Ever wanted a really insanely high-definition version of the AGameAWeek logo? Tada! (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/AGAW.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/AGAW-300x150.png" alt="" title="AGAW" width="300" height="150" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2973" /> Click for HUGE!)

Now you can hop from your pocket, as Hoppy Bobby makes his way onto iOS! The initial release is FREE, so you've no excuse not to grab it. At a later point, I'd like to make a bigger-longer-better adventure mode, and add achievements and things, too. That'll be a Pay-for edition, but for now the original's there, and it's just as swear-inducing as ever! (URL "https://itunes.apple.com/app/hoppy-bobby/id661770631?mt=8"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/HoppyBobby_iCandy_800_thumb.jpg">

For the past few years, I've been building and rebuilding a silly little experimental shooter thing called "Horizontal Shooter" The basic gist is that it's a bog standard horizontal shooter, but with a weird control scheme, and a tail to catch things in. I also tend to use Horizontal Shooter as a simple testbed, to see what a language can/can't achieve in the realms of simplistic blurry lovelyness. This time around, since we're also focusing on mobile devices, I've decided to flip things around, and ma...

It's Saturday, and I've not really started a game for this week. Well, that's not entirely true. I've actually started three games, this week, but all of them seemed to hit a dead-end pretty early on, so I've not really got anything to show for it.

As unplanned as AGameAWeek usually is, I at least have a rough idea of what'll be occurring. Tuesdays, release a game. Wednesday's think about a game idea. Thursday/Friday start a game. Saturday/Sunday bulk the game out where necessary/possible, and Monday finish things up before we release it on Tuesday and start it all over again. Along the way, we get trips into the AGameAWeek Gold archive, and there are other oddities like the Uninteresting Wallpapers, and other silly little things. (URL "https:...

Time for an update to my Monkey Framework! This week I noticed that, having upgraded my version of Monkey recently, Android's Back Button was no longer being recognised, so I took a bit of time to figure out why that was happening, and updated the Framework to suit the new methods.

The Download

(URL "https://socoder.net/monkey/Framework_13_10_20.zip">Jayenkai's Monkey Framework, as of 20th October 2013) | (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/2013/10/monkey-skeleton-13_10_20/">Bl...

Welcome to the wonderful world of Platform Jumping! (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/promo.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/promo-300x146.png" alt="" title="promo" width="300" height="146" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2933" />

Apologies that this post has taken me so long to publish. I actually wrote most of it about 3 months ago, when I first released SpikeDislike2, but it's been sat on my Mac on a Sticky Note, and I kinda forgot all about it! I remembered it, the other day, when I submitted SpikeDislike2-Lite to Apple. What follows is a checklist/guide for compiling your (URL "https://monkeycoder.co.nz">Monkey-coded) game onto iOS.

I bet you're wondering wtf this one is supposed to be! You'll have to wait until Tuesday to play "Hoppy Bobby", but in the meantime you can adorn your desktop with this wonderful wallpaper (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Desktop_June.jpg"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Desktop_June-1024x1024.jpg" alt="" title="Desktop_June" width="590" height="590" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-2923" /> Click...

<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.

Another week, another sequel. This week, we're revisiting the puzzle-maze world of Kee, Bo and Ard (Occasionally spelled "Key, Bo and Ard" due to me forgetting the spelling of the green character's name!) I also need a couple of features tested, so there's quite a bit of rambling included below this post!

Although I am sort of planning things ahead of time, I'm not really doing a good job with the things I'm planning. In the majority of cases, the better AGameAWeek games seem to be those spur of the moment games that I cobble together fairly quickly. Anything over-planned seems to die a death, halfway through! At the start of May, I planned to do two fairly large projects. Both of those projects have remained untouched for at least a couple of weeks. Whoops!