Blog - 📚-05- Stacking the Deck

5th March 2025

Don't worry, I'm not stacking the deck.

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Yesterday I spent a good hour or so refamiliarising myself on how the Card functions function in Shoebox, and managed to get this far.
This far might look like it could possibly be a game, but it's really far from it, at the moment.

It doesn't work, it isn't playable, and I need to do a LOT more coding to get it functional.

I was halfway through coding the stacked decks manually when my head went "Errr, hang on Jay, this is Shoebox, and you have functions to do most of this"
So, um..
I had to read through old game code to try and remember how the heck I did half of this stuff.

It's functional now, though only up to this point.
And this point is where you pick a card from your hand and place it onto...
...
Oh, I haven't added the play stacks yet.
So, that's as far as that works.
.. or doesn't.

It really doesn't.

To think that, just a few years ago, (2019?!) I planned so far ahead with Shoebox. Why is it so hard, now? Shouldn't it be easier by this point?

To be honest, 6 years is probably a long time to have a selection of games gathering dust, even if they are inside a shoebox.
Is it time to refresh the Shoebox and give it a larger overhaul?
... hmmm...

Anyway, this is the start of this game, and the JSE game's coming together well enough, too. All should be golden for at least half of this month.
It's the other half that I really need to worry about, because I'm already running out of plans for the word "Stack"

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Lyrics : Me and Bing CoPilot wrote this together in bits and pieces, 'cos I was far too tired last night.
Sound Imported : Enigmatically Zoned
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