You can't possibly complain that this game is evil and sadistic! It's just a happy happy game, with instructions permanently written, right at the top!! Who could possibly complain!!!?

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<a href="https://bit.ly/NeonPlat_Adventures">NeonPlat Adventures : Available now for Windows, Linux and MacOSX</a> Inside, a list of all the features I had or hadn't planned, and why they are/aren't in there!

I wasn't aiming to do the Final Beta until about Wed/Thursday this week. Today, the Final Beta went out. A few days early, but there was nothing more I could come up with. The game is done. There's been a few tweaks, today, to sort out a couple of beta-player's issues, and I've been fiddling with some of those slightly annoying things that I never got around to fixing. .. but yeah, it's done.

Today, I became a complete and total recluse! It was the only way it was all going to get crammed into the day. Let's go through last night's list, shall we?

Gah! Extra hats today! I now need about 3 hats, and annoyingly I think I might need an extra bunch of baddies, which also means more hats! D'oh! Still, those can wait until after the Friday Beta. The things that can't wait, are those annoying things that build and build, until you realise you don't really have a whole lot of time.

Today's been total utter chaos. I wrote a bunch of little Badges (Awards?!) the other day, so I've spent today trying to wrangle the code together so that they actually work. See inside for some oddly missing information.

Phase One was the simple test engine I release WAY WAY back in the very early stages of this humongous project.. .. last month! Phase One was a basic engine, with simple platforming mechanics. Taking the rules of NeonPlat and adding a scrolling background, I wanted to judge if it'd be enjoyed. True, one piece of feedback was a little downbeat, but on the whole it's been well appreciated. You can't please everyone, but the original's not broken, so hopefully that makes up for it. Pha...

A quick and simple Boulderdash clone, written using PlayMyCode.com

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Reason : I asked for PMC-Based Boulderdash clones in this week's Socoder Newsletter, so figured I'd best do one, just incase nobody else did.. If you make one, let me know!

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?!

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

@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..

It's just a nice simple Platform game. And it also uses the first of the new template, along with a couple of PhotonStorm's lovely little sprites Thanks!

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Part of the reason for making a generic reusable frontend for my games is that I can't stand doing logos! The things annoy me. They have to be "just" right, and each game needs to be done differently. A simple text "Name of Game" does me just fine!

Lately I've done a half-a-dozen games where the main player must go left. I've decided to take a break from that, and made a super-imaginative new plan. In today's game, the player goes right!

A game? Again? Yup! Made a (URL "https://www.playmycode.com/play/game/jayenkai/not-the-same">nice little mazey thing), where you have to trek around a random maze. The maze isn't hard, but it's one of those nice "harder if you don't do it right!" style of things that I have a knack of making. Not sure why I keep doing those! I just seem to like their insane difficulty! Perhaps, in reality, my games are actually really really piss easy, and it's just me that keeps playing them wrong!? *shrugs*

A simple little maze game. Guide "Generic 8-bit chr #3" to grab all the little gems. You can't step on two same-coloured tiles one after the other, and try not to crumble the floors or that'll kill you, too..

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Time taken : 1 hour, and about 2 minutes!

I've always found Flash slightly more complicated than it needs to be. For a few years I attempted to learn various versions of the official Flash demoes, and SoThink's 900% cheaper clone. They were ok, but they weren't designed for coders. Flash was an artist's tool, with tweening and vector graphics and all that other none-codery stuff.

A simple Breakout game with only one level. Taking the "Keep it in play" scoring method from Centipong, I've tried to make it so that clearing the first level in breakout doesn't always result in exactly the same damn score every single feckin' time. .. That ALWAYS pissed me off! So, keep the balls juggling to super-combo your score, and see how many points you can manage from just one wall.

A simple little game about running around and eating pellets as they fall. yeay!

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A nice simple horizontal shooter game with a lot of bullets. *shrugs* Still, better than the past few day's games, eh!?

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Today I'm focussing my blog on iOS trials and tribulations. The basic steps of designing a game when working with iOS. These are pretty simple things, and should be apparent, but .. having played a fair number of iOS games.. they're not always done! Note, this isn't really about my actual development, as such, more the train of thought that generates the end result. In a future bloggy thing, I might focus more on the what/where, than the how/why that this does. Let me know if this is a goo...

Another Day, Another Game! Today's is a little bit tricky, I must admit, but it's a nice and simple one once you get the hang of it. Tap the colour co-ordinated cursor key, just as the two fellows are meeting, and you score points. If you're too late, you get no points, and lose a life. Easy as pie'ish!

Because sometimes you notice Platdude on the bottom of your generic tiles spritesheet and go "hmm.. what could I do quickly with Platdude"...

Since I'm now doing AGameADay for a while, I figured it might be somewhat of a change of pace if I also did one of those "blog" things daily. I tried doing this during my previous month off, and although it kinda worked, it didn't really last.. d'oh! Still, try and try again! As a reminder, I've set up a calendar alarm thing to bleep at me, every night, at 22:15GMT. Either that'll work really well, or it'll start to tick me off, to the point where I throw my otherwise completely and totally unused H...

AGameAWeek teaches us one thing. Some games you win, some games you lose. When you lose, there's not a lot you can do. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and move on. This is a post about how I threw myself on the ground.

The other day I suggested that a new set of AGameADay might be in order, since I'm totally stuffed for ideas, lately. Out of ideas, make the requirement more.... Sure, that makes sense, right?! Anyhoo, today I spent . um.. all day.. doing yet another one of those Framework things that I apparently love to do. This time I used PlayMyCode.com, and the resulting menu/score/game thing has actually worked out quite nicely. First game, Chase The Block, a simple chasey game. Created (using PlayMyCode....

This week, I started a game on a grid. It started well enough, with a lovely grid-doodling method making nice colourful griddy squares, and a simple circle on the top for the player. Then I got to the point where I had to do character movement, and my head just kinda went "Ugh.. I just can't be arsed!!" (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/NoGoA.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/NoGoA-300x236.png" alt="" title="NoGoA" width="300" height="236" clas...