Last night I rejigged my IP Banning settings a little, to catch any spambots in their tracks. Between 6:20 and 6:26 this morning, BingBot decided to do it's daily update, and requested over 800 pages of content within that short amount of time. Woah there, BingBot!!!

Today I'm going to get as much JNKPlat work as I can done.

I got stabbed in the arm, this morning, by a doctor with a big needle!!! Flu jab. As if I need more flu symptoms. They also took bloods to check for cholesterol and other such possible ailments. During my time in hospital I got so used to needles in my arm that it's now a none-event. But I think the Flu injection has caused a bit of drowsiness. I've felt incredibly tired, all day, and really haven't been in the mood to code anything important. A waste of a day. G'night!

As I continue to build up this year's Advent Collexion, there sure are a lot of robots getting added!

I didn't code a new game, yesterday! The first time in a good number of days where I didn't actually start a new game.

JNKPlat 2018 - Todo List The whole Online kit and kaboodle [60%] More Tiles [70%] More Levels [85%] Main Mode Complete/Credits [25%]

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.

Added Don't Connect Four. For the past few days, I've been trying to get a "Tic Tac Toe Tactics" game to work, (mostly because the name amused me!) but with only a 3x3 grid it seemed rather unfruitful and somewhat repetitive. Instead, I bulked it up to a 6x6 grid, with a "Don't Connect Four" rule. It seems to work ok, but I'm not sure how solvable the puzzles are. Be sure to let me know if you have too much of a hard time with them.

As I continue to make further tweaks to the server, a couple of major tweaks have been added.

A whole lot of minor, but important tweaks, yesterday. Including finally fixing that jump!!

For the past couple of weeks, since the most to a Linode server, I've been tweaking tons of little settings in and around the system to keep things running smoothly.

Yesterday was an effort.

One of the Advent Collexion ended up being stripped out again, yesterday.

10:30, last night, a Wasp appeared in my bedroom. We hunted the cupboards for Fly/Wasp spray, but none was to be found. Instead, I spent the night on the couch, and it'll be battled at some point this morning.

Yesterday was a day for pinching ideas. Trying out old games and jotting down a few mechanics as I go.

As I added yet another game to this year's Advent Collexion, I realised that I'm pretty much out of ideas!!

Trying to catch up with my own flu-fuelled laziness, I managed once again to do a nice big spurt of coding, yesterday.

I've finally started to make progress on the upload tool for the editor. It can currently deal with one single level pack at a time, at which point it scans the checksums to ensure it's valid, and then double checks that the level isn't already in the database. If all is fine, it adds it to the database!

Yet another fix for Crossed. I'm really not sure why it occasionally outputs completely blank puzzles. All very odd. I think it's a memory/variable issue, as it seems to be happening most often when the puzzle takes too long to generate, and curiously empties itself as it does so! Anyway, I've rewritten chunks of it, yet again, in the hopes that it'll finally fix the issue, but ... yet again, it's reset the "Yesterday's Solution" content, so apologies for that.

As I struggled through yet another flu-riddled day, I did at least do achieve one good thing.

I felt a little rough yesterday, so mostly spent the day just making more JNKPlat levels, and otherwise playing various games on the Switch.

The new bit-shifting seems to be functioning as expected in the save file.

Tonight I spent a good couple of hours working on the Checksums for the JNKPlat level editor.

Lots of fairly minor things happened yesterday.

The triangles weren't too hard to get up and running yesterday, so I also took time to make a completely random letter grid. The letter grid doesn't really have any specific solution due to it being entirely random, but you're supposed to play it like you would a game of Boggle.. Trying to find words with letters that join up.

Added Critically Triangular. Aaah, the joys of trigonometry! Also added Word Snake, which doesn't currently have any solutions, because I'm not sure how I could do that! It's an open-ended game, and should at least prove somewhat challenging. In addition, I've also rejigged the puzzle selection menu to make it a little bit neater, sectioning off the games into their various categories, and I've also shuffled the How To instructions to be in the same order.

If you've tried clicking the "Words, Maths, Logic" links on the Foldapuz site, you'll probably have noticed that the templates aren't 100% just of that type. This is simply because I haven't yet coded enough puzzles for each category.