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 138, Upvotes 20
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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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[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 current gam...
Views 98, Upvotes 21
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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.
Views 156, Upvotes 33
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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 switch to using...
Views 156, Upvotes 26
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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 82, Upvotes 16
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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 83, Upvotes 22
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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.
Views 91, Upvotes 17
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DELETE
Blog
25th February 2019
With extreme apologies, I've just deleted everyone's highscores in Shoebox! (Don't lynch me!!)
Views 110, Upvotes 21
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A Neater Menu...
Blog
25th February 2019
... But is it actually better?!
Views 126, Upvotes 48
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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!!
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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 97, Upvotes 24
Shoebox
Klondike Solitaire
Game
24th February 2019
The classic "Windows" Solitaire.
Try to fill the foundation piles with cards of the same suit, from Ace to King. Views 283, Upvotes 30
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I Need Klondike!!
Blog
24th February 2019
Had another "This game isn't possible" email, this morning, about the blocking of the Draw Pile in Spider Solitaire.
On the one hand, I guess I need to add a little more ingame, onscreen instructional stuff.
On the other hand.. People just want Klondike, don't they!!!
So that'll be today's task. Spend a few hours trying to replicate the "classic" solitaire, and see how easy it is to get it working, without needing to rewrite too much of the overall engine.
(And preferably fix t...
Views 80, Upvotes 16
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Shoebox
Today's Plan
Blog
23rd February 2019
Today's my birthday, so not much is planned for my day!
Views 193, Upvotes 17
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Shoebox
Instructions
Blog
22nd February 2019
In the upper-right of the Shoebox menu, once you've selected a game, you should now find a small "Rules" icon.
You can Play ShoeBox of Games here
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Shoebox
Strings is Working
Blog
21st February 2019
Strings is more or less functional, although it's missing different playmodes, and the scores aren't kept, but otherwise it's working!
Views 79, Upvotes 18
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Shoebox
Strings
Game
21st February 2019
Create words by dragging along a series of adjacent bubbles. The longer your word, the more points you'll earn.
Views 93, Upvotes 33
Shoebox
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Words
20th February 2019
Spent the past couple of hours rewriting the audio code, so it loads the sounds after first-mouse/touch, instead of all happening right off the bat.
Views 84, Upvotes 18
Shoebox
Starting the Second
Blog
20th February 2019
Since managing to completely fudge the site up, last night, I then spent a few hours whittling away at Game #2.
Views 106, Upvotes 21
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ShoeBox of Games
Blog
19th February 2019
You can Play Shoebox of Games here
Over the course of a couple of weeks, in February 2019, I began the creation of a small collection of JavaScript games.
My aim is to, over the next few weeks/months, to slowly expand the number of games included in the pack, to create a lovely little collection of card games, word games, board games and more, all of which are playable within your browser.
Views 147, Upvotes 19
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Shoebox
Scores
Blog
19th February 2019
I've added semi-persistent score handling to the Shoebox Framework, along with plenty of space to add a decent selection of scores and things into the mix.
You can Test the Shoebox here!
Views 127, Upvotes 24
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Shoebox
Spider Solitaire
Game
18th February 2019
A gentle Solitaire game.
Move cards around the table, placing cards atop each other in descending order. Your goal is to collect runs of King through to Ace, which will be banished to the Complete pile. Views 86, Upvotes 25
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Solitaire
Load and Save
Blog
18th February 2019
As far as I've been able to stress-test, the save/load functionality of the new Shoebox framework should now function correctly!
Views 100, Upvotes 31
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