I can't find the fun in "Car vs Traffic Cones".
.. not even Mutant Killer Cones could save this game!

Game scrapped

I spent a good few hours trying to figure out why my MacMini wasn't connecting to the net.
I mean, it WAS, but it seemed much slower than usual.

A simple, but effective little Anagram game.
Four 7 letter words are laid out, along with 4 extra tiles at the bottom.
Add one letter to each of the "racks", shuffle the letters, and try to make four 8 letter words.
SPOILER (PROLINES)

The default pixel-sprite editor for PetitSwitch
Scroll around the left-side (full spritesheet) with the left thumbstick, draw in the right hand "zoomed" view (you can zoom in further) with touchscreen or mouse.
Controls for colours, but the palette doesn't save. .. Booo!
Plenty of twiddly knobs and buttons, barely any of which I have the faintest idea what they're doing.

Crossword Game v1 is now uploaded.
You can Play Crossword Game in the Shoebox, where you'll find it under Word Games.

Little bugs all over, but definitely a productive day.

You know when you spend hours working on something, then look back at what you've done, and go "What on earth did I actually do?"
.. I did that, yesterday!

A fairly large update, this morning, as I'm fairly confident that the caching is now working like it oughta.

All previous links will still work, and nothing should be broken by the HUGE change in Shoebox, since the new domain simply links to the same files in the same folder, and all the file access is relative.
ShoeboxOfGames.com now exists!
I bought the domain a couple of days ago, but only got around to setting it up properly, late last night.
A more or less simple addition to the overall chaos of AGameAWeek.

Lots of comments, lately, as the Shoebox has essentially thrown any kind of regular AGameAWeek schedule well out of the window.
I should probably look into fixing that, and getting back to a more regular schedule.
Hmm..
Anyway..

Our Four Competitors..
1. An Acer something-or-other, cheaptastic, slow and horrible little thing.
2. Archos Gamepad 2
3. GPDxd

I'll be trying to tweak the audio engine again, today, to see if I can do 0.25-second length sounds, and have them play on all the usual browser targets.

RSKGames emailed, this morning, with a log file showing what happened in his browser, when the ShoeBox collection failed to load properly.

KORG Gadget 2 released, yesterday morning, on iOS, Mac and also now on Windows.
As such, I took a day off from coding, and instead spent the day playing with the iOS edition of the app.

Michael emailed, late last night, to complain about the scaling on one of the games.
"No," thought I, "That should be working fine.."

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

Taking a significant chunk of the Foldapuz/Unfolded, and JNKsg code as the basis, I've managed to get a fairly decent drawing engine up and running.
Text, Ovals, Rects, Lines, Plot, and the all important DrawImg are all in, and functioning as expected, albeit without any recolouring for DrawImg. (Since I'm using basic Javascript and HTML5, I'm forfeitting the ability to recolour my sprites)

I thought I was a dab-hand at iPhone "tweaks", but today's issue has be rather flummoxed.

You can Download Lazy Man's 3DS Theme Generator here, but you'll need a couple more utilities on your system to make full use of it.

Editing Themes

To edit 3DS Homebrew Themes, you'll need a decent editor. I use the editor "Usagi"

Played about an hour and a half of Smash, from Midnight, until I was too tired to play any more.
As good a game as always, but no sign of the always-fun Homerun contest.. Hmm...

Without using the word "Scrabble", how would you describe today's new Foldapuz puzzle?

The majority of the important bits of Foldapuz-Unfolded are now in place, and it's all now nicely playable.

I did a major rewrite of the layout code, today, and it broke EVERYTHING!!! All "Yesterday's Solutions" are no longer valid for today, and all puzzles have been re-generated.
The reason is so that the layouts can be expanded to MANY more puzzle types.
Previously the Layout format was 8-characters, meaning you have up to 62 different puzzle types (A-Z, a-z, 0-9)
Although I'm not 100% sure I'll ever reach that limit, I figured it was probably a good idea to bump that number a li...