I had a nice day off, yesterday, playing with the Logo generator. There's still a few other things I'd like to add, like gradients and possibly borders, outlines, embossing, and that sort of thing. But for now I think I should probably head back to JNKPlat.

This is Not a Game

! You can Download JNK Titler v0.5 over on SoCoder. (Because it's not a game!!)

You know what might be handy? If I had some kind of magic title generator, so I could type in the name of a game, and it'd go "Kapoof!" and magic me up a wide variety of possible titlecards.

I'm now at a point where I can edit a level, save the level, quit the game, load the game, start the game, and the game will then load the level I just edited.

It's 1pm, already, and I've barely started my day. Yet again, I did that thing where I stay awake writing the SoCoder Newsletter, "to give myself more time in the morning", but then am so tired that I end up spending all that "extra time" asleep. Totally backfires... .. ... Every week!!

Today's tasks are to tackle level loading, as well as dealing with general pack data.

I can save TWO levels, now! In fact, I can save four! Wowie!!

Last night, I saved my test level! Unfortunately, it uncovered further complications.

The button layout chaos continues.. I'm going to try to make the gui for the level editor do as much as it can without needing buttons!!

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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!

(YouTube) 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...

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

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.

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

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

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

Overview: I have not played any of the previous versions of the AGAW Centipong games but playing last years ''Rainbows Shooting from my Balls'' game I had an idea that it might be a very high paced experience. This Centipong game is a very intense fast paced game ...

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 he...

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

The centipedes have returned. Bring out your balls.

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.

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.