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!!

I tried to get this week's Shoebox game done, yesterday, but with so much GUI based stuff to do.. .. My head went "No, I'm sick to death of doing GUIs, this week!!" and decided to shut down. I'm going to push ahead and try again, today. If not, we'll have to abandon the Shoebox release for this week, because I'm not really sure that any game I make, will fit my head's current need to do something other than yet another GUI driven thing!

Busy day yesterday, and after I got back I needed a big long 4 hour nap to recover!! Once awake, I got a couple of little bits finished off, including this week's Petit Switch game (coming later tonight) and this week's SoCoder Newsletter (coming in about an hour or so).

Have spent today working on more menu gubbins, and default "Quit", "Retry" buttons and things. The basic pause screen is looking terribly familiar!

The OUYA's now officially offline. This morning, they shut down the servers, took the site offline, and now everything is gone.

*phew* Yeah, I knew that wasn't going to be easy...

Really couldn't get into the whole "Redefineable Controls" stuff, yesterday. Instead, I messed about with Tower Solitaire's rules a little, and also played around with a few other bits and pieces.

As the collection grows ever onwards, people send feedback for the various oddities that I create. You can Play Tower Solitaire in the Shoebox, under the Card Games.

@RSKGames says..

For regular Solitaire players this version might need some time to get used to as the card that is required to build the tower is not one less or one more of the cards in stack but follows a simple rule. Yeah, it's a slightly different strategy, but it makes things a lot tougher when you end up with a v...

Today I need to rewrite a ton of my input code, to work properly with redefined keys/gamepads, and then add a screen to let you do that. .. More bloomin' menus. Grrr!!

A new Solitaire card game, today. The aim is to try to reach the top of the tower by matching cards. You can Play Tower Solitaire in the card games of Shoebox.

Centipong comes to Switch, with the help of Petit Switch. If you've a Switch, and have downloaded SmileBASIC, you can grab a copy of the game using the Public Key...

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I finished off this week's Petit Switch game, last night, but won't be posting it until around midnight tonight. Schedules, and all that!

My brain seemed to switch off from its regular coding mindset, last night. I did no coding whatsoever, and instead spent a good few hours watching old episodes of Retail Archeology on YouTube. A lovely channel full of dead shopping malls!!

.. Have I said how much I hate doing menus?!

After a couple of days of back&forth, I've finally decided "meh, whatever!" and opted to go for a Coverflow-RipOff style menu. It actually looks rather nice, and scrolls quite well, except on touchscreens where the thing's a teensy bit dodgy due to co-ordinate issues. But otherwise it works nicely. (Although it isn't "quite" centring properly!) Scroll around, select a game, sorted.. Currently all "games" lead to the exact same test engine, but eventually this will (hopefully!) be a ma...

I need to come up with a Foldapuz for tonight. Really running out of ideas for that, but am determined to keep pushing onwards until there are literally no more random puzzles left to put in!

Shoebox doesn't scale in a normal way.

After each release, or thereabouts because it's getting hard for even me to keep up, we get a little bit of feedback for the games. If you'd like to join in, you can either use the Comments section, Email me, or send a Tweet. You can Play Atoms in the ShoeBox. It's in the "Group Games" section.

@RSKGames says..

Played 3 times and lost the first time and won the second and third time. First time I lost after my very first move. LOL! Poor @RSKGames!

The classic explosive game of popping atoms is finally in the Shoebox! You can Find Atoms in the Group Games section.

1. Finish off Atoms.

@RSKGames suggests.. Can you consider making a version of the new AGAW JS mega compilation into an electron app so that you can retain the online scoreboard. In a electron app I think you can restrict users getting into the dev console. I'll have a look into it.

This week's Petit Switch release is a recreation of one of my favourite puzzlers, Blockman Gets. If you've a Switch, and have downloaded SmileBASIC, you can grab a copy of the game using the Public Key...

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I was flicking through my Shoebox Todo-List, today, and stumbled upon Atoms. I haven't attempted Atoms for a while, mostly because it requires me to draw all those Atoms!! But, today I drew them, and the engine seems fairly capable. (ignore the fact that half those positions aren't "real", it's just a crazy animating thing, right now!)

Before I dare to attempt to turn AGameAWeek into a "All in one big javascript engine" mega compilation, I think it's important to jot down a few "issues" that there might be..