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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Hmm.
Something I've changed over the past few hours appears to have broken the iPhone's "Add to Homescreen" functionality for Shoebox.

You can Play ShoeBox here

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A simple game, this week, but one that's already evolved quite a bit.

As I mentioned the other day, I actually got this game done earlier on in the week, and it was quite a bit of fun even then.
Since then, I've updated it a couple more times, and now it's even better than it was! woot!!



The game is based on an Amiga game I once played many, many years ago.
A simple design.
You swirl around the outside of the arena, moving the mouse left and right.
You fire with the Left Mouse Button, you slowdown with the Right.


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And you keep on going until you're dead.
Because, you never can stop it!!

They just keep on coming!!!

Playing tip : Don't let the blues get out of control! They're your first priority.

You can Download Microbes here, and get killing those germs!!

Nice and big, specifically in the title, so as not to get ANYONE excited!

I will be VERY surprised if anyone gives a rats ass about this week's .. um.. "game".. but here it is anyway.

"Made for my cookie", although it's not a cookie anymore.. it's a viewty.. this J2ME Java App will allow you to play along with a real-world game of scrabble.
See, lately I've been playing a LOT of Scrabble.
I bought a ??40 "Scrabble 60th Anniversary Edition" set, thinking it's be all nice and lovely.

Here are my list of complaints about that board game.
1) Everything is made from a nice transparent green coloured plastic. Means the board, the racks, the tiles and everything looks fantastic.
BUT.. You put the tiles in the rack, and if you look hard enough, you can usually figure out what tiles the other player has.
FFS!! Could they not have foreseen that!!

2) The bag, for whatever bizarre reason, has the drawstring on the INSIDE of the bag.
This means that you consistently have to fight with the drawstring whilst trying to dig out a letter or two.
FFS!! Could they not have foreseen that, either!!

3) When I've paid fourty bloody quid for a board game, I damn well expect it to include a bloody pencil, and a bloody pad of scoresheets, you cheap ass bunch of gits.
FFS!!!

Well, here's one solution to that.
Tap the square, tap the letter, fill in the grid, score your words.



Currently only works for "Player 1" and "Player 2", and doesn't have an undo, so be careful what you're entering..
Also doesn't word-check, either.
But it will tot up the scores.
And if you tap on "Player 1" or "Player 2", you can see their per-word scorelist, which is nice.


You can Download Scrabble Scorepad here, and give it a whirl, so long as you have a touchscreen, J2ME compatible device.. !

Additionally, you can Buy the Collin's Scrabble Dictionary here, which I got the other day, and I must say it's very very good! Unlike the old "Scrabble Word Lists" books, this one is indeed a dictionary, so you can finally figure out wtf those random words actually mean!! A great buy, especially for the price.

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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Today's the day I have to go for my medical, and talk about how bitterly depressing it is being stuck in the house all day, every day.

Everything's been posted early, all daily chores are done, and I'm now going to get a few hours sleep before having to head all the way into the center of Manchester.

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Destroy the planets for points!

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I still kinda want to do that Puzzobomb, but without a good generator it's all but failed, already.
So, what else then?

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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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I spent a couple of hours yesterday working up a new Platform Generator for the Sprite-Gen doohickey.

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