"Now all I have to do is make a fully working mouse-driven GUI to make it all functional!" ... Uhoh!! I forgot that I hate doing that stuff!

Image taken from Browser Gamepad page Aaah, the complicated world of buttons..

Handy Hint : Subscribe to my YouTube channel to get videos of games I'm about to release. They usually appear about 12 hours before I release them, because after faffing about making the video, and uploading the video, I'm usually too tired out to actually post the game to the site, and instead leave it for the morning!

I've not done a Shoebox game for a couple of weeks. My mind doesn't seem to want to be bothered doing GUI/Mouse/Touch driven stuff, of late. That's a bit of a shame..

Had a fair number of stumbles with Super Secret Side Project, yesterday.

Brum Brum! Drive along, and smash all the trashcans. But don't hit the traffic cones, and definitely don't hit the precariously placed landmines. 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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This week's Petit Switch game appears to have a car in it! The car can drive along a vertical road, and can jump, because.. Why not! There are trashcans along the way, and the car can either knock them over or hop over them. Other than that, I've really no idea where I'm aiming for with this game! *shrugs*

1. Foldapuz got done. It was a bit of a squeeze, but I pulled off another Logic game. (Pills) I really need to come up with a new Word game for Foldapuz. It's been AGES* since I added one!

I finished off WestWords last night, so that's ready for release on our regular Shoebox Saturday slot. Today, I'm heading back into Super Secret Side Project to see if I can get the file tweaking to work without resulting in file breaking!

"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*

It's time to harvest the Starfuit. Platdude straps himself to a rocket, and aims to grab as many of the fruit as he can. You can Play Starfruit Harvest in the Browsercade, in your Browser, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet.

Blimey, General thoughts! Usually I don't get a chance to look at the ins and outs of the general frameworks and such, once I've started using them. But the new Javascript-based frameworks allow for realtime tweaking, and also fixing old broken things along the way, too. Cool!! So, if you've ANY thoughts about ANYTHING relating to the Browsercade/Shoebox/Foldapuz stuff, please do share, and I'll try my best to keep these sort of posts coming.

RSKGames

Shoebox AI: I am...

Alan Suggests

There's always VirtualBox for a retro dev environment, although that doesn't make it easier to find the old versions of the dev kits.

I tried to get this week's Shoebox game done, yesterday, but with so much GUI based stuff to do.. .. My head went "No, I'm sick to death of doing GUIs, this week!!" and decided to shut down. I'm going to push ahead and try again, today. If not, we'll have to abandon the Shoebox release for this week, because I'm not really sure that any game I make, will fit my head's current need to do something other than yet another GUI driven thing!

Spent a few hours, yesterday, getting a very basic looking car to drive around a very basic looking grassland. (and/or, blue space with stars in it, acting like a flat driveable area!)

Attempt number one hasn't gone particularly well. The game struggles to keep up with itself, and my laptop's fan kicks into overdrive, while the game just about manages to find the word "AA" in amongst all the possibilities!

I tried, yet again, to get the iOS side of my Framework to run, last night.

Spent most of today figuring out the best way to organise all my home photos.

The button layout chaos continues.. I'm going to try to make the gui for the level editor do as much as it can without needing buttons!!