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. 2010 - BlitzMax 2011 - Touch Control 2012 - The Bad Year 2013 - Monkey-X 2014 - OUYA!! 2015 - The Gap Year 2016 - Forget-V 2017 - Cuddle Me 2018 - Ringing the Changes 2019 - Overl...

Oh boy, was I playing sleepy catchup, yesterday! Everyone's gone home, and it's just Me, Mum and the Cat left in the house. Calm, quiet, and finally a decent amount of sleep.

Throw your ball towards the pegs, and hope for the best! Be sure to catch your ball, so you don't lose it. 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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Back to another slow day, yesterday, as I struggled to get much of anything done. I think I *might* be trying to squeeze too many projects into a week, right now, but Super Secret Side Project has me doing side-tweaks when I'm supposed to be resting!

I haven't "NOT" done this week's Shoebox game. It's about 60% done.

Ugh.. I hate being ill.

OK, I think most of the vertical scrolling shoot-em-up is done for tomorrow's Browsercade release. I need to add some variation to the enemy waves, and try to get a couple of powerups in there, but otherwise it's .. Plain, generic, and shooting!!

As with last week's Shoebox game, I actually uploaded it about mid-day, yesterday, but haven't yet officially posted about it. If you're the nosey sort, keep an eye on Shoebox on a Friday, and you might catch a glimpse of the next game, before it's properly finished. I first wanted to double check everything, and that's best done on the iPad, whilst sat riding my little foot-pedal-doohickey. Top Tip : Get in shape by forcing yourself to exercise whilst you're doing all of th...

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. 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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I should probably try to finish off Blockman in the Browsercade, today, but I'm slightly worried that there's a teensy bit of slowdown in the engine, so I think today's plan should probably be to track that down.

Clickity for Biggity Nearly 2 games a week.. So very, very close!! Since I'm only 4 games away from 52, I can probably do another week and a half of games, then take the rest of the year off!! Aaaand! Relax!!

Busy day yesterday, and after I got back I needed a big long 4 hour nap to recover!! Once awake, I got a couple of little bits finished off, including this week's Petit Switch game (coming later tonight) and this week's SoCoder Newsletter (coming in about an hour or so).

For the past few months, I've been back and forthing on a way to get this to look half-assed on the 3DS. The main issue is with the Starfield, vs the 3DS's LED "haze" (Or maybe that's because I'm using a Original 3DS as my Homebrew unit!?) The slow-to-react LED is causing really horrible "clarity" issues. When you moved, the stars turned to a dark grey whilst the screen tries to catch up. If you stopped, and it has time to draw them fully, they become hard and white. The constan...

Last night I rejigged my IP Banning settings a little, to catch any spambots in their tracks. Between 6:20 and 6:26 this morning, BingBot decided to do it's daily update, and requested over 800 pages of content within that short amount of time. Woah there, BingBot!!!

For the past couple of weeks, since the most to a Linode server, I've been tweaking tons of little settings in and around the system to keep things running smoothly.

Trying to catch up with my own flu-fuelled laziness, I managed once again to do a nice big spurt of coding, yesterday.

Oodles of flu symptoms made me completely give up, yesterday.