Tonight I worked on the level generator for the Biscuit Puzzler, and it seems to work reasonably well. The main problem now, is that with one biscuit in a grid of 5x5, the gameplay's more than a little repetitive. I'm going to have to see if I can come up with something a little more interesting to keep the game alive. As it stands, though, there's some fiendishly difficult puzzles coming out of the generator, and that's good to see Incide...

Last night I rejigged a lot of the Scrabble Scoreboard, and especially focused on the GUI a little. That Undo button still doesn't quite work, with it being tucked right at the top of the screen, but otherwise the new GUI looks a little more usable.

Had a nice long game of Super Scrabble against Mum, today, and the games last much longer, as expected! Took about 2 hours, or thereabout, before one of us had won*.

It's Mother's Day, here in the UK, so today will be spent mostly not doing my normal thing of disappearing with code all day! Today will, instead, be spent playing Scrabble.. Which I've conveniently gone and made a nice new App for playing with! Incidentally, I also bought Mum the Super edition of Scrabble, which has twice as many letter tiles, and oodles more space to play within. Yup, today's all planned out! See you tomorrow. And, Happy Mother's Day.

Might as well make this an official AGameAWeek release, eh? This week's release isn't really a game. It's more of a Tool, or a Game-Companion!

Today I have to look into re-integrating the WordList functionality into Monkey for the purposes of the Scrabble Scoreboard I made yesterday.

Platdude's found a new light. He's not sure what the point of it is, though. Silly thing keeps turning itself off.

This is coming along rather well. The scores are now all totting up, and everything's working to a moderately decent standard. The game/tool's not very good at noticing gaps in word placements, so you could put down "Happy Cat" and it wouldn't notice the space. That needs fixed. But if you're playing along with a real-world board game, as is the intention with this, you can probably work around that slight flaw!!

Not sure where I'll be plonking this week's game, but I expect a quick upload to the server in HTML5 format will probably suffice. The basic layout is working, tile placement seems ok. There's a Cancel word button and a Enter Word button. There's also undo functionality, which will be helpful when you accidentally hit the Enter Word button!! (Something that was incredibly frustrating in my previous attempt at this sort of thing.) Next I need to go through all the different tile/wor...

I love to play Scrabble. Mum also loves to play Scrabble. This coming Mother's Day (this Sunday) me and Mum will probably be spending some time playing Scrabble.

The gameplay now more or less functions for this week's game, and as far as puzzles go, it seems to be nice and complicated, without being too difficult to understand. Todo List 1. Add a few more elements to make it a bit more interesting. 2. Decide on a decent way to generate tons of levels. 3. Ugh.. Menu.. URRRGHH!!! But, gameplay wise, it's looking good!

Flappadiddle-Doo and On A Space Shooting Trail are now both up on itch.io and GameJolt. The itch.io collection doesn't seem to be too popular, right now, but it'll be interesting to see if interest grows as the collection does. With GameJolt, there was a lot of excitement with my first couple of games, but then it all died down and went quiet. Hopefully itch.io turns out to be the opposite?! Current count Itch.io 2 - jayenkai.itch.io/ GameJolt 97 - gamejol...

I *think* I've solved the online component of the framework, on Mac+Linux, now. So, with the fix done, I've uploaded a new version of "On a Space Shooting Trail", which should hopefully work properly, now! If you've Linux or Mac, be sure to let me know if it does or doesn't work! Be sure to "Enter Your Name" in the options menu. For Windows folk, I've chopped the "Time until you can shoot again" right the way down to about 1 second. Should be much less frustrating, now. *phew* ...

The plan at 11pm was simple. If I write tomorrow's SoCoder newsletter now, then I can wake up, post it quickly, and return to the coding!

I drew a biscuit, today! Hurray! Looks like Bloke-Still-Without-A-Name wants a snack. Hmm.. Still no progress on the Linux Online functionality. I can't find a fault in my code, and am now starting to wonder if it's actually VirtualBox which is causing the issue. Will be trying it on the Mac, later.

I'm not really sure what direction this puzzle thing's going to take. I've a single level idea in mind, but whether I can expand that to make more levels, I've no idea.