Somewhere along the way, the new Browsercade Scaling has knocked the touch controls out of whack.

Currently titled "Lockbox", and a name that'll likely stick.

It's been a decade since the horrors of my brain tumour/cyst gubbins, and over the past couple of days I've been kind of a bit gloomy, and have sat reading through memories of what is easily one of the worst periods of my life.
Oh joy!!

Over in the Advent calendar, Michael Fernie's caught a bug..

Far too hot, last night.
Rather than coding, I opened up Photos and continued deleting..

On the subject of brackets, Michael suggests..

Having one of those days where writing your own language is infinitely easier than trying to get anything to work in Nintendo's newest Game Builder Garage!

Trying to figure out the best control method, I decided to make the cue "Drag back", instead of "Drag forward".

I started work on a Dungeon Puzzler, last night, on SmileBASIC/Petit Switch.

Watched an alarming amount of Red Dwarf, yesterday.
Working backwards for a change, I managed all of Season 12 and a bit of Season 11, too.
Suppose I should get some coding done, today, but after the past week of at-home chaos, I think my brain's shut down.
I'll see if I can manage to code anything, today, or whether I'll be watching Lemons by the end of the day.

It's 7 years since I first posted the Jiggity post, waffling on about my health, and the tumour, and all of that gubbins.
As is tradition, here's my annual health update post!
Feel free to skip by this post, it's all about my crappy health issues, and since nothing's changed, you probably know it all anyway!

Mancala's coming along nicely, now. I think!!
All the Landing rules seem to be working, and the game-end stuff is also functional, but AL's still not very good at the game, so a little more work on AL is needed.
But, definitely getting there!
*phew*

Alan continues..

You probably have read up on these things already, but just in case you weren't sure, a ''trie'' is not a ''tree'', it's its own thing

Alan

Al overshot the goal and starting going backwards. Is that correct?
I think so.!
This is something that I added to Snakes and Ladders, as it's been a rule we've always played at home, and since Board of Spikes is more or less a clone of Snakes and Ladders, I opted to leave that rule in.
If that wasn't the case, then there's be no need to use a specific card to end the game. I felt that was more important than just letting the player us...

A simple Snakes'n'Ladders style game, using cards.

Use one of the cards from your hand to select how many spaces you'll move. If you land on a Spike, turn it over to see what will happen. You'll either end up moving forwards or backwards, so lets hope that luck is on your side.
You can Find 'Board of Snakes' in the Board Games of the Shoebox.

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I was very lucky that in my first game I did not get into any snake tiles and got the help of one ladder tile to reach near the end zone much before the AI.
Yup, this is a game 100% down to luck.
I'd like to perhaps remove the sheer-luck, by making the moves maybe Card based, or something? Not quite sure how well that would work, and it honestly wouldn't be "Snakes and Ladders" anymore.
So.. Perhaps another type of board game in the future?

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The gfx in the credits screen has a very good looking swirling ghost effect.
And what a lovely effect it is!

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Yesterday I had submitted 2 comments on the blog with link to 2 pictures I had uploaded in socoder.
Hmm.. Well, I suppose that's probably my over-reactive Spam control in action, which perma-deletes anything that looks even slightly dodgy. (eg, URLs and things like that) I imagine that all the _'s and brackets in the text also probably added to the trigger-count, which would've ended up blocking your comment from even getting to the comment bin.
Sincere apologies ...

A new game has appeared in the Shoebox.
..Not sure how well this one will go down!

You can Play Shoebox of Games here. You'll find Word Tubes amongst the Word games.

The new bit-shifting seems to be functioning as expected in the save file.

Although August 13th isn't a significant date in my health matters, it is the date that I wrote this rather lengthy blog post, back in 2012.
It's now become a bit of a tradition for me to post an annual update on this date.
Other Jiggity Posts
The posts are given the title "Jiggity", because my original post was titled "Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig"!

As each game gets posted, the feedback occurs.
Let's take a look at the feedback from Blockman Gets Retro!
You can Download Blockman Gets Retro here.

RSKGames

Overview: While last years Blockman game was a platformer this year's Blockman game is back to the roots maze puzzle game where the player has to traverse the maze, eat the required quantity of yellow dots to cross each of the levels. Blockman cannot move backwards and cannot traverse a path already traveled unless t...

If you've any thoughts on this week's game, be sure to post them via comments or email or whatever. Any feedback will be added to this post.
Thanks for the Feedback!

RSKGames

Developments

Trying to get a crate-puzzle level generator to work.. backwards.. was never a good idea!

Developments

"Jabbliss" has been scrapped.