Bonus iOS Game! <a href="https://bit.ly/SheepGoesLeft">For iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad</a> (£1.19/$1.99/equiv.) Got an iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad? Grab Sheep Goes Left!! Go get it! It's out now! I'll be posting the semi-demo half-assed ported to Win/Lin/Mac edition as Tuesday's AGameAWeek, so you can try it out there, but the iOS one's much neater, has nicer menus, lovely swooshy bits, and even contains a wonderful little 20-track soundtrack! (woot!) Addition...

I might skip another AGAW, this week, sorry! I have a half-game play-thing half done, but I've just started another one of those spur-of-the-moment things that might take over my entire weekend. .. again.. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/logo.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/logo.png" alt="" title="logo" width="320" height="160" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1414" /></a>

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

I've got a whole month to do a framework, so apparently that means I'm going to be a lazy git who does sod all, then crams the whole framework into the last day! .. Well, hopefully not, but I did manage to cram in a couple of hours of Burnout, yesterday! Been a long while since I sat and played a game for that long.

This isn't going to be a "You thieving bunch of bastards" post. I know this goes on. There's no point trying to stop it. Unless Apple want to show me a list of who did and didn't buy my app, there's sod all I can do about it. I can only urge people to bother to buy my game. Because it's really fucking good! What this IS going to be, is a small request to the people who crack my game. This isn't a whinge for money. This isn't a bitch about the rights/wrongs. But it

A Pro/Con list might've helped beforehand!!! Fuck it, 70 quid down the drain.. carry on.

Bad time to be swinging again, Jay...! 20x(640x32) images + 10x(64x64) images. That can just about struggle to run at about 22fps on an iPod Retina. Then you've got text to go over that, and another 10x(64x64) for badges.. It's just not happening.. No matter how I tweak it, rejig it, and compile and compile again, I just cannot get those numbers up. *sigh* And yet... That's exactly what SpikeDislike is, already. .... At 60fps. And SpikeDislike is the most piss easiest game ...

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...

This week saw the launch of "<a href="https://monkeycoder.co.nz/">Monkey</a>", the next-generation of BlitzBasic. <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/monkey1.png" alt="" title="monkey1" width="332" height="56" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1233" />

Back at school I used to randomly write thoughts into my jotter. Not school-based stuff, of course. I was an idea-filled coder, back then! Lately, the ideas are few and far between, as anyone who's been following AGameAWeek lately has noticed. My "Waffle" was general thoughts about gui layouts, game thoughts, and then anything else that randomly appeared along the way. I'm starting to think that it might be a good idea to restart that old habit.

The game that keeps on going, even though it's just a ball and some spikes! <a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/795/dislike.jpg"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/795/dislike_thumb.jpg"></a>

Yesterday, Rob from RetroRemakes asked if he could do a spritesheet for Spike Dislike. After a lot of back and forth, I decided to write a how-to, so any future requests could go a little bit smoother! Here's some info on how to make 'em, alongside a bunch of all-important rules.