Lots of comments, lately, as the Shoebox has essentially thrown any kind of regular AGameAWeek schedule well out of the window. I should probably look into fixing that, and getting back to a more regular schedule. Hmm.. Anyway.. RSKGames has submitted a few thoughts on Cardagain, so let's have a post about that! You can find Cardagain in the Shoebox, under the Misc section.

Cardagain seems to have worked out ok, but what comes next?

Aaah, that brings back memories. You can find Cardagain in the Shoebox under Misc games.

OK, I'll worry about Jack Change It another day.

To take my mind off the horrors of "Jack Change It", I've instead decided to test another compiled edition of the game.

If player plays an 8, the next player has to miss their turn.. Unless they also have an 8, in which case they can play that, then the next player has to miss their turn. ... Currently trying to code that, and it is NOT easy!!

The "Jack Change It" game now more or less functions in a vague way..

Today's hopefully going to be the last little bits of the reusable "Hand of Cards" code.

This game is taking a little longer than I'd like, but for good reason.

Our Four Competitors.. 1. An Acer something-or-other, cheaptastic, slow and horrible little thing. 2. Archos Gamepad 2 3. GPDxd 4. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10 A - 2018 model

Today's plan will be yesterday's plan.

RSKGames chips in with a few suggested game ideas, fit for the Box.

Yesterday's "Making a List" post asked for suggestions for other games which might fit in with the Shoebox. Let's have a look at the comments!!

I've tried to keep the "notifications" as subtle as I can, but .. obviously, they have to be noticeable! You can test them out in the Shoebox, by playing the Snakes and Ladders game!

And checking it .. often! If you've any games you'd like to see in the Shoebox, let them be known, and I'll add them to the list..

As I sit and play the new "Party Mode" (Is that really the name for this?!) I'm starting to realise that there are still huge missing features in the ... feature!

Tried for the past few hours to see if I can get any vague "screen size" stuff to work.

Hmmm.. Kinda works!!

Today I need to get a new scoreboard working in the Shoebox.

Alan asks.. Did you ever read up on Nandeck? even if you don't use it, it might inspire you on your own ideas as far as bulk generating cards and such. This would be for generating things like "Monopoly Knock-off" Property cards, "Top Trumps Knock-off" score based cards, "HeroQuest Knock-off" Inventory cards, and things like that. Don't worry.. No inspiration is necessary.

I have a very very specific image in my head, and it's one that IF I dare to make an SVG art doohickey, is going to be at the absolute forefront when I begin. Let's take a deck of cards, because.. Hey, I think I might end up using that!!

With a little imagery on the buttons, things look a lot more functional, now.

So, I tried a whole bunch of vector art apps, last night..

You know when you're at the end of the day, and do backups and things, and forget that you weren't quite yet finished doing the Player Selection Screen, but it accidentally gets uploaded anyway...? That!

Alan continues... Have you tried Inkscape? Nope!

Alan posted to the Board Thoughts topic, about the grainy pixelly nature of the scaled up board..

Alan

SVG, maybe?

Much like I did to Shoebox, last night, I've spent a couple of hours trekking through the various blog posts here, and automated them to create a single History page for Foldapuz. Foldapuz Highlights. For those interested in the inner workings, all posts have a simple [highlight]Highlight Tag[/highlight] at the start of the post, which holds a small snippet that gets transferred to the History page. The history page grabs snippets from any page that includes the word Foldapuz within its tags, and...