Started a game in SmileBASIC last night.

With over 90 games written in a year, it's time to look back on some of the highlights from the past 365 days, and see what joys have been created.

Most of yesterday was spent writing this year's SoCoder Xmas Newsletter.

Deadly creepy crawlies are making their way towards your battlements. Shoot them all, or risk destruction.
If you want to play this game, you can Play it Here.

Today's the day I have to go for a liver scan. Oooooh!

Spent hours, yesterday, trying to squeeze every little bit out of the engine that I could.

I've mostly settled on a few Do's and Don't's in VR.

As I carry on making those little nips and tucks around JSE, I'm noticing slowdown on my Windows tests.

I might have to add a bomb...

I didn't even think about WASM, yesterday..

Yep, sure can be slow..

Poor Mum!

My first couple of test runs with WASM showed that, in general, it actually slows things down.

Not very often I code enough skill into a game to bother including a top tip!

NES, SMS and Atari have been added to JSE's list of available "UsePalette" colour palettes.

Hmmm..

Yesterday, Pakz suggested that more off-buffer image functionality might be nice.

Got all wrapped up in the odd Slowness, and couldn't get back out!

A couple of basic shapes have been added to the engine.

I tried adding a bunch of effects into the engine, yesterday, but..
Yikes!!

OK, Newsletter's ready to go. ALChoon was done last night.

.. or rather, doesn't do anything!

Got another nice increase in speed, this morning.

More subtle optimising again, yesterday.