I'd forgotten why I don't do anything on Saturdays..

During this little AGameADay mini marathon thing I've been waking up, coding a game, then having my breakfast.
Each game's taking about an hour, occasionally 2.
They're quickies.
I also planned not to do Wednesday games.

Was ill, feeling fine today, but with an added complication.
My Mum's been to the Lake District, and has come back with an "almost broke" Sprained foot. uhoh!
I'm doing caretaker duties for the next wee while, so apologies if I don't get around to everything.
Finding myself making little checklists.. thank god for StickyNotes
Windows 7 - The good bits of XP, without the mindbogglingly shit bits of Vista, now with added post-it's.

Part of the reason for making a generic reusable frontend for my games is that I can't stand doing logos!
The things annoy me.
They have to be "just" right, and each game needs to be done differently.
A simple text "Name of Game" does me just fine!

I love it.
There are new features.
There are old features remade.
There are better ways to do things.

The other day I played another of those Fire Escape style games.
You know the ones.
They started on the Game&Watch and got remade over and over.
<img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Juggler_20110606_Logo_thumb.png">

Mark this down as a "Well, it DOES work, it's just not for me" kinda game.
<img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Word_Trundle_20110524_Logo_thumb.png">

A random game idea on Sunday, with a totally random name, and then a shock co-incidence when Monday turned out to be Roger Hargreaves' birthday, and the Mr Men ended up being plastered all over Google!
I couldn't have planned that.. I'm far too lazy to have planned that!
<img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Mister_Smash_20110510_Logo_thumb.png">

Today I'm battling the forces of evil.
Microsoft have "updated" my system so that all my games now run at about 1/3rd their normal speed.
Thanks, Microsoft! You're AWESOME!!!
...

1. I'm waiting for Puzzobomb to pop up on the App Store, assuming they like it, and let it up there!
2. NinjaDuck is slowly plodding away, but I have no idea what type of game it'll end up being.
I mean, I have a vague idea! Obviously it'll be a platformer! But other than that.. *shrugs*
3. I thought about Y-Box, and how that'd be a nice game to have on my iPhing.. Then I started juggling some sprites, built a nice set of gfx, but then couldn't be bothered to code anything.
4. I ...

FAR too busy right now!
What i'm trying to do today is to make a simple little game.
If you've been following you'll know that I have some sort of oddball Bee game in mind, so I've shoved the bee, the particles and the background images in, I've got the basic movement sorted, and am trying to figure out how the game should work.
Slow work!

For those struggling in the future...
"[CCDirector sharedDirector] deviceOrientation]"
Doesn't.
but

A Pro/Con list might've helped beforehand!!!
Fuck it, 70 quid down the drain..
carry on.

A nice slow paced shooter this week.
Poor old CPC Basic couldn't really handle bullet-hell type games.
Well, ok, maybe it could if you really really tried, and came up with a scrolling ascii grid of bullets, but for the most part it just wasn't happening.
Instead, Cassette 50 creators had to rely on other ideas. Like trying to kill you with your own desire to kill!!

No normal AGameAWeek this Tuesday, but worry not, there's still some games to be played!
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Time to pick a new Jingle.
I'm thinking that Year 3 should be marked, slightly, by tweaking the intro jingle a little, so I've gathered together a handful, and popped them all here.

54 games. Last year I only managed about 30-odd, so I think that's pretty good going.
Sure, it might not have truely actually been A Game "Per" Week, but I did at least keep the ratio up.
If I hadn't taken the time out to build the framework, I probably would've actually achieved the target a little better
The stats show I was pretty much on top of things up until that point, but then things got slower and slower until my buffer zone was all dried up.
Anyhoo, this is a n...

54 games. Last year I only managed about 30-odd, so I think that's pretty good going.
Sure, it might not have truely actually been A Game "Per" Week, but I did at least keep the ratio up.
If I hadn't taken the time out to build the framework, I probably would've actually achieved the target a little better
The stats show I was pretty much on top of things up until that point, but then things got slower and slower until my buffer zone was all dried up.
Anyhoo, this is a n...

54 games. Last year I only managed about 30-odd, so I think that's pretty good going.
Sure, it might not have truely actually been A Game "Per" Week, but I did at least keep the ratio up.
If I hadn't taken the time out to build the framework, I probably would've actually achieved the target a little better
The stats show I was pretty much on top of things up until that point, but then things got slower and slower until my buffer zone was all dried up.
Anyhoo, this is a n...

Authentic Kaizen ((URL "https://PixelProspector.com">pixelprospector.com), ideaman behind NeonPlat) has sent a few new game ideas. Some are short and sweet, but the most tempting one feels like it needs a little care and attention.
I feel like I want to do something with it, but am struggling to come up with a way to compress it into a week's worth of code.
I think, what I might actually do, is leave it a few weeks.
Once I hit the 52nd week of year 2, and another whole year's worth of ...

Incase you hadn't heard already, I released my first iPhing game, last Wednesday night.
This week, I'm releasing the Win/Lin/Mac testbed version of the very same game.
Think of this as a promotional item, of sorts, but also as a "Let's try new things" ideas edition.
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This week I've drawn a train, and some tracks, and am currently in the midst of desperately trying to get the train to behave upon said tracks.
So far, it's a stuggle!
Trying to get each carriage to turn at the right time, trying to account for the 30-odd track pieces that I've drawn, and trying not to make it look rubbish.
..

Is it really 200, already?! Blimey!

The quickly made retrospective "look at what you've done" post..

I started writing games as a kid, went through school making silly games, and ended up with not-much-at-all to show for it.
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Am I still doing that 90 minute thing?!
*shrugs*
Seems to have faded out a bit. Oh well, no matter..
Today I spent about 2 hours working on this.