The good old game that you used to secretly play at the back of the classroom! You can Play Dots and Squares in the Shoebox, in the One On One area.

I managed to rewrite most of my little PetitSwitch Sprite Editor, yesterday, but there's still a few missing features that need reintegrated. Though, if I'm honest, I never actually used those features.. So I might be lazy and say "Job Done"!

Petit Switch is mostly faultless, but there's one slight quirk that tripped me up, yesterday. When you save your code, you hit Ctrl+S, then it flashes up "Are you sure you want to save 'Project/main.prg'?" and then you hit OK, and it says "Are you REALLY sure you want to save 'Project/main.prg?'", and then you hit OK and then it saves.

Don't think of this as Pong. It isn't Pong. It's NOT Pong! 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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1. Not Pong is going to be my game for Petit Switch, this week. 2. Dots and Squares will be this week's Shoebox game. Todo-List. For Not Pong, I need to add a decent amount of sparkle and loveliness, but the basic gameplay's up and running. Dots and Squares needs a better AL-AI. He's currently only looking at each square on it's own, so often says "This square only has one line, I'll add a line", but is inadvertently placing that line at a point that makes a third line on ...

1. Finish off this week's Petit Switch game. (Not Pong) 2. Get started on a Shoebox game. (Unknown!) 3. Try to figure out the mod-pausing issue in Browsercade. 4. Post the week's SoCoder Newsletter. 5. Post the week's ALChoon, which also requires setting up a new ALBum page. I hate Thursdays!!

Looks much better!! I'm now struggling with pausing the music when you alt+tab, or otherwise multitask away from the browser. I seem to have got it working on iPad Safari (which is alarmingly unusual!) and Firefox, but not in Chrome or Edge. The Pause screen's coming up, but the pause command doesn't appear to be triggering the pause event in the mod player. Bit odd, but I think I've probably confounded my own code a bit, so will be double checking everything to be sure. But, yeah, ...

Taking the options menu directly from Shoebox, and shoving it into Browsercade, it becomes instantly noticeable how much better the thing looks when you add an icon or two. ... .. or even just one!

After each week's release, players submit their thoughts on the games. Let's have a look and see what @RSKGames thought of Space Battle! You can Play Space Battle in the One-On-One section of the Shoebox.

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Played Space battles for some time and thanks to a lenient AI I was able to win most of the times.

Watch me fumble my way through the Shoebox, in this brand new Shoebox of Games Youtube Playlist!! That's taken about 4 hours in total.. Capturing, uploading, editing the info, then dumping them all into a playlist. This probably isn't all that interesting, if I'm honest, but I figured it was about time I started making basic, regular use of my Youtube channel.

I've dumped a bunch of videos on YouTube for the PetitSwitch games. I've set up a Petit Switch playlist, and am going to attempt to keep to that with future releases. But what of everything else?

In this game, each square's value is the distance from Square Zero, counting steps towards the target. Try your best to triangulate the approximate position of the target square. You can Play Far Away here, or simply wait for it to show up in amongst the daily Foldapuz selection.

Clickity for Biggity Nearly 2 games a week.. So very, very close!! Since I'm only 4 games away from 52, I can probably do another week and a half of games, then take the rest of the year off!! Aaaand! Relax!!