This week's Sunny game is "almost" ready, but something niggly is niggling away.

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At the end of the game, the results are happening WAY too quickly.
And, if I'm honest, this is something that happens in a lot of Shoebox games.
I'm finding myself thinking "I oughta fix that", and then I'm thinking "I oughta fix a lot of things", and then I'm thinking "Should I completely rebuild Shoebox from the ground up..?"

And then going "No, don't be silly, that's over 80 games you'd have to rebuild".
Instead, then, I'm wondering about focusing my attention on a few elements, and doing a slow rebuild a bit at a time.

So, back to the first point.
The "End Game" screen flies past so incredibly quickly, you can never really tell what the heck's going on.

I feel like that should be something easy enough to focus on. Maybe make a new reusable function that goes "Player One Wins" or "You got a high score", or something, and have that much less "weeee!!!!" and more "plomp!"



I've still got this AI Generated image, from March 2024. It's sitting in my downloads folder, and I keep looking back at it and thinking "Oh yeah, I was going to do something like that".
But I can never quite pluck up the courage to rebuild everything in that new style.
I wonder if I should start doing that?
It's certainly a goal.
I think.

.. Maybe.

But step by step instead of trying to do everything all at once, because, that never really works out, does it?

And then there's all of these optimisations that I've been putting into JSE, which haven't been put back into Shoebox. Even though the Shoebox engine is actually the foundations of Browsercade and JSE, there's tons of little nips and tucks all over the place which should probably have been put back into the original.
I bet I can get the whole thing running a heck of a lot less power-hungry than it currently runs, with just a few tweaks to the drawing code!

So, yeah, maybe I should stop adding silly little JSE commands, like MusicFreq("A",3) = 440, and instead focus on things that might help make Shoebox a little bit better.

Hmmm..

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