I've spent most of the past week building up a collection of little bits and pieces.

More work on Foldapuz, yesterday, as I did a whole lot more minor tweaks.

A whole lot of tweaks to Unfolded, to make it all a little more stable. Just minor background things, nothing too notable, but enough to keep things working!! I've also rewritten the way the Alternating Maze is generated, and it now ends up taking about s full second to generate each puzzle. Eeek! Still, with the recent puzzle-cache functionality, that should be a little bit easier on the server. The Alternating Maze mazes should now be a little more difficult to solve, with the paths hopefully...

As I release each game, folk from all over the web chip in with their thoughts. Let's see what RSKGames thought of the new-improved complete edition of JNKPlat! Warning : Spoilers ahead You can Download JNKPlat 2018 here, or at GameJolt or on itch.io

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Gameplay: After a few levels using one hand for WASD and another for JKL, I got used to the controls and it became easier and smoother to move and jump around with ease and speed. Thi...

Made another new Foldapuz game, yesterday.

Added Alternating Maze. Make a path from the marked Start and End points, where each step is on an alternate coloured tile. A nice and simple game that makes secondary use out of the normal Find A Path code, but tweaks it just enough to be different, and quite a bit harder, too.

If you've tried clicking the "Words, Maths, Logic" links on the Foldapuz site, you'll probably have noticed that the templates aren't 100% just of that type. This is simply because I haven't yet coded enough puzzles for each category.

Further tweaking to the Find a Way maze generator. Things are hopefully a little more varied, now, and I've also upgraded the solution display. Added Solve A, B, C. (Thanks to Liam Kelk for suggesting it.) I'm not 100% convinced that it's do-able, and will have to sit and try to solve a few of the puzzles over the next day or two.. Quite honestly, my maths brain has melted from all the coding, tonight!!

Finally happy with the Find a Way maze generation. The mazes aren't the "best" mazes in the world, but are at least now a bit better than a straight vertical line! Added Sudoku. Since Sudoku is fairly complex to generate, rather than being wholly generated by the script, I've opted to pre-generate 2000 number grid layouts, which then get numbers plucked from them to give a final puzzle.

...is the apparent name for the foldable booklet of puzzles. Today I need to decide if I'm going to continue to work on FoldAPuz, or take the time to work on more JNKPlat levels. Or, perhaps I should work on both of them!?!

As each game is released, so begins the influx of feedback from players. Let's see what @RSKGames thinks of a bland looking ball in a bland looking maze! You can Download Might of the Balls here.

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Overview: Roll the ball and color more tiles than the AI opponent within the given time limit without falling of the edges. Easily one of the least interesting descriptions of recent months! This game is certainly not the best selling point for AGameAWeek.

Two balls in a maze! What could possibly go wrong?

I was doing the compiles for this week's game late last night, and as I sat in front of the Mac I figured I might as well try to do the trailer on there.

100 NOW compilations, and what do we get?! Track Listing That's a bit of a shit selection, isn't it..? I mean, I can understand why they did that. Every NOW needs to have modern tracks, and this one additionally has to celebrate the past. .. But.. Really.. Would it have killed them to have got a selection of modern artists to rerecord the original track listing of the original NOW 1? ..? That's what I'd've done. *sigh* What a wasted opportunity.

Spent a long time today fighting over how the control should work for our little Ball player.

Each release brings a wave of thoughts and comments. Let's have a peek at RSKGame's thoughts on this week's puzzle game. You can Download The Link Janitor here.

@RSKGames

A very relaxing puzzle game with right mixture of difficulty with 225 levels. Crikey. He's only gone and completed the entire game!!

Link up for a happy robot!

As each game gets posted, the feedback occurs. Let's take a look at the feedback from Blockman Gets Retro! You can Download Blockman Gets Retro here.

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Overview: While last years Blockman game was a platformer this year's Blockman game is back to the roots maze puzzle game where the player has to traverse the maze, eat the required quantity of yellow dots to cross each of the levels. Blockman cannot move backwards and cannot traverse a path already traveled unless there is a ...

I spent ages yesterday finding the right balance. Playing Blockman Gets and Blockman Gets More, there's a distinct feeling that something's missing from More.

The gameplay fits nicely into multiple screen resolutions, but what do I do about the main GUI?

Boy, it's not fun trying to doodle a bunch of mazes for Blockman games. I HOPE that I'm sticking with the current 25x15 maze size, because having to remake all these maps would drive me slightly crazy.

A lovely salad for dinner, but a single slice of cheese was enough to kick off a killer migraine!