Sometimes you have really productive days. Occasionally, though, those really productive days seem to drag on and on, and not actually produce much at all! Here's what I've done today. 1. We're up to 5 skins, since I added a plain rock+lava one. Plenty of graphical variety, but only as much as it's still a bunch of squares making up a maze! 2. Added the nice filter down level drop effect back into the game. It's a nice enough effect. No need to jazz it up, nor remove it. It ...

Awww.. I was thinking of doing some sort of fruit machine thing, but I didn't really have any kind of plan for it, so it didn't really get off the ground. Poor thing. Maybe this week for that? Or the RPG! Oops, forgot about that! It's getting the Patent Wars treatment!

With the editor in, pretty much, full swing, I'm heading back to playing with the bugs again.. Update Having been undecided for a while, I eventually decided that the green bad guys should explode with a nice little puff of green smoke.. <a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/ad2_shot010.png"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/ad2_shot010_thumb.png"></a> This is what happens when you turn off the death routine, fill the screen with Greenies, and then tou...

And so it begins, the long boring task of making lots and lots of games I lie. It's not boring! <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/dsdev/col001.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/dsdev/col001_thumb.png" align="left" /></a>Centipede took shape, gradually, over the course of a day. Most of the tweaking was in the main engine, as opposed to the game itself, since I had to be sure of all my different variables, and how all the pieces of the ...

Retro Remakes are holding a Top Down 2D Dungeon challenge. Socoder are holding a Remake a Workshop Game challenge. In a way, these two coincide, since I'd already decided to remake Greenie's Gameboy (URL "https://socoder.net/index.php?a=15&e=94"><img src="https://socoder.net/workshop/dlds/023/greenie.gif" align="right" /> Adventure for the Socoder, before the Retro Remakes challenge was finalised. So that's what I'll be working on for the next...

Most of my remakes seem to fall into a single category, in that they all tend to feature my character Greenie. To be honest, I'm not sure why I started doing this. It was never something I planned, it just kind of happened that way! Still, here's a whole page dedicated to that stupid bumbling idiot!

Green's 8-bit Tiny Collection

BlitzCoder, 2005. The 8-bit compo asked us to create games in a 8-bit style. No more than 20 sprites, all of which were 2 colors, and 8x8 pixels in s...

A list of games you can download, and play in Windows. Most systems can suitably handle most of these games, so no need to worry if you've a slow machine. To help neaten things up, I've moved all my main Platdude games to their own (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/?page_id=2">JNKPlat) page. The (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/?page_id=28">Greenie) page has become home to some of my Remakes. You can find the best of my (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/?page_id=4">Wednesday Workshop) entries, all ripe for...

(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/games/mummy.rar">Greenie - The Eccentric Egyptologist) Version 0.9 A few additions will be added in due time, but for now this is all well and good! Enjoy running away from Mummies!

<a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/windev/mum_02.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/windev/mum_02_thumb.png" /></a> I decided to do things the easiest way, code wise. To unlock the exit to a level, you need to open all the boxes within that level. Nice and simple. There are 10 level layouts currently in the game. I might add more, I'm not sure. So far the largest level only uses up about 1/16th of the available map size, but if I make them too big they get a little dull. So, 10 ...

This month, Socoder are having a "Make a game with Pickups" challenge. It took me a bit of a while to decide what game to do, but I think I've finally settled on one. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/windev/mum_01.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/windev/mum_01_thumb.png" /></a> Greenie - The Eccentric Egyptologist.. Named so it fits alongside Greenie - The Helecopter Hero. It's a remake of Oh Mummy but with a couple of tweaks here and there, including the way you open t...

I get bored. I get bored a lot. Especially when working on large projects. It's nice to occasionally have some weird random thing to do. That's why I set up the Wednesday Workshop. A weekly challenge. Make a game based upon a given theme, or task. Everyone who enters gets put through for a vote. But it's not really about the winning. It's about having something to do when you're bored. And .. I get bored a lot! Click <a href="https://socoder.net/index.php?a=13&user=Jaye...