Not happening.. .. yet..

Awake until 4:30am again. This hot weather isn't doing AGameAWeek any favours.
It's hard to code when you're sticking to the couch!!

A Shoebox game idea popped into mind, late last night.

Sorry to get you excited, there, but the little dungeon puzzle thing has already been scrapped.

(As in.. A board made of cards!)
Move around the Card Board and score points as you go.
Points are awarded when you land on an unturned card, based on the card's value (Ace = 1, Jack = 11, Queen = 12, King = 13)
If you land on a Diamond, you'll earn twice as much. A Heart will give you another go. Landing on a Spade will cause you to Lose the points, whilst landing on a Club will award the points to all the other players.
The winner is the player with the most points, once...

Right, I've had this idea bubbling about for a week or so.
It's almost fermented, but I think I should be able to figure out what's going to happen along the way.

Alan suggests..
Did you ever see Reiner Knizia's _Decathlon_ dice game? Go check it out on boardgamegeek. Not that you'd want to copy it wholesale, but you could get some inspiration for different ways to total dice.
PDF of the rules, and a scoresheet.

A blank slate, this morning, as I try to come up with a Shoebox game to do.
I did consider getting back to finishing off The Quest, but every time I look at the code, the whole thing seems to be larger in scope than I ever imagined it might be.

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.

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.

Build a tower from the bottom, up.
Take turns placing girders, with the length defined by the roll of a dice.
If you complete a level, you earn a point.
The player with the most points, once the tower is complete, is the winner.

A simple dice rolling challenge.
Roll the dice, and then decide if you want to roll again, totting up the scores into the Kitty as you go.
If at any moment you wish to "Bank" what you've earned, play will move to the next player
If you roll a One, you lose everything in the kitty.

The plan for Shoebox, this week, was Farkle.
Briefly mentioned by Otakupunk in his last video, I took a quick look at the game and thought "Yeah, I could do that."
...
Hmm..

After I release more and more games, player's try desperately to keep up!
Let's see what RSKGames thinks of today's Shoebox addition.
You can Play Grid of Conquest in the Shoebox, under the Group Games section.

@RSKGames

This project was titled "Power Source" when I started it, but the name doesn't fit the end result, so I'm going to have to change it.

Yesterday, I opened up the Crossword Code to start work on the other reuses of the game, and sat staring at the screen for around about half an hour.

I added that function for good reason, and Alan seems determined to make me use it!!

Right, I was halfway through the "Extra" card, wasn't I..
Maybe some kind of quick board game that makes use of those?
I had considered doing a Snakes and Ladders style game but with cards for movement, so .. Yeah, I think I might attempt something like that, today.

Having a few "quirk" issues, right now.

After yesterday's break, I'm back to getting Ludo up and running, and .. Boy is it complicated!!

@RSKGames

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?

Seems playable!!
You can Play Shoebox of Games here, and you'll find Snakes and Ladders in the new "Board Games" section! Oooooh!!