The "Grab card from pile" and "Add card to pile" functionality now appears to be mostly functional. You can Test Shoebox Here.

Today I need to start getting the rules of Spider Solitaire to work, but as always will be looking for ways to reuse this code for all the future games.

With any luck, you should now be able to drag the cards around between columns, but with a few issues.. Shoebox Test

Just to be extra sure that it'd work in the slightest, I added a quick test loader to Shoebox for the WordList functionality.

I've added JNKsg's Multi-Loader functionality into Shoebox. You can Test it here.*

Over the next few days, I'll be doing various tests and things, as I try to determine the best methodology for the games. First up, Setting a grid size based upon a couple of values.

Taking a significant chunk of the Foldapuz/Unfolded, and JNKsg code as the basis, I've managed to get a fairly decent drawing engine up and running. Text, Ovals, Rects, Lines, Plot, and the all important DrawImg are all in, and functioning as expected, albeit without any recolouring for DrawImg. (Since I'm using basic Javascript and HTML5, I'm forfeitting the ability to recolour my sprites)

A very Platdude styled set of cards are ready to be used, but there's no game for them to go into, yet. Today will be about starting a new framework to cope with them.

Added the new game Combinations to the fold. Fill in each of the two puzzles using only numbers 0 to 9, without any repetition. Each row and column has a total which you should attempt to achieve whilst filling in the grid. I'm not 100% sure how solvable these might be, so do let me know if they're insanely hard!

I'm not 100% convinced that this will be the end style of the face cards, and still have a boatload of drawing to come, but .. For now, at least.. The PlatKing of Diamonds!

Yesterday I got an email with an idea for a game. A "simple" card game that could work fairly well.

Each week, a huge influx of emails and comments and thoughts flurry into view, as @RSKGames plays the game! But RSK has competition, this week, as Spinal's joined in with some feedback, too!! You can Download Classic SpikeDislike here.

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Overview: Back to basics Classic Spike dislike is as enjoyable and addictive as the previous versions of the game.

I tried, yet again, to get the iOS side of my Framework to run, last night.

Everybody Likes SpikeDislike!!

Wednesday was my Mum's 60th birthday, so she spent a couple of days over with my Sister. She arrived back, yesterday, and as a surprise I decided to attempt to bake her a cake!!

Scoring is now in, along with the typical swooshy points that flail across the screen.

(YouTube) Today I've been poking and prodding at the game's timing, trying to find the best way to get things running as smoothly as possible. Currently the ball's trail is a little wonky, mostly down to the delta timing involved throwing it off a little. But for the most part, things are looking really quite compatible between versions. This also goes for versions with a low framerate, too. In the video above, there is audio for both the 3DS Homebrew edition and the laptop's vers...

You might've noticed that, since yesterday, the Poetry Corner now has a little crappily designed scroll image.

Added a new logic puzzle, Linjat, to the Fold. Dots show areas that must be covered, whilst the numbers suggest the length of a "line" which must be placed either horizontally or vertically. There's an online version of the game here, created by the author of the puzzle. Permission to duplicate the puzzle type has, of course, been asked for and granted by the author Juho Snellman

In order to get SpikeDislike Classic (or is it Classic SpikeDislike?) to work as universally as I can, there's been a lot of Delta Timing tweaks, alongside a bunch of 3DS Scaling-Issue related stuff that had to be done.

This will be SpikeDislike Classic, and as such will be a back-to-basics approach. Nobody seemed to like the wonderful new additions that I made to SD3, so they'll all be scrapped in favour of the good old "Ball bounces along the ground, dodging spikes, full stop" mechanic that everybody loves.

After each release, an influx of a comment bombards the pages of the site, and we get to see what people thought of the game. This week, RSKGames has decided to chip in, with thoughts of the gravity based, planet blasting game, Orbital Annihilation. You can play Orbital Annihilation here.

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In Orbital Annihilation the player has to wait till the planets are aligned at the right positions in the orbits to fire and destroy the selected planet. Takes a bit of patience and timing to ...

For the past few months, I've been back and forthing on a way to get this to look half-assed on the 3DS. The main issue is with the Starfield, vs the 3DS's LED "haze" (Or maybe that's because I'm using a Original 3DS as my Homebrew unit!?) The slow-to-react LED is causing really horrible "clarity" issues. When you moved, the stars turned to a dark grey whilst the screen tries to catch up. If you stopped, and it has time to draw them fully, they become hard and white. The constan...

I've just spent the past couple of hours trying to fix a really stupid bug in the game logic. All of a sudden, enemy rooks could leap over your pieces. I looked into the code, and ... Yeah, I can see how that's happening. The issue being, of course, that to fix it I'd need to rewrite a significant chunk of the movement code, and probably break a whole bunch of other things along the way. I don't often give up on a project due to complexities like this. Usually if I DO give up, its ...

All the focus for this game has been on its balancing, and I've barely touched the graphical style at all.

2 days to go, and the Chess Game is finally starting to get a little more .. interesting!

Today's tweaks have finally made the Chess game a bit more lively. A bit more fiddling and, hopefully, I should be able to get the difficulty back to something fairly decent. Right now it's still a little bland, and games can carry on for far too long without much of a threat, so a little more "look ahead" and things should be golden!