AGameAWeek teaches us one thing. Some games you win, some games you lose. When you lose, there's not a lot you can do. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and move on. This is a post about how I threw myself on the ground.

Rule Number One. If you're ever making a minigame collection, there absolutely MUST be a version of snake! This is a version of snake!

Seem to be having a bit of a down-session, lately. I'm pretty sure it's down to the fact that Sheep Goes Left is going mostly ignored. I'm going to try and give it a bit of a shove in a day or two, once the Lite edition shows up, but judging by the fact that it's getting next to no interest, I think we're already at the "aw well, next!" point. Damn, that's depressing!

Add a simple pause menu. That was task number one, this morning, on a 5 item tasklist. The stupid menu took 5 hours! FIVE!!

This week there shall be no AGameAWeek.

Here we go, then! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Royal_Rescue_20110111_Logo_thumb.png">

I'm out of ideas. I ran out about midway through Advent, and I think finishing that off has sapped every last ounce of ideaness out of my poor little head. So, in order to continue to do AGameAWeek, I'm going to have to start doing things in a slightly different way. I thought about this for a while, yesterday, and it does seem slightly plausible, if a little dumb! <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Cassette_50_K7_Cascade_Games_1985_Standard_Jewel_Case_-_Front.jp...

Why is it always the little random games with a dire lack of content that become the most popular ones?! Lesson Learned : I oughta stop trying so hard, and just knock out the simple little games! I was thinking this whilst doing the Advent collection. Some of those were really playable, and I had a whole lot of fun whilst making them. On the flipside, doing the larger games like that horrible nasty RPG, and.. To be fair.. a lot of the Year3 games. They've all been kinda half-assed, and not really muc...

The year is new, but the logo's old. Sod it. I love this logo! I should be doing a year-long roundup thing, but I've not had much time, what with the whole Advent and stuff. No matter, there's been some good, and plenty of bad, and that's what AGameAWeek's all about!

Top 10 of 2010

1. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=219">Platdude's Retro Advent Collection <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Platdude__s_Retro_Advent_Collection_20101201B_thumb.png">

Think of this as a christmas present. (URL "https://socoder.net/uploads/1/AdventCollectionSource.zip">You can download the Advent sourcecode here)

<img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/Platdudes_Retro_Advent_Collection_(Screenshot_24_Dec_2010_215837)_thumb.png">

Same as, Advent continues right through until Xmas! Although, whether the advent collection will include a game for Xmas day or not hasn't yet been decided.. If I can manage to do enough, I will, but I won't be spending christmas morning coding anything, so..! Meanwhile, over the past few days I've been building this. There's currently 52 tracks in there, and.. well.. It's a start, anyway. I have other stuff to go in, and extra features/tweaks to make. A "Song by URL" feature...

<img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Platdude__s_Retro_Advent_Collection_20101201_Logo_thumb.png"> A brand new game, EVERY DAY over Christmas!

Um.. Still relaxing! We're currently inside Jay's Month Off, so there's no game this week. Meanwhile, I'm playing around with a few bits of tech. I've made a couple of new bits of music, fiddled with some nice big useless pictures that won't ever be used, and am pretty much sitting here quietly doing nothing all month. Woot! At some point in the next few days, I'm going to sit down, and flick through the complete collection (again!) and jot down a few little notes about each game. How well they p...

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. <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/JNKPlat_5_:_Resurrection_20020910A_thumb.png"> <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/JNKFruit2K2_20020807A_thumb.png">

August 26th 2009 That's the last time I did a Mailbag post! Blinkin' eck! Over the past 6/7 months, I've occasionally dipped into the mailbag and plucked out little snippets, but I figured it was about time I did a proper one. A few of these have already been posted, but there's a whole batch of new ideas here. Let's go!!! (There's a lot!!)

Nothing magical, this week, more a game that was started but didn't really go anywhere. If I had enough time this week, I'd have scrapped it and started something else, but it's been a bit of a tight week, time wise.. So.. Well, here it is! <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Traffic_Cones_20091208A.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Traffic_Cones_20091208A_thumb.png"></a> Race around the 12 beautifully detailed (in traffic cones) race tracks, without hit...

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Thursday 8th of October 2009 01:46:19 PM Name : Nam Idea : May I suggest a "Tower of Druaga" mode for Arcade Slots? It's been a long while since I played inside the Arcade Slots source. If I remember rightly, there was some odd little issue in the code that made adding more stuff a little difficult. Can't remember entirely. Who knows.. I do remember trying to come up with drastically different gameplay styles for each game, so that the pla...

I think that's everything!! hmmm.. I added the last (earliest!) stuff into the archive today, and I think I've pretty much done all the PC stuff, now. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=159"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/JNKFruit2K3_20030818B_thumb.png"> JNK Fruit) (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=157"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/JNKCar_20020925B_thumb.png"> JNK Car)...

Tuesday 15th of September 2009 03:07:08 PM Name : redmoth Idea : invent a new gambling/casino game A few years ago (2004!!) I created Kasino Green. It was supposed to sit alongside StringyThings (a nice collection of Word games), and be a similarly nice collection of Casino games. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=137"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Kasino_Green_20041024B_thumb.png"> Database Linkage! Go...

I'm sat here at 11pm on Sunday night, trying to think of a game for Tuesday. It's not happening.. I've spent all week long adding games to the archive. That's to say, I've spent all week playing all my old games, and having a whale of a time.. I guess that has a disadvantage, being that I haven't coded jack all, all week. Oh well. We can miss one, right? Just means I need to make up for it next week. Can't have the ratio dropping!

The big-ass catalogue is now up to 68 games, and I've reached a bit of a stumbling block. If you search for (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?Find=multiple+games">"multiple games"), you'll find a few games that have more than one internal game. Today I'm tweaking the engine so that it counts each of those seperately inside the nice ever growing total. I wasn't going to do that, at first, but then I came across Platdude's Retro Collection, and decided to do it. It'd be a shame to have PRC ...

Seems to be that a fair amount of suggestions are monkey based thoughts, so I figured why not make a new monkey collection? If you've an idea for a new monkey game, shove it below or in the suggestion box, and we'll have a good fiddle around with them all. Gameplay wise, I'm thinking of perhaps creating a structure to a few games, release one a week and create a sort of evolving storyline that somehow manages to link the games together. At this point, I've no idea if that'll work. But hey, it's a t...

The AGameAWeek 2008-2009 Retrospective

(URL "https://www.agameaweek.com/2009/08/agameaweek-2008-2009-part-one/">Part One), (URL "https://www.agameaweek.com/2009/08/agameaweek-2008-2009-part-two/">Part Two), (URL "https://www.agameaweek.com/2009/08/agameaweek-2008-2009-part-three/">Part Three), (URL "https://www.agameaweek.com/2009/08/agameaweek-2008-2009-part-four/">Part Four), (URL "https://www.agameaweek.com/2009/08/agameaweek-2008-2009-part-five/">Part Five)

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