I honestly can't fathom why Firefox's cache isn't doing what it's supposed to.

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.

The good old game that you used to secretly play at the back of the classroom! You can Play Dots and Squares in the Shoebox, in the One On One area.

1. Not Pong is going to be my game for Petit Switch, this week. 2. Dots and Squares will be this week's Shoebox game. Todo-List. For Not Pong, I need to add a decent amount of sparkle and loveliness, but the basic gameplay's up and running. Dots and Squares needs a better AL-AI. He's currently only looking at each square on it's own, so often says "This square only has one line, I'll add a line", but is inadvertently placing that line at a point that makes a third line on ...

After each week's release, players submit their thoughts on the games. Let's have a look and see what @RSKGames thought of Space Battle! You can Play Space Battle in the One-On-One section of the Shoebox.

@RSKGames

Played Space battles for some time and thanks to a lenient AI I was able to win most of the times.

Clickity for Biggity Nearly 2 games a week.. So very, very close!! Since I'm only 4 games away from 52, I can probably do another week and a half of games, then take the rest of the year off!! Aaaand! Relax!!

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!!

I tried to get this week's Shoebox game done, yesterday, but with so much GUI based stuff to do.. .. My head went "No, I'm sick to death of doing GUIs, this week!!" and decided to shut down. I'm going to push ahead and try again, today. If not, we'll have to abandon the Shoebox release for this week, because I'm not really sure that any game I make, will fit my head's current need to do something other than yet another GUI driven thing!

I might switch up a tiny rule for the Tower Solitaire game. Instead of having a Swap Pile, I think I might instead make the "3 dealt cards" spread out into three distinct piles. I'll have a play with this rule, today, and see which appears to work the best. Other than that, I guess I need to start thinking about next week's Petit-Switch game, and figuring out what else needs to be done with the Browsercade framework. I still haven't added any kind of Redefine Joypad thing, yet, so might ai...

In the new framework, audio tests are going ahead. An mp3 can stream, and play, and even stays in memory for repetition or restarts when the game is restarted. The mp3 can be paused, the mp3 can be set to loop. This is all good. Moreso, I've coded the ability for different mp3s to play for different games, and perhaps even different tracks per level. The browser will grab the mp3 as needed, and will play it. This is all good!! Yeay! .. Except...

Oh boy, was yesterday complicated!!

I spent a good few hours trying to figure out why my MacMini wasn't connecting to the net. I mean, it WAS, but it seemed much slower than usual.

Brum Brum?

But, a little more organised juggling, this time.

We all know what happens if I leave a game for a week.. I find it very hard to get myself back into the swing of things. I need something a little more immediate to pop into the Shoebox, because.. at this rate.. it'll be mid July before The Quest is ready!! "Oh, I know," says my silly head, "what about Hangman?"

The "Text Layer" seems to be rather limited. I can print at any position, I can change the colour, I can change the font size.. .. But any changes made will affect the entire screen's worth of text.

I need to stop playing with Petit-Switch, and instead get back to regular AGameAWeek stuff!

So, today I wrote a basic minimal Framework in PetItC4 with simple enough functionality, but hopefully enough to allow for lots of variety in future projects. I've added a basic DrawImg thing, along with my usual set of SetCol, SetAlpha, SetSize and SetRot commands. I've created a sprite loop to draw sprites when required, and blank out any unused sprites at the end of the loop. I DID originally try adding a SPCLR (clear all sprites) at the top of the loop, but that flickered horribly. You'...

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

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.

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.

Little bugs all over, but definitely a productive day.

*sigh* This really has been an effort to get everything into place!

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*