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...

I'm still marginally hopeful that I can make something fun from the car thing. Right now it's still extremely bland and dull, but I think with a few tweaks, I can manage to get something gamey out of it. I think!

Prepare to Flap, on Switch! Guide Flappy between the two sides of the screen, landing on the platforms inbetween. 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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1. Finish off Flappadiddle on PetitSwitch 2. Finish off Hangman on Shoebox 3. Consider that combining things into one has gone so well on Shoebox that it might be a good idea to start doing that with my PetitSwitch games. 4. Consider that I should probably also do that with AGameAWeek "proper" 5. Wonder how that's going to impact my lovely "500,000 games" list. 6. Goto 3

I didn't get much done, yesterday, beyond the finishing up of the week's ALChoon.

With JMTrackr "done, enough" for Petit Switch, I can now happily move on to actually making games on the thing. I've made a quick list of things I should attempt, today.

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

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.

I spent most of last night trying various microphone tweaks in order to get just the right sound.

Alan

I'm not THAT unknown. I'm the one that pestered you about rss Oh, THAT Alan! Hello, Alan!!

Spent the past couple of hours rewriting the audio code, so it loads the sounds after first-mouse/touch, instead of all happening right off the bat.

Over on Socoder, RSKGames posted a lovely "Top 10 AGameAWeek Games of 2018", so here it is lovingly reproduced with links and pics! (And with extreme apologies that it's taken me a week to get around to doing this!!) -=-=-

10. Roland Eats a Stale Biscuit

First puzzle game of 2018. If it was not so insanely difficult it will be higher up in the list.

You can Download the "Gold - 10" collection from itch.io. It has 11 games in it, one for each of the 10 years I've been doing this..!?!

This week, RSKGames is one of very few players who've bothered to take a look at a bland and tasteless Generic Snake clone. You can Download Generic Snake Game here

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All the trailers, screenshots and the hype from the devlogs for the generic snake game might have confused the regular readers of the blog what is all the fuss about. I guess the hype was about the story in the generic snake game.

A couple of days ago, I posted this short "Trailer Template". (YouTube) @RSKGames has commented! A bit more information text message in the video about the number of levels and goal of the game would have been nice.

Flappadiddle Doo - 3DS is now available as a complete 3DS .zip package, containing the .3dsx homebrew file, alongside a .cia file that can be installed directly into a hacked 3DS's frontend. Hopefully it works ok. If you do try it, be sure to let me know.

I've just noticed a really odd bug in my site, via the method of visiting another site! Over at Nintendo Max they've listed Flappadiddle as being from October 2017. "October 2017? It definitely isn't from then.. Where on earth have they got THAT date from?" .. I checked my own site, and... Oh.. The dates on the downloads in the Game Archive Downloads have been wrong since the site rewrite!!!

The epic Flappadiddle-Doo is now available on 3DS Homebrew. 95% of the game is intact, but the tiled backgrounds have vanished due to "I haven't added buffer-drawing to the 3DS Framework yet!" reasons. Otherwise, it's pretty much identical. 6 worlds, 6 birds, 6 endless modes, and a whole lot of flappiness! You can Download Flappadiddle-Doo here for Windows, Linux, MacOS and now 3DS Homebrew, too!! (I'm going to need to make 3DS Cases, now, aren't I!?!)

I might add a few extra functions for primitive drawing, or maybe a setting somewhere or something. It's not too much of an issue, in that I know why it's drawing things at different scales, but it'd be a little easier if I didn't have to worry about whether something's going to be "The same scaled position as the larger desktop version" or "The exact location on the screen"

95% of Flappadiddle now works on the 3DS, but it still needs a bunch of tweaking to be done, in order to get it nicely 3DS worthy. Like the level select menu...

After extensive testing, it seems the Ogg playing is more or less functional. I still need to tweak it for different Choons. Flappadiddle-Doo's struggling when it comes to switching levels. But other than that it's pretty much working as expected.

I tried out Flappadiddle again, today, and it was very very broken!!

Today's challenge.. Can't seem to get colours working. Hmm..

So, I scrapped the Sheep Herder engine, and started a new "time trial based" engine instead. I got a classic Thrust style gravity ship, popped it at the start of the track on the top left of the screen. Fire for Thrust and then left and right.

Quite a busy day, yesterday. Not only did I get the game finished off and posted, I also then tackled a couple of website things that I'd not yet bothered to do.