On my desktop sits a sticky note with the words "The Menu is Broken"

The clusters return, in this fun little puzzle game.
Grab a hex from the floor, and jump it up towards the giant stream of falling clusters.
The larger the cluster, the more points you'll earn.
But don't let the clusters reach the floor!

There's a couple of little quirks I need to fix, but I should soon be uploading Clusters of Hex.

...alright!!
A little shadow added to the back buffer, and everything scaled so that the gameplay fits within the alcove.

Right then. Today I need to make a start on reconstructing Clusters of Hex again.
I'll be getting it up and running on Browsercade, so everything has to be converted over to Javascript.
It shouldn't be "too" hard, as I have practically only just done this in SmileBASIC, but I expect I'm not sure how well the resolution/ratio issues might confound the task.

Crikey, this took some doing!

As more and more games get dumped into the archive, more and more players are sending feedback.
Let's dig a random letter from the mailbox!

@RSKGames

In 2017 ''Blockman Returns'' was released and that was the first JNK's Blockman game I played. #1 Browsercade game is a remake of ''Blockman Returns'' game.

The original Blockman is recreated in glorious Javascript!
Run around the platform-maze, gather up all the blocklets, and take them all home.
The more you can manage in one go, the higher your combo score.
You can Play Blockman in the Browsercade, in your browser, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet.

I'm currently about 98.36% happy with Blockman, but one little niggling issue is happening on iOS.
For some reason, it's occasionally slowing down to about 25fps, instead of sticking at 30.
I'm fairly sure this is to do with my dodgy framerate code, again, so will be holding off a final post until tomorrow.
For now, though, if you'd like to give Blockman a whirl, head on over to Browsercade.com and .. Play the Game!!!

A few more tweaks, and Browsercade Game #001 should be more or less ready to go.

Spent an hour or two testing various enhancements to the FPS stuff, and I think I managed to find a nice middleground that seems to run fairly well.

I should probably try to finish off Blockman in the Browsercade, today, but I'm slightly worried that there's a teensy bit of slowdown in the engine, so I think today's plan should probably be to track that down.

I've had to add a limit to how many hexes I'm drawing on the Petit-Switch screen at once!!

Alan suggests

Looks pretty good. I did spot a slight half-pixel seam where the background wraps around. I like the parallax effect, though.
I've cheat-fixed that for the meantime, by simply wrapping the buffer a single pixel closer to itself, but it might look more glitchy once I start doing different types of backgrounds.
I need to add a "sprite to buffer" function, to check that, though.

1. People seem utterly baffled by the start-screen of Browsercade.
I put that there, because a lot of browsers need a single click before they initiate any audio, but seemingly people are instead "waiting" for it, and think the thing's broken.
D'oh!!

The gradient background in the above screenshot has been drawn to a secondary canvas, which is then redrawn onto the main canvas.
This seems to work reasonably well, and should hopefully allow for a fair number of generated backgrounds and other such effects, without requiring huge 1024x1024 background images to be downloaded.
The whole thing runs a little slowly on my Samsung Galaxy 10 A, however, so I'm going to have to add an option to disable the buffer when necessary.
But otherwis...

In order to properly test my onscreen touch controls, I'm going to need some kind of quick playable game, so that's going to be today's task.
Something short and simple, but complex enough to really put the controls to the test.

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I'm fairly content with how the touch controls seem to be working, now, and they're apparently functional on both iPad Wide and iPhone Tall displays.
The DPad can be a teensy bit large on iPad Tall, though, so I might yet still make an optional thumbstick mode instead.
Simple testing has been done on the menus, but "real world" testing won't be happening until there's a "real world" game to test it with.

Crikey, I wasn't expecting this to be as hard as it is!
Reminder to developers : Just because it works with a mouse on your PC, doesn't mean it'll work well with a giant iPad screen or tiny iPhone screen, directly in your hands!
I think the rest of today will probably be about shuffling the buttons on the screen, to try to find something that feels just right..
Also, I might try making an analogue thing, instead of a dpad.

Started to make some progress with Touchscreen Controls, for Browsercade, today.
The hard part was getting this button to work..

I honestly can't fathom why Firefox's cache isn't doing what it's supposed to.

It's the little things..
Like how the game isn't saving highscores, and the onscreen scores aren't quite readable enough, and the music doesn't end during the game-over screen, and ..
The little things..
Still haven't actually coded the game, yet, either! This is all Framework stuff.

I think, today, I'm going to focus on getting the final Framework touches of Browsercade done.
Step One will be working out how plausible buffer-drawing is, whilst in a html canvas.

Step one, design (and/or copy+paste from previous editions!) a logo and icon for the game.
Step two, start writing game.
Step three, realise I'm a long way from being ready to start writing the game!!

I was almost certain I was near the end of the Browsercade Framework, but .. Nope.. There are still things to do!