I activated the new BBCode button stuff over on SoCoder yesterday.

Practically the entire game!!

@RSKGames has taken a look back at the past few Browsercade games.
Let's join him on his quest.

Let's create a classic retro effect.
Flames!

As with all of these tutorials, you can hit F5 at pretty much any step of the process to see how the changes in code have impacted the program.

I started work on a Dungeon Puzzler, last night, on SmileBASIC/Petit Switch.

Catch the spikes as they fall from the swirling vortex.
Protect the planet. The people don't like spikes..
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 few days ago, @Amarjit_uk asked me if "Fuze4Switch" was worth going ahead with, and it occurred to me that it's been half a year since I last tackled the thing.
Perhaps it'd had some nice fixes over that time?
Maybe I should give it another whirl..

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.

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.

SpikeDislike was my "Test if I can.." game for PetitCom4, and as good as it was, I felt it wasn't 100% what it could've been.
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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The Microbes game is coming along nicely for Petit Switch, and I *think* I'm making a Minigolf for Shoebox, but that all depends on how well the controls work.

Crikey, this took some doing!

Don't worry, it isn't the Twelve Days of Christmas, already!!
The endless hopping mechanic returns. Bounce on the backs of the three hens as much as you can, without touching the ground.
You only get three jumps from the ground, so repeated bouncing is the best way to get a high score.
Tip : Hold A to bounce longer and higher.

Step one, design (and/or copy+paste from previous editions!) a logo and icon for the game.
Step two, start writing game.
Step three, realise I'm a long way from being ready to start writing the game!!

The traditional Word Wheel.
Try to find as many anagrams as you can, ensuring that each word contains the central letter.
There's one complete word in the wheel.
Can you find it?

I've gotten JMTracker up to a semi-working state, but still have to add test settings for things like Tempo and Instrument selection, as well as a proper Load requester.
But so far, so good, and it's a vaguely decent output.. I think!!
Although only a proper set of melodies and actual ingame usage will tell for sure..

Record time for player feedback! Let's have a nosey.
You can Play Shuffled Tracks in the Extras section of the Shoebox.

RSKGames

Played ''Shuffled Tracks'' and was quite surprised to find such a polished game done in 2 days.

Little bugs all over, but definitely a productive day.

Alan continues..

You probably have read up on these things already, but just in case you weren't sure, a ''trie'' is not a ''tree'', it's its own thing

Alan asks..

What's the general outline of your current approach?
The general method is as such.
1. The AI randomly picks a spot on the board, and scans to check that a word will fit in the space provided. It looks for a space that will fit about 3 or 4 letters and will connect to at least one other tile on the board.

The credits screen of Shoebox is now much more of a credits screen again.

I have to head off into town, today, to have a diabetes checkup.

Added Planets.
Lots and lots of planets, handy for all manner of things.
The "Form" slider will also allow you to generate textures, rather than planet sprite image, which can come in handy for making spinning textured ingame planets.
Be aware, however, that "Repeating Texture" mode is somewhat slow due to all the circles it has to draw!!