This week sees our intrepid hero running around a house, capturing ghosts. In many ways, this is a bit of a departure from the intended game.... <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Platdude_in_The_Spirit_Collector_20140325A_thumb.png"> <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Platdude_in_The_Spirit_Collector_20140325B_thumb.png">

A little late, this week, as it's been a bit of a crazy week trying to get this game to be "gamey". Sometimes you can start with a perfectly valid idea, and... somewhere along the line, it all gets a little bit dull. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/ssf.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/ssf-1024x576.png" alt="ssf" width="590" height="331" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3650" /> It's taken a f...

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(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/BiNHQW-CIAAeL8Y.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/BiNHQW-CIAAeL8Y.png" alt="BiNHQW-CIAAeL8Y" width="253" height="350" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3611" /> Image by (URL "https://twitter.com/pickoo">@pickoo)

Platdude tried to join in, but forgot he has no mouth...<br /><br />(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140306-145153.jpg"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140306-145153.jpg" alt="20140306-145153.jpg" class="alignnone size-full" />

The year of Platdude continues, as we head into Platdude's garden to collect all the lovely fruit that's been growing, in this heavily AGameAWeek-ified remake of the classic Mr Do! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Platdude_in_A_Bit_of_A_Do__20140225A_thumb.png"> <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Platdude_in_A_Bit_of_A_Do__20140225B_thumb.png">

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Coming up on Tuesday, "My Little Rescue Helicopter!", a nice retro game with a helicopter, and some evil enemy aircraft! (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ssc.jpg"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ssc-1024x576.jpg" alt="ssc" width="590" height="331" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3516" /> A lovely little shoot-em-up/rescue game with good old-fashioned old-skool graphics. Then, next week, relax wit...

In the first of a (hopefully) full year of monthly Platdude related releases, Platdude gets to wander through a giant forest, battling enemy creatures, and avoiding deadly spikes! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Platdude_in_The_Endless_Forest_20140127B_thumb.png"> <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Platdude_in_The_Endless_Forest_20140127A_thumb.png">

This week we're going to be doing the first part of something that may or may not actually happen!! Since last year was Nintendo's Year of Luigi, the guys over at RetroRemakes have decided that this year oughta be the Year of Horace. I challenged site-admin RobF to attempt to create a different Horace game every month, and post it to OneGameAMonth. I'm not sure he's going to do it, if I'm honest. But the challenge was set, and although unspoken, I figured it would only be fair to challenge myself to t...

Over this past week, I've been inexplicably productive, and although I *could* spend some time bulking up my games, I'm instead focusing on the classic AGameAWeek rule of "Just get the game done!" As such, I've not only finished off RetroBall, ready for Tuesday (or already on OUYA), I've also actually managed to make ANOTHER entire game, this week! That's TWO games!! Blimey!! But I'm not launching both. That would be silly! Best to stockpile these things, and stick to the regular Tuesday schedule, ...

(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/20140119-022035.jpg"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/20140119-022035.jpg" alt="20140119-022035.jpg" class="alignnone size-full" /> Platdude goes out for a walk.

Sorry, been FAR too focused on coding to have thought about the monthly wallpaper's, so we'll start the year with a nice simple Platdude wallpaper. *shrugs* (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Desktop_Jan_2014.jpg"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Desktop_Jan_2014-1024x1024.jpg" alt="" title="Desktop_Jan_2014" width="590" height="590" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3423" /> Click for INSANELY OVERSIZED!!)

This week, Platdude gets his first real outing for about 3 and a half years!! Poor fella's been cooped up for so long, he's started to go a bit doolally! (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=312"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/JNKPlat_-_Xmas_2013_20131219B_thumb.png">

The aim for December is to make a nice little test version of JNKPlat, and see what devices it does, or doesn't work well on. I'm going to try my best to make Touchscreen controls work with the game, but after years of trying various methods, that's probably not going to work out. Either way, no matter what happens, by the end of the month there'll be a brand new mini-adventure for Platdude, in keeping with his Puzzle/Platform stylings. The Windows and OUYA editions should be fine, but Android iOS contro...

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:right;">AGameAWeek Gold takes a peek back through the masses of the Jayenkai Archive, to see if I've released anything of importance on this day in history. Today's game might not exactly have been released on this day in history, as it actually went through a series of three or four separate releases.. I'll have to trawl through the various forum posts to be sure.. But today's the day that I've marked, so I'm pretty sure it had some sor...

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:right;">AGameAWeek Gold looks back on this day in history, and trawls through the Jayenkai Archive to see if I've previously released any interesting games, today, in the past. It's like playing around with a time machine, but without the risk of destroying the entire universe, simply because you happened to sneeze near a butterfly, or something! Today, we find two great classics.

I haven't got any! .. that's a lie.. I have about 3 big plans in mind, and I'm not sure which to go with.

Last week, one of my quickly cobbled together test tunes for JMTrackr was the old Manic Miner ingame music. If you download JMtrackr, you'll find it in the Retro folder. I created it quickly, made a little mp3 of it in random mode, and plopped it up on Socoder. People seemed to fall in love with the idea of me making a Manic Miner clone, and over the course of the past few days, that's escalated somewhat.. People really seem to want me to make a Manic Miner type thing.

Alrighty, time to buckle down and get a new collection started. It's actually been quite a while since I last did something like this, but 2010's Advent Collection kinda counts. The idea is simple. I write tiny versions of bigger games, keep them as short and sweet (and playable!) as possible, and cram them all together into a nice little bundle.

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_256.png" style="float:right;">Oooooh!!! When I went to add an AGameAWeek Gold function to my Archive's Admin page, I purposely decided not to add any sort of "Look Ahead" function. I knew it'd be as much fun for me, as it is for you, to find out what today's AGameAWeek Gold is! Just a week in, and I'm finding myself waking up in the morning just to click to my admin page, to see if we've got a good game today!! Today's is awesome! Today's was worth wak...