OK, back to a Shoebox game, this week.
And, already my mind is fizzling with ideas!
... For Browsercade..

I've done a fairly significant upgrade to the way the Browsercade Onscreen Controller works.
The thing now has an 8-way kinda vibe going on, and "should" feel a little more playable than it used to be.
If you've been using the onscreen controller (tap the little boxy thing in the bottom left of the menu) and have any comments on this, be sure to let me know.
Thanks!

Lots of internal tweaks to the engine, today.
The game now records your highest combo, and places that alongside your highscore in the saves. This means that, when necessary, I can pop that up on the screen.
Your last score on the scoreboard is now highlighted and bounces to and fro, to stand out on the list.
I do miss having that in the Browsercade.
.. Maybe I should try to figure out a way to do that, but Browsercade's save data is there for lots of different types of games, a...

Battle against the enemy swarms, as you protect the skies from the invading army.
You can Play Airborne Mercenary in the Browsercade, in your Browser, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet.

I woke the MacMini up at around about 8pm.
By 11:30 it was finally ready to start using.
Update after update after update after update..
And even then I had to uninstall XCode and reinstall it (with a huge download to boot) in order to get it actually working.

With the huge number of games being posted, the mailbox is bulging with feedback from all the players!
Let's see what RSKGames thinks, this week!!
You can Play both of these games in the Browsercade on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet.

@RSKGames

Track down the snake's location. It exists between the 1 and the higher value.
The snake winds its way through the grid, but won't ever rub against itself, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. (eg, there's always a gap around it.)
You can Print a page full of Snake here, or Play Snake in your browser, here.

I really need to knuckle down and get the Pool game a bit more playable.

Idigidragon's getting a remake on Switch, this week.

I took most of the day off, yesterday.
Writing 4 games a week is harder than it sounds!!!

I forgot that, this week, I also figured out a nice way to get the QWERTY keyboard to pop up for both Hangman and Triplets in the Shoebox.
There's now a little subtle [QWERTY]/[ABC] button that shows up in the top bar of the screen.
Tap that to switch between the two keyboards.
Oddly, I actually find the ABC keyboard easier to use, and that's really really odd!!

Mostly complaints..

Fuze "tries" to be two things at once.
Both a classic BASIC, and a more modern "Not BASIC", and when those two things clash, you either get a great language like BlitzMax, or you get ..

After a night of busy coding, I was finally trying to get to sleep at about 2:30am.
I switched off the light, rolled over in bed, and ...
tap.
tap tap..

It's 7 years since I first posted the Jiggity post, waffling on about my health, and the tumour, and all of that gubbins.
As is tradition, here's my annual health update post!
Feel free to skip by this post, it's all about my crappy health issues, and since nothing's changed, you probably know it all anyway!

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

Far too hot. Struggled to sleep, last night.
Instead, I sat in the living room at 1:30, tapping away on my laptop.

The gradient background in the above screenshot has been drawn to a secondary canvas, which is then redrawn onto the main canvas.
This seems to work reasonably well, and should hopefully allow for a fair number of generated backgrounds and other such effects, without requiring huge 1024x1024 background images to be downloaded.
The whole thing runs a little slowly on my Samsung Galaxy 10 A, however, so I'm going to have to add an option to disable the buffer when necessary.
But otherwis...

It's gotten a teensy bit cooler, tonight, and I've been able to get some coding done!
The "ingame GUI" for Space Battle isn't looking awful... And that's as good as you're going to get
I might fix up that explosion graphic to make it a bit more "Stand out'y", but otherwise things are definitely a bit more playable.
I've added "double tap" to the controls, like with Atoms. I think that's probably the best bet when d...

I've done an alarming amount of work on this GUI today, and ..
*shrugs*
Doesn't look any bloomin' different to how it did, this morning!!

Oh boy, was yesterday complicated!!