It's nothing too tricky, and you won't struggle to play it. The simple classic game of Hangman. Tap the letters, fill in the blanks, and try to guess the words or phrase. You can Play Hangman in the Shoebox where you'll find it in amongst the Word Games.

I didn't get ANY coding done on this week's AGameAWeek yesterday, but then a lot of that was down to an unexpected server issue.

Another weekly remake, in the world of Petit Switch. A lovely little grab from the AGameAWeek archives, as we revisit the teensy tiny space world of Space Popcorn! Shoot the popcorn. There's only one piece left. This shouldn't take long at all. 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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Brum Brum?

But, a little more organised juggling, this time.

Started a spreadsheet to help keep my new Schedule in order, and decided to try plonking in the games I've made so far this year, so I get a nice little "Games made this year" stat along the side. Things are obviously not assigned to the correct day of the week, but are at least linked to the right week numbers! So far, 36 games in 22 weeks. That'll do!!

A simple, but effective little Anagram game. Four 7 letter words are laid out, along with 4 extra tiles at the bottom. Add one letter to each of the "racks", shuffle the letters, and try to make four 8 letter words. SPOILER (PROLINES) You can Play Extra Tiles here, or watch out for it showing up in regular Foldapuz circulation, as of tomorrow. -=-=- In addition, I've finally got around to fixing (I think!) Kakuro, which was previously oddly broken, so that puzzle is now back in the selecti...

Spent a few hours, yesterday, getting a very basic looking car to drive around a very basic looking grassland. (and/or, blue space with stars in it, acting like a flat driveable area!)

Yesterday was spent making an Pixel/Sprite doodling thing for Petit Switch. With that, JMTrackr and the default audio files, I'm fairly sure I can now get a decent number of games up and running.

The default pixel-sprite editor for PetitSwitch Scroll around the left-side (full spritesheet) with the left thumbstick, draw in the right hand "zoomed" view (you can zoom in further) with touchscreen or mouse. Controls for colours, but the palette doesn't save. .. Booo! Plenty of twiddly knobs and buttons, barely any of which I have the faintest idea what they're doing. A to plot, B to pick colour.. .. Except.. The dpad doesn't move the cursor.. In fact, NOTHING moves the cursor. In...

I need to organise things a little better. As fun as it is, churning out the PetitGames, the Shoebox is getting ignored. And as nice as it is, piling on the Shoebox Games, the Foldapuz site's being forgotten.. And as much as I want to get Foldapuz games done... .. I haven't done AGameAWeek in bloomin ages!!! I think I need to make myself a proper schedule, and ... try to stick to it!

Prepare to Flap, on Switch! Guide Flappy between the two sides of the screen, landing on the platforms inbetween. 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. Finish off Flappadiddle on PetitSwitch 2. Finish off Hangman on Shoebox 3. Consider that combining things into one has gone so well on Shoebox that it might be a good idea to start doing that with my PetitSwitch games. 4. Consider that I should probably also do that with AGameAWeek "proper" 5. Wonder how that's going to impact my lovely "500,000 games" list. 6. Goto 3

We all know what happens if I leave a game for a week.. I find it very hard to get myself back into the swing of things. I need something a little more immediate to pop into the Shoebox, because.. at this rate.. it'll be mid July before The Quest is ready!! "Oh, I know," says my silly head, "what about Hangman?"

I didn't get much done, yesterday, beyond the finishing up of the week's ALChoon.

So, I have a PetitSwitch game to work on, and a Shoebox game to keep me going. Today I have to post the weekly SoCoder newsletter, the template for which has been mostly abandoned all week, with me concentrating on PetitSwitch, and then I also need to post this week's ALChoon, too. .. Today's going to be "one of those" days...

Don't worry, I didn't completely abandon the Shoebox!!

With JMTrackr "done, enough" for Petit Switch, I can now happily move on to actually making games on the thing. I've made a quick list of things I should attempt, today.

JMTrackr is a Music Randomisation engine, which can create an endless variety of music, based upon a set of prewritten melody patterns. 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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This morning, my laptop's clipboard still had yesterday's Daily Platdude Pixelart in it. .. This is how much time I've spent working in Petit Switch!

Really getting somewhere with JMTrackr for Petit Switch, now!

I've gotten JMTracker up to a semi-working state, but still have to add test settings for things like Tempo and Instrument selection, as well as a proper Load requester. But so far, so good, and it's a vaguely decent output.. I think!! Although only a proper set of melodies and actual ingame usage will tell for sure..

I think I'm making a music program..!?

Tonight I attempted to get a JMTrackr style music engine to work in Petit-switch.

The "Text Layer" seems to be rather limited. I can print at any position, I can change the colour, I can change the font size.. .. But any changes made will affect the entire screen's worth of text.

I need to stop playing with Petit-Switch, and instead get back to regular AGameAWeek stuff!

So, today I wrote a basic minimal Framework in PetItC4 with simple enough functionality, but hopefully enough to allow for lots of variety in future projects. I've added a basic DrawImg thing, along with my usual set of SetCol, SetAlpha, SetSize and SetRot commands. I've created a sprite loop to draw sprites when required, and blank out any unused sprites at the end of the loop. I DID originally try adding a SPCLR (clear all sprites) at the top of the loop, but that flickered horribly. You'...