The good old game that you used to secretly play at the back of the classroom!

You can Play Dots and Squares in the Shoebox, in the One On One area.

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I managed to rewrite most of my little PetitSwitch Sprite Editor, yesterday, but there's still a few missing features that need reintegrated. Though, if I'm honest, I never actually used those features.. So I might be lazy and say "Job Done"!

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Petit Switch is mostly faultless, but there's one slight quirk that tripped me up, yesterday.

When you save your code, you hit Ctrl+S, then it flashes up "Are you sure you want to save 'Project/main.prg'?" and then you hit OK, and it says "Are you REALLY sure you want to save 'Project/main.prg?'", and then you hit OK and then it saves.

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Don't think of this as Pong.
It isn't Pong.
It's NOT Pong!

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1. Not Pong is going to be my game for Petit Switch, this week.


2. Dots and Squares will be this week's Shoebox game.


Todo-List.

For Not Pong, I need to add a decent amount of sparkle and loveliness, but the basic gameplay's up and running.
Dots and Squares needs a better AL-AI. He's currently only looking at each square on it's own, so often says "This square only has one line, I'll add a line", but is inadvertently placing that line at a point that makes a third line on an adjacent square. He needs to analyse the surrounding squares for each line.
Other than that, though, both games are functioning nicely, and should easily be ready for their respective launches.

I can relax, and not worry about needing to make oodles of games.
*phew*
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.. Uhoh.. Tonight's Petit Switch release night, isn't it!

1. Finish off this week's Petit Switch game. (Not Pong)
2. Get started on a Shoebox game. (Unknown!)
3. Try to figure out the mod-pausing issue in Browsercade.
4. Post the week's SoCoder Newsletter.
5. Post the week's ALChoon, which also requires setting up a new ALBum page.

I hate Thursdays!!

Looks much better!!

I'm now struggling with pausing the music when you alt+tab, or otherwise multitask away from the browser.
I seem to have got it working on iPad Safari (which is alarmingly unusual!) and Firefox, but not in Chrome or Edge.
The Pause screen's coming up, but the pause command doesn't appear to be triggering the pause event in the mod player.
Bit odd, but I think I've probably confounded my own code a bit, so will be double checking everything to be sure.

But, yeah, the new menu looks nice!

Taking the options menu directly from Shoebox, and shoving it into Browsercade, it becomes instantly noticeable how much better the thing looks when you add an icon or two.
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.. or even just one!

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