Developments

This week's ingame tune turned out nicely ( ^ That one ^ ).

Rollyblob has been released, and not everyone's happy. I thought I should make today's blog a bit of a "How it came to be what it is" tale.

( width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CfWm5MIWnjk?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> Also available (URL "https://soundcloud.com/alodare/pulpish-acrylic">on SoundCloud) Yes, I did post this a few weeks ago. Back then it was simply a test. Today it's a proper track, and is the first in a complete ALChoon AL Bum of "Pulp'ish" The tracks start here!

Developments

After a couple of rest days, I was back in the swing of things yesterday.

( width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/331005076&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true">> (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/Music?Journal=Video">Journal Video)

Developments

This week's game (assuming it even is this week!) still hasn't been decided on.

( width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/330336953&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true">> "Liquid Xigua Syrup" is the ingame music from Thwackity Puttz.

Developments

Heading back in time, once more, I found myself working on the Workshop, yesterday.

As each game is released, and player comments are posted, I'll try my best to make these posts as complete as I can. Feel free to leave your own comments, and I'll add them to the pile. This week, player's thoughts on (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/0407">Thwackity Puttz)

Developments

The golf game is turning out fairly well, and is *almost* release-ready.

( width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MBc619ilrsg?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> Also available (URL "https://soundcloud.com/alodare/sonically-yellowed">on SoundCloud).

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...

Developments

I'm getting near to the goal, now. The game seems to have a good feel, and I spent about 20 minutes last night ensuring that every single one of the 81 (9x9 grid) levels would generate without any crazy array-out-of-bounds errors.

Waiting...

For the past day and a half, my laptop's fan's been kicking off like crazy. Watching Task Manager, it was all down to Windows Modules Installer Worker, working away in the background, killing all CPU, Memory and Disk access for what must've been about 12 hours in total.

( 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!

Watching

I watched the UbiSoft E3 conference, yesterday.

Developments

(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!!

Each week, people share their thoughts with my games, and I like to make little community topics where I can answer/comment on their comments! It's a comment-o-rama!

@TimeKillerGames

I find a little more effort could be put in to the title screens of some of your more recent games. Why not do what you used to do, and add a little more visuals of some kind to it?

Developments

I'm continuing my fight with this week's game!

Gaming - ARMS

Had a play of the "Test-Punch" demo of ARMS, at 1am, last night/this morning.

After each weekly game is posted, people LOVE sending me their own little reviews! Send me yours to get it posted in these topics! Thanks to RSKGames (Who's a Patreon supporter, btw!) for his now regular weekly review!

Is this a test?!

Developments

When I first created SoCoder, I didn't include options for moving topics in an Admin style way.

Messing About With a Handheld

Although I've had to wrangle quite a few bits around, and tweak various settings here and there, for the most-part, my Emulation Archive now has a new home on the GPD xd.

For the past few years, I've been relying on my Archos Gamepad 2 to do all my in-dev testing. Loads of work on my framework resulted in my OUYA games being nicely compatible with the device, so rather than constantly switching over to the actual OUYA or RazerTV to do small tests, I instead relied on the portability of the handheld Archos Gamepad 2.

( width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_eLBxI_VnC0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> Also available (URL "https://soundcloud.com/alodare/sonically-twilight/">on SoundCloud)