Last February they removed some of my disability. My Mobility was apparently perfectly fine, even though my Mobility is my main issue. *ugh* Today, I finally get my day in court, and hopefully all goes well. Normal AGameAWeek service will resume later.

Meanwhile...

I added high/last tables to the Browsercade, yesterday, but noticed late last night that they aren't showing up in Hillside Conquest. Not sure why that is!! Hopefully they're stable for all the games, and I'm de...

OK, back to a Shoebox game, this week. And, already my mind is fizzling with ideas! ... For Browsercade..

Platdude's tending to a field of fruit. There's no trees about, so um.. *shrugs* Anyway, gather the fruit and watch out for the bats in this fairly generic Mr Do clone. You can Play Cosmic Gardener here, in your Browser, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet.

Guess who still hasn't done the "Extra" feature, yet! If I'm honest, I might go without it. It's very very very very clone'y, right now, and the Browsercade's not supposed to be that. .. Is it?! *shrugs*

Yesterday I got tons of stuff done, but have alarmingly ended up with the exact same things on my todo list as the day before!

Today I'll be doing the Do some more. Last I touched it, I was up to the point where I need to play the original to see exactly how the "Extra" mechanic worked.

Theme number two "Heavy Blues" is a blue-grid floor with a squarish background and a heavy blue ball. This theme is basically stress testing a couple of elements in the engine. You can Play Heavy Blues over at SpikeDislike.com

Use the power of springyness to navigate the arena and gather up all the coins. 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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Mum's birthday, today, so coding will be slow. Thursday duties are all done. The newsletter was posted late last night, the ALChoon's online, and the Petit Switch game is more or less complete. A relaxing day off! Have a good day, everybody.

I made half a decent "Tanks/Combat" thing, in Petit Switch yesterday, but it's not quite right, and the collision detection is wonky as anything!

Each letter represents a different number from 0 to 9. Convert all the letters, solve the sum, and find the hidden word. You can Print a sheet of puzzles, or alternatively Play it in your browser.

Todo list.. I have to finish off the Do game for Monday. Today I need to start on a Petit game. And maybe Friday or so, get a SpikeDislike mode added. Probably Basketball, as that's usually one of the first to get added.

Use the letters on the bottom to build as many words as you can. Try to find all of the pre-selected words at the top, to earn a "Win". You can Play Words Within within the Words section of the Shoebox.

At around about 4:30pm, yesterday, I realised my Do-Clone was probably not going to make it..

Migraine = Chill out with Hours of Red Dwarf

If you're a fan of Classic SpikeDislike, and miss those things that fly across the screen with the number of points you just earned, you'll be happy to know I've added them into SpikeDislike.com! I've not yet added a menu option to turn them off again, though, so you'll just have to put up with them for the next day or so, depending on when I get around to doing that.

With the new SpikeDislike.com being in place, and me aiming to make the biggest, baddest, bestest version of SpikeDislike available, I've found myself heading back into the SpikeDislike2 folder quite a bit.

I've done a fairly significant upgrade to the way the Browsercade Onscreen Controller works. The thing now has an 8-way kinda vibe going on, and "should" feel a little more playable than it used to be. If you've been using the onscreen controller (tap the little boxy thing in the bottom left of the menu) and have any comments on this, be sure to let me know. Thanks!

Spent yesterday getting Platdude to do some fruit harvesting from his garden.

Shoot the enemies to steal their energy, but don't shoot too often... Your life depends on it!! 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 week's Petit Switch game's turned out alright. It's not the greatest looker, but gameplay wise it's really nice and playable. Odd thing is, that the player needs to collect batteries to keep their energy charged, but the game is called "Oxygen Depletion". .. I might need to rename it! I'm slightly tempted to do the game for Browsercade, too, but I've been poked and prodded into Doing the Do, like Betty Boo, instead...

Lots of internal tweaks to the engine, today. The game now records your highest combo, and places that alongside your highscore in the saves. This means that, when necessary, I can pop that up on the screen. Your last score on the scoreboard is now highlighted and bounces to and fro, to stand out on the list. I do miss having that in the Browsercade. .. Maybe I should try to figure out a way to do that, but Browsercade's save data is there for lots of different types of games, and having a Top 10...

Michael Fernie posted to the suggestion box.. Mr Do type game Another fun game we used to play all the time. Sort of like Dig Dug but I liked this better. Loved being able to throw the ball and have it bounce thru tunnels you made.

Take the blocks from the bottom, and fill the spaces provided on the scales, so that the two sums give the same balanced results. You can Print a sheet of puzzles here, or Play it in your browser.

For the past couple of months, I've had the plan of a "One Touch Games" framework in mind, but couldn't ever decide on the best name for such a domain. A week or two ago, I just figured "To hell with it", and opted for SpikeDislike.com instead. SpikeDislike.com!

Every week or so, I think about SpikeDislike. How big it once was, and how abandoned it now is. Going from it's hefty days back in 2011, when it actually SOLD a decent amount on iOS, to the current day where it's all been removed from the AppStore because I haven't updated it in years. And yet, it's something I keep coming back to, and it has pretty much defined the sort of things that I've been doing for the past decade. Spike has whittled his way into becoming an alarmingly com...

.. and not for trying.