Next Roboherd release coming soon...

Is it just me or does the new blog page not work in firefox? All the text boxes had been squashed off the page so I couldn't enter anything and have therefore had to revert to IE - weird!

Anyway - progress this month on Roboherd has gone pretty well. Music is in game, controls have been tweaked even more and a bit of work has gone into the menu system (although there is still a bit more to do there). I've even got round to building a couple of new levels - well about 10 in fact. I came up with a way of prototyping levels and its going ok - it's pretty easy to do and the results are playable. I guess it remains to be seen if we'll need to go back and redo them all but even if we do the ideas are down there for someone to follow. The web stats at www.roboherd.com have all been updated too with the new level layout so if we can get some people playing after this release then all their best scores should be getting captured (and displayed) online.

It's definitely starting to look good as a game now and the more levels I get built I think the easier it is for people to see how the game is supposed to work. Then there is the question of is it fun but tbh I have been developing it for soooo long and I still like playing it so there must be something there (for at least one person).

So hopefully we should be in line for a new release pretty soon - just waiting for some assets to be finished up before putting them in game. I guess if they don't make it out of the workshop soon then I'll just do the release anyway.

No screenshots but hopefully there should be a devsnapshot (and another release) coming soon!