A demo!!?!?!!?!?! With all the freeware that's on here, the years of making freeware, and the fact that I've only ever made games for the fun of making the games, it's pretty damn unthinkable that one of my games might actually be a demo! But that's how it's going to be for this one. I like this game. I like it a lot! Last month, this started as a simple remake of a shitty little spike dodging game. A quicky, or so I thought, to slap onto the AppStore as a semi-sequel to Spik...

I've been hyping this one all week!!! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Extreme_Unicorn_Racing_20110531_Logo_thumb.png"> .. don't expect much!

It wasn't my games. o/ hurray o/

Blimey, haven't done one of these for a while! Any game ideas, slap 'em in the comments!

Mark this down as a "Well, it DOES work, it's just not for me" kinda game. <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Word_Trundle_20110524_Logo_thumb.png">

JNKPlat It's a Platform game, but it isn't. It's a side-view Puzzle game, with Platformy events included.

A random game idea on Sunday, with a totally random name, and then a shock co-incidence when Monday turned out to be Roger Hargreaves' birthday, and the Mr Men ended up being plastered all over Google! I couldn't have planned that.. I'm far too lazy to have planned that! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Mister_Smash_20110510_Logo_thumb.png">

It's neat and simple. A Matrix screen filled with code. Occasionally there's Red code. Zap the red code! That's pretty much all there is to it!! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Matrix_Blaster_20110503_Logo_thumb.png">

FAR too busy right now! What i'm trying to do today is to make a simple little game. If you've been following you'll know that I have some sort of oddball Bee game in mind, so I've shoved the bee, the particles and the background images in, I've got the basic movement sorted, and am trying to figure out how the game should work. Slow work!

Add a simple pause menu. That was task number one, this morning, on a 5 item tasklist. The stupid menu took 5 hours! FIVE!!

1. No sound pitch. Jinkies Munkies, What the Funkies!?!? Simplest example. You know in Horizontal Shooter, when your weapon goes "SQQEUUUUEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!".. Can't do that.. It's gotta go "beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep" Regular bullets will go "Rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat" instead of "bang-bing-bada-pow-pip-pat-pap-bang" Imagine SpikeDislike without it constantly getting higher and higher, as you up the combo. .. Pants.. And, even worse, every sound needs it's own set of buffers. So if I ch...

Take one part Asteroids, and mix in... um.. .. hmm... <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/TinyAss_20110308_Logo_thumb.png">

I don't usually do Friday updates, but today, day two of working on this game, I got things looking quite nice. Figured I might as well post about it. No gameplay (collision detection/death/scores/etc) yet, but I got a nice simple looking engine going, as far as scrolling, base enemy and shooting's concerned. The current enemy are Base enemy. They sit on the scrolling landscape, and shoot at you. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Shooty-Bang-Bang-Screenshot_18-...

Note : PlayMyCode is no longer available A slight change this week. I was planning to do AGameAWeek as usual, but was somewhat thrown off course by a request to make games, instead! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/PMC3.png">

A nice slow paced shooter this week. Poor old CPC Basic couldn't really handle bullet-hell type games. Well, ok, maybe it could if you really really tried, and came up with a scrolling ascii grid of bullets, but for the most part it just wasn't happening. Instead, Cassette 50 creators had to rely on other ideas. Like trying to kill you with your own desire to kill!! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Inferno_20110125_Logo_thumb.png">

Here we go, then! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Royal_Rescue_20110111_Logo_thumb.png">

Why is it always the little random games with a dire lack of content that become the most popular ones?! Lesson Learned : I oughta stop trying so hard, and just knock out the simple little games! I was thinking this whilst doing the Advent collection. Some of those were really playable, and I had a whole lot of fun whilst making them. On the flipside, doing the larger games like that horrible nasty RPG, and.. To be fair.. a lot of the Year3 games. They've all been kinda half-assed, and not really muc...

You all know how to play this one! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Super_Spike_Dislike_20110104_Logo_thumb.png"> <a href="https://jayenkai.blogspot.com/p/spike-dislike.html">Also on iPhone/iPod/iPad</a> Bounce continuously to the right, avoid the spikes, shoot at them occasionally, Super Spike Dislike!!

The year is new, but the logo's old. Sod it. I love this logo! I should be doing a year-long roundup thing, but I've not had much time, what with the whole Advent and stuff. No matter, there's been some good, and plenty of bad, and that's what AGameAWeek's all about!

Top 10 of 2010

1. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=219">Platdude's Retro Advent Collection <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Platdude__s_Retro_Advent_Collection_20101201B_thumb.png">

No normal AGameAWeek this Tuesday, but worry not, there's still some games to be played! <img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/xmasxompo_480.png">

Think of this as a christmas present. (URL "https://socoder.net/uploads/1/AdventCollectionSource.zip">You can download the Advent sourcecode here)

<img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Platdude__s_Retro_Advent_Collection_20101201_Logo_thumb.png"> A brand new game, EVERY DAY over Christmas!

Unfinished Or, to put it another way, this game got to about 70% done, I got really stupidly bored with it, I lost interest, and I still bothered to get it to about 92%. At 92%, I gave up. Here's a game at 92%.

If you've an idea for AGameAWeek, let it be known in the comments below!!! Meanwhile, thinking time...

"You just hold right, and jump a bit" <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Super_Happy_Speedy_Gerbil_20101116_Logo_thumb.png">

I'm in too deep. I can't stop! And yet I also didn't plan ahead far enough, and will be spending most of this morning removing a bunch of stuff, and redoing it all. Gah! <a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/Jays_Retro_Sprite_Tool_(Screenshot_06_Nov_2010_103755).png"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/Jays_Retro_Sprite_Tool_(Screenshot_06_Nov_2010_103755)_thumb.png"></a> Tuesday's little sprite buildey bobby will be all nice and super, and with any luck, should...