I'm slightly tempted to make a particular game for Browsercade, this week, but it really needs multiplayer (Local, via plugging in extra gamepads!) and if I'm being honest, my gamepad support still isn't quite as good as it should be.

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Protect your garden of flowers from the onslaught of explosive robot creatures!

If you've a Switch, and have downloaded PetitCom4 from the (Currently) Japan-Only eShop (vague instructions here), you can grab a copy of the game using the Public Key...

4TAXE33N4

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Not a fan of Thursdays. Why do they always make Thursdays so busy!?

SoCoder Newsletter, ALChoon, PetitSwitch game, and I also have to go for another blood-test, too.
So many things to do!

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Yesterday's PetitSwitch session went rather well, but once I got the basic mechanics working, I was at a loss as to where to go next.

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A maths game, this week.
Try to fill out the grid of numbers so that the sums on the right are all correct.
Each column should contain all numbers 1 to 9, and no alike numbers should be next to each other (horizontally, vertically or diagonally)

You can Print a sheet of them, here, or alternatively, Play it in your browser.

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The Foldapuz game took a while to get started, mostly because I didn't have a bloomin' clue what to do. I'm definitely starting to run out of ideas for that thing.
Might be time to think about retiring it, or at the very least, not forcing myself to come up with something every single week.

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Seems like the Google Form I set up for posting ideas isn't working 100% for .. well, barely anyone.
All the hundreds of thousands of people bombarding the form, and only one person managing to post anything?! That can't be right!!!

Also, that one person, Michael Fernie, is now telling me that he can't even access it either.

*tsk*
Come on, Google, pull your finger out!!

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OK, I THOUGHT (according to comments on half-a-dozen websites) that the issue I was having with the cache was a "Leave it for 24 hours and it'll magically update" one.
I've left it for about 28 hours, and still Edge Chromium isn't updating the spritesheet for the game, thus... For me at least.. None of the sprites for Handlink are showing up.

They ARE showing up in Firefox, Chrome and iOS Safari.
So, um. If you're in the mood, give it a whirl and let me know what happens for you.

Does the handlink show up, or do you get the eerie invisible game that I'm getting?


I'm at a loss to figure out this issue, other than the "last resort" of renaming all the files, any time I need to update them.

Further discussion of this issue can be found in this thread, at SoCoder

Light up five of the handlink's buttons so that all the surrounding values become zeroes.
Each value states how many squares in its row/column should be lit up, and will change along with your pushes, so a bit of analysis should allow you to solve the puzzle well enough.

You can Play Handlink in the Shoebox, under the Misc Games section.

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Having to wait 24 hours for the new cache method to work for Shoebox, I instead decided to start work on adding the new Cache method of Browsercade.

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Having some right issues with the cache, today.

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Yesterday was a fairly significant downer.
Terrible news on the home-front, and all plans were off.

Bad news is what it is, and there's not a lot I can do about it, but it's certainly something that puts a stop to all the things you're doing.

Today I'll try to get my mind back into its normal place, and see if I can make a game.
I've been saying all week about how much I like Foldapuz's new Five Blocks game, so I'll probably end up redoing that for Shoebox, today.

That's the plan, anyway.
We'll see how it goes.

The Shoebox is now using the "Server Worker" method of caching, instead of the older AppCache style.

With any luck, you shouldn't be able to tell the difference, and everything will continue to work swimmingly.
I'm not sure what the exact rule for cache-update-checks is, especially if you're playing with an "Add to Home Screen" kind of bookmark, but it appears to be doing a decent job of keeping up to date.

Please do give it a try, and let me know how you get on with the update, reporting any oddities or (hopefully not!!) complete breakdowns along the way.

Good luck!

You can Play Shoebox here.

The updated version number on the main menu should be v1.128 or higher.

.. If only that was "Money!" and not "trying to update the cache for Shoebox"

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Protect the city from the ominous bouncing meteors. It makes so sense, but shoot them all anyway!

If you've a Switch, and have downloaded PetitCom4 from the (Currently) Japan-Only eShop (vague instructions here), you can grab a copy of the game using the Public Key...

48APXQ3N4

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Tonight I'll be posting this week's Petit Switch game, and then..
The week is over!

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The game is currently titled Alien Spindome, but I'm not sure the whole "Spin" thing is going to end up being part of it, so I'll probably have to come up with a different title for it.

Maybe I'll just do it as a remake of the Amiga PD original Super Obliteration, which is fairly obviously based on..!?

Who knows.

That's the game I started doing yesterday, after about an hour of staring at the HERO level data, wondering how to compress it into something I could type out.

Find the five blocks within the grid.
The numbers on the edge tell you how many tiles are filled in on that row/column.

Not all rows/columns have numbers, so watch out for that!

You can Print off a Sheet full of puzzles here, or Play in your browser, here.

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Right then..
Time to start on this week's Petit Switch game.

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