Late last night, over on SoCoder, Hobo asked how to replicate a tilemap system that isn't obviously tilemapped.

Hmm.. Things didn't go well, yesterday!

RSKGames has been posting a bunch of comments for some of the older (if you can call games from January and February "Old") Browsercade games.
Let's have a peek!

Created a new project in SmileBASIC last night, and started fiddling about with a swirly background effect.

So, I see that CSS has finally evolved enough that simple subtractions are now actually doable.
About smegging time!!

Let's create a classic retro effect.
Flames!

As with all of these tutorials, you can hit F5 at pretty much any step of the process to see how the changes in code have impacted the program.

A decade is over, and what have I done?
373 games, created a new blogging script for here, rewritten the Socoder forum, started a few new sites and more!
Oh, and a brain tumour!
It's been a wild and crazy decade, and over the next few days I'll be looking back at the best (and worst) games from the decade.

The pixelart to knitting tool went through a number of tweaks, yesterday.

Fly through the sky in your wonderful little Rescue Helicopter.
Rescue all the people, and take them back to base.
But what are you rescuing them from!?!
If you've a Switch, and have downloaded SmileBASIC, you can grab a copy of the game using the Public Key...

Don't worry, I didn't completely abandon the Shoebox!!

For the past few months, I've been back and forthing on a way to get this to look half-assed on the 3DS.
The main issue is with the Starfield, vs the 3DS's LED "haze" (Or maybe that's because I'm using a Original 3DS as my Homebrew unit!?)
The slow-to-react LED is causing really horrible "clarity" issues.
When you moved, the stars turned to a dark grey whilst the screen tries to catch up. If you stopped, and it has time to draw them fully, they become hard and white.
...

Hacking 3DS Hacking is fun!!

(YouTube)
Looks like some professors are starting to teach a crazy wild idea of coding a "Game-a-Week".
Good luck to anyone tackling this.. But it's not sensible to keep yourself thinking in that mindset, though.
After doing this for a decade, I find it VERY hard to work on anything longer, and I certainly wouldn't recommend it as a starting point in a career, nor would I suggest it's a good idea to be teaching and grading this sort of thing. It seems like it's a very dar...

Don't you love it when, after a recent Update, Windows always opens the browser up. You always expect the page it leads you to will be full of actual information about what the windows update just did.
..
But, no.
It never does.

A lovely salad for dinner, but a single slice of cheese was enough to kick off a killer migraine!

Thanks!
\o/