Developments

I think today will be a rest day..

It's time to trundle through the words, again, as the ultimate WordSearch continues!

Developments

I played "Mr Tweak" yesterday!

Developments

I'm currently wondering how arcade-like I could make a Picross game...

Developments

Not much coding, and a whole lot of sleeping!

An extremely fast paced Match-3 game, this week!
Shuffle and Match, but be really quick doing it!!

Can you spell poperly? Only one way to find out!

Beta Collexion was my Advent Calendar of Games for 2015. 26 wonderfully playable little games, all wrapped in a lovely giftwrapped bundle.
The games are now unlocked, and can be played at any time.
Beta Collexion can be found <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=352">here, in the Jayenkai Archive.</a>
You can <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Beta_Collexion_20151123.zip">Download it for Windows</a>, Play it in your <a href="https://gamejo...

Beta Collexion is my Advent Calendar of Games for 2015. 26 wonderfully playable little games, all wrapped in a lovely giftwrapped bundle.
Beta Collexion can be found (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=352">here, in the Jayenkai Archive.)
You can (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Beta_Collexion_20151123.zip">Download it for Windows), Play it in your (URL "https://gamejolt.com/games/beta-collexion/109096">browser via GameJolt), Play it on (URL "https://www.ouya.tv/gam...

Beta Collexion is my Advent Calendar of Games for 2015. 26 wonderfully playable little games, all wrapped in a lovely giftwrapped bundle.
Beta Collexion can be found (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=352">here, in the Jayenkai Archive.)
You can (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Beta_Collexion_20151123.zip">Download it for Windows), Play it in your (URL "https://gamejolt.com/games/beta-collexion/109096">browser via GameJolt), Play it on (URL "https://www.ouya.tv/gam...

Developments

I got a new "Timer or Event" bar under the score, in NeonPlat's Cosmic Adventure, which either displays a depleting timer for things like Shields and Speedups, or a set of blocks when displaying weapons and whatnot.
It's a fairly simply little bar, and isn't much to write home about, but there it is!
Meanwhile I'm also finding (or rather, other people are finding..) a weird quirk with some of my older games, on some Android devices. It seems that upon first load, th...

Developments

I spent some time thinking about hats, yesterday, and trying to find the best way to illustrate the lifespan of the hats.
Annoyingly, they're all slightly different.
Shields have hit-points, Speedups have timers, Weapons have ammo.

Developments

Just when you think you're done with your menu system, you suddenly realise you've not got any options on the titlescreen!
Whoops!
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An hour or so later, and I'd half-wrangled old c...

So far so good on the JNKBombers front.
Most of Battle Mode's features are implemented as planned.
Human players, AI players, Bombs, Shield, Coins, Shop and today I added a few cheap-as-chips themes into the mix for good measure. There's only 6 themes, but it's enough to keep it marginally interesting!
Over the next couple of days, I'll keep tweaking away at the AI, and maybe add some new powerups, but otherwise I'm now at the point where I can say "Yeah, that's what I wanted to play!!"

I don't normally do "Postmortem" type blog posts, but figured I might as well start.
Not sure whether this will become a regular thing, or not, but I thought it'd be nice to keep track of what happens after I post each game.
In future I might leave it until a good few days have passed, but the world of AGameAWeek tends to flow fairly rapidly. We'll have to judge it as it happens.
Anyway, welcome to the newest section of AGameAWeek, where I take a look at the stats and things, to help figu...

OK, I'll admit it, I'm enjoying the OUYA.
You can keep up with (URL "https://www.ouyalytics.com/developer/Jayenkai/">all my OUYA games here). There's currently 5 of them, and there's oodles more to come!
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Hardly the worlds most imaginative title for this week's game, and mostly a cop-out graphics wise, but I was trying out a gameplay style, so that's where most of the focus went.
Was it a success?
.. You decide!!

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:right;"> AGameAWeek Gold peeks back at games I've released on this day in history.
Sometimes they're great, Occasionally they're terrible, but usually they're odd.
There are some games that you can pick up, tweak a little thing, and end up with a much different sort of game.
Pacman->Blockman is a great example of this sort of mechanic-tweaking.
Other times, however, there's not really a whole lot you can do to a ga...

\o/yeay\o/ Pancakes!
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This week, at the suggestion of <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/GlenMcNamee/status/169392091...

Last week, there was no AGameAWeek.
It was the clown's fault..
.. stupid clown..
(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/iTunesArtwork.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/iTunesArtwork-300x300.png" alt="" title="iTunesArtwork" width="300" height="300" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2288" />With my newer shinier iOS Framework running the way it was more-or-less supposed to be, I decided to...

<a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Shift-Clues-Screenshot_17-Jan-2012_101836.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Shift-Clues-Screenshot_17-Jan-2012_101836-300x225.png" alt="" title="Shift Clues (Screenshot_17 Jan 2012_101836)" width="300" height="225" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2248" /></a>Sorry!!
It's another uninteresting game this week, so apologies if you just plain hate it!
It's not bad, it's just...

Not sure why, but I'm finding it difficult to get a start on things, this morning.
Yesterday I managed to get a whole lot of stuff done, ranging from webby fixes, through to making a unicycle.
Today, I'm loading up bits of source, staring at it, closing it, trying something else..
I've been doing this for about 49 minutes, according to my playlist's timer!

Too tired..
Instead, I've been working on Sheep Goes Left DS, which is proving 17,000,000,000% more popular than it's iOS rival.
Quite why, I don't know, but the fact that it's being mentioned quite a bit is a good sign.

The other day I suggested that a new set of AGameADay might be in order, since I'm totally stuffed for ideas, lately.
Out of ideas, make the requirement more.... Sure, that makes sense, right?!
Anyhoo, today I spent . um.. all day.. doing yet another one of those Framework things that I apparently love to do.
This time I used PlayMyCode.com, and the resulting menu/score/game thing has actually worked out quite nicely.

Mark this down as a "Well, it DOES work, it's just not for me" kinda game.
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This week, Munky in a Mario Costume.
Next week, possibly Blockman in a Mario Costume.
Third week, I should probably do Greenie in a Mario Costume, but that's more 'cos he'd look funny, than for any gameplay reasons!
That brings us to April, and with my head spinning with ideas about "The BIG JNKPlat game", I'm not sure if I really want to attempt that.