Developments

Ho, Ho, Ho!!
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I don't know why this theme popped into my head, last night, but there it is!

Developments

Yesterday, I made this!
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Taking sprites, sounds and music from (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=350">Invisible Munky 2), I quickly cobbled together a SpikeDislike2 t...

Developments

My first session of yesterday was spent fixing up the issues I had with the little fishy theme.
I started by stripping out the fish, and replacing it with an Octopus, which although fundamentally the same sort of thing, looked a bit less weird when bouncing along the floor in the standard SpikeDislike style!
So that turned out nicely.
After that I tweaked a bit more of the standard engine, which is growing features every time I touch the thing, and fiddled abou...

Developments

Yesterday I created an underwater theme.
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As good as this theme is, I'm not *quite* happy with it, mostly because the visual of a fish "bouncing" doesn't really look all that normal!!

Developments

Yesterday, I took the phrase "Sleepy Sunday" and worked the heck out it.
My cat woke me up at 6:15am, and I managed to stay mostly awake until just after 9, when I realised I was too tired to code, and instead went for a nap..
.. A long nap!!

March 6th 2012 : Taken into hospital with High Blood Pressure and Vomiting
March 8th 2012 : Brain Surgery for Tumour removal.
Previous Health Updates
(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/2012/08/home-again-home-again-jiggity-jig/">Aug 2012), (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/2014/02/health-update/">Feb 2014), (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/2014/08/health-update-august-2014/">Aug 2014)

Things I should be doing.
1. A new Alien Deathmatch
2. A new RetroRaider
3. A new JNKPlat

Please wait while your favourite AGameAWeek developer decide what comes next!!
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.. And has a nap..

RAWR!!
I'm really prepared for this year's Advent calendar. I've taken all the screenshots, I've written little comments for each game, I'm prepared!!
I'm Ready!!
I'm Sorted!!!

Merry Christmas!!
.... What do you mean, too early!?
Well, ok, maybe it is..
In fact, as of right now, it's exactly one entire month early!

In 2 weeks time, I'll be releasing this year's Advent Calendar, titled "Alpha Collexion" (so that after Xmas, it's still relevant, and is just as playable!)
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In order that the collexion is DEFINITELY in the OUYA ...

Each year, time dependent, I like to do something special over Xmas, and this year I've opted to start early.
If I want a whole Xmas Collection ready on the OUYA (And possibly iOS Store) in time, I need to get onto it quickly enough to have it finished, uploaded, and passed through review, in time for Xmas.
And, if it's an Advent Calendar, then it needs to be ready even earlier, for Dec 1st.
Yikes!!
I started the planning stages of this thing a couple of months ago, when I asked folk...

You may have noticed a slight lack of gaming over the past couple of months. Usually I cut down on AGameAWeek during the closing months of a year, and instead focus on a larger project, but over the course of this year I've already tackled a number of larger projects.
Blockman Worlds, JNK Bombers, Future Classics.. They've all been substantially larger than my standard weekly output.
As such, I'm actually struggling to come up with a decent "end of year project" that would be worth tackling.

Someone over at Softpedia has been closely following AGameAWeek for quite some time. It seems that each time I post a new game, within a relatively short period of time, it pops up on Softpedia's archive.
Handily, they tend to link directly to my downloads, so if in the future I opt to update any of my games, people will be able to get the latest edition.
They also write their own little descriptions and take nice screenshots, too.
It's a nice way of doing things. I'm rather happy about ...

Welcome to Xmas 2004, when I released an early test version of Platdude Spheres!
The game's basic idea was sound, but the gameplay never quite fit the idea, and it doesn't exactly "feel" like Platdude, either.
As such, the game was pretty much abandoned at the stage you currently see it.
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Maybe now would be a goo...

This week, Platdude gets his first real outing for about 3 and a half years!!
Poor fella's been cooped up for so long, he's started to go a bit doolally!
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During most of October I've been building up a lovely little "Compendium".
The idea was to make a collection of 25 little games, and pop it up as a sort of Advent Calendar type thing, but without it being thematically Christmassy, so that you could happily enjoy it at any time of the year.
It's been about 2 or 3 weeks since I started the project.
I got a lovely menu system working, and managed to fit all the usual scoreboard/icon/etc elements in.

The Amiga was nearing the end of its life cycle and my local Game store was slowly getting rid of its Amiga stuff. It was sad to find all your favourite games crammed into that little corner of the store where only the geekiest kids would huddle.
Then one day, I spotted a bright blue stripy box.
"Blitz 2.0!???
Oooh!

Continuing with our recent lack of coding, here's a cheap bit of artsy shit.
Introducing Jay's 2013 Avatar, in super high definition!
.. well, ok, maybe not as big as the Xmas one, but still nice and big.
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Sorry, guys, I'm still not up to speed doing gamey things, but here's a nice Xmassy desktop pic for you!
Yeay!
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Click for MASSIVE, then shove it on your desktop, or your iPhing, or your A...

(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/jnkplat_Xmas2011.jpeg"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/jnkplat_Xmas2011-300x193.jpg" alt="" title="jnkplat_Xmas2011" width="300" height="193" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2195" />Coming soon, as in probably tomorrow, or maybe Xmas morning!!
This isn't a proper one.
It's only a quick little Xmas minigame thing, but it'll be nice and properly playable, and...

Between insane neck issues, and crazy days trying to cram WAY too much stuff in before Xmas, I've not blogged much, this week.
Last night, as it became increasingly apparent that there was no WAY I could cram it all in, before xmas, I decided to hell with it all..
This morning, I stop attempting to cram, and instead relaxed into something a little different.

So, um, yeah.. My neck's fucked again...
...
I spent most of the past few weeks struggling on. My Xmas hols are due shortly, and I figured I should be able to last the short while, before giving up over Xmas and giving myself a well earned rest.
.. Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure I've attempted that before..

It's been over a year since the Platdude Retro Advent Collection had a bizarre game with a ball and some spikes in it, and as much as I've attempted to get on with other games, that one little game keeps on getting dragged back out again!
Last week, SpikeDislike won an IndieVisibility award, for being the best game to have with you on the toilet!
This week, the guy who nominated it for that award has written a great big sprawling mass of text, all about SpikeDislike! (Link no longer avai...