It's been about a month since I last added a theme/mode to SpikeDislike.com

A wordsearch game. Playable with either a single word (Letter Lattice style) or a standard 5 word form. You can Play Wordsearch in the Shoebox, in your Browser, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet.

A fancy graphical doohickey turned into an action game! Hop over all of the blue Zyndotz in order to clear the level. Beware the Spikes, and watch out for that odd creature that shows up. 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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Crikey. A somewhat half-decent GUI. Look at me, with the fancy Javascripting!!

Making a start on Part Two of the recent project, I've opted to make this version a desktop app, as it gives me a teensy bit more functionality.

Salford Royal, Neurosurgery, Outpatients. Haven't been up there for a good few years, and hopefully will be getting away with a general chit-chat, and perhaps a second outpatients appointment for a scan. If they keep me in, then.. Grrr!! I've prepared everything, just in case, though. My phone's topped up, and all items for a "Staying In Bag" are sat in my bedroom ready to be whipped up at a moment's notice. Scared? Me? Nah... .. I can't stand hospitals!

A simple game of hopping and throwing, as originally suggested by PixelProspector all those many many years ago, back in November 2009! You can Play NeonPlat in your Browser, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet.

I started a game thing of sorts in Petit Switch, last night. Not entirely sure where it's going. Frog in a Hat.. Not a clue!

Last February they removed some of my disability. My Mobility was apparently perfectly fine, even though my Mobility is my main issue. *ugh* Today, I finally get my day in court, and hopefully all goes well. Normal AGameAWeek service will resume later.

Meanwhile...

I added high/last tables to the Browsercade, yesterday, but noticed late last night that they aren't showing up in Hillside Conquest. Not sure why that is!! Hopefully they're stable for all the games, and I'm de...

Today I'll be doing the Do some more. Last I touched it, I was up to the point where I need to play the original to see exactly how the "Extra" mechanic worked.

Todo list.. I have to finish off the Do game for Monday. Today I need to start on a Petit game. And maybe Friday or so, get a SpikeDislike mode added. Probably Basketball, as that's usually one of the first to get added.

If you're a fan of Classic SpikeDislike, and miss those things that fly across the screen with the number of points you just earned, you'll be happy to know I've added them into SpikeDislike.com! I've not yet added a menu option to turn them off again, though, so you'll just have to put up with them for the next day or so, depending on when I get around to doing that.

Lots of internal tweaks to the engine, today. The game now records your highest combo, and places that alongside your highscore in the saves. This means that, when necessary, I can pop that up on the screen. Your last score on the scoreboard is now highlighted and bounces to and fro, to stand out on the list. I do miss having that in the Browsercade. .. Maybe I should try to figure out a way to do that, but Browsercade's save data is there for lots of different types of games, and having a Top 10...

For the past couple of months, I've had the plan of a "One Touch Games" framework in mind, but couldn't ever decide on the best name for such a domain. A week or two ago, I just figured "To hell with it", and opted for SpikeDislike.com instead. SpikeDislike.com!

Every week or so, I think about SpikeDislike. How big it once was, and how abandoned it now is. Going from it's hefty days back in 2011, when it actually SOLD a decent amount on iOS, to the current day where it's all been removed from the AppStore because I haven't updated it in years. And yet, it's something I keep coming back to, and it has pretty much defined the sort of things that I've been doing for the past decade. Spike has whittled his way into becoming an alarmingly com...

OK, I *think* I've got the controller code whittled down to a decent set of functions. Part One is simply the One Player setup. If you're feeling somewhat bored, open up Browsercade and give it a try.

Yesterday I started work on a Shoebox game for the week.

Can Flappy get home? Hopefully nothing unexpected gets in the bird's way.. 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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Not a fan of Thursdays. Why do they always make Thursdays so busy!? SoCoder Newsletter, ALChoon, PetitSwitch game, and I also have to go for another blood-test, too. So many things to do!

Seems like the Google Form I set up for posting ideas isn't working 100% for .. well, barely anyone. All the hundreds of thousands of people bombarding the form, and only one person managing to post anything?! That can't be right!!! Also, that one person, Michael Fernie, is now telling me that he can't even access it either. *tsk* Come on, Google, pull your finger out!!

Having some right issues with the cache, today.

The Shoebox is now using the "Server Worker" method of caching, instead of the older AppCache style. With any luck, you shouldn't be able to tell the difference, and everything will continue to work swimmingly. I'm not sure what the exact rule for cache-update-checks is, especially if you're playing with an "Add to Home Screen" kind of bookmark, but it appears to be doing a decent job of keeping up to date. Please do give it a try, and let me know how you get on with the update, reporting...