I've barely coded this week's SmileBASIC game.

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I've spent so too much time spent faffing about with JSE, this week, that I've barely coded the game at all.
Currently it's a small box that rolls around on some bland looking lines, and some generic spikes getting in the way.
I've added bullets to the player-box, but there's nothing really "pushing" the player onwards.
I'm currently thinking a big swirly storm or something...

And I could really do with .. Not reusing Spike for the seven-thousandth time!

And maybe better gfx.

And a goal..

Oh, man, there's TONS to do!
I'd better stop playing with other things, and get working on that.

Meanwhile...

I decided to give that Xbox GameCloud Ultimate thing a trial run, and surprisingly, it wasn't a complete disaster.
Register for the trial, (£1 for the first month, then £10.99 thereafter) then log your iPad's Browser into the site. (Add to HomeScreen for proper fullscreen-age)
The thing works well with a PS4 controller, which is handy, 'cos I don't have any Xbox controller's newer than the 360's.

From there, I headed directly to No Man's Sky, and got it up and running within seconds.
Since the games are seemingly running on Xbox Series S hardware, it's not *quite* top-notch Xbox Series X quality. But the difference in load speed for No Man's Sky was staggering!! Warping between systems is now about 5 seconds instead of the PS4's 20-30. Neat!

Anyway, tech wise, there's noticeable lag of about 5 or so frames, and since the service doesn't include Sharing, there's no way to take nice hi-def screenshots and stuff. But other than that, it's a nice and capable streaming service, to the point where the quality of the stream was actually a higher resolution than I'm able to stream from the PS4 in the same room!!


Screenshot taken from the iPad's stream, since there's no way to share the "actual" image from the system itself.

It's certainly capable..
.. ... Of sucking about 3 hours of gameplay from my day, when I should've been coding this week's SmileBASIC game.