I spent most of last night trying various microphone tweaks in order to get just the right sound.

@RSKGames

Yesterday I had submitted 2 comments on the blog with link to 2 pictures I had uploaded in socoder.
Hmm.. Well, I suppose that's probably my over-reactive Spam control in action, which perma-deletes anything that looks even slightly dodgy. (eg, URLs and things like that) I imagine that all the _'s and brackets in the text also probably added to the trigger-count, which would've ended up blocking your comment from even getting to the comment bin.
Sincere apologies ...

Not really sure where yesterday's Strings game came from! I wasn't expecting to code anything at all, but I think my Sunday Day-Off left me clambering to code something.

Today's new addition to the ShoeBox is a simple anagram game.
Try to score as many points as you can from the rack of tiles that you have.
If you can't find a word, you can use the Swap button, but each one will use up one of your moves. (You have a limit of 3 swaps when playing timed mode)
As with Strings mode, you'll need to try to beat your previous highscore to count the game as a "Win"
You can Play Shoebox here, where you'll find Score Rack in the Word Games me...

Did you notice the change in the Letter Bubbles, yesterday?
I bet you didn't!!

First up, I've decided to just let "Trails" be "Trails", and stop worrying about what the actual game might possibly have really been.

Shoebox has been limited to a 30fps mode, simply because initial tests showed my crappy laptop to suck at trying to run it at 60fps, and the fan kicks into gear!

Managed to get a little bit of coding done, today.
I've added a fairly swift anagram-finder to the word engine of Shoebox. The script can more or less search anagrams for about two sets of letters each second, so should be fairly useable once I start making a "generic unbranded crossword style word game" game.
The next part of that particular puzzle is trying to decide on scores for tiles.
Do I stick with "Stringy Things" tile scores, which they currently are in the game, or do I swit...

I did a few tweaks to the framework, yesterday.
There's now a mute button in the pause/escape menu, which works.. (For a few hours, it was there, but did absolutely nothing!!)

It's hard to keep from breaking things when they're already live on the server.

With extreme apologies, I've just deleted everyone's highscores in Shoebox! (Don't lynch me!!)

In the upper-right of the Shoebox menu, once you've selected a game, you should now find a small "Rules" icon.
You can Play ShoeBox of Games here

Strings is more or less functional, although it's missing different playmodes, and the scores aren't kept, but otherwise it's working!

You can Play Shoebox of Games here
Over the course of a couple of weeks, in February 2019, I began the creation of a small collection of JavaScript games.
My aim is to, over the next few weeks/months, to slowly expand the number of games included in the pack, to create a lovely little collection of card games, word games, board games and more, all of which are playable within your browser.

Yesterday was a horror show!!

With only a few days of Advent remaining, it's time to think ahead for future plans.

As I reached game #18 on Foldapuz, I realised that there's a very distinct possibility that I might yet manage to hit the current 62-game limit.

The triangles weren't too hard to get up and running yesterday, so I also took time to make a completely random letter grid.
The letter grid doesn't really have any specific solution due to it being entirely random, but you're supposed to play it like you would a game of Boggle.. Trying to find words with letters that join up.

I thought that, for this game, having a string of enemies would result in a more difficult enemy to beat.

Last month, I subscribed to the ZenPop Ramen selection.
The box appears, then over the coming weeks, I review each of the noodles.
Last month's collection can be found in this SoCoder Thread, but I figured it might be something entertaining to crosspost here, too.
Noodle Four

I've just noticed a really odd bug in my site, via the method of visiting another site!
Over at Nintendo Max they've listed Flappadiddle as being from October 2017.
"October 2017? It definitely isn't from then.. Where on earth have they got THAT date from?"
.. I checked my own site, and...

With the 3DS onslaught in full swing, and this week's game being delayed, what better time than to stop and pause, and think about the other myriad of things that I'd like to do..?!

Today I was reminded of the classic Amiga puzzler "Pushover".

I think I've got a decent method for doing tracks.. Maybe..
The method goes like so.
1. Draw track onto 64x64 image.
2. Convert to string of text.

I started work on the "Enter Your Name" screen, yesterday, but ended up doing something vaguely, but not entirely related!