Beta Collexion is currently on the frontpage of GameJolt. They've decided to promote it, now that it's a complete 26 game collection. I crammed my arse off making sure I got the entire game done in time for the 1st of December, so that everyone could enjoy the Advent(ure) over the course of December. I got it posted, everything was good. Over the course of December 1st -> 24th it had 82 plays. 82... Yesterday, ONCE IT WAS OVER, GameJolt finally stuck it on their frontpage, and it's gained an ex...

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What'll be happening with Beta Collexion? How can I get my games on Steam? And.. Snooker?!

(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=352">Beta Collexion Download) Merry Xmas!!! This year's Advent Calendar is now available to download/play. Much like last year's Alpha Collexion, this year's collection features all manner of crazy gaming oddities. Platformers, Shoot-em-ups, Puzzle games, they're all in here, and you'll be unlocking them all over the next month.

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And now we have to wait.. Waiting for both OUYA and PlayJam to review and release the Advent collection, at which point I also click the Publish button over at GameJolt, and set about uploading the game to my own archive, too! .. Which reminds me.. The Archive Still doesn't include PlayJam links, does it.. Hmm... Last night I spent a good few hours working on a newer version of my Monkey Skeleton Framework. It's about 50% rejigged, but I'm sure there's oodles more stuff I c...

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I managed to get two more games added to the Advent Calendar, yesterday, which means I now only have 3 more left to tackle. A, U and Z. U can be just about anything, but A and Z need to be extra special as they're the first and last games in the collection. As the first one, A will be unlocked before Dec 1st, so will be playable the longest. Z, on the other hand, opens on Xmas Day.. Hmmm No idea what they're going to be. .. But then I've no idea what U's going to be, either. ...

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I spent most of yesterday working on a fairly decent game. I stripped the graphics from an old game I'd made, and reconstructed them all within Beta Collexion. Coding the game was also fairly easy to do, and within a couple of hours I had the game recreated within the new engine. Sure, it's a repeat, but it's been a long long long time (2010) since I last played with this game, so that's ok!! I'm now down to just 5 game left to do in the Beta Collexion.. A, U, X, Y and Z Once ...

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After basically deciding to mostly ignore the Multiplayer Controller code for the time being, I'm jumping back to the Advent Collection and trying my best to code what little I can, in what little time remains. Over the course of yesterday, I managed to get games 4 and 5 up and running, and also made a start on game 6. Progress is good, but is it good enough? Only time will tell. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/414_005.png"><img src="https://AGame...

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Three hundred, what? Three Hundred (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/Pixelart.php">Daily Platdude Pixelarts,) of course! Three hundred!?! When I started that, at the beginning of the year, I didn't expect to have managed to do 300 of the bloomin' things. And now here we are 300 later, and I'm wondering what'll happen next year. Will I continue to doodle daily, or will I stop on Dec 31st? I'm not sure. Drawing a daily doodle is certainly taking time out of my day, but it's n...

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Yesterday was spent coding. Like, properly coding.. Like games and stuff!! It feels such a relief not having to faff about with controller code and other boring background gubbins, and instead spend some time actually making a game for a change. Beta Collection now has THREE games in it, as I managed to get two complete games up and running within the short space of yesterday. I then relaxed and enjoyed the Back To The Future documentary "Back In Time" which is currently availab...

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With mere weeks to go until Dec 1st, I'd better get cracking with that Advent Collection, huh?! So, last night I finished off Game #1, and made a fairly decent start on Game #2. I'll finish that up this morning, and then get to work on a third. I'm currently having a nice burst of imagination, after having not really coding much all year. It also makes a change to be creating something new, instead of fixing up that great big pile of 42 OUYA titles!! I still need to finish of...

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I Think... *think* that I've finally got all my Multiplayer Controller code working in a suitable manner, for OUYA, Forge, GameStick and Flare, all from the same code. Unfortunately, my Archos GameStick is STILL bugging out. For some bizarre reason, it seems to feed the digital controls as Port One and the analogue controls as Port Two, which would explain why I'm always having to redefine the controls on the bloody thing. But, so far so good, and everything seems to be flowing ...

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Yesterday was spent neatening up Game #1 in the new Advent Collection. Alarmingly, this has taken a fair number of days, as I'm trying to decide how best to organise all the data. The actual "game" still isn't even finished, yet, and needs collisions and scores and.. well.. pretty much everything, really.. Hmm.. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/414_002.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/414_002-1024x597.png" alt="414_0...

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"A Quick Test", I said to myself. "Should only take a few minutes", I thought. Two hours later, with no result whatsoever, I opted to call it a night, and instead focussed on Beta Collexion. What was it I wanted to test? Android, Hopefully compatible with None-OUYA devices, controller code. First, I needed to test on OUYA itself, so I grabbed the controller, hit the on button, and switched over to HDMI-2. And waited. .. and waited... .... and waited... Hmm.. Oddly, th...

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Given that I've got so much on my plate, what with having to fix up the 42 OUYA games, and get NeonPlat's Cosmic Adventure done, you'd probably not expect me to start a new project right now. Ooops! Last night I took Alpha Collexion, stripped out all the games and graphics, and settled down to do it all again. Work on Beta Collexion has begun, and I'm halfway through Game #1. In reality, if I want to get everything ready for Dec 1st, I should be ready to start on Game #2, so...

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Getting close to the end of my first run through all the OUYA games. Only (Only?!) another 15 or so games to go, and we'll have a complete OUYA collection. So far there's been no major issues, but since I'm nearing the end of the list, there are a few kinks that need ironed out. For starters, I need to stress test my multiplayer code. JNKBombers, Neon Bike Challenge and NeonPlat Extreme all include varying degrees of Multiplayer interaction. Previously, if a certain controller ...

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Yesterday I started formulating the main menu of this game. It's going to work a lot like ChuckABall did, in that there'll be a lot of levels within world, making up a huge collection overall. But, right now, it's nothing to look at. There's a long line of blue circles with numbers in them, and a starfield in the background, and that's about it. And that took me all bloomin' day!! (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/NPA2_012.png"><img src="https://AG...

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Jumped back and forth through a couple of things, yesterday, but mostly spent more time working on the level builder. Things are starting to look a little more varied, and thankfully the addition of vertical scrolling has added a little bit more. I'm currently worried about making sure the levels are completable, as I haven't yet added an AI player run-through of the level, to ensure it's at least playable. I'll have to do that next, I suppose. In the meantime, I've been ensurin...

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Last night, as I lay in bed, a silence suddenly enveloped the room. It was unlike anything I'd heard in the past couple of weeks. Total, complete and utter silence. I sat up in bed, and looked around the room. Was it a power cut? No.. Then why so little sound? What was missing!? Seems that the new Western Digital NAS drive had finally (after about 2 weeks) finished cataloguing all the files I'd thrown onto it, and was happy with it's collection of thumbnails, enough to s...

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(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/IMG_9694.jpg"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/IMG_9694-1024x768.jpg" alt="IMG_9694" width="604" height="453" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-4688" /> And so ends our journey of creation. or, rather, HOPEFULLY ends the journey! We'll find out in about a week, whether I managed to click all the settings in an accurate manner. With any luck, I...

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I spent a lot of yesterday faffing about with the "Start" screen of SpikeDislike3. At first I intended to have a giant spike be in the center of the screen, and in fact that's what happened for quite a while, but .. I'm not sure why, but I decided to switch to circles instead. Reusing my generic stripy circle from my basic menu meant I didn't have to redraw anything, and the new "Start" screen looks rather neat. .. or at least, for something I've done, it does! I spent some t...

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Yesterday was spent fixing up little things in SpikeDislike3. I got Predetermined Layouts working, but still haven't bothered to implement any sort of collision detection! Still, you can now start a round, have it spawn the spikes in the same place, and then exit back to the menu. Having the spikes show up in the same place, is of course super important in SpikeDislike, as you learn the layouts of the level, and try not to die for ages and ages. I'll have to add a couple of ra...

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Not a lot of coding got done, yesterday. I continued to fiddle with the new sprites, and got enemies spawning in the level, but then I started thinking about iOS again. For the past year I've been focussing on OUYA. I've been making all my games controller happy, and as a result, have been neglecting touchscreen controls. I'm not sure why, probably all the AppleWatch stuff that's currently flooding my Twitter feed, but I'm finding myself somewhat nostalgic for the times that I s...

Another big gap, as I try to figure out what's happening next. I figured you guys oughta be kept up to date with current goings on, in the world of AGameAWeek, so here's a rough bit of blogging so that you can vaguely assume you know what's going on! Current projects are.. 1. Kee Bo Ard Go Deep Another sequel in the Kee Bo Ard collection. I've so far built a fairly capable engine, but am struggling to decide exactly what I'd like to do with it. I've got the game up to a "You can complete a level" po...

As has become a tradition on iOS, My Birthday = Free Spikes for Everybody!! (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/IMG_8419.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/IMG_8419.png" alt="(null)" class="alignnone size-full" /> This is, alarmingly, the fifth year that I've done this, and .. Honestly, that's scary!! I can't believe that SpikeDislike is now five years old! Anyway, there it is, and it still happily r...

Game scrapped. Kinda scrapped. Mostly scrapped. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/GameJolt-Thumbnail_3.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/GameJolt-Thumbnail_3-1024x576.png" alt="GameJolt-Thumbnail_3" width="590" height="332" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-4452" /> I might come back to it at a later date, when the idea's a little more "rested", but I think that re-attempting it so soon after do...

( width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/_1W-7gvDxAo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> I was going to do keys, but then I thought "Oh, sod it, let's use Floppy Disks!!" So, the ship flies around the maze picking up the three different coloured disks, which it then pops into the .. umm.. Let's call it a magic door! Collect all three, take them home, level complete. I now need to add enemies, other deadly things, and a weapon would probably...