A new Solitaire card game, today. The aim is to try to reach the top of the tower by matching cards. You can Play Tower Solitaire in the card games of Shoebox.

After a couple of days of back&forth, I've finally decided "meh, whatever!" and opted to go for a Coverflow-RipOff style menu. It actually looks rather nice, and scrolls quite well, except on touchscreens where the thing's a teensy bit dodgy due to co-ordinate issues. But otherwise it works nicely. (Although it isn't "quite" centring properly!) Scroll around, select a game, sorted.. Currently all "games" lead to the exact same test engine, but eventually this will (hopefully!) be a ma...

I finally got music and sound effects working nicely together in the "not the shoebox" Javascript engine, and it all works nicely on my iPad, too! Great stuff!! Next Challenge.. Input!

This week's Petit Switch release is a recreation of one of my favourite puzzlers, Blockman Gets. 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 was flicking through my Shoebox Todo-List, today, and stumbled upon Atoms. I haven't attempted Atoms for a while, mostly because it requires me to draw all those Atoms!! But, today I drew them, and the engine seems fairly capable. (ignore the fact that half those positions aren't "real", it's just a crazy animating thing, right now!)

Before I dare to attempt to turn AGameAWeek into a "All in one big javascript engine" mega compilation, I think it's important to jot down a few "issues" that there might be..

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But, a little more organised juggling, this time.

Yesterday was spent making an Pixel/Sprite doodling thing for Petit Switch. With that, JMTrackr and the default audio files, I'm fairly sure I can now get a decent number of games up and running.

The default pixel-sprite editor for PetitSwitch Scroll around the left-side (full spritesheet) with the left thumbstick, draw in the right hand "zoomed" view (you can zoom in further) with touchscreen or mouse. Controls for colours, but the palette doesn't save. .. Booo! Plenty of twiddly knobs and buttons, barely any of which I have the faintest idea what they're doing. A to plot, B to pick colour.. .. Except.. The dpad doesn't move the cursor.. In fact, NOTHING moves the cursor. In...

We all know what happens if I leave a game for a week.. I find it very hard to get myself back into the swing of things. I need something a little more immediate to pop into the Shoebox, because.. at this rate.. it'll be mid July before The Quest is ready!! "Oh, I know," says my silly head, "what about Hangman?"

JMTrackr is a Music Randomisation engine, which can create an endless variety of music, based upon a set of prewritten melody patterns. 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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Really getting somewhere with JMTrackr for Petit Switch, now!

I've gotten JMTracker up to a semi-working state, but still have to add test settings for things like Tempo and Instrument selection, as well as a proper Load requester. But so far, so good, and it's a vaguely decent output.. I think!! Although only a proper set of melodies and actual ingame usage will tell for sure..

The "Text Layer" seems to be rather limited. I can print at any position, I can change the colour, I can change the font size.. .. But any changes made will affect the entire screen's worth of text.