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What I'm working on for the various consoles I can program for.

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Level 3, other changes

So I decided to put the level select screen at the title screen. You press up or down to select a game, then start to start it. I added a new level. which is in my opinion, the hardest one yet. I also added a short level completed jingle, a sound for successfully moving a pineapple, and a buzz for moves that aren't allowed. I'd like to either cut the music off or make a new song. Most likely I'll cut the music in game. I worked for about 6 hours on this this morning trying
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Levels 1 & 2.

I was able to put the pineapples in the game. I made a couple of levels. The game is different from Lazlo's Leap in that you can jump over nothing. I made it like that to make creating puzzles easier. One thing you can't do is jump over a pineapple and land on another one. So that makes this puzzle harder. But it's still easy. This morning I worked on making another level, this time with four pineapples. I also added the ability to reset the puzzle you're on by pressing the S
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Cursor working

So I woke up at about 11 p.m. or so. I immediately went to work on this after getting up, eating breakfast and taking my pills. It took about two hours or so, but I finally got a grid and a cursor that moves around. The problems were related to how to convert the numbers of the cursor's x and y position so they could be used in the lookup table I made for the grid. One difference between "Lazlo's Leap" and this game are seen even though it's very VERY early on (and may not get finished
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A new Game Boy game.

I finished Frank the Fruit Fly some time ago. Now I need to work on something else. I played some Super Game Boy games a few hours ago, which led me to wanting to make another Game Boy game. So I made a nice little song and a nice little title screen for my new game. I kind of wanted the pineapple to be bigger, but space was limited since I needed to also put in the font and a few punctuation marks. But I have a problem: I don't know what the game should be about. I'm leaning towards a
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Frank the fruit fly - changes.

I thought "I have some unused background tiles, so why not try to make the title screen a bit nicer?" So that's what I did. I replaced the text with the title spelled out using background tiles. I think it looks better. Especially since it wasn't centered with the text. Well, this isn't exactly centered either, since the title I wrote couldn't be, it's off by 1 pixel, but it still looks centered enough. I made contact with a guy who released my Virtual Boy game who says he may be able
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Frank the Fruit Fly box

The gnome thing for the celery game was not going to work. The speed of the gnomes got slower whenever the celery was moving and sped up again when he wasn't. I think that was a sign of me trying to put too much code into the game. I was really bored yesterday. I decided to see if I could make a box for my Game Boy game. I got a template for a GB box. Yesterday I worked on the front and today I worked on the back. This is the front I designed: I debated a long time against myself
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Changes to Frank the Fruit Fly.

First off, I managed to put in the wanderer enemy in Robot Ron in 2084. But I've decided to take a small break from that. I moved on to the Game Boy. While having an insomnia bout, I managed to get in a Super Game Boy border to Frank the Fruit Fly. Then I slept about all day Saturday. I made some more changes to that game after I woke up. I changed the title screen after realizing there was no copyright date on the game. I also changed the music in level 2 because it sounded quite weird wit
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Q is for quit

I've decided to stop working on Q. It just doesn't seem to be a very interesting game. I tried to make a version of Venture for the Odyssey 2, but I deemed it impossible due to the entering and exiting points of each room and tracking them. I even got rid of one room and it still was too much. So I've decided to quit Odyssey 2 programming and return to my Game Boy games. Even though they will never get published. I don't know why. Was "Frank the Fruit Fly" crappy? I returned to the Ugly Upp
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Ending works.

Yesterday I worked on the ending. I put it in. I composed music for it and put it in. Went to sleep early because I was sleepy for some reason. I woke up 12 hours later. I tested everything. It works great now. If you want to test the game, PM me. I will respond faster on AtariAge since I'm on there more. I will have to give a link since we can't put attachments in PMs here for some reason. I'm not going to put an image of the ending here because I want people to play the game for themselve
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The ending

So I finished the boss fight yesterday. I finished the game over screen this morning. Now all that needs to be done is work on the ending. In case you were wondering what the game over screen would look like in a game about a fruit fly, here it is. At which point, you press Start to go back to the title screen. I went here and was surprised to find 4 more replies about the lemon. I decided to keep the lemon like it was in the second reply because the Game Boy has four colors and i
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Boss beginning

My stomach still hurts. It's not so much my stomach, it's more hemmorhoids. I've tried various things to ease the pain. Neosporin, Trader Joe's skin cream. I'm going to try petroleum jelly next. I wish I could stop needing to poop so it can heal more. To try to get my mind off it, I've been programming the beginning of the final boss battle in Frank the Fruit Fly. Level 6 couldn't go on much longer, I only had 17% of bank 6 free. So I decided to put the final boss fight in bank 7. Bank 7 is my l
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I need your opinion on something.

I want to put a lemon in for Frank to bite and gain health in before the final "battle." (I call it a battle even though it'll be just Frank dodging shots for two minutes.) I designed two lemons. For those who haven't looked closely at a lemon, it has these tiny little bumps on them, which is what I was trying to convey. But what color should I make them? The one on the left has them middle gray (like the grass) and the one on the right has them white (like the background). I can't decide which
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Bears are hard to draw.

And now it's time for the final bosses in the game. It's getting near the end of my programming this game. The bosses will span out for a couple of screens. I was going to make the bosses be bears. But bears are hard to draw. So I decided to not make them be bears. I have made them cats. These cats look different than the cat in level 1. After a rough screen of throwing rocks at Frank, the cat decided to take a snooze. Your job as Frank is to pass the cat without waking him up. I'll le
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Bird legs.

I put a bird in Frank the Fruit Fly. At first I tried to show its legs, like so:  I wonder what happens to birds' legs when they're flying. I decided then to get rid of the legs and I like the legless result better. I assume birds tuck their legs under themselves while in flight and then stick them out when they're about to land. As you can see, the bird is flapping its wings, a nice little addition I made to attempt to make the bird more lifelike. I also discovered something
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Frank the Fruit Fly - 11/30/2022

It's the last day of November. The wind and rain is sure coming around now. Electricity kept. So I worked on Frank the Fruit Fly again. I put in an idea I had where Frank moves right automatically and you need to move the trees out of Frank's way. So I did that. I wasn't sure how this screen idea would turn out, but it turned out pretty good I think. There's lots of unused space, the bottom half isn't used for anything, which is kind of weird, but I had to do it this way so it would be
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Autosave

So I was playing Kirby's Dream Land 2. It's nice that the game automatically saves what level you're on AND which doors have been beaten. It kind of reminded me of Frank the Fruit Fly. But, it didn't autosave. The player had to press Select whenever he wanted to save. Seeing as how you can't go back in the game, I wanted to have an autosave feature as well. So I did some deleting of code that requires a "select" press mid-game to save, and instead told the game to save when a new level has been
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Frank the Fruit Fly - 11/25/2022

Last night I worked feverishly to put in a sound when Frank lost some health. This must be the last major change I can make to the game, since I have to do stuff like that bank by bank and bank 2 only has 200 bytes left in it! I think putting any more code there would make bank 2 overflow into bank 3 and cause tons of problems, like crashing the game. The one thing I had trouble with (the fading out of level 2, it broke for some reason) got fixed finally earlier today (I woke up at about 6 p.m.)
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Frank the Fruit Fly - 11/23/2022

I began work on level 6 of Frank the Fruit Fly. I was angered by the amount of time spent compiling. So I decided to try to do it myself after asking for help. That way, if I fail to do it myself, I can still have asked for it. Bank 0 was taking about 2 1/2 minutes alone to compile. So I broke up a giant switch statement into various void functions. That worked, believe it or not. It now was all speedy. But then I had to get rid of the kinks. For example, if I selected "new game" with no pr
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Frank the fruit fly - 11/20/2022

Today finds me spending part of my time awake working on Frank the Fruit Fly. Frank must pass through these walls on the roof (I don't know why there's walls on the roof except to impede Frank!) while avoiding those pesky bigger flies. I think they should be called moths, though. And with this, level 5 is finished. Bank 5 (where level 5 data is) is only 10% free, so I will make a level 6, an ending, and a game over screen, and then call it done. I still have not run into the game crash
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Back to Frank again

I decided to fiddle with Frank the Fruit Fly some more again. I added a couple of lines of code, and so far I can't make the game crash. So that's good. I tried and tried but I could not make it crash. So I added a new screen to it. And I finally got it the way I want it and I can beat it and the game still won't crash. So I've decided to keep working on the game until it crashes on me. Right now, Frank is in the chimney. In the next screen, he will come out of the chimney.
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Ugly Uppity Update

So I decided to quit Frank the Fruit Fly semi-permanently and devote more time to Ugly Uppity Umpire. Frank just has too many bugs that I can't figure out how to get rid of, so it's another case of I made it too advanced for my capabilities. I made Ugly, Uppity Umpire automatically save your level upon clearing one. This means you don't have to start at the beginning every time. Or select the starting level. If you want to start all over again, you can select "new game" at the title screen,
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b button presses

So with ants crawling all over me still, I work on Frank the Fruit Fly. I kinda forgot about the B button can be used to talk to characters. But I don't know if I should keep doing this, or mention it in a booklet in case this gets released. There's nothing to talk to in level 3, and only this big squid in level 4. But he didn't say anything. So I made him say something. Just in case someone wants to talk to the squid. And also, in case you didn't notice, I made the health have a % sig
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Ants are stupid (part 2)

So I was cleaning my desk area earlier this evening. I found a tiny bit of what appeared to be a tiny chunk of M&M. Who knows how long that had been there. I sprayed some Raid in the carpet near the wall under my desk. All this ant talk though has a positive side: I thought up of a couple of comics for my webcomic. I'm not going to use this one, it's really hard to draw fire. Luckily I have another idea that I can draw. I also worked on Frank the Fruit Fly some more. I'm sorry
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Ugly Uppity Umpire - level 6

I'd like to thank all the people who read this blog and like what I'm doing. I had no idea there were any. I thought I was just writing this for my own amusement and detail to myself what happened and when. I think I fixed what was wrong with the umpire game and tested it out. Earlier today, if I didn't move and let the game play, it froze after a bit. I don't think it does that any more. I made a sixth level. I had this idea: Have a level be like a race-like scenario for part of the level,
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Beginning to think nobody cares

Ever since I began making Game Boy games, I've found that hardly anyone cares about them. Is it because my games are bad? I don't know. I keep wishing for feedback, but I'm pretty much pessimistic at this point. I've made five levels of this game, but it apparently doesn't matter if nobody except me looks at them. I made a whole bunch of changes and bug fixes. I found that if you die on level 5, there's a small chance the game will crash. I've found that on my Frank the Fruit Fly game too. I won
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