Developments

Yesterday I recreated Hoppy Bobby in the Advent Calendar. It's not an amazing feat, but it is at least something. Other than that, I spent some time rejigging Neon Bike Championships for OUYA, and also sent PlayJam a copy so they can test it to see if it's Multiplayer code is any less crappy than JNKBombers was. I'll keep that copy aside, incase they decide it is indeed worthy of a proper upload, but if you don't ever see it on GameStick/FlarePlay, that'll be why. Today I have...

Developments

Suffering, yesterday, as a runny nose took control, and left me really not in the mood for doing much of anything. Hurray.. : I spent what dev-time I could manage, working on Greenie's Mini Quest/Little Adventure. For starters, I gave it it's proper original name! Always seemed silly that the game should have two titles, so I settled on Little Adventure, since that was the name in the logo. (eg, that was easier!!) Next, I tackled the level generator, making levels a little to...

Melodical Developments

Last night I re-rendered and uploaded the entire (URL "https://archive.org/details/PrecariousAlBum">Precarious Al Bum to Archive.org) Annoyingly, I forgot to trim the tails on the tracks, so they all end with about a half-a-second of silence. Ooops.. I'll have to poke around in Archive.org's settings and see if I can update the files, but I imagine they're probably going to have to stay like that. Aw well.. Meanwhile, I also created a new track for the Liquid A...

Developments

If there's one thing I hate, it's waiting for stuff!! I'm a very impatient person, and have gotten used to things moving along at a fast AGameAWeek-like pace. I now have TWO games, waiting for Apple Review, and quite frankly it's doing my head in! All this waiting. I can't hack it!!! I'm now pondering what my next project's going to be. Should I continue on this Gap-Year thing, and make something else that's way bigger than normal? Or should I do a couple of quicky AGameAWe...

Developments

( width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/l4RcZ365DbU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> *shrugs* That might change at some point in the future. For now, it'll do as it is. It only appears once, right at the start, anyway.. So it's not going to keep cropping up all the time. Lazy and cheap, but it gets the point across. There's going to be a lot of love crammed in to SpikeDislike3! ( width="560" height="315...

A year of Platdude. .. Almost.. I made 10 Platdude games, this year. 9 individual games up until September, and then an extra one bundled right at the end of Alpha Collexion. .. And I never did get around to that "Proper JNKPlat" did I.. hmm.. Sorry, AW! This morning, I'm finding myself wondering what should happen next year. Should I make it the year of Greenie? The year of Munky? The year of Blockman? I'm unsure, and as per usual, I've not planned a bloomin' thing. Instead, I'll probably ju...

You may have noticed a slight lack of gaming over the past couple of months. Usually I cut down on AGameAWeek during the closing months of a year, and instead focus on a larger project, but over the course of this year I've already tackled a number of larger projects. Blockman Worlds, JNK Bombers, Future Classics.. They've all been substantially larger than my standard weekly output. As such, I'm actually struggling to come up with a decent "end of year project" that would be worth tackling. Instead, I...

Live on Twitch for a long long time, Team OUYA took to the airwaves and streamed a whole bunch of my games, all playing lovely on OUYA. You can (URL "https://www.twitch.tv/playouya/b/559842278">Watch the Recorded-Steam here). (URL "https://www.twitch.tv/playouya/b/559842278"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/PlayOUYA_AGAW.jpg" alt="PlayOUYA_AGAW" width="500" height="500" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4054" /> They ge...

As I sit here trying to code this week's AGameAWeek, I'm struggling. Not because I don't know what the game's supposed to be. I actually have most of the game planned out in my head, and I think it might be fun, but something else is butting in. For some strange reason, I can't stop thinking about NeonPlat Adventures. I'd like to make "Greenie's Communication Tower", but each time I open the code, I instead find myself thinking about the complexities of Platform World Generation, and how much fun I fo...

Correct as-of May 23rd 2014! The complete list of characters in JNKBombers, complete with main game title, and roughly where they came from. You can (URL "https://socoder.net/uploads/1/JNKBombers_Character_Cards.zip">Download the full high-res versions of the cards here.) You can (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=331">Play JNKBombers here)!

(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/GreeniesBoxes_001.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/GreeniesBoxes_001-1024x605.png" alt="GreeniesBoxes_001" width="590" height="348" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3761" /> No idea where this is going, but Greenie, Boxes.. *shrugs* We'll see!

An unexpected arrival, as my major 2-week-long project somehow manages to cram itself into the space of just a week. Not entirely sure how that happened, if I'm honest.. <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Blockman_Worlds_20140415A_thumb.png"> <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Blockman_Worlds_20140415B_thumb.png">

Coming up on Tuesday, "My Little Rescue Helicopter!", a nice retro game with a helicopter, and some evil enemy aircraft! (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ssc.jpg"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ssc-1024x576.jpg" alt="ssc" width="590" height="331" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3516" /> A lovely little shoot-em-up/rescue game with good old-fashioned old-skool graphics. Then, next week, relax wit...

Or, as the titlescreen would have you call it, "Greenie's Little Adventure" Feel free to use either of the two titles! Welcome back! AGameAWeek starts anew, this week, with a nice little remake of a game I made a good 7 or 8 years ago. My original "The Quest" game took a board-game-style approach, but never really got very far due to the limits and oddities of trying to play a board game on a computer. It felt strange to have to roll dice all the time, and the battles were never that great. I'm not ...

As week one rapidly approaches, and I'm posting less and less, it's probably apparent that I'm knee deep in the middle of a mega-coding frenzy. Or, if that's not apparent, let it be known.. I'm knee deep in the middle of a mega-coding frenzy!! Over the past week or so, I've overhauled quite a few features of my framework, including getting things prepared for OUYA, with controller additions and things like that. I've learned quite a few little bits and pieces about controllers over the last few months,...

Although I am sort of planning things ahead of time, I'm not really doing a good job with the things I'm planning. In the majority of cases, the better AGameAWeek games seem to be those spur of the moment games that I cobble together fairly quickly. Anything over-planned seems to die a death, halfway through! At the start of May, I planned to do two fairly large projects. Both of those projects have remained untouched for at least a couple of weeks. Whoops!

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:right;">AGameAWeek Gold peeps through the Jayenkai Archive to see what games I've previously released on this day in history. Occasionally we'll pluck out some real gems. Today's a cracker! .. or rather, today's TWO crackers!!

Get used to seeing this, as you're going to see a lot of it. The other day I asked for opinions on what April might bring. Three people chipped up. One was over at Curly's World of Freeware, where Tormuse suggested I should go with the Word Games. Second, @moshboy suggested I should go with an unplanned stream of oddities. Oooh, a Tie!! Third was the deciding vote. And worryingly it didn't even come from the internet. Instead, My Mum suggested I should carry on doing Stringy Things....

If you tried to enjoy some TV yesterday, you probably had craploads of Olympic crap crammed down your face. It's still a smegging year away, and I'm already sick to death of it! Have you had enough yet?! Olympic Based AGameADay!! Why not attempt to carry the torch for the entire year that's left!? .. or not!

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PS, YEAY! GREENIE!!!!! And he's wearing Green, which is incredibly unlike him!

54 games. Last year I only managed about 30-odd, so I think that's pretty good going. Sure, it might not have truely actually been A Game "Per" Week, but I did at least keep the ratio up. If I hadn't taken the time out to build the framework, I probably would've actually achieved the target a little better The stats show I was pretty much on top of things up until that point, but then things got slower and slower until my buffer zone was all dried up. Anyhoo, this is a nice big lengthy re...

First up, this week's game will be Blockman in a Mario Costume. Greenie looked great in his costume, but he's a lost cause, and I'm moving on. Blockman will return to his original Flicky style gameplay, with the Mario Costume acting as a power up to give him an amazing new ability! Combo scores aplenty! After that, we're done with Mar10, so I can start playing with fresh, original, and fantastically new ideas.. Speaking of which, Tetripong is apparently needed on the DS, so that'll probably be my fi...

Awww This week I've been ill, and between website tweaks, and lying in bed half-dead, I've not really had time to get anything done. This morning, I managed to wake up, and was bright and alert. I figured it was probably a good chance to get something done, so I grabbed the half-assed sprites, popped them into an engine, and got them running in a right facing direction. Adding random pipes, and the ability to jump over them, I'd made a 1980's style Waggler Hur...