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..

A quick and simple Boulderdash clone, written using PlayMyCode.com

PlayMyCode games no longer work

Reason : I asked for PMC-Based Boulderdash clones in this week's Socoder Newsletter, so figured I'd best do one, just incase nobody else did.. If you make one, let me know!

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

Fuck game developers, and Fuck their publishers, too..

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.

Sheep Goes Left now has two versions of it's soundtrack! Yeay! <a href="https://bitly.com/SGL_OST">Disc One</a> : The iOS Soundtrack : 20 tracks, plus the opening jingle! <a href="https://bitly.com/SGL_OST_MOD">Disc Two</a> : The DS Homebrew Soundtrack : 20 tracks, all rearranged into little mods, then oddly upscaled back to MP3s to be playable at www.archive.org!. I'll be posting the mod files in a few days, once the latest game release is finished.. Sheepy'...

WARNING

Tonights blog is sickeningly self-congratulatory

<a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php">The Jay Archive</a> total now says a whopping 260 games! Is it True?! Look inside!!

Sorry folks, kinda ran out of oomph again, there! Now, Where were we?

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..

Another donation received today. That's the third donation this month. Quite frankly I'm gobsmacked by the generosity of people at a time when, to be fair, AGameAWeek's actually been a bit shit!

Ugh.. Bank Holidays. Days when everyone around you is complaining that it's a "Boring Bank Holiday" again, and you have to play Mr Entertainer, whilst in actual fact you've just spent a whole weekend being ill, and now have a huge pile of work to do which you REALLY wouldn't mind actually getting around to doing.. Thanks everyone. FFS.

Thursday, started to feel a bit queasy. I know this one!! I know how to cope. Relax a bit, deal with it, make it through to the other side!