What happens when you take Platdude, sit him on a rocket, and send him blasting his way through a colourful rainbow tube, full of stars!? Time to find out, as we take our monthly trip into the realm of Platdude! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Platdude_in_a_Tube_20140527A_thumb.png"> <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Platdude_in_a_Tube_20140527B_thumb.png">

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)!

Last month, I set aside the whole month to create a nice and lengthy month-long project. Blockman Worlds surprisingly took just a week to create, and then I was right back to the regular AGameAWeek schedule!! This month, I opted to delve into something even bulkier, and the resulting game is really quite nice. Oddly, it took alarmingly longer than expected, so isn't quite as chunky as I'd like it to have been. As it is, though, it's a wonderful little highly playable local-multiplayer edition of DynaBla...

So far so good on the JNKBombers front. Most of Battle Mode's features are implemented as planned. Human players, AI players, Bombs, Shield, Coins, Shop and today I added a few cheap-as-chips themes into the mix for good measure. There's only 6 themes, but it's enough to keep it marginally interesting! Over the next couple of days, I'll keep tweaking away at the AI, and maybe add some new powerups, but otherwise I'm now at the point where I can say "Yeah, that's what I wanted to play!!" Still a coupl...

I'm a bit sad, tonight, as I reach Letter Y in AL'S Conspicuous Album. ( width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/150172392&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=true">> Since I bought (URL "https://www.korg.com/us/products/software/korg_gadget_for_ipad/">Korg Gadget for the iPad), I've been playing about with lots of varied twiddly tunes, whils...

As the game continues to get built up, I've started to work on a generic looking menu system for it. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/JNKBombers_009.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/JNKBombers_009-1024x576.png" alt="JNKBombers_009" width="590" height="331" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3805" /> Yep, it's as bland as bland can be, but the point of the menu is simply to get you into the game, so ....

(URL "https://socoder.net/uploads/1/JNKBombers_007.png"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/JNKBombers_007_thumb.png"> I've got 15 little characters in there, so far, and I'm sure I'll find some more along the way. Next step is to get some gameplay running, and try to stop the annoying generic "diagonal-pass" bug solved.. stupid bug. Game expected by the end of the month, as it's far too big to be finished any sooner!

(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/JNKBombers_006.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/JNKBombers_006-1024x605.png" alt="JNKBombers_006" width="590" height="348" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3795" /> Here's how the game currently looks. The game will be a generic Bomberman clone, but with as many AGameAWeek characters in that I can think of, assuming they're vaguely recognisable. Feel free to comm...

One of the hardest things in the world of AGameAWeek is when you take time off. The past week has been chaotic at home, and things got a bit down in the realm of the real-world. As such, I opted to take the week off from AGameAWeek, mostly because my mind wasn't in the right place to be designing fun little games. The week off left me a little bored, and as is usually the case when in that mindset, I started to look back through the past few weeks and dig through the stats. One of the most depressing s...

Seems I'm currently in the mood to do more odd other stuff, rather than the core game coding, this week. Aw well, here's another tune, which may or may not find it's way into a future game. (URL "https://soundcloud.com/alodare/conspicuous-war">Conspicuous War)

My Spreadshirt AGameAWeek store has been available for many years, but is rarely ever bothered with.. .. Usually because I never bother to link to it! Yesterday I posted the "Evolution of Dude" pic, and someone on Twitter suggested it'd make a nice TShirt. ...Yeah, why not!! So, today, I'm reopening (and/or re-using!) the store, and have added the (URL "https://agameaweek.spreadshirt.co.uk/evolution-of-dude-tshirt-A28273211/customize/color/4">Evolution of Dude TShirt.) (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com...

Although I started a game, the other day, something else came up and it's removed my normally-frantic coding spirit. Family life is always more important than AGameAWeek. Normal service will resume next week, probably with the game I started the other day. Happy 4th of May, folks. Live Long, and Prosper.

Journey with Platdude, as he leaps from planet to planet, in this epic universal quest to get some nice shiny gems. <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Platdude_in_Space_20140426A_thumb.png"> <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Platdude_in_Space_20140426B_thumb.png">

Forums are a bit of a dying artform, lately. Between Facebook and Twitter, the idea of having to signup to a specific site for a conversation, when you could equally have that conversation over Twitter is all a bit daft and unnecessary. What can I say, I'm a grumpy old geezer, who prefers things oldskool!! That's not to say I don't "get" Twitter. I use it a lot.. .. A LOT!! And it's great for quick responses, too. Ask a question, anything you want, and generally get an answer within about a minut...

As much as I count myself as "a bit of a Trekkie", I've never considered myself a full-on Trekkie. Sure, I enjoy watching it, and I do manage to follow 95% of the twisting turning sprawling plotlines, and enjoy the mythology of the show. I even recently subscribed to the Star Trek Starships model collection, which, every single fortnight, brings a lovely little starship to my door. (Well, ok, technically they get delivered in pairs, monthly!! I'm really enjoying these little ships, and my shelf is alrea...

Yesterday I tweeted that Blockman Worlds isn't doing too well, at which point I got bombarded by people telling me that they've played it, and how I oughta give it time to spread. Yeah, probably.. Thing is, though, I'm finding myself comparing it to Future Classics..

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">

I started a new game, yesterday. It looks a little like this. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp!! (URL "https://t.co/FaVulIc1ec"> Jayenkai (@Jayenkai) (URL "https://twitter.com/Jayenkai/statuses/453615716491853826">April 8, 2014) <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Today, as I continue to build the game up, I've found it growing in size exponentially. It's not gotten to the stage where ...

What would happen if someone in the past was given a list of modern day videogame titles? What kind of games would they imagine from far off in their future? And what sort of games would they create, on their retro-tastic 8-bit home computers!? It's time, once again, to step inside the Future Classics Time Vortex, and find out!! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Future_Classics_-_1986_Edition_20140408A_thumb.png"> <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Future_Classics_-_1986_Edit...

Do you have an iOS device? Are you sick to death of seeing nothing but clones of Flappy Birds and Threes*!? Want a little more variety on your iPhing?! (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Jayenkai-Bargain-Bucket_1600.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Jayenkai-Bargain-Bucket_1600-1024x1024.png" alt="Jayenkai Bargain Bucket_1600" width="590" height="590" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3675" /> ...

This week I've decided to resurrect the classic "(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=108">Future Classics)". In the spirit of the original, this collection will be made up of short minigames, each one taking the title from a current-gen game, but being created in the spirit of an 8-bit "rubbish" game. It's been one heck of a challenge to get the game up and running in such a short amount of time, so the initial release will be OUYA/Windows/HTML5 just like Boxsplodings, relying entirely o...

This week, I started out with a severely disturbing game idea, and ended up with a nice happy colourful arcade puzzle-type thing! Hurray for colourful splodges!! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Boxsplodings_20140401A_thumb.png"> <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Boxsplodings_20140401B_thumb.png">

This week sees our intrepid hero running around a house, capturing ghosts. In many ways, this is a bit of a departure from the intended game.... <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Platdude_in_The_Spirit_Collector_20140325A_thumb.png"> <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Platdude_in_The_Spirit_Collector_20140325B_thumb.png">

.. Sorry, I haven't suddenly added them. Instead, I've made this post in the hopes of starting a discussion on the feasibility of adding scoreboards to future AGameAWeek titles. It's something I've attempted in the past, and old versions of Microbes, Spider and others still kind-of, mostly, sort of work. But there's a few issues that are stopping me from integrating it into the current framework.

I like to randomly throw games out there, and see how the general public takes to them. Sometimes it's fun to watch as fun games plummet into disasterous pits of unnoticability. Occasionally, you get a surprise hit, and are kind of disappointed that you hadn't put any kind of pricetag on the thing. Today is a definite example of the latter, as I watch "Every Good Bird" flapping it's way into the stratosphere!

You wait months for a new AGameAWeek iOS game, and then two come along at once! Apologies that these weren't posted some time last week, but they've been sat in "Waiting for Review" status for AGES!! Much, much longer than the regular "7 days" wait.