Notebook

I've added another page from my old Notebook onto the Patreon page, for Subscribers. If you'd like to take a peek at some random GameDev notes and scrawls from about 15 years ago, that's the place to look!!

Developments

Remarkably, loading a png wasn't all that hard.

Lack of Developments

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

When it's a C++

A few hours later, and this has emerged.

The simplest form of input is Keyboard input. So, today I started to look into that.

After the hours (literally about 5 hours) of installing stuff, I finally got the basic android gradlew.bat file to compile, only to discover that that didn't actually compile the full thing, and instead just compiled the c++ stuff into a .jar file that Android Studio then had to take care of to compile it into an .apk.

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

Developments

I decided not to work on the Framework, yesterday, and instead focus on the more immediate issues.

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.

Ugh. I wasn't expecting my first attempt at iOS/XCode to run smoothly! The main complaints from the dozens of error messages, were warning me that "C++ Expects Types" when declaring and using functions. Well, no.. It doesn't.. It's working fine in both the Windows and HTML editions. XCode expects types.. Not C++. C++ is fine without!

I really need to finish off this week's game!

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.

Also available on SoundCloud.

Last night's midnight sheep-testing did NOT go smoothly. Bloody iPhoneX's fault, again...

Developments

I've got a basic scoring method in the game. 3 stars instead of 3 sheep, but basically a case of "Beat the level on your first try for 3 stars, 2 stars if you lose a life, 1 for losing 2, and anything beyond that gets no stars." A tally is on the right hand side of the menu, and that's pretty much all the scoring there is.

Getting closer to release. The current version of the game is now on my iPad, and I'll be stress testing all the levels to ensure they're the same set of levels that the Windows and HTML versions have. Looks gorgeous Which isn't something I get to say very often, about my games.

Over on this week's Patreon Notebook Pages Lookback thing, I've stumbled upon an unfinished project! Head on over, and if you're a subscriber, you can download a rubbishly unfinished test engine that doesn't do much of anything! Woohoo!!

Developments

More work on Sheepy, yesterday, and a fair amount of play testing. I've got worlds 1-5 working nicely, which will be the PC/HTML editions. The Pay-for Premium iOS edition will go all the way up to 20, but that means more and more and more and more testing!

Developments

Sheep Goes Right is coming along nicely, but a quick test on the iPhone, revealed a terrible terrible issue.. The issue, isn't entirely obvious, but it's definitely there.

Geeze, that took a while. A few quirks as MonkeyX gets old, but nothing as-yet unmanageable.

Developments

Spent quite a bit of time, yesterday, tweaking elements of the Music Player.

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