There's a nice new pool game available on iOS by @helvetica called Pocket Run Pool. (.com) People keep asking me on Twitter what it's like, because apparently I'm some sort of super-picky gamer when it comes to Pool games. My thoughts are that it's a really nice and fully formed "Ball" engine, that feel superb, and doesn't have of the annoying things that I usually tend to pick at when playing a Pool game. It's almost as if @helvetica's been reading my many rants about rub...

Blockman Gets "Something" Spike Dislike JNKPlat 2018 Three classic AGameAWeek games that I really think should exist on the 3DS, more than anything. An Alien Deathmatch would be nice, too

I've spent roughly a decade working in multiple scales, resolutions and ratios. I've dealt with Android, with it's 57,000 different possible resolutions. I've handled iOS with portrait/landscape orientations. I've coped with Windows with a bazillion different possible window sizes.. But 3DS, with one single screen resolution!?! AARGH!!!

Today's been a bit of a crazy day of maths, as I wrangled the numbers in order to get things to look vaguely accurate onscreen. The player's no longer colliding with the floor correctly, but at least now the little squishable creatures are all behaving like they should. Next to be added, a few powerups!

A lovely salad for dinner, but a single slice of cheese was enough to kick off a killer migraine!

All 3DS games have been recompiled, today, so they all now feature the most recent version of the framework, and are bundled into cia/3dsx packages. Roland Eats a Stale Biscuit now has working music, On a Space Shooting Trail lets you fly further into deep space, and a couple of other minor fixes have been made along the way. Enjoy, hacky folk!

Again, Jay?! *tsk* Lazy Jay...

Patreon.com/Jayenkai

You've probably not noticed, but the "Donate" button that was on the far right of the main menu has changed back into a "Patreon" button. Last year, after the whole "Charging Patreons extra" business, I mostly abandoned the thing, removed all the links, and said "Sorry guys, no point in this" to the 3 Patreon subscribers. They've stuck with me, though, and so I figured it was probably about time I started to give back a little something extra. Today I've p...

Can I get an entire game up and running in just a short couple of days? Only one way to find out!!

I'm still jumping between two projects, but neither one feels good and gamey. I think I'm going to scrap this week, and just restart something entirely different, instead. Bah, humbug.

I can't seem to get anywhere on this weeks game, as my mind is leaping between two different ideas.

This morning's a newsletter day, so that all needs doing first, but then I'll be heading into the game and trying to figure out exactly what style it's going to take. I'm fairly sure I can get some kind of gameplay working for this week's game, but it'll be a case of finding the right balance between what the level generator can come up with, and the way the player controls.