Michael Fernie suggests..

Yesterday, me and Michael Fernie got into a back&forth about AGameAWeek history, the reasons for the creation of old games and whatnot.
He suggested I start some kind of "trip down memory lane" thing, discussing old games and talking about what made me make them.
The answer to a LOT of the early AGameAWeek classics is, of course, Wednesday Workshop.

Over on my last JSE Scripting Engine post, Alan suggested the following...

I've been faffing about with tools again, today, so figured it's probably time to update my Tools That I Use list.

A back and forth email chain with JFarceur has lead to a possible redux of how Clusters of Hex works.

Took me ages to get yesterday's tasks done.

Michael sent some rapid-fire thoughts on this week's game. Let's have a peek at what he thought!

Michael Fernie

Very cool. Thanks for the release. Plays pretty well.

Forcing AGameAWeek doesn't work..

Oh, geeze..

I've been wrangling the "Football as a board game" concept for most of the day, but "fairness" is putting me off.

A couple of tweaks to the plan, but otherwise things are going well enough.

Plenty going on, right now. Can I keep it all up in the air!?

Let's code a really simple Tennis/Ping Pong game, shall we?

A quick "game" tutorial type thing for a silly little game, created using PetitCom/SmileBASIC on the Nintendo Switch.
If you've grabbed a copy from the Japanese eShop, you should be able to follow along, since the program itself now includes a complete English translation.
I'll assume you're using the program with a USB Keyboard attached, but if not, most of the keyboard functionality can be accessed by hitting the [-] button on your controller.

From the main menu, hit t...

I started the day off with an idea in mind.
I created a little sprite of a bubble, and formulated some kind of a plan for a game.

Haven't started a game, yet.
I think this might be a game-less week.

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.

Jefferson asks..
Hey there! Could I have the source code for this?
The name of this site should give you some idea as to how difficult Centipong is to create from scratch.
But just in case, allow me to plot you some points to help guide you along the way.

What a happy title for a card game!!
Fairly complex rules ahead, but it's actually really simple once you get the hang of it.
Your aim in this game is to remove all "Pay off" cards from your side of the table. (They're the cards on the bottom left)
To do so, move cards onto the Center Piles (the three in the middle), starting from Ace and moving up to Queen. These can be of any suit, and if you place a King, it acts as a wildcard, becoming the next number in the sequence.
Y...

Finishing off Rescue Helicopter for Petit Switch was alarmingly difficult, yesterday.

RSKGames returns with his thoughts on recent games.
You can Play Shoebox of Games here, which are all Mouse/Touch controlled games, which run 100% in the browser.
Or you can Play Browsercade here, which are all Keyboard/Gamepad controlled games, for a more Arcade-like experience, but which also run in your browser.

@RSKGames

After a couple of days of back&forth, I've finally decided "meh, whatever!" and opted to go for a Coverflow-RipOff style menu.
It actually looks rather nice, and scrolls quite well, except on touchscreens where the thing's a teensy bit dodgy due to co-ordinate issues.
But otherwise it works nicely. (Although it isn't "quite" centring properly!)
Scroll around, select a game, sorted..
Currently all "games" lead to the exact same test engine, but eventually this will (...

I need to organise things a little better.
As fun as it is, churning out the PetitGames, the Shoebox is getting ignored.
And as nice as it is, piling on the Shoebox Games, the Foldapuz site's being forgotten..
And as much as I want to get Foldapuz games done...