I didn't get nearly as much done, yesterday, as I'd planned.
Or at least, not all the elements of yesterday's checklist, anyway.

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Level editing was such a simple plan, at the start, but with every little thing I tweak, the whole process gets more and more complicated!

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I've currently got the engine running with a level grid of 40x25, but the game can cope with any number of ratios, as long as the level data still fits within the confines of 1024 bytes.

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As I start work on the editor's GUI, something's suddenly struck me.

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I spent most of yesterday working my way up to the Editor, but not quite reaching it yet.

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I think I'm probably over complicating things in my head, but the many different things I need to implement into a simple editor are getting quite silly, now!

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Looks like some professors are starting to teach a crazy wild idea of coding a "Game-a-Week".

Good luck to anyone tackling this.. But it's not sensible to keep yourself thinking in that mindset, though.

After doing this for a decade, I find it VERY hard to work on anything longer, and I certainly wouldn't recommend it as a starting point in a career, nor would I suggest it's a good idea to be teaching and grading this sort of thing. It seems like it's a very dark road to be going down. Be sure to practice lengthier games, as those will be the sorts of things you'll be doing once you've left your education.

But, hey, have fun, and enjoy the world of "Game-a-Week"

(Thanks to Minion for pointing me to it)

The basics are coming together well enough, aside from the odd controller issues.

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I think I've managed to write the new JNKPlat controller code in such a manner that the main menu can now have a fairly simple option to reconfigure them depending on your preferred controller.

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You might not have noticed, but in the 2018 Framework, the two main control schemes are ever so slightly different.

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There's a bunch of important pieces that have to be put into place for a new JNKPlat game to work properly.

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After each game's release I receive an influx of feedback from all of the one person who played it.

Let's see what @RSKGames thinks of the bouncy pods!

You can Download Centipong Rebound here.

@RSKGames

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Although August 13th isn't a significant date in my health matters, it is the date that I wrote this rather lengthy blog post, back in 2012.
It's now become a bit of a tradition for me to post an annual update on this date.
Other Jiggity Posts

The posts are given the title "Jiggity", because my original post was titled "Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig"!
*shrugs*
It's a handy keyword when searching for these health posts.

The Tumour

A tumour/cyst/blob was wedged in my head, somewhere between the Spinal Cord and Cerebellum, near the Fourth Ventricle.
Thankfully the tumour turned out to be none-cancerous, but once they removed it, the balance issues kicked in, and I ended up stuck in the hospital, on various drips and oodles of medicines, vomiting daily, for literally months.
It wasn't a pleasant time.

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The best way to learn about the odd world of AGameAWeek is to try a few of the games out.

Luckily, I've bundled together a set of 11 games into a neat package for Windows system.

You can download the "Gold - 10 Years" bundle here, for Windows

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The centipedes have returned. Bring out your balls.

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I might end up delaying the game until tomorrow.
After a weekend full of yucky flu conditions, the coding's been a little slower in pace.

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Should be ready a some point tomorrow, but there's been an awful lot of bug fixing, tonight!!

The New Unnamed Centipong game is feeling much better, now, with the addition of all the important audio as well as properly functioning levels.

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Minor tweaks to the still untitled New Centipong, but nothing too interesting to bother to mention.
Mostly yesterday was a sidetracked day..

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Yesterday, New Unnamed Centipong started to fall into place.
I'm not sure exactly what it was that did it. Maybe the addition of levels, or properly formulating the life system, but something suddenly clicked and things started to feel a lot more gamey.

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