Back in the realm of Browsercade, I used to have to tweak alignments so that things actually matched up properly.
In JSE, a lot of work was done to rejig all the co-ordinates, so that everything lined up correctly.
The circle of circles is drawn from the very middle of the screen.
The Start text is also drawn, centred, from the very middle of the screen.
And that is not lining up.
Not only is the Start WAY off from the middle, but the circle of circles is also misaligned.
Note how the gaps at the top and bottom are completely different.
This was a weird quirk in my engine that just generally had to deal with at the time. Once JSE became a thing that "people other than me" had to cope with, I had to put the time and effort into the engine so that things fit together better, but I never bothered to move those tweaks back to Browsercade, because I knew that...
...
It's going to break each and every single one of the Browsercade games.
Oh dear.
Do I have to do this?!
And so, I took out the mallet of justice and smashed the whole engine to pieces.
*Blammo* it went, with shards of Browsercade flying all over the room.
That's a decent start, though the background's now completely black, and I've no idea why!
But it's a start!
The text "looks" slightly misaligned, but that's an 8x8 font issue, more than a positional one, I think.
The hexagons are rotated ovals, something Browsercade couldn't previously do, and no doubt something I've gone and buggered up in a ton of games.
I think I'm going to be rewriting a LOT more of Browsercade that I initially intended to.
Here comes that great big hammer again.
Smash, Smash, Smash, Smash.
Hammering up the arcade.
Smash, Smash, Smashy smash, Breakage
Blam goes the mallet.
Smash, Smash, Smash, Smash.
Destroying all the lovely things around.
Smash, Smash, Smashing it up, Yeah
YEAH!
[break]
Hammer, Mallet, Bang, Smash, Smash
Down goes the Mallet, Down goes the Mallet, Smash
Hammer, Mallet, Bang, Smash, Smash
Down goes the hammer with a great big boom.
[break]
Here comes that great big hammer again.
Smash, Smash, Smash, Smash.
Hammering up the arcade.
Smash, Smash, Smashy smash, Breakage
Blam goes the mallet.
Smash, Smash, Smash, Smash.
Destroying all the lovely things around.
Smash, Smash, Smashing it up, Yeah
YEAH!
[break]
Break it all up
[break]
Hammer, Mallet, Bang, Smash, Smash
Down goes the Mallet, Down goes the Mallet, Smash
Hammer, Mallet, Bang, Smash, Smash
Down goes the hammer with a great big boom.
[break]
Hammer, Mallet, Bang, Smash, Smash
Down goes the Mallet, Down goes the Mallet, Smash
Hammer, Mallet, Bang, Smash, Smash
Down goes the hammer with a great big boom.
[Dave is furiously typing on a laptop, while Greenie stares at him with thinly veiled disapproval.]
Green: What's all this?
Dave: I’m migrating all the inventory data to Google Sheets. It's cloud-based. It's collaborative. It’s the future!
Green: [Scoffs] The future? Dave, we’re selling retro videogames from the eighties.
Dave: Exactly. I need to keep track of all the sales, somehow, and Google Sheets works everywhere we have internet access.
Green: And what happens if we don't, Dave? Then what? We stand around waiting, like with the tills other day? Nah, We need the stability of Microsoft Excel!
Dave: Excel?
Green: It's been around for decades. [air quotes] It "just works".
Dave: That's Apple. An anyway, look how old it's getting now. It’s clunky.
Green: Clunky?
Dave: Look at these pivot tables I'm building. Conditional formatting, Greenie! It’s beautiful!
Green: Beautifully inefficient. Excel has macros! We can automate tasks! Google Sheets is just a glorified web page.
Dave: Macros are for Amiga, Greenie! Next you'll be wanting to Mail Merge the Word Art.
Green: And what happens when the internet goes down? We’ll be stuck with a blank screen!
Dave: [Exasperated] We have backup systems, Greenie. Multiple backup systems!
Green: Mrs Thompson's paper pad?
Dave: It worked. It did the job. We can jot things down later.
Green: It isn't "perfect", though, is it?
Dave: And Google Sheets integrates with everything! What happens if we have this all inside one PC, and then that one PC crashes?
Green: It's a security nightmare, Dave. All our data floating around in the cloud.
Dave: It's encrypted. [beat] I think.. And it’ll save us so much time. Look, I can easily share the spreadsheet with Mrs Thompson, and she can update it from home!
Green: I don't think she's selling retro games from home. .. Or ScrunchCakes.
[Barbara enters, carrying a tray of tea and ScrunchCakes.]
Barbara: Everything alright in here? You two are sounding rather animated.
Dave: We’s just discussing the merits of cloud-based spreadsheets versus legacy desktop software, Barbara.
Green: Dave’s trying to drag us into the 20th century kicking and screaming.
Dave: I'm saying that Google Spreadsheets is better. You know Google right?
Barbara: Yes, I know what Google is, Dave.
Dave: And Greenie thinks that Excel is better. Excel is what Microsoft makes, it's also a spreadsheet.
[Barbara gives Dave a stare]
Dave: Oh, right, Microsoft are the people who make Windows.
Barbara: [beat] Well, have you considered LibreOffice Calc? It’s free, open-source and quite capable.
Dave: ... Libre... Office?
Green: You think that would be better, Barbara?
Barbara: Well, it's an option. It’s got all the important functions and it doesn’t cost anything. Keeps costs down. We can likely run it on that system just fine.
Green: And the user interface is pretty much identical, too. You're probably onto something there, Barbara.
Barbara: You're welcome.
[Barbara leaves the two alone with their bickering and a fresh ScrunchCake each.]
[End credits roll]
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