As I was falling asleep, last night, I had a great idea for a new game. I didn't jot it down, and now I can't remember what it was, except it had something to do with a stickman running around a black and white maze. ... bugger..

Korodny Just finished the game, so I'm here to say *Thank you* for some real good entertainment. A couple of things I noticed: Loved the game concept, and the visual design is spot on for that kind of game. Unfortunately, sound doesn't work on Ubuntu 11.10. It's a shame that the progress isn't properly recorded: The game should automatically offer me to play at the 'highest' levelset and the highest starting point I reached in my last session. Having to write ...

I should take solace in a couple of facts. 1. My iOS Apps have been selling oddly, this week. Usually I sell about 1 copy of SpikeDislike, every day, but this week I seem to be getting oddities like Puzzobomb and StringyThings suddenly springing back to life. .. sure it's still a max of 3 a day, total, but... it helps! and it's odd! 2. My daily analytics stats have doubled. Of course, I should probably also point out that for the past two months, my lack of AGameAWeek has caused the stats to halv...

<a href="https://gfbrobot.com/2011/11/16/interview-with-neonplat-adventures-jayenkai/">Interview with NeonPlat Adventure's Jayenkai</a> A nice big interview, randomly waffling on and on, in that strange unplanned way that I do! Thanks to darthvid who sent all those questions over the other morning. A nice surprise to wake up to! Kinda makes me want to do more of the same.. <a href="https://www.formspring.me/Jayenkai">Jayenkai on Formspring!</a> Ask away.. I'll ...

When I coded my BlitzMax edition of NeonPlat Adventures (Still online, still free, still available, still awesome, still getting the odd blog post on sites!) I threw things in, wherever they seemed appropriate. I coded randomly, as I usually do. I didn't worry about memory issues. I didn't even give a munky about how many sprites were hurtling all over the screen. (My 2-year-old framework takes care of that.. Hit F12 for your system's stats.) As I attempt my conversion to iOS, I DO have...

Hurray! Everyone can play NeonPlat Adventures. Look at it go!!! Weee!!!

<a href="https://bit.ly/NeonPlat_Adventures">NeonPlat Adventures : Available now for Windows, Linux and MacOSX</a> Inside, a list of all the features I had or hadn't planned, and why they are/aren't in there!

Oooh, I got to click the "Release" tag today! Not done that for a while! The game is out, right now, and is available at.. 1. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=268">The Jayenkai Archive</a> 2. <a href="https://bit.ly/NeonPlat_Adventures">The Minisite</a> and hopefully a few more places by the end of today.. .. unless it tanks, or goes mostly unnoticed, which given my track record, wouldn't be all that surprising. <img src="https://AGameAWeek.co...

Tomorrow's the day you all get to play! Had a last minute email, last night, from Shadow1w2, filled with some really nice ideas that would be great to implement. Thing is, we've hit the point of no return. I'm off to work all day, and tomorrow's the release. So. dangit.. no time to fiddle. (I now remember why AGameAWeek is usually a Tuesday release!!) <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/NeonPlat-Adventures-Screenshot_12-Nov-2011_130918.png"><img sr...

Couldn't be arsed doing all the building and hosting, and especially couldn't be arsed doing the whole "design a half-decent looking site" thing, so I gave up trying and used Google Sites instead! <a href="https://bit.ly/NeonPlat_Adventures">NeonPlat Adventures : The Minisite</a> Job done! Game : Sunday!

This took WAY longer than expected. Step one, compile the Windows exe. Click. Job done. 2. Compile the Mac version. Click. Job done. 3. Compile the Linux edition.. ..

Today's long, long, long day of development was 100% iOS related. Having put it off entirely yesterday, I figured I'd better port that level builder doohickey. I opened TextEdit on the Mac, copied the level builder function from BlitzMax, and set about converting it, line by line, to something that XCode would compile for iOS. 800 lines of code, an estimate of "should only take a few hours, surely!" and then a completely exhausted Jay who just about managed to get the thing working 8 hours late...

I should've spent today doing more iDev. I didn't. Already I'm looking at the iDev stuff, and going "uuugh..." Try again tomorrow.

When I launched the original demo of NeonPlat Adventures, way way way way way back in September, I made a complete backup of the game, code and everything. I thought it might be fun to look at it, and the progress it's made, by release date. To be honest, I'd mostly forgotten I did that.

Oh yeah, iDev annoys the shit out of me.. Never mind, carry on. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/photo-4.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/photo-4-300x200.png" alt="" title="photo (4)" width="300" height="200" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2035" /></a> Coming up shortly, Jay attempts to reconstruct his level construction gubbins, one line at a time. But not right now. 'cos trying to get a decent speed on that tilem...

I wasn't aiming to do the Final Beta until about Wed/Thursday this week. Today, the Final Beta went out. A few days early, but there was nothing more I could come up with. The game is done. There's been a few tweaks, today, to sort out a couple of beta-player's issues, and I've been fiddling with some of those slightly annoying things that I never got around to fixing. .. but yeah, it's done.

For a while, today, you started the game with 8 lives instead of just 5. Then a few people on Twitter suggested I should put it back. If you can't complete it, don't blame me

And I've still got a todo-list as long as my leg!!! If I want a few people to beta-test the final-ish edition, that's gotta be done by about Wednesday, I think. So, I have about 5 days or so to get everything done, now. After that, hope for the best, and get everything bundled for the coming Sunday. .. eeek!

Before I headed off to work, I made a new little video. Or, rather, I tried to make a "little" video, yet it inexplicably ended up at over 300Mb!!! WHAAA!?!? So, with an approximate 450 Minutes remaining on the clock, I left for work, and the upload continued. I'm now back from work, and 2 people have already commented on the video! Awesome, folk are watching my silly vids (and not ALL of the subscribers have turned out to be spambots!!)

I'm sitting here trying to come up with a multitude of silly Badges/Accomplishments/Awards, and inexplicably getting nowhere. Not sure why. I DID have a list. I think it might've vanished during my iOS upgrade sessions. Silly thing. Today's task will be to add as many of those as is humanly possible, as well as finally sorting out the Level Builder once and for all.. (maybe!) *shrugs* Late night tweaking resulted in a couple of nice new features, and I also got around to semi-sta...

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I think I'm full of the evil man-flu.. .. or rather, I hope that's what it is! Spent last night in a strange awakened stupor, and then spent a good 5 hours completely zonked out. eek! I got a few bits and pieces done last night, though, so that's ok

And I'll be doing nothing again, today. .. well.. .. I say nothing.. What I mean is, I don't have a great big 12 item checklist to do, and I won't be struggling to type by the end of the day!!

MMMMmmmmm........!!! (If you're bored, why not look back at previous blog posts, read between the lines, and see if you can spot how much that damn calendar's been ticking me off!!!)

Today, I became a complete and total recluse! It was the only way it was all going to get crammed into the day. Let's go through last night's list, shall we?

I've done a LOT of work since yesterday. All 50 hats are in, 50 chrs are in, and I've stripped out a whole bunch of annoying quirky bugs. There's one really annoying "Got stuck again" issue that I need to weed out, but I can't figure out the best way to do it, so I'll point it out in the beta tomorrow, for those who are getting it. SPOILER ALERT Inside is ALL the characters. Don't click it if you'd rather not know!

Gah! Extra hats today! I now need about 3 hats, and annoyingly I think I might need an extra bunch of baddies, which also means more hats! D'oh! Still, those can wait until after the Friday Beta. The things that can't wait, are those annoying things that build and build, until you realise you don't really have a whole lot of time.