slippery-boxes dev https://staffordwilliams.com/dev/ Sun, 01 Nov 2026 10:13:19 GMT Sun, 01 Nov 2026 10:13:19 GMT Astro <p>Slippery Boxes now plays with a gamepad and keeps working in private browsing.</p><h3>Added</h3><ul><li>Gamepad support, claimed by first button press</li><li>In-memory fallback when localStorage is unavailable</li></ul><h3>Changed</h3><ul><li>Input handling split into keyboard and gamepad controllers</li></ul><h3>Fixed</h3><ul><li>Level selector and editor dialog heights</li><li>Canvas not centred in the viewport</li><li>Win animation state not resetting between levels</li></ul> Sun, 06 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://staffordwilliams.com/dev/slippery-boxes/2022-w05/ https://staffordwilliams.com/dev/slippery-boxes/2022-w05/ slippery-boxes <p>Slippery Boxes got analytics and automated deploys, then a much friendlier drag and drop editor and a batch of new levels.</p><h3>Added</h3><ul><li>Drag and drop players and goals in the editor</li><li>Move cells to shift chunks of a level</li><li><code>?edit=true</code> links straight to edit mode</li><li>Completion progress indicators in the level selector</li><li>&quot;Radio Masts&quot;, &quot;Hooks&quot;, &quot;Lids&quot; and other levels</li><li>Delete custom levels from the editor</li><li>&quot;Creeping&quot; and more medium and hard levels</li><li>Google Analytics screen views and game events</li><li>GitHub Actions deploy to S3 with Cloudflare cache purge</li></ul><h3>Changed</h3><ul><li>Fullscreen disabled when embedded on atqu.in</li><li>Levels split into files by difficulty</li></ul><h3>Fixed</h3><ul><li>Goal rendering and editor state bugs</li><li>Levels appearing twice once added to source</li></ul> Sat, 22 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://staffordwilliams.com/dev/slippery-boxes/2022-w03/ https://staffordwilliams.com/dev/slippery-boxes/2022-w03/ slippery-boxes <p>Slippery Boxes went from prototype to a playable game with win detection, level selection, completion tracking and a proper level editor.</p><h3>Added</h3><ul><li>Copy level JSON to clipboard from the export dialog</li><li>Loading spinner while the bundle loads</li><li>Menu toggle shortcut</li><li>&quot;New (Copy)&quot; duplicates an existing level</li><li>&quot;Pockets&quot; and &quot;Rolly&quot; levels</li><li>Level editor with import, export and cell placement modes</li><li>Tutorial levels and a &quot;ladders&quot; level</li><li>Red goals in the editor</li><li>Level completion date and time tracking</li><li>Level menu with Play and Edit tabs</li><li>Level selector dialog that opens on completion</li><li>Win detection with a squish animation</li><li>Coordinate overlay toggle in the debug GUI</li><li>&quot;EasyMode&quot; tutorial and other new levels</li></ul><h3>Changed</h3><ul><li>Runtime state separated from saved level data</li><li>Completed levels localStorage key renamed</li><li>Level selector groups levels and shows checkmarks</li><li>Smaller levels padded when the grid grows to 19 columns</li><li>Magic numbers extracted into constants</li><li>Levels use unique IDs</li></ul><h3>Fixed</h3><ul><li>Canvas scaling issues</li><li>Edit mode bug</li><li>Keyboard input reaching gameplay while dialogs are open</li><li>Incorrect player spawn positions</li><li>Wall goal rendering</li><li>Goal cells deletable in the editor</li></ul> Sun, 16 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://staffordwilliams.com/dev/slippery-boxes/2022-w02/ https://staffordwilliams.com/dev/slippery-boxes/2022-w02/ slippery-boxes <p>Started Slippery Boxes, a PixiJS and React puzzle game, with a live-tweakable editor and shareable level data.</p><h3>Added</h3><ul><li>Grid puzzle game with multiple frozen players and goals</li><li>Debug GUI for tweaking grid, players and level size</li><li>Level progress saved to localStorage with level switching</li><li>Level import/export as JSON with schema validation</li></ul> Sun, 09 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://staffordwilliams.com/dev/slippery-boxes/2022-w01/ https://staffordwilliams.com/dev/slippery-boxes/2022-w01/ slippery-boxes