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Socoder -> On Topic -> AGameAWeek 2020 |
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| Fri, 03 Jan 2020, 14:18 | |
Jayenkai
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AGameAWeek 2020I've kickstarted another bloody year of this. Wtf am I, Crazy?! Another year with PetitSwitch games, Foldapuz puzzles and regular AGameAWeek games, too. And music and newsletters and daily pixelart, and exhaustion and my own demise. Everything's ready and raring to go! I've set up a new Google Spreadsheet to keep track of my year, and will hopefully be posting things here, too... although, last year, I kinda gave up doing that and wasn't very well organised! I think I'll aim to post a Saturday Update to this thread. That seemed to work half of the time, last year. In amongst the first few things I'm aiming to do this year, is fixing the Cache method of Shoebox and Browsercade. EdgeChromium is complaining that they're doing away with the old ApplicationCache, because.. .. *shrugs* Instead. I have to make use of a horribly confounded and complicated method that I still haven't quite wrapped my head around, and that appears to be using more MobileData, which is something I REALLY didn't want to do with the Shoebox.. Grrr... Anyhoo, yeah, lots to do, and plenty of games to work on. First game, Chuck-A-Ball on Petit Switch. And not much else to show, since the year started midweek!! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!'' 
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| Fri, 03 Jan 2020, 14:39 | |
rockford
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| Sat, 11 Jan 2020, 04:18 | |
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Jayenkai
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This week's chaos in the AGameAWeek factory of insanity! In the Browsercade, I made the game Jack on the Blocks. It was originally intended to be a QBert Clone, but ended up more like Oh Mummy! View on YouTube You can Play it in your Browser here, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet This week's Foldapuz puzzle is Five Blocks. Try to find the five solid blocks, by using the side-counts, showing how many of the tiles on the row/column are solid. Tubeage You can Print off a sheet of puzzles here, or play it in your browser here. Meanwhile, on Nintendo Switch, I made the game Meteor Defender Protect the city from the oncoming destruction! Tubeage If you've got PetitCom4, you can download the game with the SBKey 48APXQ3N4 And lastly, this week's ALChoon is Nothing Beyond, with a happy little blippity blip intro! Tubeage Part of the "Nothing" AL Bum. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Sat, 18 Jan 2020, 09:12 | |
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Jayenkai
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Another week, another pile of gameage!!Handlink This week's Shoebox game sees me ripping off the Handlink from Quantum Leap. Tubeage Taking cues from last week's Foldapuz game (Five Blocks), I made a game about prodding blocks, and .. "Oh, Boy!" I just KNEW I had to add those sound effects on top! You can Play the game in your browser, or better yet, play it on your phone in portrait mode, and pretend like you're Al !! Nine Plus A grid of numbers with totals on the right hand side. Each row has all numbers 1 through 9. Each row has no duplicates, and no numbers touch each other diagonally. Tubeage With those rules in place, fill in the grid to the numbers on the right hand side all add up correctly. You can Print pages full, here, or alternatively Play it in your Browser Ninja, Duck! For PetitCom4 on Switch, I remade a game about a ninja and a duck! Tubeage Slash away at the evil duck army, but watch out for the unpleasant surprise hiding inside!! If you're got PetitCom4 on Switch, grab the game with the SBKey 4TAXE33N4 ChoonageView on YouTube -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Sat, 25 Jan 2020, 05:08 | |
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Jayenkai
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Take This Torch This week's Browsercade game is a little dungeon questing thing. Find the key, and get back home. Suggested by Michael Fernie, it's like a little mini RPG, but without any RPG elements! A randomly generated set of corridors with a really cheaply made lighting method. Avoid the blue creatures and shake your flame to ward them off! You can play in your Browser, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet. Two Letters For the Foldapuz this week, the new puzzle involves you trying to find the two letters missing from all the words. Fin the missing Two letters for the whole set of words, then put them all back in again. You can print out sheets of the puzzle, here or play it in your browser Every Good Bird Deserves Flappyness Meanwhile, over on Switch, I made a new "Flappyness" game. You can play it if you have Petit Switch using the download key 4KE3QJ1F ChoonageAnd finally, this week's ALChoon has already been used in the week's Browsercade game!View on YouTube Part of the "Nothing" Album -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Sat, 25 Jan 2020, 08:31 | |
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2 questions.... 1. Are these coded directly in javascript? 2. If so might I be able to 'borrow' your maze generator from the lap game? -=-=- Check out my excellent homepage!
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| Sat, 25 Jan 2020, 10:26 | |
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Jayenkai
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the "lap" game?! For Take This Torch, I used an extremely lazy method. so that there's a grid of 0's (1 = solid, 0 = floor) that are laid out a bit like the solid blocks in a Bomberman grid.. ! followed by two loops of.. And, honestly, that's all it is!! Each spot has (usually) two paths leading to and from it, and that's all that happens. Spawn the player randomly anywhere, and do a flood-fill to double check which bits are accessible, and remove those that can't be. If you want a better method, This one turned out infinitely more complex. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Sun, 26 Jan 2020, 11:01 | |
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spinal
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Yeah, torch, no Idea where lap came from, we'll blame the phones autocorrect  So it's not a real maze then? I would never have guessed! I've been trying to re-write my old monkey maze generator in C and nearly threw the laptop out of the windows a couple of times because of the "it's doing everything correctly, yet spews out random wrong data for no reason" situations! Recursive maze generation = easy, non-recursive = Argh! I'm going to give your version a try. As I don't want a difficult maze it might be a better option regardless! -=-=- Check out my excellent homepage!
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| Sat, 01 Feb 2020, 05:36 | |
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Jayenkai
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Aaaargh! The Spikes!!! A week full of Spikes, as the week started and ended with the return of your favourite set of pointy sharp pixels. SpikeDislike.comSpikeDislike.com was launched on Monday, with the basics of the framework being put into place.Over the course of the week, I've been adding little bits and pieces, neatening up the framerate methods, getting the music to sync up and more.  It's fully playable inside your browser, and although it's currently a little lacking in features, those will all be returning, bit by bit, over the next short while. You can Play it at SpikeDislike.com! Yeay! Tubeage Balance BlocksFor this week's Foldapuz puzzle, a simple little Maths challenge.Try to move all the blocks onto the scales so that the two sums match up.  Balance Blocks can be printed in sheets or Played in your browser Tubeage Energy WarriorOver on NintendoSwitch, I created a Platdude game with giant evil aliens and super colourful lazers! If you have PetitCom/SmileBASIC on Switch, you can play the game using the SBKey 4E494K344 Tubeage ALChoonMusically, this week's choon is called "Nothing Else"View on YouTube Available as part of the "Nothing" ALbum. SpikeDislike2 back on iOSAnd to round off the week with Spikes, I decided to head into my old 2013 code, and see if I can finally get SpikeDislike2 back up and running on iOS.A few prods and tweaks, and an epic fight with the AppStore later, and TADA!  SpikeDislike2 is back on your iPhone/iPad. Go and grab it in the AppStore, here! *phew* What a week!! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Sat, 08 Feb 2020, 05:32 | |
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Jayenkai
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This week's AGameAWeek Highlights! Me, Me, Me!Words Within Find all the selected words from within the set of letters at the bottom. You can play the game in your Browser, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet. Tubeage Crypto Maths Figure out the code, solve the sum, then find the mystery word. You can print out sheets of the puzzle or play it in your browser. Tubeage Optimal Spring This week's Nintendo Switch game is extremely springy! I started out making a Jumping Jack clone, but ended up with a Mario Bros (Arcade) clone instead..! Created using PetitCom/SmileBASIC, you can grab Optimal Spring using the SBKey 4JKDBE83 Tubeage Heavy Blues A new theme for SpikeDislike! I'm going to try to do one new theme/style a week, until it breaks me!! Heavy Blues sees the ball getting alarmingly heavy, and the whole game is harder as a result. You can Play the game in your Browser, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet. Tubeage ALChoonMeanwhile, this week's ALChoon is a nice little happy choon!View on YouTube Available as Part of the growing "Nothing" Album -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Sat, 15 Feb 2020, 06:37 | |
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Jayenkai
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Another week, another roundup of insanity. We're up to Week 7, and my spreadsheet says I've made 19 games, so far.. So.. There's that!! Cosmic Gardener For this week's Browsercade game, a simplistic remake of Mr Do. Guide Platdude through the garden and grab all the fruit. You can Play the game in your browser, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet. Tubeage Four Winds Over on Foldapuz is a windy puzzle. Draw lines of wind from the fans, so that each one fills the given number of squares. You can print sheets of the puzzle, or play it in your browser Tubeage Undercover Frog My Nintendo Switch game for this week is a happy game of Frogs and Munkys. Help the Undercover Frog gather up as many stars as it can, using a mystical magical hat! If you have PetitCom/SmileBASIC on Switch, grab the game with the SBKey 4423K3Y3 Tubeage On the Court Meanwhile, this week's SpikeDislike addition is the fan favourite Basketball theme, On The Court Play the new theme in your browser, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet, at SpikeDislike.com Tubeage ALChoonAnd finally, this week's ALChoon is Nothing Generational. View on YouTube Available as part of the growing "Nothing" ALBum. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Sat, 22 Feb 2020, 03:52 | |
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Jayenkai
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Another week of game making!NeonPlat This week's Browsercade game is a remake of the classic NeonPlat. You can Play this retrotastic platformer in your Browser, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet Tubeage Eighteen PINs For Foldapuz this week, I created a simple number-filling puzzle game. Add all the numbers 0 to 9 so that the digits of each PIN adds up to 18. You can Print out sheets of the puzzle, or Play it in your Browser. Tubeage BlastTrax This week's Nintendo Switch game is BlastTrax Follow the tracks and blast all the dangers within. If you have PetitCom/SmileBASIC on your Switch, you can grab the game with the SBKey 4N3SNXE5F Tubeage ALChoonLastly, this week's ALChoon is a slower choon, available as part of the "Nothing" ALBumView on YouTube -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Sun, 23 Feb 2020, 10:10 | |
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The songs reminds me a little bit of the mood that the terminator 2 song had. The warszawa lead is really something. I am stil waiting for the korg triton expansion for gadget. I had installed the pc demo version to try if it worked with lmms but it did not work. I noticed Roland has a free pc daw on their site. It is advertised as having no real limitations, I think I wil install it and see.
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| Sun, 23 Feb 2020, 10:53 | |
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Jayenkai
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Triton on iOS is part of Module Pro 
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| Sat, 07 Mar 2020, 13:30 | |
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Jayenkai
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Energy Warrior This week's Browsercade Game is a remake of a Petit Switch game I made a few weeks ago. Energy Warrior sees you battling the forces of evil, whilst keeping your batteries charged. You can Play it in your Browser, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet. Tubeage All Change For Foldapuz, this week, I made the word puzzle All Change. Change all the letters in a single column to the same letter, to make 5 words. You can Print out puzzles, or Play in your Browser. Tubeage Zyndotz Over on PetitCom/SmileBASIC, I made a fancy effect, then struggled to come up with a game concept. In the end, it plays a bit like "Oh Mummy!", but at a much faster pace. If you have PetitCom/SmileBASIC for NintendoSwitch, grab the game using the SBKey 4N3XKY5BY Tubeage Nothing JostledAnd lastly, my ALChoon for this week is Nothing Jostled. A short but fun little choon. Available as part of the "Nothing" AL Bum. View on YouTube -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Sun, 08 Mar 2020, 01:03 | |
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Like I said to Al Bum, a nice little tune. The bass really draws my attention. The melody is nice also. Meanwhile the music store or the post messed up and I need to wait until monday for the microkey air 37. I waited the entire friday evening before mailing the store. It seems there have been a lot of complaints lately. The delivery is now set from 8:00 to 18:00! Also I have been watching the Rick Beato video multiple times to get familiar with all the things featured in there. Sub bass instruments. High synths, dimmed brasses. Glass percussion, lofi vocals, guitars. Finger Snaps, reverb tails, swells. It seems with sound design it requires you to get that wall of sound. Oh, and I screen captured the video just in case it gets removed one day. 1.8gb video!
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| Sun, 08 Mar 2020, 01:16 | |
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rockford
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I really like the idea behind Zyndotz, but it lacks the threat of Oh Mummy! With that game, you were never sure if what you were uncovering would help or hinder your quest. Here it's just avoidance of the guy on the right (unless I missed something). For all its technical cleverness, it's perhaps closer to Q-Bert in just changing colours. I'm sure that you could make this into something much better. Did you try adding threats roaming the actual globe? And/or making the globe bigger?
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| Sun, 08 Mar 2020, 01:35 | |
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Jayenkai
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The main issues come down to a lack of planning. A common issue with AGameAWeek's! A couple of days prior to release, this was just a spinning bunch of dots, and no gameplay at all! Tweet The gameplay was tacked on at the end, and not really given much thought. Were I to it again, I'd like to add special zones for protection, and maybe a mine that you can step on then spin the globe to aim it at a baddie.. As for getting baddies onto the globe, the globe was very badly coded, and even getting the player character to work right ended up being hellish!! Redo from start with a plan of action, instead of a "hey, this looks cool, let's see what happens", and I'm sure something better will happen. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Sat, 14 Mar 2020, 06:52 | |
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Jayenkai
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Wordsearch This week's Shoebox game is a simple wordsearch game. Yes, I know.. "Just a Wordsearch? How unimaginative!!" I spent about 7 or 8 hours, last weekend, making about 150 little "groups of words" so that the wordsearch would make sense, and be random enough. So, although it IS "Just a Wordsearch", it's probably one of the hardest games I've tackled in recent weeks, mostly due to how much effort it took to build up the word list!! I'll likely reuse these groups in future Foldapuz games, too, so it's all worth it.. Right!? You can Play it in your Browser, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet. Tubeage Multipies Each "pie" contains the same four outer numbers, multiplied by the central one. eg, if the middle number is six and the top left is 30, then the top left would be 5 when the center is one. If another pie has a center of five, then the top left would be 25.. .. and so on!! Using a variety of multiply and divide, you *should* be able to work out all the numbers in all of the pies. This maths puzzle popped into my head just after midnight on Monday, and was online by about 3 in the morning. By which time I was mostly braindead! .. Probably took a bit longer than it should've but I had to stress test it to ensure it was generating solveable puzzles. You can Print out sheets of the puzzle or Play them in your browser. Tubeage Buzzard Battle On the Nintendo Switch, this week, I made the game Buzzard Battle. Having not bothered to do any multiplayer stuff, yet, I took a day or so trying to build up simple "Two joycons" support in my framework. Seems to have turned out ok, or at least I've not had any complaints yet! The resulting game is a basic jousting game for one or two players. Flap around, boop the other birds on their head, and enjoy the fact that I named this after a Joust Clone that I had on the Tandy TRS-80 (Buzzard Bait) If you've got PetitCom/SmileBASIC on your Switch, you can grab the game using the SBKey 449NV3NJ Tubeage Nothing KeptAnd lastly, the musical ALODare Choon for the week is Nothing Kept. View on YouTube Available as part of the growing "Nothing" ALBum. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Sat, 14 Mar 2020, 07:57 | |
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I think I know that game as "Joust" Did you do ai for the other players? I think I would have a fun time trying to create something like that myself.
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| Sat, 14 Mar 2020, 08:31 | |
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Jayenkai
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The AI is very very basic. Choose a spot on the screen, then flap towards it, (if x<aimx, go left, if y>aimy, flap a bit, etc) and occasionally aim for the player, instead.
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| Sat, 21 Mar 2020, 07:29 | |
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Jayenkai
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Pixie Bubble In this week's Browsercade game, guide the bubble through the maze, using the fans around the walls. You can Play Pixie Bubble in the Browercade, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet. Tubeage Treasure Hunt Thar be Tresure to be found in the Foldapuz, this week. You can either Print out sheet of the puzzle, or Play in your browser. Tubeage Pizza Delivery Minute On NintendoSwitch, this week's PetitCom/SmileBASIC game sees you trying to deliver pizzas. Deliver all you can, by using the SBKey 4AKYJ5X Tubeage Nothing Lost Meanwhile, this week's ALChoon is quite a happy little thing. View on YouTube Available as Part of the "Nothing" ALBum -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Sat, 04 Apr 2020, 15:06 | |
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Jayenkai
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Card Board Over in Shoebox I made a board game that works using a deck of cards laid out on the table. You can Play it in your browser on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet. Alternatively, make a note of the simple rules, and with a deck of cards, a few counters and a dice (die!) you can try playing it at home. Why not try adding your own rules to the game, too, and let me know what interesting gameplay methods you can come up with. Tubeage Sum Search For this week's Foldapuz puzzle, each row and column has the numbers 1 to 5, without repetition. One of the numbers from each row/column has been blanked out, and the totals of each segment is along the side/top of the rows. You can Print out sheets of puzzles, or Play it in your browser. Tubeage Matrix Blaster My Petit Switch/SmileBasic game for this week is Matrix Blaster. A good old fashioned shooty game, which may or may not have been made because of that Missile Command thread, earlier in the week!! Can you stop the evil virus from spreading...!? If you have SmileBASIC, you can grab the game using the SBKey 4AKD1EH3 Tubeage Nothing NimbleFinally, this week's ALChoon is Nothing Nimble. It's got drums in it!! View on YouTube -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Sat, 25 Apr 2020, 08:54 | |
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Jayenkai
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Save the Kumquat This week's Ludum Dare theme was "Keep it Alive", but I'm not sure you can really keep a Kumquat alive, once it's been picked..? Tubeage Pillbox Place the pills into the pillbox, so that each day contains the same dose. You can Print our sheets of puzzles, or Play in your Browser. Tubeage Release For the worldwide release of SmileBASIC on Switch, I made a game called Release, because I'm super imaginative like that!! If you've grabbed SmileBASIC, you can get this Release using the SBKey 4N3S3N4BY Tubeage Nothing QuadraticView on YouTube The latest ALChoon is a chirpy and chippy as ever. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Sat, 02 May 2020, 05:43 | |
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Jayenkai
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Klik Linx A strategy game. Place your blocks onto the grid, and score points by matching symbols as you go. You can Play it in your Browser on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet. Tubeage Enigma All the words are scrambled using the same Enigma key. Can you crack the code and solve the words? You can Print Sheets of puzzles, or Play it in your Browser! New Ropes for Old Stars Over on SmileBASIC, swing around and grab the stars! A game made out of the thought "I wonder how cool I could do a swinging rope?", and then trying to figure out what sort of game could be made from it. Grab the game using the SBKey 454YNA33J Tubeage Nothing RenewedView on YouTube -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Sat, 09 May 2020, 04:20 | |
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Jayenkai
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Another week's worth of content!!Space Popcorn A remake of Space Popcorn was made for Browsercade, this week. Battle the oncoming kernels, and fight for survival. You can Play the game in your browser. Tubeage Fillomino In this puzzle, each number represents the size of a shape. Try to fit all the shapes into the grid without touching any like-sized clusters, together. You can Print out sheets of puzzles, or Play in your Browser. Tubeage Space Clusters This week's SmileBASIC/PetitCom game is a redoing of Space Clusters. Shoot the invaders, and then watch out for their debris. This game has a two player mode, too! Grab the game with the SBKey : 4V3S8NDXF Tubeage Nothing SentimentalView on YouTube -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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