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Most of Alan's Stuff
Blog
8th May 2019
Let's go back over Alan's requests from this morning, shall we?
You can play the recent upgrades in the Shoebox, v0.956.
If it doesn't auto-refresh, hit the new [Cache] button on the top right of the main menu!
Alan1. Place letters by click-to-pick-up-click-to-drop. I haven't got around to this bit, just yet. I need a rethink of how the mouse-tapping works.. It "should" be do-able, but it might be a little over sensitive.. (see #3)Views 164, Upvotes 39
Player Thoughts
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Shoebox
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Scrabble
AL Got Harder
Blog
8th May 2019
If you enjoyed slaughtering poor AL in the Crossword game, yesterday, you might find him to be a teensy bit more challenging, now.
Views 186, Upvotes 15
Shoebox
Crossword Feedback
Blog
8th May 2019
A nice big chunk of feedback from Alan this morning, on the new Crossword Game, so let's dig through his thoughts.
You can Play the Crossword Game in the Shoebox under Word Games.
AlanFun. I beat AL 356-147![]() Views 287, Upvotes 21
Shoebox
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Player Thoughts
Uploaded to GameJolt
Blog
8th May 2019
For the sake of desperately trying to get a few extra sources of feedback, I've opted to upload a copy of Shoebox to GameJolt.
.. And, thus far, there's zero interest.. So.. Yippee.. :/
Views 52, Upvotes 11
Daily Blog
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Shoebox
Crossword Game
Blog
7th May 2019
Crossword Game v1 is now uploaded.
You can Play Crossword Game in the Shoebox, where you'll find it under Word Games.
Views 222, Upvotes 19
Shoebox
7th May 2019
Someone should make a TV show where every single episode is big and epic, and definitely the absolutely final ever episode..
.. Until right at the end, when someone notices something, and it acts as a cliffhanger for the next episode.
Views 117, Upvotes 26
Shoebox
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Scrabble
Crosswords
Game
7th May 2019
The classic letter-tile based board game. Place words using tiles in your rack, and try to beat your opponent.
Views 152, Upvotes 31
Shoebox
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Words
7th May 2019
I'm now having issues with the Swap Letters Dialogue, in that if you drag all your letters onto the dialogue and hit the "Swap" button, for a split second you have no letters in your rack, and the computer goes "Hey, somebody won!!"
*sigh*
Everything else from the earlier todo-list is now todone, so I'm pretty confident that the game will be out at some point today! Just .. Those last little bits!!
Views 151, Upvotes 29
Shoebox
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Scrabble
Finishing Touches..
Blog
7th May 2019
I'm down to the last few items on the todo-list.
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.. Wasn't I down to the last few items on the todo-list, a few days ago!?
Hmm..
Views 116, Upvotes 23
Daily Blog
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Shoebox
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Scrabble
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Gui
RAWR!!
Blog
6th May 2019
Little bugs all over, but definitely a productive day.
Views 139, Upvotes 12
Shoebox
Doing the Blanks
Blog
6th May 2019
Right, today I need to figure out how to do the blanks.
I'll probably need to use an extra chunk of array to draw them separate from the rest of the board. Draw plain blanks, then plop letters on top. I might even make them Font-based, rather than Tile-based.
Views 143, Upvotes 28
Daily Blog
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Shoebox
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Scrabble
Nearing Completion
Blog
5th May 2019
*sigh* This really has been an effort to get everything into place!
Views 96, Upvotes 17
Shoebox
GUI Stuff
Blog
5th May 2019
1. The "Swap Letters" dialogue. A secondary rack that pops up and lets you move letters into the Swap-Rack, before hitting the "Yep, swap!" button and having them be swapped, whilst you miss a turn.
Views 70, Upvotes 11
Daily Blog
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Shoebox
Bag of Bugs!
Blog
4th May 2019
Having a really odd issue, right now, where computer players are sneakily gaining blank tiles, when..
A ) The computer player can't make a move.
and
B ) There are no blank tiles in the bag.
They're just sneakily plucking blank tiles out of mid-air!
Baffling!
Views 71, Upvotes 12
Shoebox
4th May 2019
Alan asks..What's the general outline of your current approach? The general method is as such. 1. The AI randomly picks a spot on the board, and scans to check that a word will fit in the space provided. It looks for a space that will fit about 3 or 4 letters and will connect to at least one other tile on the board.Views 264, Upvotes 52
Shoebox
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Scrabble
Adding More Brain
Blog
4th May 2019
The AI is selecting some nice placements, as well as some fairly decent words, but there are still "quirks" in the methodology.
Views 73, Upvotes 12
Daily Blog
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Shoebox
Scrabbling for Words
Blog
3rd May 2019
Massive enhancements, tonight, as the Crossword Game's brain gets a little shove in the right direction.
Views 155, Upvotes 25
Shoebox
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Scrabble
Eeking Closer
Blog
3rd May 2019
The AI is now at least managing to play without murdering my laptop!
A quick rewrite of the WordList, and a little bit of learning a bit more of Javascript's abilities, and I've now got things streamlined a little more.
The next will be to add a bit more intelligence to the AI.
As you can see in the screenshot above, all four AI players seem to be fairly balanced, but aren't exactly scoring massively. That'll be the next task, now that things aren't insanely slow and, deadly to my ...
Views 115, Upvotes 23
Shoebox
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Scrabble
3rd May 2019
I might need to rejig the way the WordList is held, to make AL's job a little bit easier.
Views 103, Upvotes 16
Daily Blog
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Shoebox
More Crossword Work
Blog
2nd May 2019
AL's getting slightly better, but is currently only attempting about 2 word placements per frame.
Views 68, Upvotes 13
Daily Blog
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Shoebox
1st May 2019
I've just had a fairly decent game against AL.
His AI's not quite up to much, but he is at least managing to play along.
Views 121, Upvotes 17
Shoebox
1st May 2019
Attempt number one hasn't gone particularly well.
The game struggles to keep up with itself, and my laptop's fan kicks into overdrive, while the game just about manages to find the word "AA" in amongst all the possibilities!
Views 93, Upvotes 15
Shoebox
Continued Crossing
Blog
1st May 2019
You know when you spend hours working on something, then look back at what you've done, and go "What on earth did I actually do?"
.. I did that, yesterday!
Views 130, Upvotes 31
Daily Blog
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Shoebox
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Bugs
What a Bizarre Bug
Blog
30th April 2019
RSKGamesWhen I was playing Golf Solitaire in my android chrome browser found an odd issue where the drag and drop card gets placed in the top left of the screen as seen in the attached screenshot.Views 110, Upvotes 20
Shoebox
30th April 2019
Crikey! This game's harder to code than I remembered.
Views 171, Upvotes 34
Daily Blog
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Shoebox
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Scrabble
Took Too Long!!
Blog
29th April 2019
Board Layouts.. Not easy!
But the main ones are in, now. Regular Scrabble, Super Scrabble, Words With Friends, and there's also the option for random layouts, so that's nice!!
More to come..
Views 128, Upvotes 17
Shoebox
Golf Solitaire
Game
28th April 2019
"Putt" your cards onto the green. Putted card should be of value one higher or lower than the card on the green.
If you can't putt any cards, draw a new Green from the deck. Views 201, Upvotes 28
Shoebox
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Cards
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