This week I remade Fantasy Center. It didn't turn out well, I lost heart, and I have now, in fact, lost faith in the whole Cassette 50 project. All these games really are a big bag of crap!

You know what they say. If one PC break down, they all decide to do it simultaneously. That's exactly what happened this week. A PC at work literally fried last week. Power supply and motherboard were both dead dead, and the guy at work ended up having to buy a new laptop. Having spent most of the week reinstalling and organising files, I got through to friday hoping to do my AGameAWeek. Then found my PC was screwed, too, due to something dodgy. Was it the new drivers I'd put in the day before? Wa...

Friday morning, bright and early, ready to tackle this week's game. Bluescreen!! A restart later, the password entry pops up on Windows, and I'm ready to tackle this week's game. Bluescreen!!! Restart. Bluescreen!!! Safe Mode. Bluescreen!!!! Ubuntu. No bluescreen, but no access to windows partition. dang. forgot about that bit. hmm.. This week's game is cancelled, due to me having to do a complete feckin' format, and everything that follows soon after, like removing all of HP's junk ...

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.

Note : PlayMyCode is no longer available A slight change this week. I was planning to do AGameAWeek as usual, but was somewhat thrown off course by a request to make games, instead! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/PMC3.png">

This week there shall be no AGameAWeek.

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.

A nice slow paced shooter this week. Poor old CPC Basic couldn't really handle bullet-hell type games. Well, ok, maybe it could if you really really tried, and came up with a scrolling ascii grid of bullets, but for the most part it just wasn't happening. Instead, Cassette 50 creators had to rely on other ideas. Like trying to kill you with your own desire to kill!! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Inferno_20110125_Logo_thumb.png">

Since I'm going to be doing Cassette 50 for a while, we're not going to be needing the regular Suggestion Box for a while. As a kind of replacement for those, then, I'll be thinking ahead, and wondering about the "larger" projects. Obviously one of the new ones is going to be a new Platdude game.

How the smeg did I screw up the counting, last week?! I mean, REALLY!! I have a Google Spreadsheet that's supposed to be counting all this! Bah! Spreadsheet reorganised, and counting fixed. Silly thing.. Anyway, this game's a bit pants. <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Evasive_Action_20110118_Logo_thumb.png">

The story so far... Jay buys Mac Main PC Dies Jay worries not Jay uses Mac.

OK, I've gone through all the CPC Cassette, and here's the ones that initially jumped out as being at least vaguely redoable. |update| Old Google Spreadsheet doesn't seem to work.. |update| Next up, I'm going to start grabbing other editions, and going through them. Well, I say next up, I've gotta make this week's first, though! .. I'll go do that!

Here's Terry Paton enjoying Spike Dislike on an iPad! *video removed* <a href="https://bit.ly/AGAW_iDev_Spike">You can get Spike Dislike for your iPad/iPod Touch/iPhone, right here!</a> It's only 59p, and all profits go towards another 200 AGameAWeeks!!

Here we go, then! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Royal_Rescue_20110111_Logo_thumb.png">

It's starting! Cassette 50, Game number 1. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Cassette-50-Royal-Rescue-Screenshot_09-Jan-2011_153935.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Cassette-50-Royal-Rescue-Screenshot_09-Jan-2011_153935-300x168.png" alt="" title="Cassette 50 - Royal Rescue (Screenshot_09 Jan 2011_153935)" width="300" height="168" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1135" /></a> If you're hoping to Collect Them All, ...

I'm out of ideas. I ran out about midway through Advent, and I think finishing that off has sapped every last ounce of ideaness out of my poor little head. So, in order to continue to do AGameAWeek, I'm going to have to start doing things in a slightly different way. I thought about this for a while, yesterday, and it does seem slightly plausible, if a little dumb! <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Cassette_50_K7_Cascade_Games_1985_Standard_Jewel_Case_-_Front.jp...

Why is it always the little random games with a dire lack of content that become the most popular ones?! Lesson Learned : I oughta stop trying so hard, and just knock out the simple little games! I was thinking this whilst doing the Advent collection. Some of those were really playable, and I had a whole lot of fun whilst making them. On the flipside, doing the larger games like that horrible nasty RPG, and.. To be fair.. a lot of the Year3 games. They've all been kinda half-assed, and not really muc...

You all know how to play this one! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Super_Spike_Dislike_20110104_Logo_thumb.png"> <a href="https://jayenkai.blogspot.com/p/spike-dislike.html">Also on iPhone/iPod/iPad</a> Bounce continuously to the right, avoid the spikes, shoot at them occasionally, Super Spike Dislike!!

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">

No normal AGameAWeek this Tuesday, but worry not, there's still some games to be played! <img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/xmasxompo_480.png">

Hello all!

Either it does, or it doesn't! |update| It no longer does. PlayMyCode.com is no longer a "thing". I'm sad to see it go. |update| Lemmie know! Code done using <a href="https://www.playmycode.com/">PlayMyCode</a>, a fantastically usable online game creation website, created by one of the Socoder forum members. Bravo!!! BRAVO!!! Long story short : Site first (properly) visited today*, first true look at the language today*, first gam...

Think of this as a christmas present. (URL "https://socoder.net/uploads/1/AdventCollectionSource.zip">You can download the Advent sourcecode here)

<img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/Platdudes_Retro_Advent_Collection_(Screenshot_24_Dec_2010_215837)_thumb.png">

Hmm.. I forgot to post a "This Week", and a "Suggestion Box", this week, didn't I. One little tweak to my weekly schedule, and the whole thing goes to pot! Today's Tuesday, and I won't (again) be posting AGameAWeek, and I'll be forwarding any complaints straight to my spam bin! 21 games, some of which are much more playable than recent AGameAWeek games, all done within the past few weeks. I think that's more than enough to stop you whinging about a lack of AGameAWeek. Still got about 4 more to go, alt...

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.