I seem to be making a new Horizontal Shooter. Thus far, I've got bullets and a trail working, but I'm not sure if I'll be keeping the "Catch a bullet" mechanic of previous versions.

Each time I release a game, the thoughts and comments come rolling in. Let's take a peek at this week's thoughts.

RSKGames

I find Flappadiddle Doo having the smooth gameplay like its predecessor and the polish found in ''Sheep Goes Right''.

Awww, the lovely lovely thick snow.

OK, let's get things kicked off properly.

In order to cut off previous edition's scoreboards, I opted to change the game from #552, to #553. Unfortunately, this has resulted in the random number generator changing, and all the levels are now completely different!! Currently playing through all the levels again, to be sure they're all working. Release, maybe tonight? Maybe earlier.. No idea!

I'm fairly happy that Flappadiddle-Doo is ready to go. Over the next hour or so, I'll recompile, get all the assets redone, and get things uploading. Meanwhile, last night was spent watching the 3D Printer printing the second test SoCoder ball.

Been playing the Windows edition of Flappadiddle-Doo for most of the day.. .. Playtesting, honest!! Had to play through the "World" levels over and over, just to be sure they're doable. Tweaks yet to be done, include making the "Bonus Multiplier" a bit more obvious. I'm not sure how best to do that, but it'll probably just end up being a star-system or a red/amber/green light thing... You'll know what I did, once it's ready! Once that's done, I'm going to spend the r...

Today's plan is exactly the same as yesterday's plan. It's like Deja Vu, all over again.

A bit late in the day to realise you'd only coded half the blinkin' online scoreboard stuff!! True, the Framework was happy to send the score data to the server, but ... Then what!? I'd not coded ANYTHING about receiving the data back, parsing the data, popping the scores and player names into internal memory, and then displaying the online scores to the player. D'oh! So, that's what I've been working on all day, today. As a result, the game might be del...

\o/yeay\o/ First test print that's at least vaguely decent.

The 3D printer finally managed to start printing, last night. It managed about 8% of the print, before the print "popped" off the mat, and everything went horribly awry. Bah, humbug.. I'll probably have another attempt at it later. Since it's my birthday, I'll be sitting about and being generally lazy, today. Nothing much more to say than that! Lazy Jay wins, today..

The game's a little closer to release, as I've stress tested all the "Main" levels.