Spooooky goings on in space!
Bump your pumpkin and earn rewards, but watch out for the SPooOOOooOoOooky ghosts!!!!
You can Play Bumper Pumpkin in the Browsercade, in your Browser, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet.

I took most of the day off, yesterday.
Writing 4 games a week is harder than it sounds!!!

Today I did something that might very well break the Shoebox.
I've changed from having individual .js files for each game, to having a combined comb.js file that holds all of the games.
Hopefully, if your game breaks, a simple refresh of the page should reload the cache, and bump everything back to the way that it should be.
If it gets completely stuck, let me know, as well as what device/browser you're using, and I'll do my best to fix it.

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

A nice and gentle game of MiniGolf. Putt your way around, and aim for the hole.
Bonus points can be gained, but watch out for the water!
You can Play MiniGolf in the Misc area of the Shoebox.

After each week's release, players submit their thoughts on the games.
Let's have a look and see what @RSKGames thought of Space Battle!
You can Play Space Battle in the One-On-One section of the Shoebox.

@RSKGames

So, what game's next?
With all the Foldapuz development, my head's currently full of little puzzle game ideas that don't quite work (literally) on paper, so I expect the next game to end up being something to do with one of those ideas.

I did a major rewrite of the layout code, today, and it broke EVERYTHING!!! All "Yesterday's Solutions" are no longer valid for today, and all puzzles have been re-generated.
The reason is so that the layouts can be expanded to MANY more puzzle types.
Previously the Layout format was 8-characters, meaning you have up to 62 different puzzle types (A-Z, a-z, 0-9)
Although I'm not 100% sure I'll ever reach that limit, I figured it was probably a good idea to bump that number a li...

As I continue to make further tweaks to the server, a couple of major tweaks have been added.

Centipong isn't coming together very well.

I might add a few extra functions for primitive drawing, or maybe a setting somewhere or something.
It's not too much of an issue, in that I know why it's drawing things at different scales, but it'd be a little easier if I didn't have to worry about whether something's going to be "The same scaled position as the larger desktop version" or "The exact location on the screen"

@RSKgames asks "Why not take the plunge into the Switch Devkit."

With each release comes an influx of feedback from the many people who've played the games.
This week, @RSKGames takes a look at an underwater Snake clone.
You can Download Slithering Waters here.

@RSKGames

A conversation over on SoCoder inevitably led to me ordering a 3D Printer, because..
*shrugs*
It's my birthday next Friday, so if I needed an excuse... There it is!

Yeay!
Thanks to all for testing.
Rychan - I see the hitbox detection has been improved somewhat also which is cool
A little more forgiving, this time. The original game was a little "too" mean when it came to bird vs flame hits!

In a reply to yesterday's Ideas post, Michael Adcock (@adcockm) suggested I look into Pico-8 development.
He then (via Twitter) brought up the fact that I couldn't do it with my new C++ framework, so the idea of attempting it is a little less appealing.

Mouse, and of course, touchscreen.
They both took a bit of a tumble, last night.
The overscan seemed to be working, but I was only testing it with controllers, since the overscan is typically only used on Android TV versions of the games.
Yesterday, however, I chose to reuse the overscan functions on iOS.

I need to remember that the new blog uses BBCode, not html like WordPress used to use!
About ten times, whilst posting yesterday's game, I accidentally stuffed things into html elements, and the server had a whinge at me.
D'oh!

Game

Bumpy Bugs
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Welcome back to the land of bumping turtles from below!

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Also available (URL "https://soundcloud.com/alodare/deconstructed-partition">on Soundcloud)

Beta Collexion was my Advent Calendar of Games for 2015. 26 wonderfully playable little games, all wrapped in a lovely giftwrapped bundle.
The games are now unlocked, and can be played at any time.
Beta Collexion can be found <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=352">here, in the Jayenkai Archive.</a>
You can <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Beta_Collexion_20151123.zip">Download it for Windows</a>, Play it in your <a href="https://gamejo...

Beta Collexion is my Advent Calendar of Games for 2015. 26 wonderfully playable little games, all wrapped in a lovely giftwrapped bundle.
Beta Collexion can be found (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=352">here, in the Jayenkai Archive.)
You can (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Beta_Collexion_20151123.zip">Download it for Windows), Play it in your (URL "https://gamejolt.com/games/beta-collexion/109096">browser via GameJolt), Play it on (URL "https://www.ouya.tv/gam...

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T is also for Tilemap!!

Beta Collexion is my Advent Calendar of Games for 2015. 26 wonderfully playable little games, all wrapped in a lovely giftwrapped bundle.
Beta Collexion can be found (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=352">here, in the Jayenkai Archive.)
You can (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Beta_Collexion_20151123.zip">Download it for Windows), Play it in your (URL "https://gamejolt.com/games/beta-collexion/109096">browser via GameJolt), Play it on (URL "https://www.ouya.tv/gam...