At 3pm I have to be at the town hall, where I'm having a discussion with a council worker about my upcoming disability tribunal.
Oh the fun!!

As such, any and all coding will probably be abandoned for much of the day, as my mind whizzes around trying to decide what I'm going to say, and all that kind of gubbins.

Not a fan of this kind of thing, if I'm honest.

Hopefully I'll get back on track, later tonight.

I needed some quick and simple spaceships, so decided to try making them with that old JNK Sprite Generator that I appear to have neglected for a number of months!
They might not look very good, but scaled just right, and on the right sort of background, they're passable! .. A bit..



You can generate your own squiggles here.

Have spent today working on more menu gubbins, and default "Quit", "Retry" buttons and things. The basic pause screen is looking terribly familiar!

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The OUYA's now officially offline.
This morning, they shut down the servers, took the site offline, and now everything is gone.


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A simple little word puzzle, today. Add letters from the top to bottom, or remove letters from the bottom to top, to make words which fill up the pyramid.

You can either choose to jumble the letters in each word or not, but the original solution is designed without any jumbles.

You can Play Word Pyramid here as part of the daily Foldapuz printable puzzle sheet.

*phew*
Yeah, I knew that wasn't going to be easy...

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Really couldn't get into the whole "Redefineable Controls" stuff, yesterday.
Instead, I messed about with Tower Solitaire's rules a little, and also played around with a few other bits and pieces.

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As per @RSKGames' suggestion, I've added a couple of Swap mechanics to Tower solitaire.
You can swap any free cards in the tower, but only when they're on the same row.
You can also swap the topmost card amongst the dealt piles, too.

There's not a LOT of things you can swap, but hopefully it should be enough to make things a little bit easier in the 5 and 6 tower modes.

You can Play Tower Solitaire in the Card Games section of the Shoebox.

As the collection grows ever onwards, people send feedback for the various oddities that I create.

You can Play Tower Solitaire in the Shoebox, under the Card Games.

@RSKGames says..

Yeah, it's a slightly different strategy, but it makes things a lot tougher when you end up with a very specific card that you need to find.
I'm not sure if that makes it "too" hard, at times, though.

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Today I need to rewrite a ton of my input code, to work properly with redefined keys/gamepads, and then add a screen to let you do that.
.. More bloomin' menus.
Grrr!!

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A new Solitaire card game, today. The aim is to try to reach the top of the tower by matching cards.

You can Play Tower Solitaire in the card games of Shoebox.

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I might switch up a tiny rule for the Tower Solitaire game.
Instead of having a Swap Pile, I think I might instead make the "3 dealt cards" spread out into three distinct piles.
I'll have a play with this rule, today, and see which appears to work the best.

Other than that, I guess I need to start thinking about next week's Petit-Switch game, and figuring out what else needs to be done with the Browsercade framework.
I still haven't added any kind of Redefine Joypad thing, yet, so might aim for that, today.

Busy busy busy!!

Latest Game : 20th June 2019 : Centipong

Petit Computer 4, SmileBasic for Nintendo Switch, was released on 23rd of May, 2019 in the Japanese eShop.
If you'd like to give it a try, I've written this vague guide to get you started with getting the Japanese edition onto your none-Japanese Switch, as well as these additional blog posts.

I've also made the following downloads for the language.

I'll aim to post a new game every Friday, so watch out for them!

Games (5)

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Centipong comes to Switch, with the help of Petit Switch.
If you have a copy of PetitCom4 on your Switch, use the Public Key : 42RN383KV to download the game, then have a super fun bouncing time!

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I woke up with a Solitaire game in my head.. As you do!

Figured I'd code it, and see how it turned out, and .. Yeah, it's quite playable!

Currently near-impossible, but I think having a "Swap Pile" should help that quite a bit.

Basic rules. You can place Same Suit/Value card atop each other in the pyramid. If a card matches the Suit/Value of both of the two adjacent cards, you may place the card in the row above.
(eg, if you have a 2 of hearts in your hand, and the two cards below are a 2 of spades and a 4 of hearts, then you can place the 2 of hearts on the row above)

Your aim is to simply to reach the top of the tower.

..
Does this exist?
Does it already have a name?

I'm currently calling it "Tower Solitaire"
*shrugs*

This'll be Saturday's Shoebox game, btw!

I finished off this week's Petit Switch game, last night, but won't be posting it until around midnight tonight. Schedules, and all that!

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My brain seemed to switch off from its regular coding mindset, last night.

I did no coding whatsoever, and instead spent a good few hours watching old episodes of Retail Archeology on YouTube.
A lovely channel full of dead shopping malls!!

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.. Have I said how much I hate doing menus?!

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After a couple of days of back&forth, I've finally decided "meh, whatever!" and opted to go for a Coverflow-RipOff style menu.
It actually looks rather nice, and scrolls quite well, except on touchscreens where the thing's a teensy bit dodgy due to co-ordinate issues.

But otherwise it works nicely. (Although it isn't "quite" centring properly!)
Scroll around, select a game, sorted..
Currently all "games" lead to the exact same test engine, but eventually this will (hopefully!) be a massive collection of games!

There's also a ton of space at the top for Options/Credits/etc

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A simple, (but somewhat eye-popping) logic puzzle, this week.
A few of the dominos haven't been filled in!
Using the combination of the row/column totals (at the end of each row) along with the fact that you shouldn't be duplicating any dominos, try to fill in the missing blanks.

But.. Beware..
You should also try not to fill in any of the blanks that actually should be blank!

You can Play Domino Grid here, or wait for it to show up in your regularly scheduled Foldapuz pages.