Me and Michael Fernie have been emailing back and forth, today, all about the recent Shoebox additions, and player feedback. Lots of new games added to Shoebox. Very nice. Seems like you are getting a bunch of comments too. That is exciting because people are playing. Indeed. Unlike my previous 400 games, these ones actually seem to be popular!! I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing!

I spent a good number of hours, yesterday, looking online for any rulesets that might make "Beleaguered Castle Solitaire" any better, but failed miserably to find anything. I did find a number of alternative solitaires that claimed to make the game a little harder, though, so.. Um.. Yeah, ok!!

As the Shoebox continues to build, more and more and more comments are incoming! I've literally had more comments to the blog in the past couple of months than I have in the past decade!!

Alan

Olympic sprinters don't need to break the tape by exact footstep *imagines 100 Marathon sprinters stopped right at the end of a race, all trying to roll a 6 to win*

So, the Shoebox now has Level capabilities.. That's nice! I'm tempted to add something like Quadoban, or maybe a Kee-Bo-Ard, but that would definitely be crossing the border between physical and arcade.. I might need to come up with some way to mesh the styles together, somehow, and create a brand new sort of game. Hmm..

I think my head wants to have a play with a "Normal" AGameAWeek game.

A simple Snakes'n'Ladders style game, using cards. Use one of the cards from your hand to select how many spaces you'll move. If you land on a Spike, turn it over to see what will happen. You'll either end up moving forwards or backwards, so lets hope that luck is on your side. You can Find 'Board of Snakes' in the Board Games of the Shoebox.

Player "Cristo" has submitted four lovely level packs for JNKPlat. You can either find them in the Online Levels section of the game, or grab them here if you need to download them manually (eg 3DS).

Still on a bit of a go-slow, here. It doesn't help that the weather's been absolutely gorgeous over the past few days, so much so that the need to sit and relax in the sunshine has taken precedence over standard coding duties.

Amazing how much a funeral hits you. I spent all day yesterday sitting about, playing Smash Bros, watching various YouTube things, and generally not really bothering to do any sort of coding whatsoever. Maybe today will be more productive?

Meanwhile..

Over on the Testing the Width post..

Alan suggests

Just my opinion, but the individual cards could use a tiny bit more margin. I prefer the top picture. Not because of the aspect ratio of the cards themselves, but because it has a...

Seems my head wasn't quite ready to get back into an all-day coding session like I was aiming for.

Right, I was halfway through the "Extra" card, wasn't I.. Maybe some kind of quick board game that makes use of those? I had considered doing a Snakes and Ladders style game but with cards for movement, so .. Yeah, I think I might attempt something like that, today.

Spent all night thinking about the card width. .. Ugh.. I think I know what today's plan is..

Shoebox Stats Cards : 3 Words : 3 Board : 2 Misc : 4 Extra : 3 (although it says 4, one of them's the credits, and they don't really count) So, maybe another Board Game, to try to even things up a little more, but which board game to make?

Having a few "quirk" issues, right now.

cooolboy stopped by and left a couple of comments on 3DS games. I should give some proper feedback.

Lots of comments, lately, as the Shoebox has essentially thrown any kind of regular AGameAWeek schedule well out of the window. I should probably look into fixing that, and getting back to a more regular schedule. Hmm.. Anyway.. RSKGames has submitted a few thoughts on Cardagain, so let's have a post about that! You can find Cardagain in the Shoebox, under the Misc section.

Cardagain seems to have worked out ok, but what comes next?

To take my mind off the horrors of "Jack Change It", I've instead decided to test another compiled edition of the game.

Our Four Competitors.. 1. An Acer something-or-other, cheaptastic, slow and horrible little thing. 2. Archos Gamepad 2 3. GPDxd 4. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10 A - 2018 model