Although I added a new game to Foldapuz yesterday, the sheer randomness of the randomness has meant that the newest game hasn't actually shown up, today.

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The new game is "Don't Connect Four". You can take a peek at it, here. The object being to fill the grid with X's and O's, neither of which form a line of 4, horizontally, vertically or diagonally.

Having given it a play, last night, the game probably isn't as hard as I'd like, and I might yet tweak it slightly to make things even more difficult. But as it is, it's a nice enough little puzzle.
It helps immensely to know that each row or column will always contain 3 of each symbol. This simple fact allows the puzzles to be manageable, as you can use it to help determine what symbol is meant to go where.

It's taken a good few days of "festering" for this idea to come together. Initially, I was just going to make a Tic-Tac-Toe game, but when it's shrunk down to a 3x3 grid, the game became FAR too easy.
After that, I tried to create a 6x6 grid without any line of 3s, but the generator really didn't like that, so inevitably I've ended up at Connect Four.
Like I say, I might further tweak the generator, but for now I'm quite happy with the result..

Next, I need to figure out a way to ensure that new games always crop up on the standard random layout. Maybe have a single side on the page be "and if there's a new game, today, force that to be here".

I might also force Lattice to always appear as the "front page", as people seem to enjoy that game the most.

Meanwhile...

I also managed to add another game to the Advent Collexion.
The collexion currently has 5 half-complete games, without audio and in most cases the games aren't quite 100% balanced.
This isn't exactly going to schedule!!

Also not going to schedule is JNKPlat, which has pretty much taken a back seat for the past few days, and is something I REALLY need to focus on getting finished. I did, however, build a few more levels, so that's good!

On the site-side of things, I found myself worrying about schools...
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My recent addition of "50 page requests per IP per 2 minutes" seems to be working well enough, but I realised that if, say a school teacher wanted to suggest the students look at a page from AGameAWeek, then that flood of page requests would all come from a single IP address (the school's network)
I know that's a really really rare event, which probably won't even happen, but I also know that some Uni Professors out there are attempting to teach the ways of "Game A Week", and that they might very well like to direct students to this site as a result.

.. Like I say, an extremely rare case, but it's not outside of the realms of possibility.
I need to account for that, and I'm not currently sure the server will handle it in a nice way. I should probably change the rules a little to cope better in such situations.

Aaah, the joys of having to manage your own server..!