Today marks the initial Japanese release of Petit Computer for Switch (PetC4) and .. well, I'm a coding addict, so you know I HAVE to at least get SpikeDislike up and running. There's a few stumbling blocks.. well, one, really, and that is that I don't know any Japanese whatsoever. If you'd like to download my various PetitSwitch games, head to this page for the codes

2005 was a long long time ago, so the Quest-Qrew have been given a slight makeover.

In the Amazon package to my left.. A brand new Keyboard and Mouse.

Spent a couple of hours, late last night, trying to find the best rules to give AL when playing Mancala.

I might need to do some extra work on the menus.

I've sorted out RSKGames' menu scrolling issue.. .. I think.. But obviously will depend on many "browsers aren't exact" issues. Be sure to let me know if it's ok for you.

There are now tabs along the bottom of the menu, when you're selecting a game, to let you quickly switch between the various sections of the site. The icons are reused as tabs, and are drawn with their bottoms chopped off, so they look better on the screen, and don't take up a giant chunk from the bottom of the menu. For the most-part, I've tried to make this part of the code easily tweakable, so that in future I can add extra sections. However, it might get a bit cramped if I do that...

I'm still not sure on the best layout for the frontend of the Shoebox. I do like the circular bubbly thing, but there seems to already be way too much scrolling with only 5 games in a section. Give me a year of working with this framework, and there'll be a lot more than 5! (Hopefully!) So, the frontend definitely needs a rethink, but I'm not really sure what kind of layout WOULD work for it all.

I've a couple of planned games to do that shouldn't take too long at all.

If you enjoyed slaughtering poor AL in the Crossword game, yesterday, you might find him to be a teensy bit more challenging, now.

For the sake of desperately trying to get a few extra sources of feedback, I've opted to upload a copy of Shoebox to GameJolt. .. And, thus far, there's zero interest.. So.. Yippee.. :/

I'm down to the last few items on the todo-list. .. .. Wasn't I down to the last few items on the todo-list, a few days ago!? Hmm..

Little bugs all over, but definitely a productive day.

You know when you spend hours working on something, then look back at what you've done, and go "What on earth did I actually do?" .. I did that, yesterday!

Crikey! This game's harder to code than I remembered.

A couple of days ago, cooolgamer uploaded a bunch more levels for JNKPlat. There are (IIRC) 6 new packs of levels, so oodles to play through. Hopefully there's nothing "too" hard, but unfortunately I haven't actually had any time to even play the things yet. AGameAWeek is relentless You can either download them in-game, or head over to The Level Archive to download the level file yourself.

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*

A fairly large update, this morning, as I'm fairly confident that the caching is now working like it oughta.

All previous links will still work, and nothing should be broken by the HUGE change in Shoebox, since the new domain simply links to the same files in the same folder, and all the file access is relative. ShoeboxOfGames.com now exists! I bought the domain a couple of days ago, but only got around to setting it up properly, late last night. A more or less simple addition to the overall chaos of AGameAWeek.

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.

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

After sitting and watching AI players play the game over and over and over again, I'm fairly confident that Ludo is now working enough to get a release. You can Play Ludo in the Shoebox, under the Board Games section

As much as I've been struggling on with a flu, for the past few days, yesterday completely floored me.