I've been asked how I achieve my scrolling backgrounds, especially since (as you can probably tell from my games) I'm not using "normal" techniques. So, let's code a quick example, and you can hopefully follow along. WARNING : This is far from being the ideal, or even the "normal" way of drawing backdrops. I am NOT the best tutor for programming. I've been coding far too long without getting rid of my bad bad habits, and have been working towards "many games, quickly" techniques, rat...

Let's code a really simple Tennis/Ping Pong game, shall we?

Last night I sat and wrote a vague tutorial'ish thing for SmileBASIC. I took the idea of what I did with the Banana Dodging thing, and tried to make an entire game of Pong/Tennis within the space of a single screenshot-able screen of text.

Guess I gotta start a game for Monday, then, eh?

You can find it in the Nintendo Switch eShop, (once your country's timezone hits the sweet spot!) and begin your creation adventure.

This week's release sees you holding and releasing the plungers, to keep the evil red walkers away from your house. If you've a Switch, and have downloaded SmileBASIC, you can grab a copy of the game using the Public Key...

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Today will be about finishing off a couple of things. 1. Tomorrow's Petit Switch game. I'm going to post it probably tonight, so that it's ready for people to play tomorrow, when SmileBASIC releases worldwide. Wooohooo!! 2. Tomorrow's SoCoder newsletter. A slight tangent from the norm, so I've had to work extra hard trying to pad it all out. Also, I've not done an ALChoon for this week, so I guess I need to do that, too. I mean, I know I did the Gunfright remix, yesterda...

Sat down to get evening code session going. Extra work on this week's SmileBASIC game. Instead, however, I opened up KORG Gadget and started work on a piece of music. 2 in the morning, I finished. 2 in the blinkin' morning.. And I'm not 100% happy with it. The thing flows well enough, all until the bridge, and then it sounds kinda clunky. I think I need to rework that a little. So, today's plan is to fix that up, and then get the game done. I also need to find a few more thi...

Move the pills into the pillbox. Each day should contain the same total dosage. You can Print Sheets of the puzzle or Play in your Browser

Thought of a puzzle game idea, last night, spawned by this week's SoCoder Word of the Week. Pillbox.. Seems obvious, just from the name! I'll be making that, today.

Keep the Kumquat safe, as you fly it out of the forest, and into a swarm of enemy planes. You can Play Save the Kumquat in the Browsercade, in your browser, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet.

An image popped into my head, the other night, and so I spent most of yesterday getting that into the Browsercade engine. Today, I need to figure out how to turn that into a game. I'd better get doing that, then, because I'll be posting the finished game in the morning!!