PleasingFungus's Devblog

Added a ‘demo lockout’ for something I’ve been...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 09:42:12 -0700

Added a ‘demo lockout’ for something I’ve been thinking about doing.

It’d be nice of the game had an artist, so I was thinking of going around soliciting for someone who’d be interested; of course, it’d be useful to have a version of the game to show them, but I don’t want to dump the whole (unfinished) game into the wild just yet…

Exciting stuff, basically.

Reworked the menu about a week ago. It’s much better than...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:55:07 -0700

Reworked the menu about a week ago. It’s much better than what it was before! (What it was before: a text list of the level names.)

Bonus*: substantial code re-use from the main game!

*this is a very silly bonus.

I’ve been working on this pretty much all week. Online...

Wed, 29 May 2013 22:22:00 -0700

I’ve been working on this pretty much all week. Online level sharing!

(God, I hate trying to put text fields in flixel. Flixel isn’t built to interface with the native utilities at all, and it shows.)

Anyway, this is really cool, and I’m super happy with it!

e: the game generates a (potentially very long) save string from your level, which it sends to my ~very sophisticated~ server. The server stores the save & sends back an associated hash, which you can then send to other people. When they use the hash, the game queries the server, which hands the game the level string, which the game loads.

it’s great!

Work-in-progress concept for a minimum-effort redesign that...

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:31:15 -0700

Work-in-progress concept for a minimum-effort redesign that makes the game a little less visually boring than it is at present.

The colors need work.

I color-coded some more things. I hope that wasn’t unwise.

Sun, 12 May 2013 17:32:10 -0700

I color-coded some more things. I hope that wasn’t unwise.

tryin’ to use fewer words it’s hard :(

Sat, 11 May 2013 18:35:25 -0700

tryin’ to use fewer words

it’s hard :(

Working on UI tweaks.

Sat, 11 May 2013 12:52:54 -0700

Working on UI tweaks.

More inspiration? (Actually this is a bit lower level than the...

Sat, 11 May 2013 09:39:54 -0700

More inspiration?

(Actually this is a bit lower level than the game. Still cool!)

Actually, here’s another. Useful? Maybe? Maybe.

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:37:01 -0700

Actually, here’s another. Useful? Maybe? Maybe.

Experimenting with making custom modules more...

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:34:51 -0700

Experimenting with making custom modules more comprehensible.

Results so far: ?

Clock time.

Mon, 06 May 2013 19:05:10 -0700

Clock time.

Milestone

Sun, 05 May 2013 12:10:54 -0700

Got the last major game component (conditional branches) working yesterday; this means that MDE2 is, finally, turing-complete. (Well, the processors you’re required to make, anyway.)

Still a lot left to do, but it’s a good feeling!

Les codes de couleurs

Fri, 03 May 2013 22:39:42 -0700

Les codes de couleurs

a glimpse into my in-depth work planning system.

Fri, 03 May 2013 18:45:00 -0700

a glimpse into my in-depth work planning system.

Here’s another gif. (Different machine this time.)

Thu, 02 May 2013 21:16:43 -0700

Here’s another gif. (Different machine this time.)

Here’s part of the last one, run at a somewhat slower...

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:09:00 -0700

Here’s part of the last one, run at a somewhat slower speed.

(Again, this is a large gif; click to watch.)

There’s a small glitch in the gif-maker that’s...

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:02:00 -0700

There’s a small glitch in the gif-maker that’s causing the purple lines to persist in the instruction memory. Whoops!

e: this is a gif, but it’s too large to play in the dashboard - click ‘high res’ if you’re looking at it there, or click to view full if you’re on pleasing.tumblr.

Experimenting with http://blog.bahraniapps.com/?page_id=21 .

Thu, 02 May 2013 19:44:09 -0700

Experimenting with http://blog.bahraniapps.com/?page_id=21 .

This was many times more difficult than it should have...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:04:00 -0700

This was many times more difficult than it should have been.

Nice to see it working, though.

e: color choices probably need some work.

At last, the most critical, longest-awaited reform to the game:...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 20:53:00 -0700

At last, the most critical, longest-awaited reform to the game: scrolling reform.

(I hacked together the first implementation; it just made any text that was even partially outside the text area, above or below, invisible. See the previous post for examples!)