Currently thinking I might do a Boulderdash clone, for Browsercade, but I'm not sure how good I can make it in just a couple of days. Don't be surprised if this ends up as a two-week game, instead. I have the "Multiple Direction" concept from 8-bit Boulders that I could easily reuse, but that needed hand-made levels. I'm not sure I can successfully auto-generate levels for a game like that..

Last night I recorded footage of this week's Shoebox game. .. Or at least, I tried.

Didn't get an awful lot done to the game, yesterday. I spent hours fiddling with the background methodology, and testing out various elements, testing for all manner of future games.

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.

@RSKGames

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

SpikeDislike was my "Test if I can.." game for PetitCom4, and as good as it was, I felt it wasn't 100% what it could've been. If you've a Switch, and have downloaded SmileBASIC, you can grab a copy of the game using the Public Key... 424JQK3NJ

The two tanks fall into line, and a battle commences. Tilt your gun, line up your shot, and destroy the enemy tank. Rather than being a simple "Destroy = 1 point" game, I've opted to add Arcade-style scores to this. Earn points for closer hits to your opponent's tank. Your score is also increased by how much health your own tank has remaining. You can Play Hillside Conquest in the Browsercade, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet.

I forgot that, this week, I also figured out a nice way to get the QWERTY keyboard to pop up for both Hangman and Triplets in the Shoebox. There's now a little subtle [QWERTY]/[ABC] button that shows up in the top bar of the screen. Tap that to switch between the two keyboards. Oddly, I actually find the ABC keyboard easier to use, and that's really really odd!!

I've more or less got Isolation working, but haven't yet done the usual Logo/YouTube/etc, so that'll all be happening in the next hour or so. One that's done, I have to make a start on Monday's Browsercade game... .. eek!!

Saturday's Shoebox won't be Pool

Need some rocks and circuit boards? Look no further than the latest JNKsg Generators. Rocks are kinda lumpy, but definitely aren't the best looking rocks in the universe. Circuit Boards are a little slow. I really need to figure out a quick and easy way to optimise those. Honestly, not the best update to the JNKsg site. Bah, humbug!

Today's plan I need to stress test Pyramid Solitaire, and then I'll post that later. I also need to really think about Monday's Browsercade game. And I also need to see if I can find any kind of download stats for the Fuze basic SpikeDislike. .. I'm not sure it's got anything like that, though. Not much more to say, really! Carry on Coding!

Petit Clampett's level generator seems to be working fairly well, but the game has the same "Too much vertical movement" issue as Micro Clampett did. I'm going to have to try figuring that out, today, without resorting to zooming the camera out. Hmmm..

As with last week's Shoebox game, I actually uploaded it about mid-day, yesterday, but haven't yet officially posted about it. If you're the nosey sort, keep an eye on Shoebox on a Friday, and you might catch a glimpse of the next game, before it's properly finished. I first wanted to double check everything, and that's best done on the iPad, whilst sat riding my little foot-pedal-doohickey. Top Tip : Get in shape by forcing yourself to exercise whilst you're doing all of th...

Crikey, this is a bit messy!

Blimey, General thoughts! Usually I don't get a chance to look at the ins and outs of the general frameworks and such, once I've started using them. But the new Javascript-based frameworks allow for realtime tweaking, and also fixing old broken things along the way, too. Cool!! So, if you've ANY thoughts about ANYTHING relating to the Browsercade/Shoebox/Foldapuz stuff, please do share, and I'll try my best to keep these sort of posts coming.

RSKGames

Shoebox AI: I am...

If you refreshed Shoebox, yesterday, you'll have been able to play MiniGolf, but I didn't officially release it.

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.

Oh dear. Seems like releasing the Browsercade has kickstarted the regular avalanche of crazy ideas!

Spent an hour or two testing various enhancements to the FPS stuff, and I think I managed to find a nice middleground that seems to run fairly well.

Alan suggests

Looks pretty good. I did spot a slight half-pixel seam where the background wraps around. I like the parallax effect, though. I've cheat-fixed that for the meantime, by simply wrapping the buffer a single pixel closer to itself, but it might look more glitchy once I start doing different types of backgrounds. I need to add a "sprite to buffer" function, to check that, though. Other tweaks.. I've made the "Logo on a plain screen, waiting for the first click" screen a...

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...

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.

I spent last night rewriting my Pseudo Random code so that it works nicely in Javascript, for both Browsercade and Shoebox.

Yesterday I was playing with Alien sprites. Today, I've been playing with Balls! First off, don't get too excited! This is currently only a simple physics test, and is in no way representative of the end result! I'm actually aiming for a completely different game, first, but figured I might as well test the physics whilst I'm here. So far, so good, although the physics are occasionally a little bit glitchy. But.. .. Yeah, works fine!!

- I'm fairly content with how the touch controls seem to be working, now, and they're apparently functional on both iPad Wide and iPhone Tall displays. The DPad can be a teensy bit large on iPad Tall, though, so I might yet still make an optional thumbstick mode instead. Simple testing has been done on the menus, but "real world" testing won't be happening until there's a "real world" game to test it with. .. I'd better get onto that, huh?