You know when you have one of those days...

The basics of the new menu system are now functional, but there's still a long way until everything's done.

1. More Kakuro
2. More Browsercade

I've decided to have a rest throughout August, and instead focus on a few unfinished bits and pieces.

Help Looma gather up as many gems as you can, as you blast your way through the underground maze. Be careful of those falling boulders.
You can Play Kabooma Looma in the Browsercade, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet.

Yesterday didn't go well.

The epic battle with the website overhaul continues..

Between about 5 and 5:30, my head started screaming at me, letting me know that it wants to do a new version of Poke 5,n for the Shoebox, and potentially even a version for Petit Switch, too.
I tried my best to get back to sleep, but it would just..not..shut..up!

I enjoyed my day off, yesterday. Got a few none-gamedev things worked out, and even started playing with paper again.
Wondering whether to bring back my old Paper Arcade crafts, expand the DVD Case images to fit properly and include a back, and maybe even some oldskool cardboard boxes and cassette inlays.
.. Yep, even when not coding, my mind is fizzling away, trying to keep itself busy and not worry about all the doom and gloom outside.

Making a start on Part Two of the recent project, I've opted to make this version a desktop app, as it gives me a teensy bit more functionality.

Use the power of springyness to navigate the arena and gather up all the coins.
If you've a Switch, and have downloaded SmileBASIC, you can grab a copy of the game using the Public Key...

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A decade is over, and what have I done?
373 games, created a new blogging script for here, rewritten the Socoder forum, started a few new sites and more!
Oh, and a brain tumour!
It's been a wild and crazy decade, and over the next few days I'll be looking back at the best (and worst) games from the decade.

You might've noticed an alarming number of "Top 10" posts, yesterday!
Ideally I should've started doing that about a week or two ago, to get all 10 posted by New Year, but..
Meh, whatever!
If you've not been voting in the polls, please do, as I'll be gathering up the winners of all 10 polls to make a topper-top-10 list at the end of all this.

A decade is over, and what have I done?
373 games, created a new blogging script for here, rewritten the Socoder forum, started a few new sites and more!
Oh, and a brain tumour!
It's been a wild and crazy decade, and over the next few days I'll be looking back at the best (and worst) games from the decade.

A decade is over, and what have I done?
373 games, created a new blogging script for here, rewritten the Socoder forum, started a few new sites and more!
Oh, and a brain tumour!
It's been a wild and crazy decade, and over the next few days I'll be looking back at the best (and worst) games from the decade.

My iPad alarm went off as usual, and I rolled up and hit the "STFU" button like I always do.
Except it didn't STFU..
Instead, it got approximately 800 times louder, and glitched the same half second of audio, over and over and over and over and over and over...
I had to power down the iPad and reboot it.

The two tanks fall into line, and a battle commences.
Tilt your gun, line up your shot, and destroy the enemy tank.
Rather than being a simple "Destroy = 1 point" game, I've opted to add Arcade-style scores to this.
Earn points for closer hits to your opponent's tank. Your score is also increased by how much health your own tank has remaining.

It's all well and good ploughing ahead with a Shoebox game for the week, but I can't leave out Petit Switch!
So, what will the Petit game be?!

RSKGames returns with his thoughts on recent games.
You can Play Shoebox of Games here, which are all Mouse/Touch controlled games, which run 100% in the browser.
Or you can Play Browsercade here, which are all Keyboard/Gamepad controlled games, for a more Arcade-like experience, but which also run in your browser.

@RSKGames

I've started on a remake of Endless Forest for this week's Browsercade game.
I'm hoping to try to add some sort of extra elements into play, but right now I'm at a loss as to what those might be.

I *think* I'm almost ready to start coding my first Browsercade game.

Oh boy, was yesterday complicated!!

I can't seem to get back into a "normal" AGameAWeek flow.
Which is an odd thing to say, given I've released 6 games in the past couple of weeks.

Me and Michael Fernie have been emailing back and forth, today, all about the recent Shoebox additions, and player feedback.
Lots of new games added to Shoebox. Very nice. Seems like you are getting a bunch of comments too. That is exciting because people are playing.
Indeed. Unlike my previous 400 games, these ones actually seem to be popular!!
I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing!

So, the Shoebox now has Level capabilities.. That's nice!
I'm tempted to add something like Quadoban, or maybe a Kee-Bo-Ard, but that would definitely be crossing the border between physical and arcade.. I might need to come up with some way to mesh the styles together, somehow, and create a brand new sort of game.
Hmm..