I wasn't expecting to release this week's game so early, but then I suddenly remembered I'd bought a new laptop!!

Pogo's life is intruded by a barrage of rebellious fruit. Squish them to death!!

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.

Last month, I subscribed to the ZenPop Ramen selection. The box appears, then over the coming weeks, I review each of the noodles. Last month's collection can be found in this SoCoder Thread, but I figured it might be something entertaining to crosspost here, too. Noodle Eight

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.

As I continue my trek through all the old blog posts, fixing up links and tracking down old images and things, I've noticed a rather worrying thing. Any and all quotes, from old blog posts, seem to have completely vanished from the database. I'm digging through old archived SQL backups, but I can't seem to find the quotes.

During level generation, I usually set walls/floors to "1", and then pad things out around those 1's. Yesterday, I struggled to figure out why enemy placements were so very few and far between, until I realised that I was randomising the floor tiles between 1 and 6. The enemies were only appearing atop the rare 1 floor tiles. *tsk* silly me.

Last month, I subscribed to the ZenPop Ramen selection. The box appears, then over the coming weeks, I review each of the noodles. Last month's collection can be found in this SoCoder Thread, but I figured it might be something entertaining to crosspost here, too. Noodle Seven

Yesterday I got the majority of the Fridge elements into place. The fruit is squishable, the milk is drinkable, and the levels continue for a certain length, and then end abruptly.

Struggling to get all the backups, installs and more, that a new Laptop requires, I'm going to have to skip this week. Again.. How many skipped weeks is that, now!? Sorry! Still, it gives me enough time to come up with a slightly better artistic style for the Fridge Hopping game. A nice background, maybe?! Fancy!! I should also be able to add some nice pickups and things, and hopefully make the game a fun enjoyable adventure. .. Maybe!

No coding, last night, as I realised I didn't have any of my iOS Backups on the new laptop. The whole process isn't as scary as it once was, and iTunes is gradually learning to behave itself over the decade or so since I started using it. But it's still slow as crap..

I still have half the game to code. I've no logo, no audio, no icons, no screenshots. Things look rather bland and repetitive. And it's already Sunday Morning. Eeek!

I haven't really got a goal in mind for this game, yet, and it's currently just a case of "Keep going, and avoid the gunfire". It's quite fun to play, but there's no real sense of accomplishment. Tonight and tomorrow will hopefully bring that into place. Additionally, I'll probably give the player a health bar, since 3 lives really don't last very long in this game!!

Enemy and Item spawning are now functioning, but I've yet to add any bullets to the strawberry's gun.

The new laptop was supposed to be arriving today, giving me yesterday to finish off most of the important pieces of this week's game. Instead, the new laptop turned up yesterday, meaning I pretty much wasted the entire day playing Mr Reinstaller.

What kind of baddies attack a fridge?! What would be the arch rival of a chiller cabinet!??!

Not really 100% sure what's going on here, if I'm honest, but the game now features a pogo-stick-hopping refrigerator. .. Because.. .. ... *shrugs* Tomorrow I need to come up with a more interesting set of gameplay elements than "Try not to fall into the chasm". Some proper enemies would help, I imagine.

Last month, I subscribed to the ZenPop Ramen selection. The box appears, then over the coming weeks, I review each of the noodles. Last month's collection can be found in this SoCoder Thread, but I figured it might be something entertaining to crosspost here, too. Noodle Six

Well, that doesn't sound right!!

Progress : The ball has gone. Now the main character hops up and down, instead.

In order to make the Bouncer format work properly, I'm going to need to give the player a different kind of control scheme. I'm almost tempted to strip away the "constantly bouncing" form of the ball, and go for something more like Soccer Kid on the Amiga.

Each release brings a wave of thoughts and comments. Let's have a peek at RSKGame's thoughts on this week's puzzle game. You can Download The Link Janitor here.

@RSKGames

A very relaxing puzzle game with right mixture of difficulty with 225 levels. Crikey. He's only gone and completed the entire game!!

Last month, I subscribed to the ZenPop Ramen selection. The box appears, then over the coming weeks, I review each of the noodles. Last month's collection can be found in this SoCoder Thread, but I figured it might be something entertaining to crosspost here, too. Well.. Guess it's time to eat... Noodle Five

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...

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