I'd need really big levels, and I couldn't be bothered to make them! (This is a running theme) With my modern day proc-gen methods, I could probably get a decent random-path generator up and running to keep the game varied enough to be interesting. Couple it with better collision detection (really, anything would be better than the old test version!) and it has the potenti...

OK, the game's been "final" compiled and bundles are ready, so today will be all about uploads.

Today is day three of getting the house repointed, and it's really not helping my code-mood in the slightest.

Don't you love it when, after a recent Update, Windows always opens the browser up. You always expect the page it leads you to will be full of actual information about what the windows update just did. .. But, no. It never does. It's always the exact same generic "Windows Help" page that tell you absolutely nothing. After this morning's update, I could barely read the generic Windows Help page, because my laptop's screen was too dark. Hmm...

Maybe I'm coding this wrong, but I swear I'm doing everything the way I'm supposed to!!

Blockman returns in this super-retro dot-munching remake.

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.