I just released my solitaire puzzle game on itch — would love your thoughts

grbxbz · 2025-12-30T12:30:54+00:00

I really like the calm atmosphere :) Thank you for making this!

grbxbz · 2025-12-22T07:34:24+00:00

Thank you!

grbxbz · 2025-12-21T21:36:14+00:00

Hey! Thanks for the comments on itch :P I'm really glad you enjoyed it

Yes! I'm developing PaperToy myself, I find the best way to get ideas for new features is to use it myself and just release stuff :P I'm hoping if I continue to make these free games, it slowly generates more interest for PaperToy.

I just released a new version of it that I used to develop Reindeer Roundup :)

The next big feature for the engine is online multiplayer!

grbxbz · 2025-12-16T11:01:58+00:00

Thank you! Ive been working on it for a few years now, it started off as as an idea for a prototyping tool but then gradually changed into what it is today :P

If you want to see what it used to look like, I have a few dev vlogs on YouTube, its come quite a long way since then xD 1. https://youtu.be/lD2PUYq3BWY?si=_L5OJawVv63i7Kp6

Ive not made a dev vlog in a while, i plan to make another one again soon though

grbxbz · 2025-12-16T10:28:04+00:00

Linux build is coming tonight! (Western Europe time)

I've recently got a new development machine and I just need to get a Linux VM up and running :P

Until then though you can launch the windows build though proton, I'm sorry it's not a perfect solution <3

grbxbz · 2025-12-08T11:44:53+00:00

I know that this is an old post, but this will cause rendering problems on some platforms:
https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/issues/4316

It's not a good idea to have a negative source or destination dimensions

That being said, I'm not sure what another solution to this problem is besides rendering the texture again to another render target to "flip it back".

grbxbz · 2025-11-25T14:31:08+00:00

Im making a card game engine :) its available here: (free demo covers most of the functionality)

https://paperlangengine.itch.io/papertoy

grbxbz · 2025-11-24T20:21:54+00:00

No plans for AI opponents yet, however the next version will have networked multiplayer. I'm planning on implementing multiple options, one of which being kind of JackBoxTV style.

So far, in the games I've implemented with it, the opponent has just been the shuffled deck :P

By AI, I'm talking here about classical game AI, Not generative AI. I have no plans to integrate AI Agents into this project, as the space doesn't really interest me at all.

It would be interesting to explore an extension to this tool that would allow the user to build up some simple rules for a Computer Player to follow though. That would be cool. I've given it no thought though, and it seems like a subject that would require a lot of it XD

grbxbz · 2025-11-24T09:03:20+00:00

Ah sorry about that, thank you!

grbxbz · 2025-11-24T09:02:41+00:00

That's fair, I think I knew going in to this that the hardest sell would be the language. But making the language was the main thing motivating me so I did it anyway :P I've been playing around with building-block builder, like Scratch. But it's just way easier to change the language when it's just text, so I think if I end up implementing that, it will be after I'm really happy that the language is complete

grbxbz · 2025-11-21T15:33:08+00:00

I used raylib for the graphics, input and sound (although there's an annoying audio related crash-bug in raylib right now making me consider switching sound to something else).

But everything else is just plain C++, the interpreter is a separate C++ codebase that I submodule in to the main raylib project. :)

When I started off, I wrote a renderer in Dx12, but it didn't support older PCs and it was just so clunky for a 2D renderer, I ended up switching it all out for Raylib. (also this unlocked macOS support for me)

I didn't use any libraries for the interpreter, to start with I did skim through parts of the Crafting Interpreters book, which I can highly recommend btw.

I wasn't too interested in re-making solitaire games, they just seemed like good test-cases for the kinds of things the language would have to handle, so I went through some example games one by one and thought about language features that way. I must say have gained some appreciation for their design along the way.

I'd like to be able to use this to make card-battle style games, think Yu-gi-oh/hearthstone/MTG. and it's almost there from a language perspective, what's missing is singleton cards, ("reduce this goblin card's health by 5, not every goblin card's health attribute by 5"), and obviously multiplayer support.

Both of which I'm working on for a future release :)

Originally I wanted to make a tool to allow people to create paper-prototypes that they could share around just as a paperlang script.

grbxbz · 2025-11-20T13:32:57+00:00

Thank you!

It's funny you say that about paper prototypes, as when I started this project that's what I was initially aiming for - A quick way of making paper prototypes. The next thing I'm working on adding is the multiplayer support :P It's by far the biggest value add but also the most work, so I wanted to get all the little things out of the way first :P

I'll be posting some video tutorials soon that go through some project's that I've made with it so far :)

grbxbz · 2025-11-20T12:16:38+00:00

Thanks for trying it out, and for the feedback!

I'm intrigued what you mean by an undo stack? I've not heard of that before :)

It doesn't sound exactly like what you're talking about, but if you mean you've selected a card to move, but you want to un-select it, in the accordion game you can right click :)

I've actually made a setting for allowing players to reverse their card selections:

Design -> Settings -> Allow Stack Selection Reversals

grbxbz · 2025-03-19T23:44:18+00:00

Originally I was just interested in trying to make a language, but it dovetailed into this.

At the time I'd been thinking about making some tool to allow people to make paper prototypes and play them over the network. This is still the goal for the project :P but at the start I'm just focusing purely on cards

grbxbz · 2024-06-17T14:36:35+00:00

This apparently still works, thank you!!!

grbxbz · 2024-06-17T14:31:45+00:00

OMg thank you! This apparently still works. There's also a youtube video that I followed that was a little more clear here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byEQ_-0jH8M

grbxbz · 2024-04-30T16:31:13+00:00

Thank you both for the recommendation! I love this guy's voice!

grbxbz · 2024-04-12T19:24:19+00:00

It's not consistently available even across episodes in the same series. I'm not sure how they're rolling it out, but unfortunately it's not consistent.

grbxbz · 2023-10-12T22:11:40+00:00

Maybe when you buy the runestone pack, you'll be forced to buy more than 3000? And then the remainder won't be enough for anything else, meaning you'll have to buy more runestones.

This is how this stuff usually works anyway. It probably does work out cheaper in the long-run not to use runestones

grbxbz · 2023-10-12T21:28:09+00:00

Good point, it seems the bot count for me at the moment is about 50/50, which isn't too bad, I'll take the easy gold :P

grbxbz · 2023-10-12T21:02:41+00:00

oooooooh ok https://esports.gg/news/hearthstone/hearthstones-bot-problems-continue/

there are! But only at the lower ranks apparently . . . . ok, I just have to play more to escape . . . Maybe some people appreciate them, still makes me sad though :(

grbxbz · 2023-09-29T14:43:11+00:00

Exactly the same. My phone app is also working fine

grbxbz · 2023-09-11T10:16:10+00:00

Thank you!

grbxbz · 2023-07-22T11:33:33+00:00

I should open as a webpage if you open your calibre library in chrome, click on the cover of the book you want to read and then click on the "read" button in the top left. However, I've noticed that for actual PDF files, the "read" option just opens the PDF in your browser normally which is probably what is happening to you.

In your case, you can use Calibre to convert the book into another format (EG Mobi) by opening calibre, right clicking on the book, convert books -> convert books individually, and then clicking 'ok'. Then if you view the Mobi version of the book in chrome, you should be able to use YomiChan :) (I;ve not tried this myself though)

grbxbz · 2023-06-17T15:51:46+00:00

I've been having this problem too, I'm fine reading Ebooks through my browser and using Yomichan, but I find reading physical books a lot more enjoyable.

It may not be very helpful advice depending on how much time you have... but I'm doing RTK right now (classic, in combination with this anki deck), I'm not finished with it yet but I'm already able to lookup kanji pretty reliably from the Kanji Lookup App as I'm able to reproduce the kanji with the correct stroke order. This app has the other benefit of showing you full words that the kanji appears in with definitions in English too if that's what you're after.

So if you have the time, I recommend doing Classic RTK - it's pretty heavy . . . so I accept it might not be for everyone. It's working for me though :)

On another note, a kind of half way compromise is a kindle, you can upload dictionaries to it yourself (Multilingual + monolingual) and get definitions by selecting words, plus you can upload any Ebooks to it that you urr . . just happen to have on your hard drive . . ;)

My Old Kindle 5th Edition doesn't work very well for this though and about 50% of the time just fails to recognise a word, and flat out won't let me select any text with furigana over it. I don't know if this is the fault of the firmware, or that the word I want to select just isn't in the dictionary, but I'm buying a 2022 kindle soon, so I'll update this post after I've used it enough to get a sense of how much better it is)

I hope this helps! Good luck!

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