Journey with Platdude, as he leaps from planet to planet, in this epic universal quest to get some nice shiny gems.
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This game's coming together nicely!
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The Squishies are making a welcome return to Platdude's universe, and .. Boy, what a strange universe it is!
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After my earlier "Pro-Forum" rant, I've decided to try making use of the functionality of my own Blog! From here on, until I forget in a week or two, I'll try to keep in-dev screenshots coming, as games come together.
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Forums are a bit of a dying artform, lately.
Between Facebook and Twitter, the idea of having to signup to a specific site for a conversation, when you could equally have that conversation over Twitter is all a bit daft and unnecessary.
What can I say, I'm a grumpy old geezer, who prefers things oldskool!!
That's not to say I don't "get" Twitter. I use it a lot.. .. A LOT!! And it's great for quick responses, too. Ask a question, anything you want, and generally get an answer within ab...

As much as I count myself as "a bit of a Trekkie", I've never considered myself a full-on Trekkie. Sure, I enjoy watching it, and I do manage to follow 95% of the twisting turning sprawling plotlines, and enjoy the mythology of the show.
I even recently subscribed to the Star Trek Starships model collection, which, every single fortnight, brings a lovely little starship to my door. (Well, ok, technically they get delivered in pairs, monthly!!
I'm really enjoying these little ships, and my shel...

This week, there will be no AGameAWeek..
After the complete and utter chaos of Future Classics (7 games written in 48 hours) and Blockman Worlds (3,000 levels, 9 worlds, crammed into a week!) I've decided that I need a bit of a break!
Next week, we'll be back to our normal schedule, and I guess I have to make a "Platdude In" game, this month, so it'll be something Platdude related.
Stay tuned to see what it'll be!

Yesterday I tweeted that Blockman Worlds isn't doing too well, at which point I got bombarded by people telling me that they've played it, and how I oughta give it time to spread.
Yeah, probably..
Thing is, though, I'm finding myself comparing it to Future Classics..

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This may or may not result in a game.. Unsure, right now!!

An unexpected arrival, as my major 2-week-long project somehow manages to cram itself into the space of just a week.
Not entirely sure how that happened, if I'm honest..
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I'd originally planned this to be a super epic two-week project, but inexplicably, the entire thing came together much quicker than I expected it to.
Blockman Worlds should be with you on Tuesday. Woot!!

I started a new game, yesterday.
It looks a little like this.
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Today, as I continue to build the game up, I've found it growing in size exponentially. It's not gotten t...

I wrote this in the comments of (URL "https://youtu.be/6FlZ-yOlsZM">Geekanoids' latest VLOG (link)), and thought it worth posting to the site.
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Every week I create a new game.
I write the code.

What would happen if someone in the past was given a list of modern day videogame titles?
What kind of games would they imagine from far off in their future?
And what sort of games would they create, on their retro-tastic 8-bit home computers!?
It's time, once again, to step inside the Future Classics Time Vortex, and find out!!
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Do you have an iOS device?
Are you sick to death of seeing nothing but clones of Flappy Birds and Threes*!?
Want a little more variety on your iPhing?!
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This week I've decided to resurrect the classic "(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=108">Future Classics)".
In the spirit of the original, this collection will be made up of short minigames, each one taking the title from a current-gen game, but being created in the spirit of an 8-bit "rubbish" game.
It's been one heck of a challenge to get the game up and running in such a short amount of time, so the initial release will be OUYA/Windows/HTML5 just like Boxsplodings, relying ...

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This week, I started out with a severely disturbing game idea, and ended up with a nice happy colourful arcade puzzle-type thing!
Hurray for colourful splodges!!
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This week sees our intrepid hero running around a house, capturing ghosts.
In many ways, this is a bit of a departure from the intended game....
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A little late, this week, as it's been a bit of a crazy week trying to get this game to be "gamey".
Sometimes you can start with a perfectly valid idea, and... somewhere along the line, it all gets a little bit dull.
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It'...

.. Sorry, I haven't suddenly added them.
Instead, I've made this post in the hopes of starting a discussion on the feasibility of adding scoreboards to future AGameAWeek titles.
It's something I've attempted in the past, and old versions of Microbes, Spider and others still kind-of, mostly, sort of work.
But there's a few issues that are stopping me from integrating it into the current framework.

I like to randomly throw games out there, and see how the general public takes to them.
Sometimes it's fun to watch as fun games plummet into disasterous pits of unnoticability.
Occasionally, you get a surprise hit, and are kind of disappointed that you hadn't put any kind of pricetag on the thing.
Today is a definite example of the latter, as I watch "Every Good Bird" flapping it's way into the stratosphere!

You wait months for a new AGameAWeek iOS game, and then two come along at once!
Apologies that these weren't posted some time last week, but they've been sat in "Waiting for Review" status for AGES!! Much, much longer than the regular "7 days" wait.

I usually try my best to come up with unique or interesting takes on existing games. Taking things in new directions, like Blockman which definitely isn't Pacman, or TetriPong which clumped together two completely different games.
Occasionally, though, it's nice to sit back, relax, and make a crazy lazy clone of something, just like everyone else.
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This week, I finally decided to do the inevitable, and create that really obvious game that everyone's been expecting me to make for a good couple of months.
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