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Space Station A6-100 nears completion!

The Penguins are out on parade. Guide them to their happy hole, to finish each level.

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#247 - Friday 15th January, 2016

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Took ages making the first few proper levels of this week's game.

This week, I've been working on the game Penguin Parade. This is a semi sequel to the game that appeared in Alpha Collexion, but in reality is more of a Lemmings clone. Over the course of this week, I've built a sturdy engine, made a few "skills", and got a decent control method to work on gamepads.  I've animated a penguin, and got a few GUI elements in place, and .. In general.. I've made a nice solid little game. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/img_2251.jpeg">&l...

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One day left, and loads to go!!

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As the end of the year looms, I'm slightly starting to panic about whether I've got all the AGameAWeek puzzle pieces into the right places.

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Overcoding, perhaps?!

-=-=- Android_NewYa Target -=-=- (URL "https://socoder.net/monkey/NewYA.zip">Download The Target) Recent changes to how OUYA works, (SDK updates, Razer buying them out, the new Razer Forge Cortex stuff, and more) have rendered the old OUYA target... a bit broken. The old controller code no longer works 100% of the time on the new Razer Forge, so I took some time rejigging the target, and making it a bit more compatible. Along the way, I also got involved with a few other devices (mostly PlayJam...

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Words! Lots of Words!!

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I opted to play NeonPlat's Cosmic Adventures, yesterday...

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A very Platdude based blog entry, today!

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What'll be happening with Beta Collexion? How can I get my games on Steam? And.. Snooker?!

Developments

I hate waiting.. And now I'm waiting for 2 sets of people to do their Review thing.. TeamOUYA normally get around to things on a Monday, but with all the chaos going on over there, I'm expecting mid-week at the earliest. Meanwhile, PlayJam could take ages. Their reviews seem to be nice and fast, but the delay between Review and Release is somewhat erratic. My first PlayJam game took about a month from when it was "Passed" to when it became available on the system. But recent "...

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And now we have to wait.. Waiting for both OUYA and PlayJam to review and release the Advent collection, at which point I also click the Publish button over at GameJolt, and set about uploading the game to my own archive, too! .. Which reminds me.. The Archive Still doesn't include PlayJam links, does it.. Hmm... Last night I spent a good few hours working on a newer version of my Monkey Skeleton Framework. It's about 50% rejigged, but I'm sure there's oodles more stuff I c...

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Another Advent game ticked off, and a whole bunch more to go. I might try to spice yesterday's game up a bit more, before release, as it's a little bland the way it is. Anyhoo, that got done, and then I spent a while playing with audio bugs on the PlayJam devices. If you have an Android device and would like to play "I wonder what happens on MY Android device?" then you can (URL "https://socoder.net/newAPK/02%20-%20Audio%20Test.apk">grab the .apk here.) (URL "https://soco...

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Oh dear.. I only managed about half-a-game yesterday. It started off well, but as I needed more and more art assets, I kinda got lazy, drifted off, and then started playing Words With Friends instead of drawing sprites. Whoops! That's not helping the limited schedule, much. Hopefully I can get the game finished, today, and maybe even move on to the next one. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/414_014.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-conten...

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After another hour or so of tweaking, I finally got Sheep Goes Right uploaded to both OUYA and PlayJam. Hopefully the game passes through without any issues, but I'm slightly worried that there might be memory based complications. When I tested JNKBombers on my Razer Forge, I didn't spot any errors, but upon review, they send me a "Out of Memory" log, which suggested the Forge might not be all it's cracked up to be. I suspect this to be a case of the system multitasking. On OUYA...

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Yesterday was spent much like the day before. In the morning I fixed up and uploaded an OUYA game, and in the evening I created another Advent Calendar game. The Advent Calendar's now up to 12 games, and hopefully I'll continue to do at least one game a day over the next few days, meaning I'm vaguely on schedule to get the whole thing done on time. .. But these things never quite go to plan, do they!? Oh well, fingers crossed! (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads...

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Yesterday I got a rejection email from "OUYA" to say that my references to "OUYA" in the game The Final Warrior on "OUYA" was enough to get it rejected from being on "OUYA". It seems that now that OUYA are no longer OUYA, and are now instead "Razer/Cortex", and as a result I need to stop making so many references to OUYA in my OUYA games. .. Or something to that effect. Changes have been made and the game re-uploaded, and hopefully the new edition will be passed through withou...

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Yesterday I recreated Hoppy Bobby in the Advent Calendar. It's not an amazing feat, but it is at least something. Other than that, I spent some time rejigging Neon Bike Championships for OUYA, and also sent PlayJam a copy so they can test it to see if it's Multiplayer code is any less crappy than JNKBombers was. I'll keep that copy aside, incase they decide it is indeed worthy of a proper upload, but if you don't ever see it on GameStick/FlarePlay, that'll be why. Today I have...

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My latest reworking of my Multiplayer code STILL got rejected by PlayJam. Grrr. Android.. Since the game plays perfectly well with wired controllers, it appears that the actual issue is Bluetooth related. Quite how I can solve such an issue is beyond me. I've now put the Multiplayer games on the backburner, and have instead chosen to focus on getting some actual coding done. Which brings us to this. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/414_007.png">...

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Spent yesterday powering through a quick monster-maze game. Managed to build a basic dungeon layout builder, got monsters wandering around, and generally made a nice playable little game. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/414_006.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/414_006-1024x597.png" alt="414_006" width="604" height="352" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-5165" /> This i...

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Having poked and prodded at that damn controller code for about a month, I opted to rip the whole thing out and redo from start, yesterday. Took me about 4 hours of tweaking before the thing started to show decent progress. After a little more time, things were looking up, as for the first time ever, my Archos Gamepad merged into one single controller! I battled on, and now appear to have a fairly sturdy bit of controller code in my games. I'm about to test it on the OUYA, jus...