( border="0"><tr><td>Blimey! What a year, eh! I decided to round off the year with a nice big, old fashioned list, with everything in it. Except this doesn't have everything in it, because I've forgotten to add the DS games.. I'll do that later!! (Took me about 3 hours to do this, so I'm not going to tweak it, now!!) Anyway, here's a nice great big list of every game (again, apart from the DS ones) that I made in 2008. It's quite a big list, too.. 31 Games. OK, so maybe not a ...

Sometimes Copy and Paste works..

Having finally put the nice simple swooshy spawning sound back into the game, and got a couple of nice test levels up and running, and inside the scoreboard, and then got the whole "Nth position on the online scoreboard" display going, I decided to move onto more pressing matters. I already copy and pasted most of the control scheme stuff early on in the project, so to help give the game a little consistency, and so as not to have to recode the whole thing, to...

I didn't get time to fix this up properly last night, or this morning, either.. Blame Alien Deathmatch! So, this week's game is exactly as it was yesterday, when posted over at Socoder. Wednesday Workshop #180 asked us to create a Darts game, so here's a quickly made one. A target is written on the scoreboard, and with your three darts, you have to try to get as close to that target as you can. <img src="https://socoder.net/workshop/dlds/180_dart_gets.gif"> Nice and simple. Bu...

Folk who previously visited my DSBrew site will now find themselves plonked into this site. This is AGameAWeek, and here I write a game a week! Just as it says! I opened up my own little DSBrew site a while back, and started cataloguing DS games, but soon realised that keeping a DS Homebrew catalogue + writing a game a week didn't really work that well together, so DSBrew got left behind. Up until today I've left it be, rotting away in an unused corner of the internet.. But.. There have been 4 new ...

<a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/ad2_shot011.png"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/ad2_shot011_thumb.png"></a> It's getting there! Slowly but surely. I got the levels to doodle themselves, and everything swooshes around quite nicely (if a little blocky!) I've had to implement a menu buffer image to keep the speed up (even if it is still a teensy bit slow) but everything's looking good for the menu. At this point, I'll probably have a "Hold mouse over X obj...

Today's work has been mostly of the external variety. First off, compressing a level.. I'm taking 160x160 pixels, each one being around about 16 different colors (give or take, depending on what walls/floors/etc I bother to add.) and trying to bundle them up into a teensy tiny bit of data. To me, compression's a fun time, where you get to play with lots of fiddly numbers, and chaotic maths, just to get large things down to size. Today, however, .png is annoying me. Because my 160x160 is dow...

Yesterday I said I'd be working on something else.. I didn't! Alien Deathmatch keeps dragging me back in Today I played with the weapons a bit more, to try and get a nicer feel to all the different main weapons. I also messed about with Particles because unbelievably I'd forgotton to put the things in! Silly me! After that, a teensy bit more Alien AI work, and some more background tweaks managed to keep me busy through most of today. They'r...

With random spawning added, and basic weapon upgrades up and running, the game's getting much more like a game, now. <a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/ad2_shot007.png"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/ad2_shot007_thumb.png"> Basic Bog-Standard Arena</a>

Having headed back to Blitz3D (from BlitzMax, with it's annoying incompatibilities) I decided to make something quick and easy to test it out. Snake! With a 1 minute timer on it. Get all the points you can, as fast as you can. <a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/snake.png"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/snake_thumb.png"></a> The online scoreboards are in, and .. um.. that's about it. You can <a href="https://agameaweek.com/?Game=44">Download Snake Here&l...

I spent most of this week rebuilding a few of my older games with the new Highscore stuff, so there's a couple of nice new-ish games to play. First off, we've the 3rd version of Horizontal Shooter.. <a href="https://agameaweek.com/?Game=49">Get it here</a>. It's pretty much the same as ever, but with Mr Scouter from the original, thrown back in for good luck. The new highscore method should help ward off nasty hackers from the scoreboard system.. Or at least for a little while...

Dum-dum-durrrr.. Over at Socoder, someone (Naming no names.. he knows who he is..) figured out that the encryption on my Highscore system wasn't exactly the most foolproof of encryptions, and that it's fairly easy to hack in a few fake scores. Can't have that! So I worked my arse off, early this week, and a new encryption method has been successfully trialled and put into place. It's no super-amazing method either, but it oughta do for a while. The extra workload has meant that I might not get time...