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Lone Fury v1.1 Released!
March 14, 2025 by cranehed#release
Lone Fury is now official complete. It's a complete enough game that I am moving on to my next play.date project. Lone Fury v1.1 Changes Added: A story presented with in-flight talking heads. Collect... Continue reading
Eco Friendly Fury
March 12, 2025 by cranehed
The play.date has an interesting low-power screen , and the play.date design documents suggest you should work to optimize your screen drawing, because it actively saves battery life. This is because... Continue reading
Lone Fury v010 Uploaded
February 22, 2025 by cranehed#release
Lone Fury v010 Changes Added: Several more predefined level maps. Changed: Improved code so performance is better on later levels. Changed: Edge of world monster is stopped by nothing. It destroys all... Continue reading
Lone Fury v008 Uploaded
February 13, 2025 by cranehed#release
Lone Fury 008 Changes Added: The 'title music' and 'fixed crank' preferences are now saved across sessions. Lone Fury will remember these settings if you change them. Added because I got sick of selec... Continue reading
Lone Fury v007 Uploaded
February 10, 2025 by cranehed
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#release
Lone Fury 007 Changes Added: The pause screen shows a summary of the pattern of destruction you've left in your wake: Added: An amusing later level map. Fixed: The 'fixed crank' menu option works corr... Continue reading
Lone Fury v006 Uploaded
February 09, 2025 by cranehed#release
Lone Fury 006 Changes Added: An alternate 'fixed crank' option on the game menu. This means the crank is mapped 1:1 to your ship, allowing for faster turns. Animation and shooting is still in 15 degre... Continue reading
Lua Memory Consumption Tips
February 06, 2025 by cranehed
As you develop it's always worth paying attention to your memory use. The Play.Date Simulator has a handy 'Show Lua Memory (Alt+M)' panel which shows you where Lua memory is going: Looking at this tod... Continue reading
Lone Fury Github Repo
February 02, 2025 by cranehed#release, #github
This is the github repository for Lone Fury: https://github.com/stuartbnicholson/lonefury I'm making the source code open source in the vague hope it might help somebody on their Play.Date coding jour... Continue reading
Lone Fury v005 Uploaded
January 27, 2025 by cranehed
Lone Fury 005 Changes Added: From Level 3, enemy bases have a core shield that slowly closes when you're near them, so you can't one shot them. Added: From Level 5, enemy bases will start with closed... Continue reading
Lone Fury v004 Uploaded
January 21, 2025 by cranehed
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#release
Lone Fury 004 Changes Fixed: Player shots are slightly larger, to reduce drill-through. Fixed: Player ship stays within the mini-map. Fixed: Edge monster roar is timed to happen on-screen for addition... Continue reading
Lone Fury v003 Uploaded
January 15, 2025 by cranehed
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#release
Lone Fury 003 Changes Fixed: Enemy bases will not fire on the player until they have finished spawning. Changed: The player spawns in at the start of the game as usual, rather than the game immediatel... Continue reading
Lone Fury v002 Uploaded
January 12, 2025 by cranehed
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#update
Lone Fury v002 Changes Fixed: Asteroid spawning so the correct number are created per level. Added: Placeholder mines. They behave like asteroids at the moment, they need lethal explosions added. Adde... Continue reading
Scripted vs Random Level Generation
January 11, 2025 by cranehed
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#development
For this simple game I want open ended levels, where each level had a different layout. The coin op arcade game this effort is inspired by has a rigidly defined set of level layouts it uses (because 8... Continue reading
Getting the Itch
January 11, 2025 by cranehed
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#news
To keep me working on this hobbyist Play.Date project, I'm publishing what I have. Lone Fury is heavily inspired by a certain classic 1980's coin op arcade cabinet. It's written in the Play.Date Lua S... Continue reading