Just a quick video to show how easy it is to edit levels. Oh, and all the audio's in, too!

There are currently 4 levels in the game. Last night I started popping the audio into the game, and thankfully nothing's broken! (I was a little worried about memory!)

The level above was created using the 3DS edition of the game. In fact, a whole 4 level pack was created, then swiftly backed up to the PC, in case anything breaks!! 4 Levels, and a successful first proper pack! I will, of course, need to create a few simpler packs for the start of the game, but this is a nice and complex level, and should be roughly the size of most of the levels in the game.

The level select menu is almost up to a usable state.

At some point, I need to start making some actual levels for the game.

This has been one heck of a long journey!!

Yesterday I continued to work on the Multi-Coloured Print exporting functionality on my PixelArt to STL tool.

1. Having to compress level data, to shave a few hundred kilobytes of data that can't quite fit into the memory of the 3DS without it crashing, but then it being perfectly happy to have about 7Mb of audio crammed in.

Those blocks need shifting. Get back to work.

Don't expect much, it's just a retread of Quadoban, with nothing new added into the mix other than the levels!!

Amazing what a little hand-made data compression can do!!

I should probably have already known this, but taking 500 levels worth of data and cramming it directly inside the code of a 3DS game, seems to cause memory issues!!

Initial conception, and first test of printed foldable layout. The layout seems workable, and if I continue to make the puzzles in that aspect ratio it should be fairly functional as a pocketsized booklet. Left the idea to ferment for a week!!

Over on my site Socoder.net, we have a daily poll, and each day it gives you something to vote on, then the next day you get points based on whether you voted for the winning item on the poll. It's been there for many many years, now, and I'm starting to get a little sick of the sight of the bloomin' thing, but what could I possibly replace it with? The current leading idea is a doodle box, where the players are given a start point and a few colours, and the best art wins. But that then requi...

What have I done!?!?

Although I've finally made a decent start on Menu Two, I've come to the conclusion that JNKPlat isn't going to be anywhere near ready, within the next couple of weeks.

Well, kinda. I spent yesterday fiddling with all manner of background stuff, the end result of which is that Menu Two still hasn't been worked on!

As I attempt to build Menu Two, I'm also having to tweak bits of Menu One so that everything flows well between the two.

Over on SoCoder, Spinal asked all about my old JMTrackr tool/player. This is the second time it's cropped up in the past few days, (It was mentioned on Facebook a day or two ago) and it's got me wondering if I should attempt a new version of it for the C++ Framework... and more importantly, for JNKPlat2018. You can learn more about JMTrackr here.

Menu Two is infinitely more complicated than Menu One. Whereas menu one was simply a set of buttons on the titlescreen, menu two needs to list hundreds of levels.

The all important introductory menu.

I really need to start working on the main menu for JNKPlat.

The Test button is now on the top left, next to the save button. The tile-menu is now on the bottom left instead of the right, leaving quite a gap on the bottom right of the screen. I might need to tweak that a bit!

The Editor definitely needs a decent GUI, but I'm unsure whether I'm better off with a simpler one, or something a little more fully featured.

Yesterday was quite a productive day, but one that needed a whole boatload of tweaks just to get the pushable blocks to work correctly. Exactly half of the intended "original" tiles are currently functional.

(YouTube) The video above shows a bunch of the stuff I've been doing, today. The travellators were working the other day, as was the ability to hop up onto a ledge. But pretty much everything else is new. ..or at least, new to this edition. If you're a fan of previous JNKPlat games, this should all be fairly standard stuff.

I spent FAR too long playing with the door/exit swirly thing, yesterday, and even after all that time, I'm still not quite happy with the results.