Today's tweaks have finally made the Chess game a bit more lively. A bit more fiddling and, hopefully, I should be able to get the difficulty back to something fairly decent. Right now it's still a little bland, and games can carry on for far too long without much of a threat, so a little more "look ahead" and things should be golden!

Yesterday didn't all go as planned!!

This is a test. I'm not sure how compatible the new RSS feed is going to be, but if you'd like to try it out in your RSS Reader of Choice, then the url is rss.xml, which is a fairly obvious choice for rss feed urls, I think. The link has been added down at the very bottom right of the site, and is also tagged in the header, near all those bloomin' icons! Let me know how it goes.

RSS Readers

InoReader seems the nicest of the webbased readers that I've found in my trave...

Got an email, this morning, from someone who was slightly perturbed by the fact that my RSS hasn't updated since 8/26/2017. When I switched from using Wordpress to my own blog script, one of the lost features was RSS. Mostly because I was too lazy to code a feed, but also because I wasn't sure that anyone actually still used RSS. This morning's email suggests that, somewhere in the world, at least one person still reads their RSS feeds once every couple of years. So, today I'll pro...

This game still has many issues!!

1. Balance

Added a new game, Scrambled Grid, to the fold. It's been a good week or so since I last added anything to Foldapuz, so I decided to spend a bit of time with the game, tonight. A few days ago, I found a lovely function in PHP which would allow me to do quick Anagram-Tests, and so I made full use of that, today. A set of 5 words are chosen at random, and shuffled about until an anagram can be found connecting them all together. Your challenge is to unscramble all 5 of the 6 letter words, and place t...

This morning's work on the Chess game has resulted in things being a lot more playable. The game is now "working", and can be played fairly well. The one "ever so slight" issue is that it's currently hard as nails!!

A small prod from a user on Twitter made me wonder about the validity of getting the Framework finally running properly on iOS/Android, and so I took the challenge and came up with ...

OK, the engine's now at about 75%. The opponent AI isn't quite right, and needs a little extra tweaking, but for the most part the actual logic of the game is in place.

I spent about 2 hours, yesterday, trying to solve one incredibly bizarre issue.