OMG! It's a Trial Edition!! WTF!? Demo! ARGH!!! Actually, I've not finished yet. But rather than skip out a week of AGameAWeek, I've decided to release a quick Trial edition. In this version, you must guide Platdude through 11 classic JNKPlatDS08 levels. They're all in there, and they all work approximately as they did before There are, of course, odd timing issues, as I've not quite got everything exact. It's not TOO obvious ...

I'm a calm person. I will happily settle with what I've got, and be glad that I have it. I don't own a copy of Flash, I can't afford it, and I'm not going to steal it. So I carry on making games in Blitz, and whatever else I can get my hands on. So, with my £100 Phone, from LG, (The KP500 'Cookie') I started to write games using the freely available MidletPascal. It's a wonderful piece of software, and it does many great things.

Today I start a new feature, mostly due to 2 odd posts in my spambin. 1. Invispnib writes.. Should they even be there? Please comment on this video clip. I don't think Robert Cooper or Brad Wright would ever let these two ever have any serious part on Stargate Universe. Well maybe the brunette??? The link in question Now, usually, I'd set that to spam, and kill the bugger. But it is, indeed, a stargate related video. Which is odd, because I'm not sure I've mentioned my love of ...

So, I spent a while, last night, playing with the graphics. Now that the game's out there, and since so many people are complaining about it's lack of fancyness, I decided to make nice with the special weapons.. <img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/whooshy.png"> The game's now officially 75% More Whooshy, with the superweapons looking much more fancypants, and the dead baddies giving off a little red "poof!" as they go. I've also switched the ingame text from Regular Font to...

To stop my head from exploding from all the compression stuff, I decided to play with the theme tune, today. First off, I tried something different. It was rubbish. Next up, I tried the old theme, but rejigged. It's not terrible.. But it's a shame that it's not better. I'll be tweaking it along the way, and seeing what else I can come up with. I'm not sure what'll happen ingame, right now. The last game didn't really need it, so I don't think this one will...

If Centipong was a simplistic looking game with added 3D, Blockman would be the exact opposite. With levels so colourful they'd poke your eyes out, Blockman comes hopping along to rescue all the Blocklets. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/windev/blockman_01.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/windev/blockman_01_thumb.png"></a><a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/windev/blockman_02.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/windev/blockman_02_thumb.png"></a> It's a rather...

<a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/dsdev/colbox_800.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/dsdev/colbox_400.png"/></a> Platdude's Retro Collection was first released in November 2007. Each new release will contain a handful of new games. How many will there be in the end? Who can say! The latest release, <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/dsdev/col018.zip">Download Here</a>, contains 18 games from the list below. Note : If you'd like to play, but don't own a DS,...

Sometimes you forget about games! I worked on this game for a while, back in early 2003. The idea was to nick the whole Pokemon idea, and create a bizarre Coding based adventure game. So, I nicked the graphics, too! <img src="shots/exp-code.png"> I also added a bunch of music that I'd grabbed from Aminet, and designed a nice Logo. I got the map pretty much working as expected, and even got it so that text would appear in a little box. It kinda looks like my recent workshop "Quest" games...

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...