Cordova can be a right pain, at times, but I'm finally starting to wrangle it into a suitable amount of functionality.

A simple Snakes'n'Ladders style game, using cards. Use one of the cards from your hand to select how many spaces you'll move. If you land on a Spike, turn it over to see what will happen. You'll either end up moving forwards or backwards, so lets hope that luck is on your side. You can Find 'Board of Snakes' in the Board Games of the Shoebox.

Unless my mind turns to mush again, I'm fairly confident that I should be able to finish the Spike Boardgame thing, today.

Player "Cristo" has submitted four lovely level packs for JNKPlat. You can either find them in the Online Levels section of the game, or grab them here if you need to download them manually (eg 3DS).

Still on a bit of a go-slow, here. It doesn't help that the weather's been absolutely gorgeous over the past few days, so much so that the need to sit and relax in the sunshine has taken precedence over standard coding duties.

Amazing how much a funeral hits you. I spent all day yesterday sitting about, playing Smash Bros, watching various YouTube things, and generally not really bothering to do any sort of coding whatsoever. Maybe today will be more productive?

Meanwhile..

Over on the Testing the Width post..

Alan suggests

Just my opinion, but the individual cards could use a tiny bit more margin. I prefer the top picture. Not because of the aspect ratio of the cards themselves, but because it has a...

Seems my head wasn't quite ready to get back into an all-day coding session like I was aiming for.

Issue : The cards take up a curious amount of space. I'm currently trying to find the best way to display both the game board, and a hand of cards, without it being silly..

Right, I was halfway through the "Extra" card, wasn't I.. Maybe some kind of quick board game that makes use of those? I had considered doing a Snakes and Ladders style game but with cards for movement, so .. Yeah, I think I might attempt something like that, today.

Today will be a day spent amongst family, friends and loved ones. The funeral of one of my cousins, whose passing has most definitely taken a toll on all of us. *hugs*

OK, I think I'm done playing with the cards, for today!!! You can try the new cards in any of the Card Game games in the Shoebox.

Apparently the two card sizes are referred to as Bridge (the narrow kind) or Poker (the wider ones). This page has a nice writeup about the two sizes. I'm learning a lot, writing these games! I'll probably do a bit more tweaking to get the Poker size a bit more exact. At the minute my two ratios are 1.33 and 1.55, whilst they're "supposed" to be 1.4 for Poker, and 1.55 for Bridge. All of my earlier coding was done with the Bridge numbers, so that's pretty much spot on, but I'm now...

^ My cards ^ Cards redrawn at "Proper" card sizes. I'm going to leave the cards at "My" size. Nothing against "proper" size, but .. Everything just looks a little bit cramped at that ratio! The extra width of my cards appears to give my eyes a little more focal space, and they seem to be able to cope a little better with a screen full of cards. Having said that, I did originally write the script with the ability to select from different card graphics. I haven't, so far, made use of t...

Spent all night thinking about the card width. .. Ugh.. I think I know what today's plan is..

Testing cards, today, and .. I'm not happy with the landscape card. It feels too tall, and yet that's the same size I'm using for all my other cards. I don't want to have to redo all my card code, but.. At the same time.. Hmm.. Anyhoo, basic functionality of "Other Cards" is now in. I need to figure out a good way to implement all the different types of functionality that the cards will have, in a way that can be reused over various games. I'm thinking something like a coup...

Shoebox Stats Cards : 3 Words : 3 Board : 2 Misc : 4 Extra : 3 (although it says 4, one of them's the credits, and they don't really count) So, maybe another Board Game, to try to even things up a little more, but which board game to make?

After sitting and watching AI players play the game over and over and over again, I'm fairly confident that Ludo is now working enough to get a release. You can Play Ludo in the Shoebox, under the Board Games section

Having a few "quirk" issues, right now.

As much as I've been struggling on with a flu, for the past few days, yesterday completely floored me.

After yesterday's break, I'm back to getting Ludo up and running, and .. Boy is it complicated!!

I got an email from Amazon, yesterday, telling me that my Labo VR kit was on its way!!

I'll probably be spending most of today working on the actual gameplay of Ludo.

On the trail for the "Next Boardgame" candidate, I've opted for the one board game I have an absolute hatred of. (Just to get the thing out of the way!)

I think I need more Board Games in the Shoebox.

cooolboy stopped by and left a couple of comments on 3DS games. I should give some proper feedback.

Although only Cardagain currently has any "House Rules", I have at least decided on the best place to put them. The House Rules are fittingly inside the "Rules" section. Tap the little "?" in the top right, and alongside the actual rules, you'll see a little set of standard HTML Radio-Buttons which allow you to choose from the three available speeds of the game. This will be the place where all future House Rules will be going, so try to remember that, going forward!! As always, if you can think o...

Anonymous Jean-Michel Jarre Fan

says.. Suggestion: when the cards are shuffled, add a longer pause to give players a chance to learn the new config. As it stands the cards flip over way too quick to remember what was where.