Yes it's hard to stay motivated, the easiest part of a project is starting it

Without these forums and meet ups I certainly wouldn't have bothered, it is an enormous boost to meet people with a similar interest.

Good luck

The development diary is a great read! This looks to be turning out very well. I think the loader flag animation and progress bar are cool... but do you think you could also fit in a key redefinition routine, as seen in Visions' Demolator?

I was also glad to read of your "Opening Doors" revelation (2013-09-22), as I'd had thoughts along such lines! Have you considered that earlier levels could maybe commit more strongly to the single, horizontal scrollable level format than later levels? They could still have portals, but these could be back/forth to within enclosed inaccessible rooms that the character runs past as scenery in the first instance. If whooshing between areas is introduced at the later levels, that could reinforce the sense of depth within the game. (But perhaps that won't fit in well with what you're planning, which is probably better than my dreamy sugguestion anyway!) Cheers.

Thanks! When it's going well, it's easy to get things done. The hardest part is getting through the epic debugging/refactoring sessions. Still, it's a long weekend here, so let's see what can be done.

I'd not looked at your diary for CastleRaider for ages. It's coming along nicely and the diary is a good read. I like the way you are playing around with different ideas as you go along. An arcade action scroller game would be good as there aren't many that spring to mind on Beeb (or Elk) that move at a good pace like this.

The Beeb UEF file you uploaded in May plays smoothly (very impressive load screen - I must check out the code for that). The only minor niggle would be the banner at the top wobbles slightly. I guess this is due to the screen buffering?

Look forward to more updates. Thanks. An inspiration to keep me going. I'll kick off a dev diary for my game soon.

On the loading screen or do you mean the panel at the top of the screen in the game itself?

Actually, that's what I thought you meant.

I don't see the same effect in B-Em. Are you running it in an emulator or on a real Beeb?

I don't see the same effect in B-Em.