1. Finish off Flappadiddle on PetitSwitch 2. Finish off Hangman on Shoebox 3. Consider that combining things into one has gone so well on Shoebox that it might be a good idea to start doing that with my PetitSwitch games. 4. Consider that I should probably also do that with AGameAWeek "proper" 5. Wonder how that's going to impact my lovely "500,000 games" list. 6. Goto 3

We all know what happens if I leave a game for a week.. I find it very hard to get myself back into the swing of things. I need something a little more immediate to pop into the Shoebox, because.. at this rate.. it'll be mid July before The Quest is ready!! "Oh, I know," says my silly head, "what about Hangman?"

I didn't get much done, yesterday, beyond the finishing up of the week's ALChoon.

So, I have a PetitSwitch game to work on, and a Shoebox game to keep me going. Today I have to post the weekly SoCoder newsletter, the template for which has been mostly abandoned all week, with me concentrating on PetitSwitch, and then I also need to post this week's ALChoon, too. .. Today's going to be "one of those" days...

Don't worry, I didn't completely abandon the Shoebox!!

With JMTrackr "done, enough" for Petit Switch, I can now happily move on to actually making games on the thing. I've made a quick list of things I should attempt, today.

JMTrackr is a Music Randomisation engine, which can create an endless variety of music, based upon a set of prewritten melody patterns. 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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This morning, my laptop's clipboard still had yesterday's Daily Platdude Pixelart in it. .. This is how much time I've spent working in Petit Switch!

Really getting somewhere with JMTrackr for Petit Switch, now!

I've gotten JMTracker up to a semi-working state, but still have to add test settings for things like Tempo and Instrument selection, as well as a proper Load requester. But so far, so good, and it's a vaguely decent output.. I think!! Although only a proper set of melodies and actual ingame usage will tell for sure..

I think I'm making a music program..!?

Tonight I attempted to get a JMTrackr style music engine to work in Petit-switch.

The "Text Layer" seems to be rather limited. I can print at any position, I can change the colour, I can change the font size.. .. But any changes made will affect the entire screen's worth of text.