The trip to the Diabetes Doc went pretty smoothly.

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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.

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I have to head off into town, today, to have a diabetes checkup.

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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.

I wasn't aiming to make this game, but figured it would be a nice showcase for the Board functions.
As always, give it a try wherever you can, and be sure to let me know how you get on with it.

You can Play ShoeBox here. Leapfrog is in the Extras section.

Stumbled upon a fascinating website, last night.
TimePix.uk shows old Ordnance Survey photos from in and around the Greater Manchester area.
If you can pinpoint the OS grid reference for your house, you can flick through a selection of their photos.

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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...

Today I'll be tackling the actual functionality of the new Board functions.

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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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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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Did you notice the change in the Letter Bubbles, yesterday?
I bet you didn't!!

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Today I'll be trying to come up with a few imaginative ideas for particles, but will probably run out of ideas after my usual few!

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And so, I spent most of the day working on Particles..

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Last night, I spent an alarming amount of time thinking about Particles.

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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.
Definitely going to have to add those over the next day or so, I reckon.

But, yeah, another game in the box!!

You can Play ShoeBox of Games here.

If you've any issues, as always, be sure to let me know.

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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I've finally gotten around to adding a new maths puzzle to the site, today.
Number Chain sees you filling in the operators so that the value at the top becomes the value at the bottom.

Incidentally, It's been almost an entire month since I last added to Foldapuz!
Must try harder..

Local Legend Sara Cox has written an autobiography of her life growing up.
The book is out, today, and will probably be the next of my "reading to fill my noggin with game ideas" books that I read.

You can buy Till the Cows Come Home from all good bookshops.

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6th of March 2012 was the day that I was rushed into hospital with a brain tumour. Oh joy..

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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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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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