Alright, time to start on the next iOS project. Over the past year I've started around about 500,000 iOS games, and released 6. You're probably wondering WTF happened to the rest of 'em.

You could say I crapped out, and gave up. I aimed for 52. I aimed for a 2nd whole year's worth of games, within a startlingly short amount of time. .. But I probably would've managed it..

February. The iOS edition of SpikeDislike was kicking arse, the WiLMa edition was doing well, and the PlayMyCode edition was being played quite a bit, too. What else could SpikeDislike be ported to?!

Yeay! More Sheep! I need to make a feckin' level editor for the DS Sheep Goes Left game, and then rebuild all the levels, all over again. Baa!!!

Too tired.. Instead, I've been working on Sheep Goes Left DS, which is proving 17,000,000,000% more popular than it's iOS rival. Quite why, I don't know, but the fact that it's being mentioned quite a bit is a good sign.

How the hell did I ever manage to get so much done over the past two weeks?!! .. oh yeah, I wasn't half-asleep..

I was up stupidly late last night. I wasn't coding. I wasn't listening to music. and I wasn't watching TV either.

Over the years, I've settled into somewhat of a set of "Bad" habits. I clump everything into unnamed arrays, with unnamed numerical references for everything. I reuse arrays for anything from enemy locations, collectables, particles and anything else. If you open up my PlayMyCode games (click the edit button!) you'll see my habits. They're everywhere, and they "EVIL!!!" I am an oldskool coder. This is how I code..

Hmmm...

I've been very very sleepy today, so I had a nap!

I wrote tonight's Socoder Newsletter earlier today, so that I didn't have to do it tonight. The Plan? Get home, head to the Mac, Code some Daisy Chains.. The Reality? Get home, head to the Mac, answer emails, post tweet replies, forums stuffs, and then my phone started yelling at me because I haven't posted today's blog yet. FFS!! Sod it, let's blog a rant then.. .. you wanna know what I don't get..?

Spent some time today doing a bunch of little tweaky things. First off, late last night, I started on reformatting SpikeDislike's GameCenter code, to make it a bit more universal, and easy to plop into other games. Took about an hour to get everything working nicely, integrated into Daisy Chains, and get the highscores up and running. woot!

Random thought.. There's no denying it.. I LOVE making these tiny games.

Totally drained, today. Just about managed to post a few random DaisyChain based posts/emails, and that's about it. Out of all of 'em, I'm hoping the <a href="https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=20869.0">TIGSource</a> one prods interest a little, but.. .. I dunno.. Almost a day later, only 25 views, and 0 replies.. .. It's not looking good. *Jay grabs the defibs and cranks up the charge*

Although I haven't yet started to code anything, I have spent the past few days wondering how best to tackle redefinable keys in the PlayMyCode. I'm unsure whether to go for a menu based thing, or not.

I'd forgotten why I don't do anything on Saturdays..

Missed a day. I have an idea for a game in my head, and I know what the game should play like, but .. too tired! It's been a long week!! Tomorrow's not meant to be AGameADay, but I might give it a whirl anyway.

Solutions are everywhere! There are springy splodgy sticky blobs you can slap on the screen, there's big fullsized controller connectors to wrap the phone in, and there's even wifi touchscreen iPod -> iPad controller things, too. Plenty to choose from...

During this little AGameADay mini marathon thing I've been waking up, coding a game, then having my breakfast. Each game's taking about an hour, occasionally 2. They're quickies. I also planned not to do Wednesday games. Today took a detour..

(Apologies, it's a bit "half-asleep/randomly ranty/jumping through topics/freeflow" today!!) As an iDev guy, I get 50 codes per Update for all my games. I can hand these out to reviewers or folk I know. Handy. So, off they go, sent out, willy nilly, to all the reviewers/people I can find, and see where it takes me.

If you're following, you'll have probably seen it coming. Jay codes, Jay codes more, Jay writes blogs, Jay does music, Jay feels a bit tired, Jay codes more, Jay feels really tires, Jay writes a big-ass Newsletter, Jay stays awake all night, Jay codes more, Jay drags himself home from work, Jay goes to sleep for 12 hours, Jay's big sleep fucks his neck up again..

Won't be posting a blog tonight, so might as well do it now. Long long night.. Sat up writing the newsletter 'til late, then posted the short blog, then headed to bed about 1am.. After lying there playing Sheep Goes Left for an hour or two, I finally drifted off, only to wake up at 5am.

Last night I said it might be worth my while making a new set of Sheep Goes Left levels. Right after I said that, I started doing it, and by about 2pm today I'd done it. 14 hours, 100 levels, with a sleep and AGameADay inbetween! Blimey! Seems the time off from making Sheepy things made it easier to do it. Who knew! I'll add some GameCenter stuff and upload Release 3 shortly. This is only a quicky blog, tonight, 'cos I just spent the past 2 hours writing the Socoder Newsletter, so if you want t...

I had a decent topic in mind for the blog, earlier.... *shrugs* Should've wrote it down.. No matter, I can randomly waffle for 10 minutes! I usually do ok with that...

AL's been away for a while. I think all the AGameADay stuff might've taken it's toll on him for a bit, there. Today, though, he unexpectedly managed to knock out a fairly decent choon. I like today's tune. Nice and.. um.. nice (URL "https://alodare.tumblr.com/post/7799085732">Antisocial Floating Manoeuvres) Feels good to have AL back to his normal style of music, instead of the absolute garbage he was spewing out last week!

@VDichotomy <em>@Jayenkai OK - simple pitch: guiding a balloon up a maze with spikes to avoid, avoiding gusts from fans & speed keeps increasing. Workable?</em> <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/VDichotomy/status/93079625340698624">11 hours ago</a> Yup, that's workable..

Had a day out, today. I rarely go out anywhere, since there's feck all in town anymore. 95% of the shops in Bolton Town Center are mindnumbingly shit, unless you feel the need to visit a charity shop. The shops I used to visit are, in order of visits..