JNKPlat 2018

A new JNKPlat 2018 adventure is in the works.

Maybe I'm coding this wrong, but I swear I'm doing everything the way I'm supposed to!!

Saturday. My "week-off" is nearly over. As I look back at what I've achieved this week, I'm somewhat astounded by how little I've managed to get functioning correctly.

At the same time as I'm trying to get the Mac/iOS Metal stuff to work, I'm also trying out lots of techniques for tilemaps on 3DS.

...you must first, Break EVERYTHING!!!

Yesterday was all about planning, as I took a few important steps towards recoding the framework to work with Metal. Lots of little chunks of ideas, setting aside methods and preparing to sit and do the coding. The intention was to get everything ready and then spend last night actually sat at the Mac getting things up and running. I was ready to get going, so headed upstairs for "Evening Session" coding time, and then...

Today I'm going to reattempt the "Draw tiles to a buffer, draw the buffer" stuff.

I spent quite a while, today, trying to come up with a nice fast tilemap technique for 3DS. On the Desktop edition, I can draw to a buffer, then draw the buffer to the screen, but due to memory limitations, that's not quite as easy to do on the 3DS. I've tackled a few different ways, already, but none of them seem to be helping in the speed department. Essentially, I'm getting about 30fps out of a screen full of 8x8 tiles, which is absolutely horrendous when you consider that I used to be...

God damnit, Apple..

I'd love to tackle a new Alien Deathmatch sort of game, but I'm not really sure which way to take it.

Blockman returns in this super-retro dot-munching remake.

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