Aaah, the familiar sound of squelching!! <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/centia.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/centia-300x300.png" alt="" title="centia" width="300" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2545" /></a> The gameplay is easy on this one. Throw the ball at the oncoming Centipedes to smash them to pieces. You can then additionally bounce the flailing pods about, to do extra damage, and cause general o...

Already!? Who saw this coming?! I sure as hell didn't!! <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/shootybangbang.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/shootybangbang-300x228.png" alt="" title="shootybangbang" width="300" height="228" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2486" /></a> You can Play the HTML5 Edition here, and note a bunch of scrambled debug messages as they pop up underneath the game! Update : I deleted all these earl...

OK, let's get some stress testing going, shall we? This test took ABSOLUTELY AGES to get working, because my Mac and iPod suddenly decided they were no longer friends, and XCode was playing up like a moron. AN HOUR!! For two little bloody tests. rediculous! However, what we have here is code that I wrote on a PC, tested on a PC under HTML conditions, then ran on an iPod having compiled it under reasonably fast conditions. (*aside from the bitchyness of the device!)

A warning for all, as we hit the christmas period. Be careful... The Mince Pies are very tempting!

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/Slumlord27">Slumlord27/Moshboy's Youtube Channel</a> For a long time, Moshboy's been building a nice big list of indie games on his Youtube Channel. There's LOADS to see, and I highly recommend that you spend a month or two playing through them all! Great stuff. Today, he decided to add Kee Bo Ard to his list! yeay!

<a href="https://gfbrobot.com/2011/11/16/interview-with-neonplat-adventures-jayenkai/">Interview with NeonPlat Adventure's Jayenkai</a> A nice big interview, randomly waffling on and on, in that strange unplanned way that I do! Thanks to darthvid who sent all those questions over the other morning. A nice surprise to wake up to! Kinda makes me want to do more of the same.. <a href="https://www.formspring.me/Jayenkai">Jayenkai on Formspring!</a> Ask away.. I'll ...

Tomorrow's the day you all get to play! Had a last minute email, last night, from Shadow1w2, filled with some really nice ideas that would be great to implement. Thing is, we've hit the point of no return. I'm off to work all day, and tomorrow's the release. So. dangit.. no time to fiddle. (I now remember why AGameAWeek is usually a Tuesday release!!) <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/NeonPlat-Adventures-Screenshot_12-Nov-2011_130918.png"><img sr...

Saturday's my "At work for a while" day, so I usually get a lot less codey time done, but I still managed quite a few bits and pieces in the morning. A couple of new baddies, and a teensy bit of AI are in there, as is something which may or may not be confusing, depending on whether you remember the 7 year old oddity or not. Suffice to say, the bananas do definitely appear to be coming from below the arrow. .. not sure what that's all about.. ---

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Got a little feedback, yest...

On Tuesday, things had started to go annoyingly slowly.. That part where the number of bug fixes grossly outweighs the number of fun happy additions you can be enjoying adding to your game. But I did a lot of fixes on Tuesday!

Last night I sat down to jot a few readme notes for the Beta Testers. By the time I was done, I'd inexplicably written 1500 words of gubbins! Whoops!

One of the hardest things about adding baddies to this game is, surprisingly for me, not actually drawing things! With NeonPlat I've created a weird skewed world, where nothing looks exactly as it should. This gives me a little artistic license with my artwork. .. or rather, I can be shit, and nobody'll notice! If something looks a little too odd, I simply make it look odder in the animation, and it somehow cobbles together nicely. Want an example? The Bats don't flap, they kinda invert-...

Much as I expected, the initial burst of NeonPlat Adventure building, has now dropped to a stupidly slow rate. I'm currently flicking through all the possibilities for standard baddies, and super-evil-mega-boss baddies. Will the boss baddies be entirely seperate entities? Or will they, like previous NeonPlat games, be the same baddies, but megasized!? And what enemy types will work!? I've already cut out the unpopular "squishy" baddy. People didn't like him, because he wasn't catchab...

It's September. My boss is about to go on his hols, and I'm more or less at a nice "Not too much" level of codey work.

It's a great week for disliking spikes!! There's plenty of free spikes, all over the place!

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

I tried, today, but I just wasn't quite into it once the game started to build up. Today's unfinished game, Unknown.....!

PlayMyCode games no longer work

<img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/pmc_unknown-300x193.png"> The game didn't ever really have a heart. It started well, but it just kinda puttered out after just an hour or two. The game remains unfinished, expecting some sort magical experience, but n...

Hmmm...

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

Today's game took AGES! 3 hours of slow slow progress. Must still be wiped out after yesterday! As a result, I haven't gotten around to any redefine-stuff, today. d'oh! It's on tomorrow's list!

PlayMyCode games no longer work

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

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..

Was ill, feeling fine today, but with an added complication. My Mum's been to the Lake District, and has come back with an "almost broke" Sprained foot. uhoh! I'm doing caretaker duties for the next wee while, so apologies if I don't get around to everything. Finding myself making little checklists.. thank god for StickyNotes Windows 7 - The good bits of XP, without the mindbogglingly shit bits of Vista, now with added post-it's.

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!

I love it. There are new features. There are old features remade. There are better ways to do things. Quicker ways to do things. There's a lovely set of notifications! The world of iOS5 is remarkably fantastic! But there are downsides.

The other day I played another of those Fire Escape style games. You know the ones. They started on the Game&Watch and got remade over and over. <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Juggler_20110606_Logo_thumb.png">

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">

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">