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Following the trail that JFarceur left, I've done as much as I can in fixing the list of bugs in Browsercade.

After my previous post. where I chose my favourite games from the year, fans have chipped in with their own thoughts on the best games of 2020. Let's take a peek!!

Drive to the head of the pack, and see if you can stay there, in a series of randomly generated tracks. You can Play Really Retro Racing in your browser, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet.

Head's a bit sore, this morning, but less of a "brain stress" pain, and more of a "I have a ton of staples in my head, and I've been lying on them all night" kind of pain.. Gah!

The racing game will be delayed until next week.

Having spent most of Friday playing Mario Kart Live, I vowed not to do a really obvious racing game on Saturday. So I sat down with a vague plan in mind for a puzzle/maze game, and .. Couldn't quite shake that circuit-generating method.

Brum Brum goes Platdude's little car. But is it brumming enough to win the race?! If you've a Switch and SmileBASIC, you can grab a copy of the game using the Public Key

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Let's create a classic retro effect. Flames! As with all of these tutorials, you can hit F5 at pretty much any step of the process to see how the changes in code have impacted the program.

Over on DeviantArt, Ninjinister posted the following piece of artwork. Modelled after the "original" Platdude, from the early, early, early JNKPlat in QBasic, back in the days of DOS.

A decade is over, and what have I done? 373 games, created a new blogging script for here, rewritten the Socoder forum, started a few new sites and more! Oh, and a brain tumour! It's been a wild and crazy decade, and over the next few days I'll be looking back at the best (and worst) games from the decade. 2010 - BlitzMax 2011 - Touch Control 2012 - The Bad Year 2013 - Monkey-X 2014 - OUYA!! 2015 - The Gap Year 2016 - Forget-V 2017 - Cuddle Me 2018 - Ringing the Changes 2019 - Overl...

A decade is over, and what have I done? 373 games, created a new blogging script for here, rewritten the Socoder forum, started a few new sites and more! Oh, and a brain tumour! It's been a wild and crazy decade, and over the next few days I'll be looking back at the best (and worst) games from the decade. 2010 - BlitzMax 2011 - Touch Control 2012 - The Bad Year 2013 - Monkey-X 2014 - OUYA!! 2015 - The Gap Year 2016 - Forget-V 2017 - Cuddle Me 2018 - Ringing the Changes 2019 - Overl...

You might've noticed an alarming number of "Top 10" posts, yesterday! Ideally I should've started doing that about a week or two ago, to get all 10 posted by New Year, but.. Meh, whatever! If you've not been voting in the polls, please do, as I'll be gathering up the winners of all 10 polls to make a topper-top-10 list at the end of all this. Today I'll tackle 2016 and 2017, and maybe 2018.. I'm dreading trying to organise a top 10 for 2019, though! 140 games in a year? Yi...

A decade is over, and what have I done? 373 games, created a new blogging script for here, rewritten the Socoder forum, started a few new sites and more! Oh, and a brain tumour! It's been a wild and crazy decade, and over the next few days I'll be looking back at the best (and worst) games from the decade. 2010 - BlitzMax 2011 - Touch Control 2012 - The Bad Year 2013 - Monkey-X 2014 - OUYA!! 2015 - The Gap Year 2016 - Forget-V 2017 - Cuddle Me 2018 - Ringing the Changes 2019 - Overl...

A decade is over, and what have I done? 373 games, created a new blogging script for here, rewritten the Socoder forum, started a few new sites and more! Oh, and a brain tumour! It's been a wild and crazy decade, and over the next few days I'll be looking back at the best (and worst) games from the decade. 2010 - BlitzMax 2011 - Touch Control 2012 - The Bad Year 2013 - Monkey-X 2014 - OUYA!! 2015 - The Gap Year 2016 - Forget-V 2017 - Cuddle Me 2018 - Ringing the Changes 2019 - Overl...

Each week, oodles of feedback floods my inbox. Thank you to everyone who sends their thoughts/comments on all the wonderful games I've been making so far, this year. This week, RSKGames has thoughts on the latest Shoebox game, Homepath. You can Play Homepath in the Shoebox on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet.

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Started playing Homepath 20/750 done. Brilliant puzzle game.

Mostly complaints.. Fuze "tries" to be two things at once. Both a classic BASIC, and a more modern "Not BASIC", and when those two things clash, you either get a great language like BlitzMax, or you get .. Well, Fuze..

A quick and simple trip up the tower. What could possibly go wrong!? Avoid the spikes, and get as far as you can up the tower, without falling. You can Play Spiky Tower in the Browsercade, in your browser, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet.

Alan Suggests

There's always VirtualBox for a retro dev environment, although that doesn't make it easier to find the old versions of the dev kits.

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.

I'm now fairly happy with the way the generic board is scrolling and zooming on my iPhings, but the desktop version needs a lot more work.