If you've been paying attention to this blog, or my Tweets, you'll have probably noticed a strange increase in Hat mentions, with no real purpose. Around about Day 3 of NeonPlat Adventure coding, I realised the need to do something new with the spheres. The Ice-thing would freeze a baddy, and then you could smash it. If that was all that the spheres did, then they'd be nothing special. The spheres needed to be special. Today, I finally got around to making some Hats! <a href="ht...

Back to NeonPlat Adventures today, and I spent a good 6 hours doodling away in Paintshop Pro, trying to get some nice new graphics for the game sorted. In all that time, I managed to draw (and integrate) 2 new World Themes, and 2 new Baddies. 6 hours for THAT?! *sigh* Still, the baddies are in, the worlds look fairly decent, and the game's still ticking away like it should. .. more to come! and no screenies, 'cos that'd be giving things away!

On September 30th, I had one game to cope with. Today I was juggling 4!!

One at a time. Get the task done, finish the game entirely, move onto the next. Our current task is NeonPlat Adventures. Let's see how much I added today..

NeonPlat Stats So Far Throwables : 3 (still the same 3!?) Objects : 8 Baddies : 9 Bosses : 1 Background styles : 1.5! (first complete, 2nd half done but needs tweaked so everything isn't dodgy looking blue squares!) Level types : 3'ish (depending on how I tweak the numbers) Music : 2'ish (2 very similar tunes, and a separate "Boss Time" tune.)

Had another Migraine day, today, and thus managed to accomplish bog all. 'tis a bit of a downpoint, considering how productive I've been over the past couple of weeks, but I pretty much ended up reading forums, messing about on Twitter, and.. .. Relaxing a bit. Because, apparently that's important, even when you're kicking ass making a really great platformer. Go figure!

Apologies for the lack of daily blog/rant lately. Work schedule is crazy, sleep schedule is crazy, and AGameAWeek schedule is also all messed up. .. Well... I say that..

Over a year and a half ago, I made a Music Framework thing to go in my BlitzMax framework. It achieved a fairly modest passable amount of music, and was used in both JNKPlat2010 and NeonPlat2. I stick in a few melodies, it goes twiddle-dee-dee, and out pops a bunch of pseudo random music. yeay!

The Demo, already!!!? This is nice and playable, so I thought I'd spout out a nice demo for everyone.

Another day, and still lots of back-n-forth on NeonPlat decisions. There's a lot of gameplay emerging, and it'll be fun trying to pull it all off. Even without a working editor, and still having everything be pseudo random, things are playable, enemy are spawning, and NeonPlat keeps enjoying himself!

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...

I've been mulling over this post for a few days, now, but the guy at work mentioned them being super cheap, and I found myself in a more pressed position. Would I, or wouldn't I?

For the past few weeks, I've gotten myself into a schedule on Wednesdays. Worklog posting on Socoder, iDev on the Mac, and now NNI Game of the Week, too. Today, all those things didn't happen.

Today's plan Make a Font Add a Baddy How much of the plan did I manage to actually bother to do?!?

<img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/platneonplat.png" alt="" title="platneonplat" width="128" height="64" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1847" /> Platdude vs NeonPlat

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.

Something's been annoying me, lately. I've known what it is, but no matter how I wrangle the numbers in my head, it just doesn't seem to work out. So, apologies to all, but I'm going to have that well earned rest, whether my schedule accepts it or not..

I had planned a post, earlier. I was thinking the text through whilst walking to work.. I'm now home from work, and have sat down to write it. .. I need to learn to jot things down, because I can't remember what it was..

How many things are on Jay's Todo-list now? um... 17,000!

Not really sure when this started, probably the day I decided to stop doing AGameADay, but I now appear to be daily-blogging twice a day. eek!

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">

What follows is a review from PlayThisThing.com I screengrabbed it, because they're probably going to fix the "little" thing at the top, and I want to continue to take the piss out of them. Here's me taking the piss out of them.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I'm happy for any/all magazines to put any/all of my games in their magazines, or on their coverdisks. If you do, TELL ME, and I'll do my best to purchase a copy of your magazine. Heck, you might even be nice enough to SEND me a copy, for free! But you probably won't, because it's actually really really really stupidly rare when you ever bother to even tell me.

This isn't important.. I just sent off a nice lengthy reply to PixelProspector.com's Authentic Kaizen, all about plans for the future of the site, the possibility of me wrapping my head around Flash, thoughts about new new new new newer NeonPlat, and some kind of unpondered random top down maze thing. None of that's really important, just yet. It's all forward planning, and it all requires bits of learning all over the place. Less importantly, halfway through the email, I used the term "WiLMa" when ...

In many ways, I preferred doing AGameAWeek. Mostly because I'd actually have something to post here at least once a week! As it is, I'm finding it hard to come up with interesting things to post during my little hiatus. Perhaps I should start posting silly Youtube links every day? Rather than splitting my blog off into 100 different sites, just clump it all together into one? *shrugs* Its an idea, right!?