Yesterday didn't all go as planned!!

This is a test. I'm not sure how compatible the new RSS feed is going to be, but if you'd like to try it out in your RSS Reader of Choice, then the url is rss.xml, which is a fairly obvious choice for rss feed urls, I think. The link has been added down at the very bottom right of the site, and is also tagged in the header, near all those bloomin' icons! Let me know how it goes.

RSS Readers

InoReader seems the nicest of the webbased readers that I've found in my trave...

Got an email, this morning, from someone who was slightly perturbed by the fact that my RSS hasn't updated since 8/26/2017. When I switched from using Wordpress to my own blog script, one of the lost features was RSS. Mostly because I was too lazy to code a feed, but also because I wasn't sure that anyone actually still used RSS. This morning's email suggests that, somewhere in the world, at least one person still reads their RSS feeds once every couple of years. So, today I'll pro...

This game still has many issues!!

1. Balance

Added a new game, Scrambled Grid, to the fold. It's been a good week or so since I last added anything to Foldapuz, so I decided to spend a bit of time with the game, tonight. A few days ago, I found a lovely function in PHP which would allow me to do quick Anagram-Tests, and so I made full use of that, today. A set of 5 words are chosen at random, and shuffled about until an anagram can be found connecting them all together. Your challenge is to unscramble all 5 of the 6 letter words, and place t...

This morning's work on the Chess game has resulted in things being a lot more playable. The game is now "working", and can be played fairly well. The one "ever so slight" issue is that it's currently hard as nails!!

A small prod from a user on Twitter made me wonder about the validity of getting the Framework finally running properly on iOS/Android, and so I took the challenge and came up with ...

OK, the engine's now at about 75%. The opponent AI isn't quite right, and needs a little extra tweaking, but for the most part the actual logic of the game is in place.

I spent about 2 hours, yesterday, trying to solve one incredibly bizarre issue.

Didn't get an awful lot of coding done, yesterday. My mind was unsure whether to make the Chess game into a puzzle or an action game, and it was as though that decision clogged up my mind to the point where I didn't actually do anything at all!!

Added Flowers A variety of basic flowers to fill up a sprite-based garden with. There are currently only Daisy and Rose type drawing styles, but I'm sure I'll come up with more, later.

Yesterday's controller experiments appear to have been a success. ..Yeah, this seems like it might work out..

Whilst doing Foldapuz, I added in a Chess Font which helped make a couple of nice chess puzzles for the site. Both ideas seem to suit pen'n'paper quite well, but another idea I had is definitely more of a Videogame Logic game.

I still kinda want to do that Puzzobomb, but without a good generator it's all but failed, already. So, what else then?

Destroy the planets for points!

Definitely needs a better title than that!

The game's definitely feeling more gamey, now.

Well, the game's definitely "working", but that doesn't necessarily make it a fun game.

Still not 100% sure on the gameplay of this, but it's definitely looking more gamey with those planets added into the mix!

I'm fairly sure I know what kind of game this is going to be, but trying to find just the right balance between "crazy visual effect" and "fun game to play" will be the challenge over the next few days.

Added Planets. Lots and lots of planets, handy for all manner of things. The "Form" slider will also allow you to generate textures, rather than planet sprite image, which can come in handy for making spinning textured ingame planets. Be aware, however, that "Repeating Texture" mode is somewhat slow due to all the circles it has to draw!!

I *think* something might be interesting...!

The Puzzobomb ProcGen isn't going very well. The levels are working, but they're not very hard at all. No matter what I try, I can't seem to find a good way to make some proper puzzles. Hmm..

Since I created Foldapuz, I've been posting all the updates to a single updates.html file, and.. As much as that's been functional, it's also been growing and growing and growing. JNKsg (The unnamed Sprite Generator thing) has been created in much the same way, with a similarly expanding updates.html file charting the progress of the site. Today I decided that's probably not the best way to do it, and so I've taken the contents of both of these update pages and (with a lot of datab...

Yesterday I started work on a Puzzobomb Level Generator.

So, what game's next? With all the Foldapuz development, my head's currently full of little puzzle game ideas that don't quite work (literally) on paper, so I expect the next game to end up being something to do with one of those ideas.