With my mind set on doing background tasks over Advent, I spent a few hours tweaking bits of Foldapuz, yesterday.

Had a fair number of stumbles with Super Secret Side Project, yesterday.

Battle against the enemy swarms, as you protect the skies from the invading army. You can Play Airborne Mercenary in the Browsercade, in your Browser, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet.

I woke the MacMini up at around about 8pm. By 11:30 it was finally ready to start using. Update after update after update after update.. And even then I had to uninstall XCode and reinstall it (with a huge download to boot) in order to get it actually working. *sigh*

Currently thinking I might do a Boulderdash clone, for Browsercade, but I'm not sure how good I can make it in just a couple of days. Don't be surprised if this ends up as a two-week game, instead. I have the "Multiple Direction" concept from 8-bit Boulders that I could easily reuse, but that needed hand-made levels. I'm not sure I can successfully auto-generate levels for a game like that..

Last night I recorded footage of this week's Shoebox game. .. Or at least, I tried.

Didn't get an awful lot done to the game, yesterday. I spent hours fiddling with the background methodology, and testing out various elements, testing for all manner of future games.

Each week, oodles of feedback floods my inbox. Thank you to everyone who sends their thoughts/comments on all the wonderful games I've been making so far, this year. This week, RSKGames has thoughts on the latest Shoebox game, Homepath. You can Play Homepath in the Shoebox on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet.

@RSKGames

Started playing Homepath 20/750 done. Brilliant puzzle game.

SpikeDislike was my "Test if I can.." game for PetitCom4, and as good as it was, I felt it wasn't 100% what it could've been. If you've a Switch, and have downloaded SmileBASIC, you can grab a copy of the game using the Public Key... 424JQK3NJ

The two tanks fall into line, and a battle commences. Tilt your gun, line up your shot, and destroy the enemy tank. Rather than being a simple "Destroy = 1 point" game, I've opted to add Arcade-style scores to this. Earn points for closer hits to your opponent's tank. Your score is also increased by how much health your own tank has remaining. You can Play Hillside Conquest in the Browsercade, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet.

I forgot that, this week, I also figured out a nice way to get the QWERTY keyboard to pop up for both Hangman and Triplets in the Shoebox. There's now a little subtle [QWERTY]/[ABC] button that shows up in the top bar of the screen. Tap that to switch between the two keyboards. Oddly, I actually find the ABC keyboard easier to use, and that's really really odd!!

I've more or less got Isolation working, but haven't yet done the usual Logo/YouTube/etc, so that'll all be happening in the next hour or so. One that's done, I have to make a start on Monday's Browsercade game... .. eek!!

Saturday's Shoebox won't be Pool

Need some rocks and circuit boards? Look no further than the latest JNKsg Generators. Rocks are kinda lumpy, but definitely aren't the best looking rocks in the universe. Circuit Boards are a little slow. I really need to figure out a quick and easy way to optimise those. Honestly, not the best update to the JNKsg site. Bah, humbug!

Today's plan I need to stress test Pyramid Solitaire, and then I'll post that later. I also need to really think about Monday's Browsercade game. And I also need to see if I can find any kind of download stats for the Fuze basic SpikeDislike. .. I'm not sure it's got anything like that, though. Not much more to say, really! Carry on Coding!

Petit Clampett's level generator seems to be working fairly well, but the game has the same "Too much vertical movement" issue as Micro Clampett did. I'm going to have to try figuring that out, today, without resorting to zooming the camera out. Hmmm..

As with last week's Shoebox game, I actually uploaded it about mid-day, yesterday, but haven't yet officially posted about it. If you're the nosey sort, keep an eye on Shoebox on a Friday, and you might catch a glimpse of the next game, before it's properly finished. I first wanted to double check everything, and that's best done on the iPad, whilst sat riding my little foot-pedal-doohickey. Top Tip : Get in shape by forcing yourself to exercise whilst you're doing all of th...

Crikey, this is a bit messy!

Blimey, General thoughts! Usually I don't get a chance to look at the ins and outs of the general frameworks and such, once I've started using them. But the new Javascript-based frameworks allow for realtime tweaking, and also fixing old broken things along the way, too. Cool!! So, if you've ANY thoughts about ANYTHING relating to the Browsercade/Shoebox/Foldapuz stuff, please do share, and I'll try my best to keep these sort of posts coming.

RSKGames

Shoebox AI: I am...

If you refreshed Shoebox, yesterday, you'll have been able to play MiniGolf, but I didn't officially release it.

The Minigolf game's quite fun to play, so far, and today I'm going to try to add a couple more obstacles. I'm thinking a giant spinning stick that thwacks the ball if it's within the radius, and maybe adding some directional floor tiles that act a little like slopes.

Oh dear. Seems like releasing the Browsercade has kickstarted the regular avalanche of crazy ideas!

Spent an hour or two testing various enhancements to the FPS stuff, and I think I managed to find a nice middleground that seems to run fairly well.

Alan suggests

Looks pretty good. I did spot a slight half-pixel seam where the background wraps around. I like the parallax effect, though. I've cheat-fixed that for the meantime, by simply wrapping the buffer a single pixel closer to itself, but it might look more glitchy once I start doing different types of backgrounds. I need to add a "sprite to buffer" function, to check that, though. Other tweaks.. I've made the "Logo on a plain screen, waiting for the first click" screen a...

1. People seem utterly baffled by the start-screen of Browsercade. I put that there, because a lot of browsers need a single click before they initiate any audio, but seemingly people are instead "waiting" for it, and think the thing's broken. D'oh!!