Lunch ~ 23 hours in, (lack of) progress
Food
Didn’t really have a breakfast. Guess I should have photographed the cup of coffee and the Gingernut biscuits.
Pictured above – Lunch, ~23 hours in: Salad roll with beetroot tzatziki (otherwise know as Pancar dip), with Danish fetta and the flesh of a pig. Banana, and instant coffee with one sugar.
Progress
Not much. Out of desparation, I started making a Frogger clone in Processing, the idea being that once it is functional, I can change some things to make it a little more than regular Frogger. We will see.
At some point this morning, I decided it would be nice to have a mobile version, eg Java J2ME / MIDP game that could run on most Java capable phones. Since there is Mobile Processing, designed for running Processing apps on phones, I installed Java Wireless Toolkit and Mobile Processing (the Linux alpha 0006 version worked for me, while the official 0007 Windows version didn’t. Go figure). I scaled down the sprites, made some porting tweaks (‘real’ Processing supports Java’s ArrayList, but it appears Mobile Processing does not, although I’m probably missing something), and set up the webserver to allow downloading of MIDP apps to my phone (hint: .htaccess needs the mimetype lines AddType text/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor .jad and AddType application/java-archive .jar).
It runs ! It’s not really a game yet, but I still have time to turn it into something that resembles one. If anyone wants to try out this totally unfun useless version, you can get it here (at least for a while). The best way to get it is to go there using your phones browser, click on the download link, and it should install the game for you.