This will be SpikeDislike Classic, and as such will be a back-to-basics approach. Nobody seemed to like the wonderful new additions that I made to SD3, so they'll all be scrapped in favour of the good old "Ball bounces along the ground, dodging spikes, full stop" mechanic that everybody loves.

After each release, an influx of a comment bombards the pages of the site, and we get to see what people thought of the game. This week, RSKGames has decided to chip in, with thoughts of the gravity based, planet blasting game, Orbital Annihilation. You can play Orbital Annihilation here.

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In Orbital Annihilation the player has to wait till the planets are aligned at the right positions in the orbits to fire and destroy the selected planet. Takes a bit of patience and timing to ...

All the focus for this game has been on its balancing, and I've barely touched the graphical style at all.

2 days to go, and the Chess Game is finally starting to get a little more .. interesting!

Today's tweaks have finally made the Chess game a bit more lively. A bit more fiddling and, hopefully, I should be able to get the difficulty back to something fairly decent. Right now it's still a little bland, and games can carry on for far too long without much of a threat, so a little more "look ahead" and things should be golden!

Yesterday didn't all go as planned!!

Got an email, this morning, from someone who was slightly perturbed by the fact that my RSS hasn't updated since 8/26/2017. When I switched from using Wordpress to my own blog script, one of the lost features was RSS. Mostly because I was too lazy to code a feed, but also because I wasn't sure that anyone actually still used RSS. This morning's email suggests that, somewhere in the world, at least one person still reads their RSS feeds once every couple of years. So, today I'll pro...

This game still has many issues!!

1. Balance

This morning's work on the Chess game has resulted in things being a lot more playable. The game is now "working", and can be played fairly well. The one "ever so slight" issue is that it's currently hard as nails!!

A small prod from a user on Twitter made me wonder about the validity of getting the Framework finally running properly on iOS/Android, and so I took the challenge and came up with ...

OK, the engine's now at about 75%. The opponent AI isn't quite right, and needs a little extra tweaking, but for the most part the actual logic of the game is in place.

I spent about 2 hours, yesterday, trying to solve one incredibly bizarre issue.

Didn't get an awful lot of coding done, yesterday. My mind was unsure whether to make the Chess game into a puzzle or an action game, and it was as though that decision clogged up my mind to the point where I didn't actually do anything at all!!

Added Flowers A variety of basic flowers to fill up a sprite-based garden with. There are currently only Daisy and Rose type drawing styles, but I'm sure I'll come up with more, later.

Yesterday's controller experiments appear to have been a success. ..Yeah, this seems like it might work out..

Whilst doing Foldapuz, I added in a Chess Font which helped make a couple of nice chess puzzles for the site. Both ideas seem to suit pen'n'paper quite well, but another idea I had is definitely more of a Videogame Logic game.

I still kinda want to do that Puzzobomb, but without a good generator it's all but failed, already. So, what else then?

Destroy the planets for points!

Definitely needs a better title than that!

The game's definitely feeling more gamey, now.

Well, the game's definitely "working", but that doesn't necessarily make it a fun game.

Still not 100% sure on the gameplay of this, but it's definitely looking more gamey with those planets added into the mix!

I'm fairly sure I know what kind of game this is going to be, but trying to find just the right balance between "crazy visual effect" and "fun game to play" will be the challenge over the next few days.

I *think* something might be interesting...!