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14th March 2018
As I continue to tweak the level generator, I've somehow managed to get it to make a few rare 3-biscuit levels.
They're incredibly few and far between, but every 100 or so generated levels brings a 3-biscuit level to the forefront.

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Daily Blog , 555
13th March 2018
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Apologies if anyone else is having issues with their virus checker, or other battles to get the game running.
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Otakupunk
13th March 2018
Although I've now upgraded the level generator to handle more than 1 biscuit at a time, the maximum it seems to be able to make levels with is 2.
After that, biscuits keep falling off the level, and the levels aren't completable.
So, one or two biscuits at a time, but the levels are still kinda samey.
Although the generator's coming up with nice and complex paths to get the biscuits, the end result is that you can complete the level much easier if you just ignore the complex pa...
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555
13th March 2018
What to add to the Biscuit game?
Unsure of what else I can throw into the mix, I'm now instead considering just having a second and possibly third biscuit in the levels.

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Daily Blog , 555
12th March 2018
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
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555
12th March 2018
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.

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Scrabble Scoreboard
11th March 2018
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*.


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Daily Blog , Scrabble Scorepad
11th March 2018
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!
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Daily Blog
10th March 2018
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!

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Daily Blog
10th March 2018
Today I have to look into re-integrating the WordList functionality into Monkey for the purposes of the Scrabble Scoreboard I made yesterday.

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Scrabble Scoreboard
9th March 2018
Platdude's found a new light.
He's not sure what the point of it is, though.
Silly thing keeps turning itself off.
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Daily Blog
9th March 2018
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.
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Scrabble Scoreboard
9th March 2018
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 di...
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Scrabble Scoreboard
9th March 2018
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.

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Daily Blog , Scrabble Scoreboard
8th March 2018
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.
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555
8th March 2018
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?!
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Daily Blog
Fixed?! Blog
8th March 2018
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, no...
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Daily Blog
8th March 2018
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!

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Daily Blog
7th March 2018
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.
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555
7th March 2018
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.

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Daily Blog , 555
6th March 2018
Today's attempts at the online fixings didn't work out.. Again!
I'm totally lost as to how to do that. Bah, humbug!
So, instead I started work on the next game.
I'm not 100% sure if this'll work out, but I'm aiming to make a sokoban-esque crate pushing puzzle game.
It might end up taking a couple of weeks, as I'll need to somehow come up with a nice way to generate levels. .. Or actually make them!!
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555
6th March 2018
With each release, the feedback is fed back, and I like to gather any important comments and post them into an easily accessible post.
This week's game is the lovely neon shooter, On a Space Shooting Trail

RSKGames


Last year I played one the NeonPlat games and marveled at the neon graphics style. This game has the same style but the way the looks is achieved seems to have matured a lot. Using the new framework some crafty blending techniques have been used to convert the simp...
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Player Thoughts
6th March 2018
Six years to the day that they found the great big tumour in my head.
In the time since, I've created over 130 games, built 3 different Frameworks including the recent C++ one, and drawn a heck of a lot of daily Pixelart doodles, tons of ALChoons, completely rewritten two fairly large websites, and a whole load more.
None of this would've been possible without the great Neurosurgery team up at Salford Royal, (specifically, Dr Leggate's team) and the wonders that are the British NHS.<...
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Daily Blog , Health
5th March 2018
The second game in the new C++ Framework is another familiar favourite, as we battle once again, in the neon skies.

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Release , Hsx
5th March 2018
According to what I've read online, I need to convert the socket to a non-blocking socket, then try to connect, and THEN (after trying to connect?!) tell it to set the timeout to a low number.

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Daily Blog , 2018 Framework
4th March 2018
Today during testing, I hit a rather nasty issue with the framework.
When coding the Online Scoreboard component, I added a 5 second timeout to the code.
Unfortunately, as well as that works "in theory", the timeout is completely ignored during the "connect" part of the script.

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2018 Framework
4th March 2018
So the shooty game (On a Space Shooting Trail) is near enough done.
Today I'll be needing to compile and upload, and then you'll get to play.
I know it's only Sunday, but there's no point in keeping the game to myself, when it's already ready for launch.
So, what's next then?
I've nothing specific in mind for this week, so if you'd like to see me tackle anything in particular, let me know in the comments.
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Daily Blog
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