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Optimising the Load
Blog
16th March 2019
There are an awful lot of elements that it would be great to add to the Shoebox framework, but first a few additional framework chunks need to be integrated.
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Feedback Box
Blog
15th March 2019
During the course of making Shoebox of Games, I'm sure there'll be plenty of feedback.
If you want to get a mention, you can send feedback either in the comments, via Twitter, via email, or any other method you can think of that includes me receiving the feedback! You can Play Shoebox of Games here. Views 39, Upvotes 3
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Player Thoughts
Leapfrog
Blog
14th March 2019
The classic "hop over to remove" solitaire game is now part of the Shoebox.
It's a simple enough game. Leap either horizontally or vertically over another counter, to remove it from the board. Your task is to remove all but one counter from the board. Views 91, Upvotes 3
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Leapfrog
Game
14th March 2019
Leap the tiles over each other, capturing the leaped tile each time.
Try to find a series of leaps that will result in only one tile remaining. Views 32, Upvotes 7
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Misc
Board Shifting
Blog
13th March 2019
As the board game engine slowly builds (really bloomin' slowly, this has been one heck of a challenge!!) I can now move "pieces" in and around the board.
It currently isn't a lot, and there's little or no rules, but it is at least functional. Now to figure out why the whole thing scrolls so slowly at certain points.. Hmmm... Views 66, Upvotes 5
Shoebox
More Board
Blog
13th March 2019
Today I'll be tackling the actual functionality of the new Board functions.
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Board'ish
Blog
12th March 2019
I'm now fairly happy with the way the generic board is scrolling and zooming on my iPhings, but the desktop version needs a lot more work.
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Board!
Blog
12th March 2019
I've started work on a universal board-drawing function that should hopefully allow me to add a number of different board games into Shoebox.
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Shoebox
Imperceptible
Blog
11th March 2019
Did you notice the change in the Letter Bubbles, yesterday?
I bet you didn't!! Views 85, Upvotes 12
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Shoebox
Particles In!!
Blog
9th March 2019
And so, I spent most of the day working on Particles..
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Particles!
Blog
9th March 2019
Last night, I spent an alarming amount of time thinking about Particles.
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Shoebox
Same Game
Blog
8th March 2019
You know that thing where you click on clusters of coloured objects, to earn points, and try to remove all the objects...?
That's now in the ShoeBox. (Under Extras) It's a simple enough game, but it's made me realise there's certain things lacking from the ShoeBox Framework, like Score Popups, and lovely particles and things. Views 69, Upvotes 11
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What a busy day...
Blog
8th March 2019
First up, I've decided to just let "Trails" be "Trails", and stop worrying about what the actual game might possibly have really been.
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60FPS
Blog
5th March 2019
Shoebox has been limited to a 30fps mode, simply because initial tests showed my crappy laptop to suck at trying to run it at 60fps, and the fan kicks into gear!
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Accordion Solitaire
Game
5th March 2019
Move the cards towards a single pile on the left.
You can place cards of the same suit or value atop each other, if they're directly next to each other, or jump over if they're two cards apart. Views 34, Upvotes 5
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Cards
What IS it called?
Blog
5th March 2019
I added another Solitaire game to the Shoebox, last night, but it was entirely from memory, and my memory's starting to fade!!
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Shoebox
[Reset]
Blog
4th March 2019
I've spent the past hour or so tweaking the "failed to load" functionality of the ShoeBox, and I *think* I've managed to get it to fail well, although.. Honestly, I won't know for sure until something does in fact break, and unlike most scenarios, I can't think of a quick and easy way to test this one!
If you see a dead shoebox, be sure to let me know! Rest assured, however, that when it does now happen, a reset should no longer erase all of your Win/Play scores, just your curre... Views 55, Upvotes 8
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Errorz!
Blog
4th March 2019
RSKGames emailed, this morning, with a log file showing what happened in his browser, when the ShoeBox collection failed to load properly.
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Bit of Coding
Blog
3rd March 2019
Managed to get a little bit of coding done, today.
I've added a fairly swift anagram-finder to the word engine of Shoebox. The script can more or less search anagrams for about two sets of letters each second, so should be fairly useable once I start making a "generic unbranded crossword style word game" game. The next part of that particular puzzle is trying to decide on scores for tiles. Do I stick with "Stringy Things" tile scores, which they currently are in the game, or do I swit... Views 112, Upvotes 7
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Tweaking the Box
Blog
28th February 2019
I did a few tweaks to the framework, yesterday.
There's now a mute button in the pause/escape menu, which works.. (For a few hours, it was there, but did absolutely nothing!!) Views 45, Upvotes 6
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Shoebox
Fighting the Scale
Blog
27th February 2019
Michael emailed, late last night, to complain about the scaling on one of the games.
"No," thought I, "That should be working fine.." Views 45, Upvotes 11
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Shoebox
"Live"
Blog
26th February 2019
It's hard to keep from breaking things when they're already live on the server.
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Shoebox
DELETE
Blog
25th February 2019
With extreme apologies, I've just deleted everyone's highscores in Shoebox! (Don't lynch me!!)
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A Neater Menu...
Blog
25th February 2019
... But is it actually better?!
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Late Night Issues
Blog
25th February 2019
I posted Klondike late last night, then grabbed the iPad, and settled back to play for a short while.
.. Uhoh!! Views 54, Upvotes 6
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Shoebox
I Have Klondike!!
Blog
24th February 2019
What should've been doable within a few short hours, ended up taking most of the day.
You can Play Klondike in the Shoebox of Games! Views 50, Upvotes 7
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