In a reply to yesterday's Ideas post, Michael Adcock (@adcockm) suggested I look into Pico-8 development. He then (via Twitter) brought up the fact that I couldn't do it with my new C++ framework, so the idea of attempting it is a little less appealing.

If you haven't yet tried out Flappadiddle-Doo's first release, please give it a try, and let me know how well it does or doesn't work on your given system. Thanks for trying.

First test!

We'll call this the proto-test, since I'm still not 100% sure things are going to run AT ALL, let alone well!!

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This Tuesday we're kicking things off slowly. Each Tuesday through February, I'll be adding to Flappadiddle-Doo, to bulk it up beyond the original concept, and fixing up any quirks in my new Framework along the way. But once we hit March, I'll be heading into the regularly unplanned insanity of AGameAWeek.

I can't remember the last time I added an icon to a Windows game! .. I'm not even sure if I ever did...!

Oh, the joys of having the ability to generate your background from tiles

I had to rejig a small amount of the framework, yesterday, to allow me to access the controller's thumbsticks separately from the d-pad.

(YouTube) Finally got the Bonus Eggs working the way they should. You can now collect them, flap around with them, and earn extra points by having them with you. Next up is adding Flame Bars back into the mix, to make the levels a little more difficult to navigate around. This time I'm hoping to make the levels a little more manageable, as the previous game occasionally spawned things in insanely implausible positions!!! But, yeah, things oughta be ok with this scoring mechanic. The scores I...

Scoring's been added to Flappadiddle-Doo, and the new bonus mechanic is integrated to the scoring, but isn't yet added to the gameplay.

Continuing my trek through the Blog, (fixing old broken links, adding references to associated games, etc) I'm now up to page... 150! Out of 5000+ As an example of how the Wiki will be grown, the Wiki page for Alien Deathmatch 2 is now nice and populated with just links to various blog posts. I'll also need to add in elements that are on the game's release page, but AD2's actually surprisingly sparse, as far as that goes. Once I've sifted through all the pages, adding in the ne...

I think I've got everything ready. Or at least, all the important bits.

The Enter Your Name screen is now back in the framework, and works pretty much the same as it did before.

I started work on the "Enter Your Name" screen, yesterday, but ended up doing something vaguely, but not entirely related!

Yesterday ended up being much more productive than I intended it to be. With the Linux re-installation, the CPC coding and the ALChoon, I managed to get a fair amount of stuff done.

Over on Twitter, earlier, @Magic_bane suggested that I should enter this competition.