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I'm continuing my fight with this week's game!

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So.. I picked a font!

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I'm enjoying coding this week's game, but every time I play it, I realise it's pretty much identical to "The Final Warriorfish" from just a few weeks ago. As such, I'm going to stop where I am, and do something else instead.

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My head burst!!!

You can (URL "https://socoder.net/uploads/1/The_Abandoned_Turrets.zip">Download The Abandoned Turrets here). (Windows EXE) Last week, I set out to make an arcade-based "Tower Defence" type of game. Initially the plan was going smoothly. You could drag the little turrets around, plant extra turrets, and then start an "Attack". At that point, you shot the enemies and gathered up the coins. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/433_002.png" rel="attachment wp-att-5782"><img ...

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#253 - Friday 26th February, 2016

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This year, I'm learning to be patient..

I've opted to call Year 7 the "Gap" Year, in the sense that not every week will be a game... There will be frequent Gaps! I'll be trying out the usual crazy ideas, but each game will be given a little more breathing room than I usually give them, in an effort to make games a little more substantial than they usually end up being. The Rules are as follows.. After week one, the game should at least be playable. If it isn't, then I throw it out and start something else. No good forcing bad ideas down p...

Things I should be doing. 1. A new Alien Deathmatch 2. A new RetroRaider 3. A new JNKPlat 4. That space-platformer-shooter thing 5. YBox Drops 6. SpikeDislike3 Each and every one is too large for a Weekly timescale, and as such, I've not started ANYTHING! They're all random unstarted ideas, waiting for "just the right time", but at the rate of AGameAWeek, there's never really going to be time to get around to them. Heck, I was supposed to do JNKPlat 2 years ago! I started it for the Xmas speci...

Someone over at Softpedia has been closely following AGameAWeek for quite some time. It seems that each time I post a new game, within a relatively short period of time, it pops up on Softpedia's archive. Handily, they tend to link directly to my downloads, so if in the future I opt to update any of my games, people will be able to get the latest edition. They also write their own little descriptions and take nice screenshots, too. It's a nice way of doing things. I'm rather happy about the way their s...

If last week was an example of a good week, then this week is most definitely the polar opposite! Welcome to a failed AGameAWeek!!

I'm taking a slight break from my usual AGameAWeek schedule. Over the course of September, I'll be spending extra time building up a super awesome edition of BlastTrax, whilst also taking the time to enjoy GTAV properly! Hurray for games! Meanwhile, I'm digging through my archive of old forgotten gems, and plucking out anything that isn't yet part of my Archive for reasons of terribleness, or general forgetfulness!

This coming Tuesday, August 27th I'll be releasing Game #300 in the Archive. Holy crumpets, 300!?!!? It's been a long trawl, getting BlastTrax finished in time, especially since I actually had to have it done by LAST week, so's it could get through Apple Review in time for the #300th! As a result, August has been one heck of a crazy month, and I'm pretty dang tired out. I'm currently considering taking most of September off, or at the very least a couple of weeks. I've reached a nice goal, it's tim...

Coming up is a game that I've been building up over the past week or so. On August 27th, I'll be releasing the wonderful game BlastTrax. The game started well enough, but soon spiraled out of control as I realised it was much better than the quick experiment that it started life as. Rather timely, too, as it means I can release it as #300. But, what exactly IS #300? Hmmm...

1I had planned to make a semi-sequel to NeonPlat, this week. I'm not really sure why that didn't happen! Instead, we have a nice swimming floating game, which is in no way inspired by the diving in Animal Crossing.. ... AT ALL!!!!

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:right;">AGameAWeek Gold is our daily trawl through the Jayenkai Archives, to dig out any games that might have been released, on this day in history. For the most part, there's some real stinkers in amongst this lot. But every so often, we'll come across a real gem.

I'm rummaging through my hard drive, and what do I spot? System Defender!!! An unfinished piece of crap that I abandoned early on. ... I wouldn't normally post abandoned crap*, but then I noticed the date. 22 January 2003 Good grief, this piece of crap is ten years old! Want to see how crap my unfinished games were, 10 years ago? Now's your chance to find out! (URL '>FlightDemo) Up and down to move up and down the screen, left and right to fly left or right, and Spacebar (eeeeuww!) to f...

I don't seem to have much luck with dungeon crawlers, do I? Every time I start one, I kinda give up halfway. This week's "game" (if you can call it that) is yet another unfinished RPG game. It's all over at PlayMyCode, though, so if you're feeling up to it, perhaps you could delve into the code and bulk it up a bit, turning it into something a little less rubbish. Either way, I fell out with it pretty early on, and it never got finished to a decent standard. Boooo! Views 99, Upvotes 11  

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