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Crossword Fixings
Blog
12th May 2019
A couple of tweaks to the engine before I move on into other Crossword based things.
1. I've finally got the "Score value bubble" looking a little more like a bubble, and showing up at the end of words instead of seemingly at random!
2. Tap to Play "should" now work, but is still a small threshold of "tap".
I might have to add the threshold into the option screen.. .. If I ever bother to make an option screen!!
Views 111, Upvotes 27
Shoebox
Tabs
Blog
12th May 2019
There are now tabs along the bottom of the menu, when you're selecting a game, to let you quickly switch between the various sections of the site.
The icons are reused as tabs, and are drawn with their bottoms chopped off, so they look better on the screen, and don't take up a giant chunk from the bottom of the menu.
For the most-part, I've tried to make this part of the code easily tweakable, so that in future I can add extra sections. However, it might get a bit cramped if I do that...
Views 285, Upvotes 30
Shoebox
Ideas, but No Action
Blog
12th May 2019
Yesterday seemed to escape from me.
Views 71, Upvotes 4
Daily Blog
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Allthestations
Buttons in Boxes
Blog
11th May 2019
I've shrunk the overall width of the menu buttons on Shoebox.
For now, this means there's a little more space in the menu, to fit more games onscreen at once.
Maybe later I'll try to add little tabs along the bottom, but .. for now.. SleepyJay is taking over!!
Be sure to let me know what you think of the slightly modified buttons.
Better, Worse or .. Kinda the same, Jay, you wasted hours doing naff all!!
Views 107, Upvotes 24
Shoebox
Today's Plan..
Blog
11th May 2019
I'm still not sure on the best layout for the frontend of the Shoebox.
I do like the circular bubbly thing, but there seems to already be way too much scrolling with only 5 games in a section.
Give me a year of working with this framework, and there'll be a lot more than 5! (Hopefully!)
So, the frontend definitely needs a rethink, but I'm not really sure what kind of layout WOULD work for it all.
Views 75, Upvotes 20
Daily Blog
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Shoebox
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Menus
10th May 2019
Record time for player feedback! Let's have a nosey.
You can Play Shuffled Tracks in the Extras section of the Shoebox.
RSKGamesPlayed ''Shuffled Tracks'' and was quite surprised to find such a polished game done in 2 days. You'd be surprised.. ... The game was almost ready to go, yesterday!! Most of today's coding session was spent fixing up the generator to make the levels more difficult.Views 137, Upvotes 30
Player Thoughts
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Shoebox
Shuffled Tracks
Blog
10th May 2019
A simple enough little sliding-block puzzle game, with a train!
You can Play Shuffled Tracks in the Extras Section of the Shoebox.
Views 309, Upvotes 27
Shoebox
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Release
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All The Stations
Shuffled Tracks
Game
10th May 2019
Shuffle the pieces on the grid to produce a complete circuit of track for the train to follow.
You should aim to land on all of the various stations, using plain horizontal track pieces. Views 131, Upvotes 33
Shoebox
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Misc
A Day of Nothing
Blog
10th May 2019
Yesterday, I opened up the Crossword Code to start work on the other reuses of the game, and sat staring at the screen for around about half an hour.
Views 130, Upvotes 35
Daily Blog
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Relaxing
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Words
OK, Now What?>
Blog
9th May 2019
I've a couple of planned games to do that shouldn't take too long at all.
Views 53, Upvotes 14
Daily Blog
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Shoebox
Most of Alan's Stuff
Blog
8th May 2019
Let's go back over Alan's requests from this morning, shall we?
You can play the recent upgrades in the Shoebox, v0.956.
If it doesn't auto-refresh, hit the new [Cache] button on the top right of the main menu!
Alan1. Place letters by click-to-pick-up-click-to-drop. I haven't got around to this bit, just yet. I need a rethink of how the mouse-tapping works.. It "should" be do-able, but it might be a little over sensitive.. (see #3)Views 164, Upvotes 39
Player Thoughts
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Shoebox
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Scrabble
AL Got Harder
Blog
8th May 2019
If you enjoyed slaughtering poor AL in the Crossword game, yesterday, you might find him to be a teensy bit more challenging, now.
Views 186, Upvotes 15
Shoebox
Crossword Feedback
Blog
8th May 2019
A nice big chunk of feedback from Alan this morning, on the new Crossword Game, so let's dig through his thoughts.
You can Play the Crossword Game in the Shoebox under Word Games.
AlanFun. I beat AL 356-147![]() Views 287, Upvotes 21
Shoebox
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Player Thoughts
Uploaded to GameJolt
Blog
8th May 2019
For the sake of desperately trying to get a few extra sources of feedback, I've opted to upload a copy of Shoebox to GameJolt.
.. And, thus far, there's zero interest.. So.. Yippee.. :/
Views 52, Upvotes 11
Daily Blog
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Shoebox
Crossword Game
Blog
7th May 2019
Crossword Game v1 is now uploaded.
You can Play Crossword Game in the Shoebox, where you'll find it under Word Games.
Views 222, Upvotes 19
Shoebox
7th May 2019
Someone should make a TV show where every single episode is big and epic, and definitely the absolutely final ever episode..
.. Until right at the end, when someone notices something, and it acts as a cliffhanger for the next episode.
Views 117, Upvotes 26
Shoebox
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Scrabble
Crosswords
Game
7th May 2019
The classic letter-tile based board game. Place words using tiles in your rack, and try to beat your opponent.
Views 152, Upvotes 31
Shoebox
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Words
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