Had another "This game isn't possible" email, this morning, about the blocking of the Draw Pile in Spider Solitaire.

On the one hand, I guess I need to add a little more ingame, onscreen instructional stuff.
On the other hand.. People just want Klondike, don't they!!!



So that'll be today's task. Spend a few hours trying to replicate the "classic" solitaire, and see how easy it is to get it working, without needing to rewrite too much of the overall engine.
(And preferably fix things up to make future games easier)

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I still need to fix the "mode select" screen.. it's oddly cramped and yet curiously empty at the same time.



Other than that, though, the games so far seem to be functional, and there's even a new Game Over screen for anything that uses scores.

... not sure how to solve the menu crampedness, though....

Hmm,....

Today's my birthday, so not much is planned for my day!

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Happy Birthday, Me!

And, as is tradition for my birthday, I've set made an iOS game (or two.. or three.. or four... or five...) free for the next few days.

From Feb 23rd until Feb 27th 2019, the following iOS games are available for 100% free.

Sheep Goes Right

The happiest cardboard-cutout puppet styled game, with sheep and spikes, that you'll ever play... until someone makes a happier one!

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In the upper-right of the Shoebox menu, once you've selected a game, you should now find a small "Rules" icon.

You can Play ShoeBox of Games here

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Strings is more or less functional, although it's missing different playmodes, and the scores aren't kept, but otherwise it's working!

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Holy Munkies!!

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Spent the past couple of hours rewriting the audio code, so it loads the sounds after first-mouse/touch, instead of all happening right off the bat.

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Since managing to completely fudge the site up, last night, I then spent a few hours whittling away at Game #2.

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You can Play Shoebox of Games here

Over the course of a couple of weeks, in February 2019, I began the creation of a small collection of JavaScript games.
My aim is to, over the next few weeks/months, to slowly expand the number of games included in the pack, to create a lovely little collection of card games, word games, board games and more, all of which are playable within your browser.

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I've added semi-persistent score handling to the Shoebox Framework, along with plenty of space to add a decent selection of scores and things into the mix.

You can Test the Shoebox here!

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As far as I've been able to stress-test, the save/load functionality of the new Shoebox framework should now function correctly!

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I think that, for the most part, the Spider Solitaire is now roughly ready to go, but the Framework is barely finished at all!

You can test Shoebox here. Spider Solitaire oughta be good to go.

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I started drawing some little icons last night, in as simple a method as I could find.



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Right, I'm probably going to ignore the audio issue, and plough ahead regardless.
The audio tweaks can be made in the future. After all, this engine is 100% javascript, so everything is really easy to tweak afterwards, unlike most of my normal games that require recompiling and reuploading and then the player to realise there's an update, and redownload it.

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Can you hear me!?!

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For some strange reason, turning an iPhone sideways produces this..



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The "Grab card from pile" and "Add card to pile" functionality now appears to be mostly functional.

You can Test Shoebox Here.

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Today I need to start getting the rules of Spider Solitaire to work, but as always will be looking for ways to reuse this code for all the future games.

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With any luck, you should now be able to drag the cards around between columns, but with a few issues..

Shoebox Test

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