Rather than have a bunch of different posts all over the place, as usually seems to be the case here, I thought I'd create a game-specific page and dump all the reviews onto it. <img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/BlastTrax_Logo.png"> BlastTrax seems to be gaining a teensy bit of attention, although exactly how much of that is due to one particular reviewer bombarding me with his over-excitement, thus making it feel like there's a bunch of excitement when in fact it's only his own exc...

An extremely rapidly cobbled together game, this week. If you've been following me on Twitter, you're probably expecting a nice swirly glowing awesome shooty thing. .. Tough, this isn't it!

As we near adding game #300 to the Archive, things are getting a wee bit chaotic in my Dev-folder. Games are being started, then largley ignored, as I constantly jump from project to project in a desperate attempt to find "That special something" which will do for #300. So far, nothing big has turned up, so, with only a few weeks until we get there, I've still no idea exactly what that game might end up being. Hmm.. Still, it's a fun trip, and this week's game idea comes courtesy of Twitterer (URL "ht...

Although this week seems like a quick re-use of old sprites, I can assure you that they are in fact a completely different set of sprites!! Brand new Puzzobomb sprites, ready for an all new Puzzobomb game! But before I tackle the lengthy process of making a whole bucketload of levels, let's see what it's like without any levels at all...

This week's game was suggested as a silly idea by someone who plays Words With Friends against my mum!! The two started chatting about Spiders, or something, and the idea of battling spiders with toothpicks somehow came up. I'm not quite sure, it all seemed a bit odd and random, but in the spirit of AGameAWeek, here's a game of it!!

Note : This app is included with my Monkey Skeleton, so if you've already grabbed that, you needn't bother grabbing it again! If you're trying to write games for all these different systems that Monkey can handle, you've probably wanted to shout at Apple and Google for having created so many stupid sodding icon sizes. It's enough to drive you crazy!! When I first started building my Monkey Framework, I figured it'd be handy to have a program to create all these silly little things. This is that!

Now you can hop from your pocket, as Hoppy Bobby makes his way onto iOS! The initial release is FREE, so you've no excuse not to grab it. At a later point, I'd like to make a bigger-longer-better adventure mode, and add achievements and things, too. That'll be a Pay-for edition, but for now the original's there, and it's just as swear-inducing as ever! (URL "https://itunes.apple.com/app/hoppy-bobby/id661770631?mt=8"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/HoppyBobby_iCandy_800_thumb.jpg">

It's Saturday, and I've not really started a game for this week. Well, that's not entirely true. I've actually started three games, this week, but all of them seemed to hit a dead-end pretty early on, so I've not really got anything to show for it.

Apologies that this post has taken me so long to publish. I actually wrote most of it about 3 months ago, when I first released SpikeDislike2, but it's been sat on my Mac on a Sticky Note, and I kinda forgot all about it! I remembered it, the other day, when I submitted SpikeDislike2-Lite to Apple. What follows is a checklist/guide for compiling your (URL "https://monkeycoder.co.nz">Monkey-coded) game onto iOS.

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:right;">AGameAWeek Gold looks back on this day in history, and trawls through the Jayenkai Archive to see if I've previously released any interesting games, today, in the past. It's like playing around with a time machine, but without the risk of destroying the entire universe, simply because you happened to sneeze near a butterfly, or something! Today, we find two great classics.

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:right;"> AGameAWeek Gold is a daily trip through the Jayenkai Archive, to see if I've previously released any games on this day in history. Sometimes the day is uneventful. Not even I have managed enough to pad out every single day of the year! Oddly, though, other days contain more than one game. And today's one of those days!

As with all iOS PromoCodes, these are first come, first served, so you'll have to be nice and quick if you want one of these. Grab what you can before they're all gone! HE4THTNL67M9 NMTKXEJX3KM4 4NER77X4X9EX T3PP6WENPPPJ WTP6FE9AHXNT 4N6P6FHA4WKF JLXRFRWTMAEE 4TLYPAXPNWKW P6KKMMJK9FM6 You can buy (URL "https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/spikedislike2/id604867277?mt=8">SpikeDislike2 here) for iOS.

Over the past few weeks, a terrible issue has appeared, and it's been quite noticeable. It's caused my Stringy Things project to get stuck, as well as creating multiple issues in lots of other places. The problem is as follows.. Not all devices are the same!!!

Wednesday night, SpikeDislike2 got its first update in the AppStore. Thursday night, some twat had already plopped it onto a pirate site.

Evil pirates are everywhere. You know what really irks me, though? The way the pirates slap their name onto your game. They don't dig into the innards and fiddle with things that would intrude on the player's experience, but they do slap their name on the download filename. Eg, I could make a game called Mr Hippo's Happy Adventure, and the pirate download would end up as "[MrKipper] - Mr Hippo's Happy Adventure.ipa", thus giving MrKipper the fanfare, and taking it away from me. Grrr!! It's hard enou...

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:right;">AGameAWeek Gold looks back at releases that happened on this day in history. Journey with us through the mists of time, to find out just how good, or bad, AGameAWeek has actually been through the years! We also occasionally find odd little glitches in the archive!!

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:right;">AGameAWeek Gold looks back through the huge archive each day, to see if I've previously released anything on this day. There's not always a game to play, but occasionally we'll stumble upon long forgotten gems. Today's is especially nice!

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:right;">AGameAWeek Gold. An occasional trip down memory lane, to take a look at games that I've previously released on this day in history. Much like every other element of AGameAWeek, these can sometimes be great games that you'll play for hours, or bags of garbage that you throw away after ten seconds of looking at it at going "Umm.. no thanks!" Today's game from the past is an example of the latter.. With Zombies!!!!

There's not been a whole lot tweaked since the last Monkey Framework Release, (I've been too busy making the fun gamey things!!) but a couple of important additions have been additioned.

The Download

(URL "https://socoder.net/monkey/Framework_13_10_20.zip">Jayenkai's Monkey Framework, as of 20th October 2013) | (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/2013/10/monkey-skeleton-13_10_20/">Blog Post)

Older versions

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