Each week, as I release all my lovely games, a massive influx of fan thoughts bombard my innbox. Be part of this amazing section of the site, by leaving comments and thoughts on the games and other bits and pieces. You can Play Spiky Tower in the Browsercade, in your browser, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet.

@RSKGames

Spiky Tower is one of the ultra fast game that I have played from AGAW collection.

Keep the Microbes at bay with your big giant ray! Spin yourself around the arena, and shoot for survival. Don't let any of the Microbes get beyond the outer reaches of the arena. 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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A few more tweaks, and Browsercade Game #001 should be more or less ready to go.

Alan suggests

Looks pretty good. I did spot a slight half-pixel seam where the background wraps around. I like the parallax effect, though. I've cheat-fixed that for the meantime, by simply wrapping the buffer a single pixel closer to itself, but it might look more glitchy once I start doing different types of backgrounds. I need to add a "sprite to buffer" function, to check that, though. Other tweaks.. I've made the "Logo on a plain screen, waiting for the first click" screen a...

The gradient background in the above screenshot has been drawn to a secondary canvas, which is then redrawn onto the main canvas. This seems to work reasonably well, and should hopefully allow for a fair number of generated backgrounds and other such effects, without requiring huge 1024x1024 background images to be downloaded. The whole thing runs a little slowly on my Samsung Galaxy 10 A, however, so I'm going to have to add an option to disable the buffer when necessary. But otherwise.. Yeah.. W...

I think, today, I'm going to focus on getting the final Framework touches of Browsercade done. Step One will be working out how plausible buffer-drawing is, whilst in a html canvas.

There's rain outside. \o/yeay\o/ That means I should be able to code, today!!

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!

A simple, but effective little Anagram game. Four 7 letter words are laid out, along with 4 extra tiles at the bottom. Add one letter to each of the "racks", shuffle the letters, and try to make four 8 letter words. SPOILER (PROLINES) You can Play Extra Tiles here, or watch out for it showing up in regular Foldapuz circulation, as of tomorrow. -=-=- In addition, I've finally got around to fixing (I think!) Kakuro, which was previously oddly broken, so that puzzle is now back in the selecti...

I think I'm making a music program..!?

I spent most of last night reading (and/or attempting to read, with Google Translate's camera function glitching and popping all the text, all over the place) through what I could find in Petit Computer's Help files. SpikeDislike Watch : Likes 2 - Downloads 18

Crikey, RSKGames has already sent his Player Thoughts.. Guess I'd better hurry up and get those last few tweaks in place..

@RSKGames

I have never played this game before so it was fresh and fun for me. After 2 defeats and some reading of the rules I got the hang of it and was able to beat the AI few times.

Record time for player feedback! Let's have a nosey. You can Play Shuffled Tracks in the Extras section of the Shoebox.

RSKGames

Played ''Shuffled Tracks'' and was quite surprised to find such a polished game done in 2 days. You'd be surprised.. ... The game was almost ready to go, yesterday!! Most of today's coding session was spent fixing up the generator to make the levels more difficult.

Yesterday, I opened up the Crossword Code to start work on the other reuses of the game, and sat staring at the screen for around about half an hour.

If you're a frequent reloader of Shoebox of Games, you might've noticed the sounds of the cards being switched out, about half-a-dozen times, over the course of yesterday.

@RSKGames

The gfx in the credits screen has a very good looking swirling ghost effect. And what a lovely effect it is!

OK, time to replace that Credits screen. I don't like it..

I'll be trying to tweak the audio engine again, today, to see if I can do 0.25-second length sounds, and have them play on all the usual browser targets.

KORG Gadget 2 released, yesterday morning, on iOS, Mac and also now on Windows. As such, I took a day off from coding, and instead spent the day playing with the iOS edition of the app.

Each week, a huge influx of emails and comments and thoughts flurry into view, as @RSKGames plays the game! But RSK has competition, this week, as Spinal's joined in with some feedback, too!! You can Download Classic SpikeDislike here.

@RSKGames

Overview: Back to basics Classic Spike dislike is as enjoyable and addictive as the previous versions of the game.

After each release, an influx of a comment bombards the pages of the site, and we get to see what people thought of the game. This week, RSKGames has decided to chip in, with thoughts of the gravity based, planet blasting game, Orbital Annihilation. You can play Orbital Annihilation here.

RSKGames

In Orbital Annihilation the player has to wait till the planets are aligned at the right positions in the orbits to fire and destroy the selected planet. Takes a bit of patience and timing to ...

Destroy the planets for points!

I'm fairly sure I know what kind of game this is going to be, but trying to find just the right balance between "crazy visual effect" and "fun game to play" will be the challenge over the next few days.

I ended up putting the three floppy disks back into Futrino, last night. As much as the game has a different sort of "world", the idea of collecting the three disks to complete a level is still simple enough to understand, and provides the difficulty of having to destroy all the barrels in order to find those disks.