Nice. I had to make something similar for my game. My version supports setting coordinates, text size and colors.

@Martin oh brilliant that was the problem, I didn't collidemap the sub, so obvious in hindsight! thank you!

@Martin I see, thanks for the info. I didn't know that.

@Skycstls I did make an octopus but I think I need to wait till the update before we get the tool to make our own animated sprites.

Have you even seen the teenage engineering synths. The pocket operator ones have Nintendo game and watch style interfaces and their bigger op1 incorporates gamey graphics into sound design. Some good inspiration

@Nisse5 I'm not sure I can really blame FUZE for the performance of the rendering function. It's more of a product of how clumsily I'm rendering the tiles. In order to draw them in the correct order so they don't overlap each other, I'm drawing it layer-by-layer from top to bottom. Unfortunately, in it's current state, that for loop performs about... 5,120 iterations for just 1,024 draw calls. I believe I can improve performance greatly by taking another approach. The other slowness my program encounters is during the noise generation, which calls roughly 262,144 functions to generate the full map, and you can hardly blame FUZE for not liking that.

Awesome. Look great! (y)

Excited to see more!

The motion controls were tricky, and what I have definitely isn't perfect but it works in most cases. I have it set up so that the X button will recalibrate and put the cursor back at the center of the screen. The only issue that I seem to have right now is when the X value gets close to 1 while the cursor is on screen, it appears to hit this invisible wall and I have not yet figured out a method to account for this. But other than that it works great.

This is extremely cool.

Can tell you're a smash player. I wish the Switch really did have the octagonal joystick housing... I miss the melee days!

@MikeDX Thanks for the heads up!

@ITzTravelInTime Yes, that would be important. I might just have the touchscreen option become disabled when the Switch is in docked mode or create an interface that can controlled with touch controls and button presses. Thank you for bringing that to my attention, I nearly forgot about that! :sweat_smile:

Awesome idea. Seems like a cross between Peggle, Mr.Driller, Candy Crush, Pachinko and the sections in the original Pokemon games with the arrow tiles! And at the same time, like none of them!
Looking forward to giving this a try!

Have you already done a recent calibration in the OS itself? - https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22340/~/how-to-calibrate-the-controllers

@KuraIthys The waveform is not dependent on the frame rate at all. The channel plays the note until the next note is played, or until the channel is stopped, or until the speed parameter fades the note into silence.

Ah, this brings back memories. XD
Thanks to the earliest game development books I got hold of, breakout has been my gaming equivalent of 'hello world' for quite a while.
If you know what you're doing and don't worry too much about the details you can write a functional breakout clone (no powerups or the like though) in a few hours.
Like many old games it's one of those things that can do complicated things with very simple code...

In fact, now I'm going to have to write another version of it, aren't I? XD
Ah well...

Not much added today. Was kind of busy but here's an update.

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Looks very good! And also a very nice idea! Keep us updated :)

I see, good idea, will be implemented!

Really nice work. We will be on top of the vast majority of issues in the first update and then obviously it will be an ongoing thing with each new update fixing a few more bugs and adding new features. I'm hoping we can add a 'Notepad' feature. This would basically be a multi page extended (and permanent) clipboard where you can store frequently used functions, ideas and experimental code etc.

Think that's old. Does anyone remember the original HBO trailer? dah, dah, daah. da. da. daah......

I think it was the 70s. ;)