The Minigolf game's quite fun to play, so far, and today I'm going to try to add a couple more obstacles. I'm thinking a giant spinning stick that thwacks the ball if it's within the radius, and maybe adding some directional floor tiles that act a little like slopes.

Blog, Socoder Newsletter, ALChoon, and then I'll get back to the coding. .. Maybe..

There's a couple of little quirks I need to fix, but I should soon be uploading Clusters of Hex.

Right then. Today I need to make a start on reconstructing Clusters of Hex again. I'll be getting it up and running on Browsercade, so everything has to be converted over to Javascript. It shouldn't be "too" hard, as I have practically only just done this in SmileBASIC, but I expect I'm not sure how well the resolution/ratio issues might confound the task.

Don't worry, it isn't the Twelve Days of Christmas, already!! The endless hopping mechanic returns. Bounce on the backs of the three hens as much as you can, without touching the ground. You only get three jumps from the ground, so repeated bouncing is the best way to get a high score. Tip : Hold A to bounce longer and higher. 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 need to come up with a game for this week's Petit Switch game, and I'm running out of old games that I can quickly cobble together!! I have one idea in mind, but can I manage it in just a couple of days?! The quest to make hundreds of games never ends!! Oh, but first I have to complete that boss-fight in Zelda that I left half unfinished, last night!!

I've had to add a limit to how many hexes I'm drawing on the Petit-Switch screen at once!!

Over on the Switch, I'm reproducing a basic version of Clusters of Hex, and .. .. Oh boy, had I forgotten how much of a pain it was to code this thing in the first place!

1. People seem utterly baffled by the start-screen of Browsercade. I put that there, because a lot of browsers need a single click before they initiate any audio, but seemingly people are instead "waiting" for it, and think the thing's broken. D'oh!!

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...

As I was drifting off to sleep, my mind was racing for a decent Foldapuz concept for the week. I thought about cards, and considered a grid of 5x5 cards.

In order to properly test my onscreen touch controls, I'm going to need some kind of quick playable game, so that's going to be today's task. Something short and simple, but complex enough to really put the controls to the test.

Welcome to a mini-deathmatch scenario. It's just you and the aliens, in this classic twin-stick shooter. How long will you survive? 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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Lots of things to finish off, today, and not a lot of time to do it. Tomorrow's another trip into town for another assessment, and that'll take away a lot of my regular Thursday "finishing things off" time, so .. Today's the day for that!!

A simple maths game, this week. The solutions are already there, but what equations make up the solutions? The nine boxes should be filled with the numbers 1 through 9, such that the results are accurate. You can Play Cross Sums here, or wait for it to show up in the daily Foldapuz sheets.

Blandness has enveloped much of the site! The complete Shoebox and Foldapuz collection are now added to the Archive, and that's how things are going to look, moving ahead. In the coming weeks (hopefully!!) I'll be starting to add Browsercade games into the mix, too, so things should begin to get a bit more interesting to look at, but as I transition from making downloads to generating everything via Javascript, there's always going to be that bit where things get a bit .. .. Boring and web-...

You might've noticed the top-bar of Recent Games is currently (slowly!) changing. I've decided it's probably a good idea to start adding Foldapuz and Shoebox games in, with the intention of further adding Browsercade games to the archive once that's up and running.

Started to make some progress with Touchscreen Controls, for Browsercade, today. The hard part was getting this button to work..

It's the little things.. Like how the game isn't saving highscores, and the onscreen scores aren't quite readable enough, and the music doesn't end during the game-over screen, and .. The little things.. Still haven't actually coded the game, yet, either! This is all Framework stuff. Of course.. There's still one big issue to tackle..

Allen writes.. Not sure if you still develop for OUYA but I play all of your games on there and I had a game idea that I wanted to share with you. Oh, how I miss the OUYA.

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

*phew* Heatwave in the UK. The poor cat's lying on the threshold of the back door, trying to stay in the shade of the house, whilst hoping for a bit of a breeze from outside. I'm sat with a fan blasting in my face, and all in all, not much is getting done in the coding department! I did attempt to do a bit of music, but the sound of the fan drowned everything out! Nothing good is happening, gamedev wise, today..

I've done an alarming amount of work on this GUI today, and .. *shrugs* Doesn't look any bloomin' different to how it did, this morning!!

Busy day yesterday, and after I got back I needed a big long 4 hour nap to recover!! Once awake, I got a couple of little bits finished off, including this week's Petit Switch game (coming later tonight) and this week's SoCoder Newsletter (coming in about an hour or so).