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.

Blackjack, Pontoon, 21. Call it what you will. The aim is to reach as close as you can to 21, without going over. Once you're done, AL will have a try, and whoever gets closest is the winner. The first to reach three wins is declared the overall winner of the game. You can Play Blackjack in the Card Games section of the Shoebox.

Started to make some progress with Touchscreen Controls, for Browsercade, today. The hard part was getting this button to work..

Sifting through my giant todo list, I came across "Try out Electron", so I've done that, this morning.. After about half an hour of waiting for various things to install, and then running them, the result was actually really quite nice and fluid, and looked good. I ran the electron-packer, and .. crikey, that takes a while, doesn't it.. Eventually, I ended up with what can only be described as "A folder", in which there were several million files all scrawled all over the place, including sever...

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

This week, NeonPlat makes its way to the Switch! Throw your balls at the bats, and colour all of the plats! 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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It's the little things.. Like how the game isn't saving highscores, and the onscreen scores aren't quite readable enough, and the music doesn't end during the game-over screen, and .. The little things.. Still haven't actually coded the game, yet, either! This is all Framework stuff. Of course.. There's still one big issue to tackle..

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.

Thought.. "Why is Browsercade not working in Firefox?" Further Thought.. "It SHOULD work.. Shoebox works, and it's practically the same script.." Further thought.. "Uhoh..!!"

I think, today, I'm going to focus on getting the final Framework touches of Browsercade done. Step One will be working out how plausible buffer-drawing is, whilst in a html canvas.

Step one, design (and/or copy+paste from previous editions!) a logo and icon for the game. Step two, start writing game. Step three, realise I'm a long way from being ready to start writing the game!!

The traditional Word Wheel. Try to find as many anagrams as you can, ensuring that each word contains the central letter. There's one complete word in the wheel. Can you find it? You can Try out Word Wheel here or wait for it to show up in regular Foldapuz selections.

I was almost certain I was near the end of the Browsercade Framework, but .. Nope.. There are still things to do!