After this week's dire disappointment, I decided to go ahead and try to make something a little more.. um.. Gamey!! So, I went way-way-way-way-way-way back to basics, and made a Pong game.. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/added_2_scores.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/added_2_scores-300x225.png" alt="" title="added_2_scores" width="300" height="225" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-3430" /> ...

If last week was an example of a good week, then this week is most definitely the polar opposite! Welcome to a failed AGameAWeek!!

Sorry, been FAR too focused on coding to have thought about the monthly wallpaper's, so we'll start the year with a nice simple Platdude wallpaper. *shrugs* (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Desktop_Jan_2014.jpg"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Desktop_Jan_2014-1024x1024.jpg" alt="" title="Desktop_Jan_2014" width="590" height="590" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3423" /> Click for INSANELY OVERSIZED!!)

Forewarning : I'm not entirely sure if I'll be able to finish off this week's game in time! For one thing, it feels like it should be a little more complex than it currently is. Loads of extra stuff could be added, but I probably don't have the time to add it all in. Secondly, however, is the current issue I'm having, health-wise. All of 2012's nastyness has left me slightly off-balance, and kinda queazy a bit. For the most part, I'm managing quite well, but this week's game.. (URL "https://AGameA...

Or, as the titlescreen would have you call it, "Greenie's Little Adventure" Feel free to use either of the two titles! Welcome back! AGameAWeek starts anew, this week, with a nice little remake of a game I made a good 7 or 8 years ago. My original "The Quest" game took a board-game-style approach, but never really got very far due to the limits and oddities of trying to play a board game on a computer. It felt strange to have to roll dice all the time, and the battles were never that great. I'm not ...

As week one rapidly approaches, and I'm posting less and less, it's probably apparent that I'm knee deep in the middle of a mega-coding frenzy. Or, if that's not apparent, let it be known.. I'm knee deep in the middle of a mega-coding frenzy!! Over the past week or so, I've overhauled quite a few features of my framework, including getting things prepared for OUYA, with controller additions and things like that. I've learned quite a few little bits and pieces about controllers over the last few months,...

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NeonPlat Extreme appears to be following the same path as BlastTrax, and gaining a nice bit of attention. Knowing my luck, this will probably result in an equally similar amount of sales. ie, bog all!! Folk seem to love my games, but getting them to try them is a bitch!!! You can (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=311">Download NeonPlat Extreme here) for all kinds of devices!

This week, Platdude gets his first real outing for about 3 and a half years!! Poor fella's been cooped up for so long, he's started to go a bit doolally! (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=312"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/JNKPlat_-_Xmas_2013_20131219B_thumb.png">

Welcome to the Top 13 AGameAWeek Games of 2013 No other Top-10 lists appear to want to give any of my games any recognition at all, which kinda sucks since I've made a whole bunch of REALLY great games, this year! I don't even get a token "Made a shitload of games, this year" mention! Sucks!! So, sod them all, I'll make my own Top-10 list. And it'll be all my games, and I'll even add a few more just to make it a bit more 2013 relevant. That'll show 'em!! Mwa-ha-haaa!!!

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:left;"> AGameAWeek Gold looks back at some of the best, and worst, games that have been previously released on this day in history. Today's game from the archive is a lovely little arena battler, with lots of weapons and things to shoot!

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Over on the Monkey forum, a discussion about level data set me off thinking about making this post. Whenever I put levels into my games, I tried to keep them as small as I possibly can. I've been doing it this way for years, and always figured it's nice to compress my data into something that's easily shareable. .. True, I rarely ever get around to actually making these things easily shareable, but for the most part I try to keep things as minimal as possible.

NeonPlat Extreme sees most of the elements of the NeonPlat series of games, all cobbled together into one great big lump sum. There's lots of fun little things to play around with, and for the most part it's the same single-screen platforming action you've come to expect. ( width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/D1dkbggU6kU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> NeonPlat Extreme is now available on iOS, Android, OUYA and Windows! (URL "https:...

(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Flakes1.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Flakes1.png" alt="" title="Flakes" width="512" height="512" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3364" /> Today, I realised I could do with some proper little snowflakes, for use as particles, and started trawling the net. .. Then I went.. "hmmm... Might as well make a generator.." And then I did..

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I formally give you, and everyone else, permission to make videos of you playing my games, and then shoving those videos onto YouTube or Vimeo or whatever else you'd like to put them on. I'd prefer to hear some commentary over my games, so I can watch them and enjoy the silliness of seeing people rant and shout, as they lose life after life in my ludicrously difficult games. I would prefer if you didn't add any additional music to my games, but then YouTube will probably kick your arse for doing that,...

Sheep Goes Right, or at least a minor version of it, is now (URL "https://www.ouya.tv/game/Sheep-Goes-Right/">available on OUYA.) It isn't finished. There's a lot more of it that I've made, and a lot more I've yet to add, but something annoying has happened in the past few days. (URL "https://socoder.net/uploads/1/image-10-12-13-09-34-51.jpg"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/image-10-12-13-09-34-51_thumb.jpg">

The aim for December is to make a nice little test version of JNKPlat, and see what devices it does, or doesn't work well on. I'm going to try my best to make Touchscreen controls work with the game, but after years of trying various methods, that's probably not going to work out. Either way, no matter what happens, by the end of the month there'll be a brand new mini-adventure for Platdude, in keeping with his Puzzle/Platform stylings. The Windows and OUYA editions should be fine, but Android iOS contro...

The Windows edition of NeonPlat Extreme has just been updated, and hopefully everything works properly, this time. Gamepad support should work properly.. Although it's still refusing to work on my laptop, it is at least working for other testers, so .. um.. I'll just assume it's working fine!! Music's in.. Was it in, last time? I can't remember! There's also a few other nips and tucks, and other little tweaks, to help keep the game running smoothly. *blimey* You can (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/Gam...

The OUYA edition of our great big Neovember game is now available in the OUYA Sandbox. You can grab it from the discovery doohickey. Simply search for "NeonPlat" and you'll find it. The Windows edition will be updated at some point in the next few days, and I'll be hopefully submitting the iOS edition to Apple some time later today. There's still lots of little tweaks to do for the touchscreen controls, but otherwise it's all running nicely. *phew* So much to do! Crazy times ahead!! (URL "https...

My first experience

Me and Spinal were discussing OUYA. He'd just bought one, and was trying to get Monkey to work with it. I dared to mention OUYA in a tweet, and so was instantly followed by OUYAForum's tweetbot, @OUYAForum_com "Nnngh. A generic bloody tweetbot. Can't these companies behave properly?" I thought, and I otherwise ignored it and carried on. A few days later, another minor mention of OUYA on Twitter sparked a second following by OUYAForum's tweetbot. "Hmmm.. Didn't they ...

Last March I was taken into hospital with a brain tumor. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/2012/08/home-again-home-again-jiggity-jig/">There's a lengthy blog about that, here.) Since then, although I'm "mentally" fine, I'm all sorts of physically screwed up! I can barely stand in one spot without wobbling about, and trying to have a short stroll outside is somewhat chaotic. In general I tend to stumble around, and can barely look around me, so have to always have someone with me incase I randomly wand...

Yet another case of AGameAWeek Gold being strangely interconnected with other events in my life!! Today, I posted about Star Trek Pong 3 earlier today, and it got me thinking about the even older Amiga edition. Curiously, I also recently purchased a USB Capture device for my PC. I wanted to output all my consoles and computers through my PC's monitor. It has a HDMI port, but a Scart->HDMI device seemed a little pricey. Being the cheapskate that I am, I instead settled for a Capture device, which bas...

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:right;">AGameAWeek Gold is our occasional glance through the archive, to pluck out some of the great games that I've created over the many years that I've been doing this. Along the way we'll discover some great gems that I'd forgotten about, or occasionally the odd bit of garbage that I'm frankly happy to have forgot about! Today, we take a look at a strange little Pong game!

Awww.. Nuts. Today was supposed to be the great big release day, but annoyingly, one or two annoying issues have annoyingly cropped up. <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/NeonPlat_Extreme_20131126B.png"> First and foremost.. and quite bizarrely.. My Monkey games no longer appear to be working with Gamepads!! At first I thought I'd retweaked NeonPlat until my code no longer worked, but upon searching through my archive, it appears that they're all equally as broken. Either it's my Laptop...

Nah, not quite. But for a fair bulk of this year, I did manage to keep up the rate. 2013's not been too bad, considering.. Towards the end of January, I finished off my new Monkey Framework, and set about coding with that. Since then, I continued to code games at a rate of one a week, up until the first stumbling block struck in April. I initially intended to code a new word game, each week, and create a huge Stringy Things mega-game during April, but it all went to pot when the Image-Data-Loader did...

It feels like AGES since I last posted a Sheep Goes Right test. In fact, it's been just over a month. October 14th was the last version, and today I'm posting a second test release. This time, I'm releasing an APK for OUYA. For testing purposes, this should also work on Android devices, but it's untested, and I'm not exactly sure how Monkey copes with things like that! ..it'll have a great big overscan border, for starters!!! Anyway, if you've an OUYA, I'd appreciate a quick test, and some feedback....