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Letter Lattice v1.2 : The "I fixed a really stupid bug!" Edition is now live on iOS. (URL "https://itunes.apple.com/app/letter-lattice/id1262915537">Go grab it!)

Two years ago, I was riding high. I was preparing to launch the biggest and (IMHO) best EVER version of SpikeDislike. SpikeDislike3 was due to be, without a doubt, one of my most important releases EVER. I'd put months of work into it, and if anyone knows me, they know that that's a HUGE amount of effort from me. It was ready, it passed Apple Review, it launched, and then I released the Android one. All was good! All was golden!! \o/hurray for mobile gaming\o/

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Hey, look at that! 2 iOS Releases in 2 weeks!

Time for a midnight feast. Grab your torch and head to the fridge.

(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/iTunesArtwork@2x.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/iTunesArtwork@2x.png" alt="" width="1024" height="1024" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-7706" /> Quadoban has been released on iOS! You can grab the game (URL "https://itunes.apple.com/app/quadoban/id1258518067">on the AppStore, here.)

As each game is released, and player comments are posted, I'll try my best to make these posts as complete as I can. Feel free to leave your own comments, and I'll add them to the pile. This week, player's thoughts on (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/0407">Thwackity Puttz)

Oh dear, that hasn't gone down very well, has it?! Hmm.. First up came the issue with the Level Generator. Things seemed to break fairly late in the project, meaning that different systems were generating different sets of levels. For this reason, the online scoreboards were removed, as they'd be impossible to properly compare between all the different level sets. Doing test after test after test, right up until the last minute, led me to accidentally upload a broken version of the game. .. And no...

If you've downloaded RetroRaider-3 at any point today, you might want to re-download the game. Whilst stress testing my level generator, I accidentally left a few "quirks" in there, including a cheat mode, and a "feature" that locks the game up and doesn't let you play. Ooops.. A fix has been uploaded, so if you're stuck with the broken version, you should go and grab the new one. The broken version sees the current level end if you hit the V key, and the whole game lock up if you try to load levels...

Waiting...

For the past day and a half, my laptop's fan's been kicking off like crazy. Watching Task Manager, it was all down to Windows Modules Installer Worker, working away in the background, killing all CPU, Memory and Disk access for what must've been about 12 hours in total.

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Took most of yesterday off, from coding.

Each week, people share their thoughts with my games, and I like to make little community topics where I can answer/comment on their comments! It's a comment-o-rama!

@TimeKillerGames

I find a little more effort could be put in to the title screens of some of your more recent games. Why not do what you used to do, and add a little more visuals of some kind to it?

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Didn't get a lot of work done, yesterday, but I did at least bother to recreate the old BlitzCoder logo, because.. Why not!!?

One of my favourite discoveries in coding is A=A-((A-B)/C) It's a very simple little formula which has a myriad of multiple uses. In my framework, it's taking care of all manner of different things for me, but today I wanted to mention it's use in score displaying.

I've been using SyncToy for as long as it's been available. Released as one of the .net showcases (IIRC) it basically scans two folders, decides what the latest versions of the files are, and duplicates the two folders with all the latest files intact. (URL "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=15155">SyncToy Download)

( width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ohe666fjaV8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> Also available (URL "https://soundcloud.com/alodare/sonically-learning">on SoundCloud)

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No coding, yesterday. No music. No nuffin'!! I just played Switch.. Mmm.. Switch.

( width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kpQnMs1VUAU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> I made the above trailer, yesterday, because.. why not!?

Today's my birthday, and as is traditional in the land of AGameAWeek, the Spikes are Free!! If you've an iOS device, go and grab (URL "https://itunes.apple.com/app/spikedislike3/id1001277860">SpikeDislike3 from the AppStore), which is totally free for the day.

Thanks for visiting the world of AGameAWeek. Single-handedly, I give you the following.. 1. A Daily Blog, with (for the past few months, at least) an incredibly dumb 4-line verse at the end of each daily blog entry. 2. A (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/Pixelart/">Daily Pixelart), which also comes with a 1920x1080 desktop image each and every day. 3. At least (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/Music/">one piece of music) every week. Sometimes more! 4. A (URL "https://socoder.net/?Newsletter=304">we...

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I've made a start at rejigging previous games to incorporate the new scoreboard stuff.

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I woke up at 2:30am.

The game is as complete as it oughta be, but we're still a couple of days from my regular Monday/Tuesday releases, so we've a couple of days to play "Mr Testo" and see if the lovely new feature works as it oughta. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Icon_512.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Icon_512.png" alt="" width="512" height="512" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-7038" />

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Well.. The Mac's been "on", it's just been asleep for the past .. however long, since I last dared to touch it..