Day two of the second pass through all the games of the Browsercade.

Latest Game : 31st October 2022 : Bubble Munky This is a complete list of my games and tools created for SmileBASIC on the Nintendo Switch.

Somewhere along the way, the new Browsercade Scaling has knocked the touch controls out of whack.

Last night I grabbed my SpikeDislike enhancements and dropped them into Browsercade.. Oh dear..

I'm not 100% sure about how this sounds..

Right then, let's stick with the old, and bulk up the capabilities.

Don't be fooled. This game is Not Pong. You can Play Not Pong in the Browsercade, in your browser, on desktop, mobile or tablet.

"How about that whole AGameAWeek thing, Jay?"

Petit Switch is mostly faultless, but there's one slight quirk that tripped me up, yesterday. When you save your code, you hit Ctrl+S, then it flashes up "Are you sure you want to save 'Project/main.prg'?" and then you hit OK, and it says "Are you REALLY sure you want to save 'Project/main.prg?'", and then you hit OK and then it saves.

Don't think of this as Pong. It isn't Pong. It's NOT Pong! 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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1. Not Pong is going to be my game for Petit Switch, this week. 2. Dots and Squares will be this week's Shoebox game. Todo-List. For Not Pong, I need to add a decent amount of sparkle and loveliness, but the basic gameplay's up and running. Dots and Squares needs a better AL-AI. He's currently only looking at each square on it's own, so often says "This square only has one line, I'll add a line", but is inadvertently placing that line at a point that makes a third line on ...

1. Finish off this week's Petit Switch game. (Not Pong) 2. Get started on a Shoebox game. (Unknown!) 3. Try to figure out the mod-pausing issue in Browsercade. 4. Post the week's SoCoder Newsletter. 5. Post the week's ALChoon, which also requires setting up a new ALBum page. I hate Thursdays!!

I don't normally do "Postmortem" type blog posts, but figured I might as well start. Not sure whether this will become a regular thing, or not, but I thought it'd be nice to keep track of what happens after I post each game. In future I might leave it until a good few days have passed, but the world of AGameAWeek tends to flow fairly rapidly. We'll have to judge it as it happens. Anyway, welcome to the newest section of AGameAWeek, where I take a look at the stats and things, to help figure out if the...