Oh, hell, I gotta start this all over again!!

Year 3 : October 2010 - October 2011
It's a month away, and I'm still being all lazy and relaxing, but I need to try and keep the site looking half-assed, so it doesn't disappear due to lack of activity Read More

54 games. Last year I only managed about 30-odd, so I think that's pretty good going.
Sure, it might not have truely actually been A Game "Per" Week, but I did at least keep the ratio up.
If I hadn't taken the time out to build the framework, I probably would've actually achieved the target a little better
The stats show I was pretty much on top of things up until that point, but then things got slower and slower until my buffer zone was all dried up.

Anyhoo, this is a nice big lengthy retrospective, and we'll be looking back at each game, giving 'em all a fresh score, and seeing how it all tots up.

You can download each game by clicking their titles.

1 to 18 : 19 to 30 : 30 to 54

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54 games. Last year I only managed about 30-odd, so I think that's pretty good going.
Sure, it might not have truely actually been A Game "Per" Week, but I did at least keep the ratio up.
If I hadn't taken the time out to build the framework, I probably would've actually achieved the target a little better
The stats show I was pretty much on top of things up until that point, but then things got slower and slower until my buffer zone was all dried up.

Anyhoo, this is a nice big lengthy retrospective, and we'll be looking back at each game, giving 'em all a fresh score, and seeing how it all tots up.

You can download each game by clicking their titles.

1 to 18 : 19 to 30 : 30 to 54

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54 games. Last year I only managed about 30-odd, so I think that's pretty good going.
Sure, it might not have truely actually been A Game "Per" Week, but I did at least keep the ratio up.
If I hadn't taken the time out to build the framework, I probably would've actually achieved the target a little better
The stats show I was pretty much on top of things up until that point, but then things got slower and slower until my buffer zone was all dried up.

Anyhoo, this is a nice big lengthy retrospective, and we'll be looking back at each game, giving 'em all a fresh score, and seeing how it all tots up.

You can download each game by clicking their titles.

1 to 18 : 19 to 30 : 30 to 54

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Um..
Still relaxing!

We're currently inside Jay's Month Off, so there's no game this week.
Meanwhile, I'm playing around with a few bits of tech.
I've made a couple of new bits of music, fiddled with some nice big useless pictures that won't ever be used, and am pretty much sitting here quietly doing nothing all month.
Woot!

At some point in the next few days, I'm going to sit down, and flick through the complete collection (again!) and jot down a few little notes about each game. How well they play, how well they turned out, things like that.

You can look forward (!?) to that, or otherwise just wait things out until October, when we'll all meet up again, with a whole new batch of luvliness!

This year, the Big Torrent is available from Monova.org! (Torrent is long gone!)

If you'd like to play 53 out of 54 from Year 2, you can go grab it now.
I left out Rock My Chords, since it's 49Mb on it's own, and I reckon it's got an audience of.... me!
But otherwise, the rest are in there.
All the Windows games, the DS ones and the one single little Java Mobile one, too.

What I've NOT included is the Mac/Linux packs.
I'll be doing those later.

Judging by the interest in the current pack, they'll be super popular, too.
...
ho-hum

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I was supposed to be writing up a nice big writeup for this, but.. I'm in no rush! I'm resting!

Video's done.
Writeup later!

woot! 54!

This weekend I'm planning on doing a nice big happy writeup about Year 2.
I'll be hopping through and replaying all my year's games, and jotting down little should/shouldn't's about each one. I might even take the time to record a few seconds of each and then build up a nice big Year-2 Video.
That'd be nice!!

Meanwhile, I can't sit still, and have already begun a new'ish game.

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... FFS, I can't count.

FiftyFOUR weeks, FiftyFOUR games.
Even with a miscount, I still managed to equal the weeks:games ratio.
Lovely stuff!

Here's the stats, straight from GoogleDocs


and here's a great big blue and red google graph, looking all lovely and linely!

Yeay!

Fred is a happy Flea, and he loves to hop.
He especially loves it when all the Dandelions are casting their seeds around in the air, as he can grab on, and go for a ride.


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As promised, here's a quickly bundled together edition of Cardagain DS.
I'm not sure if folk'll play it, since nobody seems to play it, so I haven't spent a lot of time on it.
It's the absolute basics that are needed.


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Tuesday, Fred the Parachuting Flea.
Needs a few "I didn't get that!!!?" kinda tweaks, but it otherwise working nicely.. If I drop dead tomorrow, at least the game's ready for release Read More

Step 1.
Place an indie game into a copy of your magazine.

Step 2.
TELL THE DEVELOPER!


Step 3.
Profit

In this case, Webuser failed to tell me that NeonPlat2 was in their July 15th 2010 issue.
As such, I haven't bought it.

They 100% lost a sale, because had I known I was in it, I would've damn well bought it.
I have three other copies of WebUser in my "Black box filled with magazines that my games are in"
But now I'm missing this one.

FFS, journalists!!

Kept the random title.. It'll do!

Not sure if it works better as "Kee, Bo and Ard", or just "Kee Bo Ard", but either way, here we have it!

Kee, Bo and Ard must all be guided through the maze. They have to collect all the pickups, and once they're all done, you can progress to the next level.


Hit Z/X to switch between characters, and cursors to wander around the maze.

Be careful of deteriorating floors, and switchable tiles, and things like that.

There are 15 levels in the game. I've done my semi-regular "As images" style of level creation, so feel free to have a fiddle around, and make some new levels if you feel like it. (You can even extend the height of the level image, to fit more levels into it!)
If I receive a bunch of levels, I'll do my best to make a nice big updated edition of the game.


As it is, this is it. Lovely and gamey!

You can Download Kee Bo Ard here, for Windows, Linux and MacOSX.

Have fun!
(And yes, this is a wee bit early! Figured I'd do this early before I end up sleeping way way way too much, tomorrow!!)

Ah, back to the old routine!

I had promised a new Sheriff Munky game, this week, but I think it's got the lurgy! Every time I touch it, it brings horrible memories of the past couple of week's deadness, and I can't seem to get on with the game.
So, this morning, I happily scrapped it, and started work on a completely different project.

If you've played Sensitive (Spinal made a nice DS one) you'll recognise this game.


Except it's a wee bit different.
There are now 3 characters to control, and guide around the map.

Game is in-progress.. Needs a bunch of maps, and maybe a size-tweak, map dependant.

... time permitted, of course!

Tuesday : Kee Bored (temporary name, imaginatively thought of via the "what's on your desk" method of naming!!)

Last Sunday I had the worst migraine I've had in ages. Ack!!
For the rest of last week I felt mostly drained, not much energy, and I haven't really done too much of anything.
This weekend I think I just plain gave up and have spent about 48 hours asleep!Read More

Authentic Kaizen (pixelprospector.com, ideaman behind NeonPlat) has sent a few new game ideas. Some are short and sweet, but the most tempting one feels like it needs a little care and attention.
I feel like I want to do something with it, but am struggling to come up with a way to compress it into a week's worth of code.

I think, what I might actually do, is leave it a few weeks.
Once I hit the 52nd week of year 2, and another whole year's worth of games, I'll be taking a small rest. Maybe about a month's worth of time off.
During this time, for about a week, I'm going to be stuck at work every morning, which'll be eating chunks out of my regular coding time. Luckily, the two event coincided with each other, so that's not a big deal. But I'm also going to be taking some time out to actually play a few games. I've really not been playing a whole lot, for a long while, and I think I need to refresh my game ideas a little.

Meantime, I'll slowly but surely work on Kaizen's "big idea", spending time crafting a few loving levels and things.
Maybe it'll work out..
..
Maybe it won't!

But it's worth a try.


Still, that's a few weeks away, and there's another 3 games to make before then.
Time to go idea-hunting!!

Incase you hadn't heard already, I released my first iPhing game, last Wednesday night.
This week, I'm releasing the Win/Lin/Mac testbed version of the very same game.
Think of this as a promotional item, of sorts, but also as a "Let's try new things" ideas edition.


First up, this new one has a batch of new backgrounds and cards. The backgrounds are already in my in-dev iPhing edition, and the Cards are making their way in, slowly but surely. That update should turn up soon enough!

After this, I'll be fiddling about with the Blitz version, to find new gameplay styles, and things like that. So if you can think of anything cool, let me know.


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Meanwhile, as it stands, here's Cardagain and this one's free.
The Windows, Linux and MacOS editions are here!
The iPhing edition is available here!
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AGAW Scoring : 49 weeks, 49 games. Awesome!! ...but a bit tight! eek!

This wasn't planned, but I'm pissing about with Cardagain again!
So, I might as well kill two birds with one stone.
I've spent a few hours rebuilding my original BlitzMax version of Cardagain, and I'm going to add a few test bits and pieces onto it (to see what does/doesn't work) before then transferring them back over to the iPhings.
Meanwhile, I can post that nice new super-hi-def Cardagain here, and you guys can all play it.

That'll be Tuesday's game, and it'll also be the thing taking up all my time this week.
maybe..
I've also done quite a bit of work on the Online stuff, though, so.. not being lazy!!

Tuesday : Cardagain for Win/Mac/Linux!

I'll post Mac and Linux editions of this tomorrow, but I just want to make sure it's working for all the PC Peeps first..

Here's a rerelease of Microbe2, with ONLINE SCOREBOARDS!!!

And those keyboard controls that everyone apparently wanted..

Lemmie know how it goes! Ta