Don't worry, I didn't completely abandon the Shoebox!!

With JMTrackr "done, enough" for Petit Switch, I can now happily move on to actually making games on the thing. I've made a quick list of things I should attempt, today.

JMTrackr is a Music Randomisation engine, which can create an endless variety of music, based upon a set of prewritten melody patterns. If you've a Switch, and have downloaded SmileBASIC, you can grab a copy of the game using the Public Key...

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This morning, my laptop's clipboard still had yesterday's Daily Platdude Pixelart in it. .. This is how much time I've spent working in Petit Switch!

Really getting somewhere with JMTrackr for Petit Switch, now!

I've gotten JMTracker up to a semi-working state, but still have to add test settings for things like Tempo and Instrument selection, as well as a proper Load requester. But so far, so good, and it's a vaguely decent output.. I think!! Although only a proper set of melodies and actual ingame usage will tell for sure..

I think I'm making a music program..!?

Tonight I attempted to get a JMTrackr style music engine to work in Petit-switch.

The "Text Layer" seems to be rather limited. I can print at any position, I can change the colour, I can change the font size.. .. But any changes made will affect the entire screen's worth of text.

I need to stop playing with Petit-Switch, and instead get back to regular AGameAWeek stuff!

So, today I wrote a basic minimal Framework in PetItC4 with simple enough functionality, but hopefully enough to allow for lots of variety in future projects. I've added a basic DrawImg thing, along with my usual set of SetCol, SetAlpha, SetSize and SetRot commands. I've created a sprite loop to draw sprites when required, and blank out any unused sprites at the end of the loop. I DID originally try adding a SPCLR (clear all sprites) at the top of the loop, but that flickered horribly. You'...

I spent most of last night reading (and/or attempting to read, with Google Translate's camera function glitching and popping all the text, all over the place) through what I could find in Petit Computer's Help files. SpikeDislike Watch : Likes 2 - Downloads 18

The game can be downloaded using the Public Code 424JQK3NJ Head into the top right projects thing, then hit R twice to access the Online games, then hit X (iirc!) and enter the PublicCode. Job done! SPIIIIIiiiIiike!!!

WAAARRRNIIIIIIING If you set up a Japanese account to download Petit Switch, be absolutely sure that you continue to use the Japanese account when coding your game. DON'T do what I did, and go "Well, it works in my Jayenkai account.. I'll carry on with that" Because, when you go to upload your finished game, you hit a great big wall.. The account you bought it with gets (I think) 10 "Upload" slots. You can "purchase Slots" for other users.. .. Except my default account can't do tha...