I decided to try a couple of point and click adventures on the Kindle Fire and started with Tesla's Electric Mist and Big Fish's Enigmatis: The Ghosts Of Maple Creek.

The former, iCoolGeek's first game, is a fun little point and click that sees you saving Tesla and the people of Colorado Springs from the aether.   The graphics and navigation work well and I like the notetaking system.   It's neither difficult nor long but it's well worth 65p.

Enigmatis... is slicker and longer,  though perhaps not as much fun.    The mystery is hardly original (creepy New England town, people in robes, missing girls) but the game play is very well done.   My only issue was with the hidden objects bits; it's a shame they couldn't be better integrated into the overall gameplay.

I'll try out some games from other developers to see how they stack up and I'm going to have a crack at sideloading SCUMMVM to play some old point and click adventures too.

I haven't bought many digiscrap kits of late as I've not been doing much digiart/scrapping.    Deviant Scrap have a new store-wide collaboration, though, and it tempted me (to buy and, hopefully, to scrap too).    All of the Once Upon A Time kits look great, depending on your style of scrapping/etc, and I'd certainly recommend the kits from PinkLotty, Beth Rimmer and, of course, Holliewood herself.

I'm playing a lot of Cybernoid at the mo (via the xspect emulator).     Even with the blessed cheat*, I'm still rubbish**; great game though.

More at the World Of Spectrum's Cybernoid page.

* Define the keys to YXES (then define them back again) and you'll have infinite lives when you start the game.
** But I can get further than the fourth screen -- honest!

Having written a little app to renumber multiple files (mostly for mp3 files, in my case), I've moved on to a front-end for MP3Wrap to build audiobooks, etc.

Actually, more the "etc". I picked up on of those little MP3-speaker-player-thingies but, though the sound is good and the volume excellent, the firmware's a pig; if you want multiple (discrete) albums on a single card, you need to join each album up into one MP3 file.

I've separated out the less obviously scrapbook-y layouts and given them there own Digital Art section over on the Linux Digi Arty Stuff gallery.    Just added a few pages, mostly Who-related, mostly using backgrounds from over at Deviant Scrap (highly recommended).

So here it is, a very simple little word wheel puzzle generator based on the bits I did for Ma the other day.

Ma really likes those Word Wheel puzzles but couldn't find a book/site of them that she liked so I (was) volunteered to create some.  It's been a fun little project for a couple of afternoons.

I started with some Scrabble word lists (7 to 10 letter words), stripped the html, then removed the plurals before deleting the 7 letter words  (she wanted 8-10 letters).  That list was then jumbled with a quick Fisher-Yates shuffle, giving me the basic list.  All of that was done with Livecode, using it as a glorified scipting language (too lazy to use Bash when LC was already open!)

So I've started getting the Scratch tuts typed up and online.  Two so far: a nice, easy Guessing Game as a simple intro and a slightly more involved space shooter -- the first of three or four of various types -- using the mouse in a FPS-type way.

More to come certainly; Scratch is great fun, even for an old gal like me.