Week #31 update

What I've done this week## Not a lot was done this with week on paper. Mainly play testing and some time-consuming tasks. I also upgraded my Windows 8.1 Z1 machine to Windows 10 which ate some of the day away. The July update is now available. Please…

July update now ready!

Head on over to the downloads page [https://www.quarkrobot.com/downloads/] to get the July edition of Lode Runner: The Mad Monks' Rewrite. If you find anything at all that is wrong with the game so far, please get in touch with me. In July alone, over 20…

Week #30 update

What I've done this week## Week 30 introduced some AI improvements for the monks, plus some new additions for gamepad support and non-English language support. Of course, some bugs were fixed along the way. I think a lot of the issues that pop up with this rewrite of…

How to make proper coloured GIF

Some keen-eyed observers may have noticed that quite a lot of the old GIF animations are a little blurry. And quite large - some up to 300kb. The same goes for the videos I put up on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMcEt3bD2uiUnbAIg1-RUVQ]. I can't do anything…

Week #29 update

What I've done this week## Quite a few minor bugs fixed this week and one major bug: monks teleporting to the left side of the screen. If you're using a recent build, you'll just get a crash with the "Uh-oh" message. This…

Week #28 update

What I've done this week## This week was all about improvement. Monk AI, the options dialog and a better single/two-player gameplay dialog. Game controller support also progressed with only proper integration into the options dialog to go. A name in parenthesis and in bold is the finder…

Week #27 update

What I've done this week## I took the time this week to prioritize fixing outstanding bugs and issues and spend less time on adding new stuff. I do get a little lazy and quite often make a note of something on my TO-DO list and then forget about…

Quirks mode

I've had a couple of requests for a quirks mode. I wasn't too sure about adding it since my goal was to fix the issues [http://entropymine.com/jason/lr/nr/lrbugs/] from the original Lode Runner Online: The Mad Monks' Revenge but this project…