Started to make a Shoebox game with a lot of holes in it, last night.

Move the blocks left and right to match up the colours and make them disappear. You can Play Vexed in the Shoebox in the Misc section.

Paint the grid one player at a time, painting 9 squares around your chosen point, if they're empty. The player that paints the last square is the winner. You can Play Obstruction in the Shoebox, under the One On One games section.

.. If only that was "Money!" and not "trying to update the cache for Shoebox"

The Shoebox is now using the "Server Worker" method of caching, instead of the older AppCache style. With any luck, you shouldn't be able to tell the difference, and everything will continue to work swimmingly. I'm not sure what the exact rule for cache-update-checks is, especially if you're playing with an "Add to Home Screen" kind of bookmark, but it appears to be doing a decent job of keeping up to date. Please do give it a try, and let me know how you get on with the update, reporting...

Having some right issues with the cache, today.

Light up five of the handlink's buttons so that all the surrounding values become zeroes. Each value states how many squares in its row/column should be lit up, and will change along with your pushes, so a bit of analysis should allow you to solve the puzzle well enough. You can Play Handlink in the Shoebox, under the Misc Games section.

OK, I THOUGHT (according to comments on half-a-dozen websites) that the issue I was having with the cache was a "Leave it for 24 hours and it'll magically update" one. I've left it for about 28 hours, and still Edge Chromium isn't updating the spritesheet for the game, thus... For me at least.. None of the sprites for Handlink are showing up. They ARE showing up in Firefox, Chrome and iOS Safari. So, um. If you're in the mood, give it a whirl and let me know what happens for you. Do...

Yesterday I started work on a Shoebox game for the week.

The word puzzle/game thing I thought was going to work has also ended up being abandoned. The game's own logic became its downfall!

At around about 4:30pm, yesterday, I realised my Do-Clone was probably not going to make it..

Use the letters on the bottom to build as many words as you can. Try to find all of the pre-selected words at the top, to earn a "Win". You can Play Words Within within the Words section of the Shoebox.

As is tradition for my birthday, SpikeDislike2 is free on iOS today. If you don't already have it, go and grab it, and then have fun disliking spikes.

Meanwhile

I posted this Monday's game, last night, already! I figured today probably wouldn't be a very productive coding day, so thought I should do something quick, and ended up with another Solitaire game for Shoebox. Monte Carlo Solitaire is in the Shoebox's Card Games, and I'll do the bloggy stuff later on, whe...

A card-matching solitaire game. Match two cards adjacent to each other (vertical, horizontal or diagonal) which share the same value (not suit), and try to clear all the cards from the game. You can Play the game in your Browser, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet.

A blank slate, this morning, as I try to come up with a Shoebox game to do. I did consider getting back to finishing off The Quest, but every time I look at the code, the whole thing seems to be larger in scope than I ever imagined it might be.

A wordsearch game. Playable with either a single word (Letter Lattice style) or a standard 5 word form. You can Play Wordsearch in the Shoebox, in your Browser, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet.

Don't worry, I'm still working on the same game, it's just that the game's changed quite a bit.

As much as I love making gambling games (after all, my IRL name is actually James Gamble) I've tried to steer away from them for the past decade or so.

Score points based on five hands of poker, and try to score the highest that you can. You can Play Poker Points in the Shoebox, in your browser, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet.