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.

#1

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

And recompiled Bubble MonoGame and NALA... I should recompile the CLI BUBBLE engine too

And wrote the glue script to Lua and NIL can access it easily

Added an OpenURL function to the Bubble standard APIs

Updated some respositories (about time)

As always, I'll have less time tomorrow, but I'll do what I can

Actually activating a selection comes later as I really need to quit for today

But it works now

Of course some bugs had to come along

Moving the mouse should change menu items now

I guess I'll never find out how such things always appear to work with a delay

And suddenly it works, without fixing anything....

Still no good...

Well, let's see what this does....

FUCK YOU!

And let's go... again... I hope

them

Of course afew parse errors get in my way as I'm getting tired

and see what happens

Let's try this

Wait, I think I know what goes wrong....

Now this implies the MousePointer is still NIL.... How odd?

Another force test

Step II, make sure the drawing routine is actually called!

At least I made sure the show mouse feature was actually called at all!

Let's force some results!

And it remains a mystery

And try it all again!

Let's build again!

Parse error

I hope

Which is also the reason I created NIL, but this glue-script was in pure Lua... Bad idea so it seems

Ah... I see the bug

Oh wait, I looked at the wrong spot

The log appears not very supportive

And let's see

rebuild

Added another debug line to the BUBBLE glue script

Time to find out why!

Added tag INVESTIGATION

It doesn't show, though

Gotta test if it works now

Put mouse pointer in menu

API glue script parse error

Rebuilt

I've altered the internal script to make the mouse pointer more part of the system... (This was actually to keep my general code cleaner, and future games also profit here, so actually win-win).

For that I used my good old DPaint in DOS.... I still love that applications...

Added tag DOS

Designed a mouse pointer (the original game didn't have it as it used the system's own mouse pointer, but for this remake that was not a good idea since XNA turns it off automatically, not to mention that an own mouse pointer makes the game more "out of the system"

And to make them clickable with the mouse

The next step will be to make the menu items actuall work

That looks cool and a lot more clear now

Not placed at right instances.

Wrong rectangle style

Horrible

Never forget "self", Jeroen. I know an enhancement here is in order, but as we don't have that yet, don't forget that!

The Graphic effect could cause some confusion though, so I made sure that's been taken care of with a nice rectangle

No more questions no more questions, what works that works

And suddenly without any vital changes or possible explanations why, the bugged code (that was never bugged) works the way it should (which is only natural since it was never bugged in the first place).

Although I guess some unsafed stuff made it through so let's do that again!

I've added a little synchronizer so I can more easily debug NALA itself

But the window should be bigger, though

I've now configured NALA NOT to work full screen in debug builds of the engine

I think I need to risk ANOTHER total hangup to find out

let's see... :-/

Now that made matters even worse somehow... Why?

Of course and extra test to make sure...

Well, that has been fixed

I am an idiot, hahahahahahahaha!

But the main issue is still not fixed and I need to sort that one out!

And I fixed the bug that called the code that could make the system crash in the first place

At least I rid my system of total hangups

Added tag CHECKED

I was looking in the wrong project.... mesa dumass!

Because

Added tag SOLVED

And now I wonder how my last code could disappear into nothingness

rebuild

I decided that now I was at it to enhance my Blue Screen Of Death a little bit... cosmetically ;)

Added tag ENHANCEMENT

At least that it does, and the error itself now also appears, which is good!

Let's hope this try {} catch will rule this out from happening again!

Okay, whatever caused this, the error coming from it was so great it hung my entire system (thanks to the debugging algorithms Visual Studio uses... figures), but at least I could get another step closer to finding the cause of all evil

This created a complete error though, and I wonder what the hell went wrong there...

I've tried to set up a keyboard feature to browse through the pages

BETTER!

y margin fine tuning

Added tag COSMETIC

GRRR!

Siiiigh

Another deprecrated .NEW instruction

(Please note, I mean my own Blue Screen of Death, and not Windows' Blue Screen of Death. I can use the term, since it's unofficial, and mine doesn't mimick Microsoft's).

But there's always room for another BSOD

Which should now be fixed

ALthough in stead I get a blue screen of death

The menu items had to appear

Okay, I've generated the license blocks... happy now?

But first I wanna eat!
I'm hungry!

Next stop will be to put in the actual menu items

I REFUSE to call this a fix, but at last the issue has become invisible now

Let's put this line in then... :-/

The MidScreen feature appears to keep bugging up

And try the game then

And re-run the build script

Let's add this line to NALA

Ah, maybe this shines a proper light on stuff....

Hmmm, almost looks good enough to me, but why the lower resolution?

Let's test this

recompiled

NALA configured to go full screen all the way now!

Stuff works now

It did require NALA to be recompiled, though....

ret-conflict?

Blitz Font added

A quick library written that can do some neat stuff to BubbleID data

I must not forget to change this in the TeddyBear editor and most notably the Kthura editor as well.

Added tag REMINDER

I think I fixed that.... (At last)

No effect

Well searching the internet did find me an article which may shine a light on this situation... I hope it is, but that has to be tested first...

Added tag RESEARCH

Now Microsoft's exposed as the ultimate ALPHA idiot! In stead of the fading effect the logo is supposed to have, the alpha is only taken to 50% in all pixels where transparency was needed at all, giving an extremely ugly effect.... DANG!

And then I gotta test this again.... (sheesh!)

And then back to my other powershell tab to rebuild the game itself

So I go back to powershell to refire my NALA build script

Fixed that stupid action of mine.... (Geez)

I AM A STUPID COW!

Let's try that again!

Done

Well that's easy to fix

forgot to rebuild NALA

Blue screen, eh?

Don't forget to save before calling the builder, dumbo!

Like I said, the original background cannot be resused due to it being bound to a certain screensize, and the new game using a variable screensize (which is a pity, as the original picture was beautiful)

Menu background

Odd... The system *is* set to perform alpha blending.... Are Microsoft programs really THIS rotten on this department?

Not to mention that I'll need some ALPHABLENDING

I've put the logo on the Main menu screen.... Some fine tuning may be required though

Adapted an internal NIL script (Graphics.nil) due to the new class 'new' handling

The numbers on my screen confirm the fix

Since everything was messed up, I've reset the auto-iconer, however I've changed the numbers to make Aziëlla appear first (as she was the only one of the playable characters who didn't yet show up) and after that everything will recycle from a clean go.... (Hopefully)

Okay, that's fixed then.... Yes, mesa cow!

That was because I messed everything up... Yeah, I'm just an idiot....

Nope, as the wrong picture shows.... Back to the drawing board then....

Does it work now?

As you can see, the auto-icon which had to display Merya is broken....

Geany Syntax Highlighting

Added tag UPDATED

Updated to the new situation

I've come up with a solution for the .NEW() issue that came up causing a conflict with delegates

Brute force class destruction (to prevent conflicts later)

Fixed the short term issues....

FUCK! That was pretty stupid.... I need to rethink a few things here.... And that may put the deprecation of .NEW() on hold.... But what happened makes perfect sense now, though.... :(

Let's see what we get now.... :(

Fixed it!

Ah, so that's is.... :(

And what kind of madness came up now???

A bit more info from NIL why it thinks what it thinks...

Misformed error

I wonder what is happening here... :-/

WHAT THE....

Case error

Identifier conflict

I need to check if this all works, though

I've added a "secret" debug code that will take me into the debug console, however, this key combination will ONLY work in the development version!!!

Only NALA benefits now for me, but it takes only a recompile of the MonoGame engine to make MonoGame benefit here too, which is only one command from PowerShell for me. :)

I've been messing around in Bubble to make it easier to detect if keys are held or not

As a matter of fact .NEW has been deprecated now

Nil has been advanced making use use of that annoying .NEW() method no longer needed.

Added "DEVELOPMENT" tag to the definitions file

Will always run in full screen.... For these kinds of games... The better option....

I'm getting really tired now, so I'm gonna call it a day... Despite the cockroaches I had to squash, I did make some progress.... There are still a lot of things to do... Both on the engine as on game preps, before we can really get onto the road, but the moment I'll post the guy with the gun as the start signal may come soon now....

I still need to find out why removed files are not removed from the list, but that's not a direct concern for Dyrt

Is running