Anonymous Jean-Michel Jarre Fan

says..
Suggestion: when the cards are shuffled, add a longer pause to give players a chance to learn the new config. As it stands the cards flip over way too quick to remember what was where.

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Lots of comments, lately, as the Shoebox has essentially thrown any kind of regular AGameAWeek schedule well out of the window.
I should probably look into fixing that, and getting back to a more regular schedule.
Hmm..
Anyway..

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Cardagain seems to have worked out ok, but what comes next?

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Aaah, that brings back memories.
You can find Cardagain in the Shoebox under Misc games.

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OK, I'll worry about Jack Change It another day.

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To take my mind off the horrors of "Jack Change It", I've instead decided to test another compiled edition of the game.

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If player plays an 8, the next player has to miss their turn.. Unless they also have an 8, in which case they can play that, then the next player has to miss their turn.
...
Currently trying to code that, and it is NOT easy!!

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The "Jack Change It" game now more or less functions in a vague way..

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Today's hopefully going to be the last little bits of the reusable "Hand of Cards" code.

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This game is taking a little longer than I'd like, but for good reason.

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Our Four Competitors..
1. An Acer something-or-other, cheaptastic, slow and horrible little thing.
2. Archos Gamepad 2
3. GPDxd

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Today's plan will be yesterday's plan.

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RSKGames chips in with a few suggested game ideas, fit for the Box.

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Yesterday's "Making a List" post asked for suggestions for other games which might fit in with the Shoebox.
Let's have a look at the comments!!

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I've tried to keep the "notifications" as subtle as I can, but .. obviously, they have to be noticeable!
You can test them out in the Shoebox, by playing the Snakes and Ladders game!

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And checking it .. often!
If you've any games you'd like to see in the Shoebox, let them be known, and I'll add them to the list..

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As I sit and play the new "Party Mode" (Is that really the name for this?!) I'm starting to realise that there are still huge missing features in the ... feature!

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Tried for the past few hours to see if I can get any vague "screen size" stuff to work.

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Hmmm.. Kinda works!!

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Today I need to get a new scoreboard working in the Shoebox.

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Alan asks..
Did you ever read up on Nandeck? even if you don't use it, it might inspire you on your own ideas as far as bulk generating cards and such.
This would be for generating things like "Monopoly Knock-off" Property cards, "Top Trumps Knock-off" score based cards, "HeroQuest Knock-off" Inventory cards, and things like that.
Don't worry.. No inspiration is necessary.

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With a little imagery on the buttons, things look a lot more functional, now.

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You know when you're at the end of the day, and do backups and things, and forget that you weren't quite yet finished doing the Player Selection Screen, but it accidentally gets uploaded anyway...?
That!

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Alan posted to the Board Thoughts topic, about the grainy pixelly nature of the scaled up board..

Alan

SVG, maybe?

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Shoebox Highlights
Since RSKGames asked for such a thing, there's now a single quick-ish loading page, which contains tiny snippets of update news, along with links to the actual blog post that accompanies them.
I'll probably do the Foldapuz and JNKsg equivilants tomorrow, as it took absolutely ages to find the posts, and get all those little highlight messages written!

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@RSKGames

I was very lucky that in my first game I did not get into any snake tiles and got the help of one ladder tile to reach near the end zone much before the AI.
Yup, this is a game 100% down to luck.
I'd like to perhaps remove the sheer-luck, by making the moves maybe Card based, or something? Not quite sure how well that would work, and it honestly wouldn't be "Snakes and Ladders" anymore.
So.. Perhaps another type of board game in the future?

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