Finished off this week's SmileBASIC game, last night, so I'll get that all prepared..

A few thoughts have been festering over the past week..

Today hasn't gone very well.

This week oughta be a Shoebox week, so I've been sifting through the list of unfinished games.

Aaaaaargh! GUI Work!!!

Additional Music tweaking, last night, with a fairly competent result!

Had a play with some music code, today.

Rocket asks..
I'm learning c and c++ and could I use AGAW Framework

Over on Facebook, Graham Keith complained that the Kakuro puzzles weren't as authentic as they could be, so I hopped into the code and gave them a makeover.

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!

A quick "game" tutorial type thing for a silly little game, created using PetitCom/SmileBASIC on the Nintendo Switch.
If you've grabbed a copy from the Japanese eShop, you should be able to follow along, since the program itself now includes a complete English translation.
I'll assume you're using the program with a USB Keyboard attached, but if not, most of the keyboard functionality can be accessed by hitting the [-] button on your controller.

From the main menu, hit t...

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.

I didn't get around to enhancing the knitter yesterday, as any and all dev-time was focused on the Petit Switch knitted game!

With my mind set on doing background tasks over Advent, I spent a few hours tweaking bits of Foldapuz, yesterday.

"Jimper" is available in the Misc section of Shoebox. I'll be posting it to the site in a short while.
Once that's done, along my usual flood of #ScreenshotSaturday tweets, it's time to get thinking about the next Browsercade game.
*shrugs*

I spent last night rewriting my Pseudo Random code so that it works nicely in Javascript, for both Browsercade and Shoebox.

JMTrackr is a Music Randomisation engine, which can create an endless variety of music, based upon a set of prewritten melody patterns.
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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Tonight I attempted to get a JMTrackr style music engine to work in Petit-switch.

The "Text Layer" seems to be rather limited.
I can print at any position, I can change the colour, I can change the font size..
.. But any changes made will affect the entire screen's worth of text.

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.

As the Shoebox continues to build, more and more and more comments are incoming! I've literally had more comments to the blog in the past couple of months than I have in the past decade!!

Alan

Olympic sprinters don't need to break the tape by exact footstep
*imagines 100 Marathon sprinters stopped right at the end of a race, all trying to roll a 6 to win*

All previous links will still work, and nothing should be broken by the HUGE change in Shoebox, since the new domain simply links to the same files in the same folder, and all the file access is relative.
ShoeboxOfGames.com now exists!
I bought the domain a couple of days ago, but only got around to setting it up properly, late last night.
A more or less simple addition to the overall chaos of AGameAWeek.

Lots of comments, lately, as the Shoebox has essentially thrown any kind of regular AGameAWeek schedule well out of the window.
I should probably look into fixing that, and getting back to a more regular schedule.
Hmm..
Anyway..

Aaah, that brings back memories.
You can find Cardagain in the Shoebox under Misc games.

Today I need to get a new scoreboard working in the Shoebox.