Category: NES development

Finally sat down and worked out most of the quality of life updates I wanted to get working on this – mainly dealing with the menu system. The pause menu in puzzles has a new look, with extra steps and options- a puzzle can now be completely reset if needed, and it all still works…

With copy pasting out of the way, I was able to start a refactor on how effects or stored to work better in an MVVM environment to create a custom interactive editor.

For a while, I’ve been stuck on making progress on the music tool because I’ve been wondering if I should switch backends from WPF to something else – ideally, something more robust in terms of making custom widgets. But, all the ones I like looked really complicated to get into, and would require a full…

One thing I failed to consider (or rather, thought I wasn’t going to run into) was the solvability of my puzzles. sometimes, even with simple seeming puzzles, there can be multiple solutions that can frustrate players who will have to start guessing and checking every move. That’s no fun! I was pointed in the direction…

While I’ve got writers block on music, I figured I’d take the time to improve the ability of my nonogram tool to be… actually usable! below is a video showing the tool and how it works – and how quick the iteration turn around is!

Music is in! I tried to find a pre-made music engine with a supplemental tracker/music software for ease of use… but those engines are incredibly large and a little obtuse to deal with for this project. I opted instead to use the Nerdy Nights Tutorial sound engine, which is much more lightweight and debug-able, but…

It’s starting to come together- now I’ve got multiple puzzle sizes! one big issue though, as with all game developments, is the tech debt- I’m using full nametables, I’m using too many variables that could probably be compressed down, I’m using some copy paste code… etc. we’re closing in on the full design being finished,…