Week #37 update

What I've done this week## I spent all of week 37 going through my TO-DO list (a text file add to the LR project in Visual Studio) and trying to weed down the backlog of tasks that me, my brother and fellow testers have discovered. I took the…

Week #36 update

What I've done this week## LAN games this week underwent a major rewrite. Those of your who tried network games in the August update [https://www.quarkrobot.com/august-update/] will know how unstable gaming was. It was extremely easy for games to get out of sync (even with…

Week #35 update

What I've done this week## The August build is up and ready for download. Not a regular blog reader? You can read the monthly round-up here [https://www.quarkrobot.com/august-update/] to get up to speed. I focused my time this week on LAN gaming, fixing several bugs…

Week #34 update

What I've done this week## Most of this week was spent on LAN gaming, moving game text to the language files and tweaking the player movement to further match the original. You'll notice the join/host dialog is not the same as the original. The original…

Week #33 update

What I've done this week## Quite a lot of time was spent analyzing the save game format of the original Lode Runner Online: The Mad Monks' Revenge with little success. Unfortunately, the format is not as straight-forward as Lode Runner 2 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lode_…

Week #32 update

What I've done this week## I didn't do a great deal this week. Fear not, I did achieve quite a lot, just nothing visual to show. The original font loading has now been fully replaced with a font made using BMP Font Generator [http://www.angelcode.…

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…