Spent hours yesterday trying all manner of things to get buttons working in SpikeDislike VR, only to eventually give up again.

After working on SpikeDislike VR for a little bit, I found myself reaching for the Switch... Two hours later, after a lot of aimless rambling, I finally set down the Switch edition of No Man's Sky and decided to head back to work on SpikeDislike.

I've now got the engine up to a decent workable status. The balls and the chain are colliding as well as they could, given the limits of GotoJSE's for-loop slowdown.

I started a game last week in GotoJSE, and as much fun as it is playing with "Element A", there's little to no gameplay going on in the thing.

Right, the new SpikeDislike is in place, and though I've still a few tweaks to put into place before I'm happy with the basic engine, it is at least now in a state where I can start adding in themes.

The endless disliking of spiked objects continues, with a completely rewritten SpikeDislike framework. You can now Play SpikeDislike at SpikeDislike.com

Today's test includes music streaming. Things may or may not go well with this test, and server stats will be analysed in ways I haven't ever analysed server stats before!

Good grief, this isn't going as well as I'd hoped..

Like we did last summer. Let's test again. Testing time is here.

As nice as the WebGL edition looked, let's try one last thing..

ALChoon needs lyrics. Next game needs starts. Plenty to do.

A stress test, if you'd like to join in.

Spent a day tweaking a test over and over again to try and get it to do what I wanted.. Really should've checked that beforehand...

Seems my head's in a bit of a SpikeDislike sort of mood, this weekend.

Time to switch up my art tool on MacOS. As much as I've enjoyed using Pixelmator Pro, it's becoming more and more a Photo tool, and no longer suitable for pixelart and sprites.

Deciding to take the Sunday off, I opened up my archive of old Amstrad Computer User magazines and started flicking through, taking a crazy nostalgia trip into the unknown.

The Rainbow Road even looked bad. I've given up on doing a BlastTrax for this week, I think.

I spent a good number of hours trying to find a nice graphical style for a new BlastTrax, last night.

The Quest isn't going to magic itself into existence overnight, so I might have to come up with some kind of emergency game in the meantime, or there'll be no games to post this week!

One of the main things putting me off doing a new version of The Quest is that my art style sucks when drawing anything larger than a 32x32 pixel image. Sheep Goes Right was an absolute fluke!!

Michael Fernie emailed this morning suggesting a game that would fit into the Shoebox.

It took a couple of hours of code-tweaking to make a proper start on them last night, but I've finally made the first 10 or so levels in the JNKPlat Switch edition.

I stayed up until after midnight to watch the season finale of Star Trek : Strange New Worlds last night.

OK, the calendar now at the very least works!