Enemy bio: Rondomo

Enemy bio: Jeracko

None of them are provided with picture yet... That'll come later!

Char bio: Weniaria

Char bio: Gedrio Fulla

Char bio: Blenchy

Char Bio: Shanda

Char bio: Wendy

Char bio: Jack

Of course I've only checked what happens with WRONG credentials, but now what will happen if I give up the CORRECT credentials?

The crash has been fixed

Take FIVE!

Parse errors in C#

And I can start now on Take FOUR, which hopefully shines a light on matters...

Build scripts running

Try { } Catch, and hopefully this shows me something.... :-/

But now something in the .NET code seems invalid.... These are always terrible cases, but I'll need to look into them, I suppose.

Squashed!

The fix keeps on being ignored

NOW it should be fixed (I hope)

AHA!

Fix ignored

Take THREE!

But a field typo also come in my way

The fix is confirmed

Take TWO!

I think I fixed that

And I think I can see why.... :-/

Nothing happens

Take ONE!

Login sequence set up.... Not yet tested, though

Ran some building scripts ... Again.... (not for the last time, as there's still stuff to do).

I linked logging onto Game Jolt to NIL

Better return value when authentication on Game Jolt was succesful

Character Bio: Aziëlla

Character bio: Merya

character bio: Dernor

bio: Rebecca

Character Bio: Seelah Gandra

Character Bio: Brendor

Character bio: Irravonia

Character bio: Eric

I guess a night's rest did me well, as I saw the issue causing the other security step to fail... That's been fixed now...

A more important measure works (and that's why I'm so confident about this matter).

It *DOES* work now, but I do have a pretty serious issue to fix... If it's not fixable, well I doubt it'll undermine the the security settings, but still, I don't like it

Security bug

Well, I fixed PART of the problem...

Fixed?

I think it's the special secu package causing trouble... I should have known

All I know is that a null pointer is in my way somewhere...

I get less and less of it!

Hardcore then!

Nothing happened (as expected, though)

Catcher placed, hopefully this will gain some results... (I doubt it, but... ya never know).

Logs show an exception without any further explanation!

I know the checker causes the black screen, but now to investigate WHY!

Nothing seems likely to make such a think happen... Hmmm....

All I get now is a black screen

Another go!

Forgotten class mentioning in link

I think I found out why the conflicts take place, and these conflicts would also be dangerous when I'm right. At least I think I fixed that now!

Forgot to properly link the resource checker into NALA. Well that's been taken care of and the link is there... (sigh!)

Let the test commence

Well we still got the manual go

Which does not happen

I'll run a test, but it's fragile as I am dependent on Widnows allowing the scripts to work the way they have to

Script setup runing

Fixed that

Aha... The Game Jolt API linked to the wrong NIL script

The C# code compiles

How did my devlog tool suddenly close down?

Some forgotten Semi-Colons

Security data being read and processed

Missing data in secu

The conflicts Windows throws up keep coming... Nothing I can do about it, I'm afraid, except make my script repeat everything over and over... I really hope that's NOT the way it should be.... :-/

And no trouble during start up, either

So far everything compiles and that will have to do for "it works" for now, as testing is not yet fully possible

Let's run some scripts now

And linked it all together

Written glue code for this

Added API for these functions

Quick message box functions

Which is NOT my fault, ok?

Quick empty class set up for pop up windows, although I hope I work, given issue #3

Now you may think I did little but this was quite a lot of crap, but for security reasons I cannot go into the deep of it all.

Some extra stuff will be needed to get everything to work now though, so this ain't far from over...

The results show on screeen though.... Maybe I need to create a little delay tool or something (as this can and WILL spook up my development as building gets harder to do this way).

Although Windows sometimes claims the files involved are being used by "another process"... I guess file closures can take time, and that Windows' protection against file overwriting can therefore work a bit conflicting.

I've been working on a safety program which has to make sure the game's unmodified

Added tag SECURITY

Listen to this:

But in the end I could enter the data I needed... (figures)

But once more crashes on the server side of Game Jolt :(

At least I could set a page up

Added tag GAMEJOLT

I've put in a few improvised values, as direct contact is not yet required anyway, but this is certainly a bummer, and I must not forget to fix this later once the servers are back up.

Added tag IMPROVISATION

But the Game Jolt server fails on me.... How obvious and convenient.....

I also need to create a Game Jolt page now in order to go further

Before I can move on into the next step a few security things are to be taken in order... For starters, I will only allow Game Jolt access to people who have an unmodified copy of the game (sorry, folks). Some measures will therefore have to be taken.

Next icon appears but is hardly visible

A "public/private" issue in the input API

"Next" icon put in GJ screen

The Linked List library has been rid of its deprecated .NEW instructions

And DPaint still rules, fols!

"Prev" Icon

"Next" icon

Runs!

Time to call it a day

There is a little issue jpbubble/bubble_monogame#3

Mouse pointer hardly visible in GJ credential screen

Mouse selecting for GJ credential fields

Indeed!

Issue should be fixed now

Not the smartest thing from my side

Ah, thing's been solved

Maybe this debug line can shine a light on this

This is absolutely ludicrous and should never be possible to happen.

? as reserved character can cause trouble on the longer run... Silly of me to forget... Cannot change the existing instances anymore, but at least future ones are no more trouble

Added tag HUH

WTF

And a parse error

That crash

Suddenly NOT ignored, but a crash in stead... Huh?

(Which is ignored, for some reason, though).

Added keyboard input on start screen (GJ)

Stuff works now.... (at last)

Class

I'm getting tired

Several issues

Some visual work for credentials

Converted into the format NALA can use

Coolvetica recovered from old project... Since I basically "linked" that font to Phantasar (also given a bit by the fact that in Star Story the font was used to indicate people were speaking Phantasarean once Wendicka and friends learned the language).

Added tag ANNOUNCEMENT

Ah, just as I thought a "case error"

"width" unknown?

Forgotten "end"

Stupid code

NIL has a few limitations

Case error

Poep!

Fixed (Of course)

Forgotten "."

Unfinished String!

Illegal class call

all missing )s accounted for

Many of the same ) forgotten issues, and I lost track of country how many so I'm not gonna get into that...

/jpbubble/NIL-isn-t-Lua#35 -- I deem this fix confirmed

Added tag CLOSED

Another case... Same issue, different line

Forgotten )

I fixed that stupid syntax now

I don't wanna talk about it

I've just put in an alias to end this all in once... GRRR!

Added tag LAZY

And another?

And another?

var error

That is indeed what happens

I refuse to call this a fix, as it's too unorthodox for that, but at least this issue should not cause any trouble anymore. In other words, the code is still bugged, but properly masked. :P

It appears a bug in the delegate function declaration causes keyword "int" not to properly translate into a "number" function.
This causes the error "Current setup cannot return in this kind of function yet!" for int functions.
This is NOT proper behavior, so I do need to investigate if I can fix this, as this can be pretty hard to do! :-/

This is odd and needs more investigation!

Added tag HUH?

Good thing I put in variable declarations in NIL, as I came cross another issue

Code typo

missing .nil extension leading to a crash

And I've linked the main menu to it

I've worked out the New Game code out a bit more

Garbage collecting for Game Vars... No need to make them take up memory all the time... This will only happen once per 1000 definitions in order to prevent needless slowdowns.

Proper clear routine

And some extra link code done

That's done by now

Some backup stuff will be done now

It works the way it should.

I've moved the background in a more super-global environment.... I will also use it for textboxes and the in-game menu screen

Coffee

Time to fix myself some coffee

So yeah, that WAS pretty stupid

Oh yeah forgot to set up the Done link metatable... The most important one of all

"Inc" meta added... This is something I always missed in Lua... Perhaps I need to make more haste with the ++ support in NIL

Some first link code has been written for this

Written the Game Var system.... It will play a big role in the global game process, as it contains the data about which puzzles you solved and some more things... You can hardly do without this stuff

This only works when you use NIL and not when you use Lua. This has to do with the fact that NALA (and all other bubble engines) use a macro for this, which Lua doesn't support.

NALA can now give state IDs to NIL scripts

Explanation about the differences between this version of the game and the original

Explanation about Game Jolt

Explanation about skills

Added tag DOCUMENTATION

Skeleton scripts for New Game

Browser issues

Linked these temp functions to the menu items

Devlog generation error.... I think I see why that happened, though... Interesting

A temporary function has been written to start a new game. The temporary function will crash the game for now though, as the "New Game" flow has yet to be written.

This does happen, but somehow the game overrules stuff....

Selecting menu items per keyboard should be possible now

Does not do much YET, as the links are for now ignored, but I gotta start somewhere

I've linked the main menu to the GitHub respository