I'm a calm person. I will happily settle with what I've got, and be glad that I have it. I don't own a copy of Flash, I can't afford it, and I'm not going to steal it. So I carry on making games in Blitz, and whatever else I can get my hands on. So, with my £100 Phone, from LG, (The KP500 'Cookie') I started to write games using the freely available MidletPascal. It's a wonderful piece of software, and it does many great things.

Like Electronic Arts, my game titles are becoming ever more complex, with themes and years being added on, in an ever expanding way. No matter, it's still only 12 characters long, so that's ok Yesterday I made a decision that might break up AGameAWeek for a few weeks. I don't seem to have nearly enough time, recently, so I'll pad things out a bit, and work on a lengthy project. (Although, if it helps, I worked on a bunch of MidletPascal Java t...

Today I start a new feature, mostly due to 2 odd posts in my spambin. 1. Invispnib writes.. Should they even be there? Please comment on this video clip. I don't think Robert Cooper or Brad Wright would ever let these two ever have any serious part on Stargate Universe. Well maybe the brunette??? The link in question Now, usually, I'd set that to spam, and kill the bugger. But it is, indeed, a stargate related video. Which is odd, because I'm not sure I've mentioned my love of ...

I'm not really sure if this is good, to be honest, but here it is anyway.. Counters Strike BlitzBasic Sourcecode included. Game written in under 3 hours. Timescale written at the top of the Blitz Sourcecode (you can open it in notepad!)

I haven't started it yet! Uhoh! This week's Wednesday Workshop (#201) asks us to create a game within a 3 hour limit. Looks like I'm aiming for that, then! Additionally, since I've been thinking of my phone all week, I think I'm also going to try to come up with a game that works on that. Maybe a puzzle game, of some sort. No idea. So, first in Blitz, then later on the Phone. I might even redo it again, and pop it into PRC2, 'cos that's looking rather empty lately. That's my plan. Not sure w...

Occasionally, I like to jot down my current doings. It helps keep track of projects, and ideas, and sometimes getting a bit of feedback helps. So feel free to do that! 1. Java/MidletPascal Since I got my latest phone (an LGCookie) I decided to get back into Java coding... Except, without that horrible Java bit. So, whilst learning MidletPascal, I've released a few games, and also started to write a series of MidletPascal tutorials, too. So, there's that! I'm continuing to build up a fun...

This week's Wednesday Workshop (#200! wowie) asked us to create a game using no more than 2000 characters. I managed to recreate the classic 8-bit title "Splat!", whereby you control a spider through a maze, picking up fruit. In order to squeeze all that into 2000 characters, I opted for simpler mouse movement, and few other bits and pieces. Then I figured, what the heck, and decided to make it a wee bit bigger for AGameAWeek. Guide the worm through the maze, grab the circles, avoid the squares, a...

Is that title subtle enough for Google, d'you think? This week, I've been getting to grips with MidletPascal, and dodging it's annoying mid-compile crashes, in a vague attempt to get some games onto my phone. Sorry folks, this week's AGameAWeek is entirely Java based. Boooo!! Or at least, unless you have a decent phone, anyway! <img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/cookiea.png">

Stupid spambots are taking the smeg, so I've added a fake captcha thing to see if it does anything. Like it says, just ignore the thing, and it'll ignore, too. Sorted!

My cookie work's kicking off, now. With a fully working keyboard, and sprites flying around the screen, I'm ready to start building games. I've a few games in mind and am hoping to get some work done during the week. But what does that mean for AGameAWeek? Well, A Java game is still a game! So, if I get anything nice working, that'll be this Tuesday's AGameAWeek release. Sorry for all if you'd rather complain about that! But I can't work on 100 things at once. .. ...

Sorry!! With all the time spent playing around with Java and MidletPascal, this week, along with the time spent on H~S~R, we seem to have hit a bit of a low point. Still, no matter, here's a "fun" game! Dusty. Take lots of dust, push it around by clicking on the screen, and try to get all the dust into the red area. You'll have to guess where the red area is, 'cos it ain't labelled! Wherever the dust becomes red, that's where it's at. There's a timer. And, to be...

I've added bloom, and a few more tweaks here and there. The complete list of changes can be seen inside. Otherwise, the usual two things. And.. Same download link, much bigger file!

1st attempted Java App. It's a nice quicky program. Pick a time, click start, when time's up it plays a tune. .. Yeah, it's not much, but surprisingly the LGCookie (KP500) doesn't have one. So here's one.. Quicky Timer <-- about 70Kb

I'm taking a day off from H~S~R today, thinking ahead for next weeks game, which may/may not be a word game.. not sure.. Anyhoo, there are bugs, and Swarmer found a couple, so head inside to have a good read about 'em.

Yeay! It's Horizontal Shooter Redux!! In this first release, there's a few pointers. Read inside for those. Otherwise, nice and quick, here's a picture. And you can Download H~S~R here!! yeay!

No scores, No End of Game, No Badges, and to be fair, nothing really new, either! Can Jay complete about 75% of a game within a day!? Find out tomorrow, when a probably incomplete H~S~R turns up, at AGameAWeek.com!

<a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/2008/11/and-a-smidgeon-of-vaseline/">Vaseline gives me migraines</a> Anyway, we managed to go, what, 30+ years of gaming without it, so I think we can manage! Maybe.. Even more extra lovely glow, today. With a few tweaks, the background's starting to smear! Not sure why, but damn if that doesn't look cool!! You'll be playing away, and the background colours all start to smear outwards, as if puddles of colour in some water. Lovely stuff.. An...

H~S~R's coming along, nice and slowly. As I add each new little thing, I spend about an hour playing with the lovely swooshy swirlyness of it. Mmmm.. The whole Texture-Buffer-Blurry thing has really added some niceness to the game. And, just for good measure, you can turn off the texture section. So, if the game's not quite up to speed, turn off the blur, and the game carries on without it. Every element in the game has 2 layers. The Sprite, and the line. Lines are left in the background...

It's been 30 weeks since I last tackled Horizontal Shooter. The last time, I used BlitzMax. It was wonderful, and gave me all manner of nice swirly effects for those lovely background lines. Mmm.. Until it came to running it on other systems, whereby a huge amount of incompatibilities arose, and the game kinda fell on it's arse and died. Oh dear. 30 weeks on, let's give it another go!

So, Red Dwarf. I know there's a lot of complainers out there, but I loved it. OK, it wasn't old Dwarf, and it really missed the laugh-track. But that was good! A good story, great acting, loads and loads of little injokes. Good stuff! More please! ---- No AGameAWeek this week, I took a lazy day. Nothing wrong with that, is there? Good! Meanwhile, here's a progress report. AGameAWeek I started a game last week, but the lack of a certain element made the game completel...

AGameAWeek, except when not! It's Easter weekend, the weather outside is gorgeous, and I'm really not in a Sit + Code type of mood. Doesn't happen very often, but there it is! So, if there's no Game this week, that'll be why! Meanwhile, you might like to check out the new "I bothered to tag all the releases" view. Releases You can now flick through pages of Just Releases. How handy!

Giving yourself more work! Bugger. Last week I bought myself a new phone. A lovely little phone! LG "Cookie" KP500 Touchscreen, and stuff. It's nice. But it's time for me to complain, as I usually do. See, the thing is, Java games. Proper ones.. That you'd pay cash for online.. They try FAR too hard to make themselves look good. They desperately attempt to fling hundreds of "nice" "polished" "wonderful" sprites around the screen at once, like they've worked oh so hard on the game to make ...

A bizarre mismash of random thoughts this week, alongside an eventual plan of action, and only a day to impliment it!! woot!

I'm jumping all over the place, lately, aren't I!! With Skeleton files to update, Menus to rejig, and even super-complex Socoder work, there's lots and lots and lots for me to do! This morning, I've hopped back to Platdude's Retro Collection 2. Day 14 is a whole day away from Day 13. That can't be good! The game won't be finished for another year and a half at this rate!! Right then.. Menus! Previously I'd copy+pasted the menu system from the previous game. To b...

OK, as I said earlier, I've been playing with the Skeleton stuff today. Whilst I was in there, I wondered how fun it might be if I added some kind of overriding features into my default engine. You might (or not) have noticed, but since Wednesday Workshop Week #1, I've been placing all my game's data into the System folder, then into it's own Weekly numbered folder within. If you get ALL my games (from the past couple of years), you can bundle them all together into the same folder. The root contains al...

OMG! The complaints are everywhere! I guess the general verdict is that my games are too hard. To be honest, I never thought of them as being "hard". I just kinda skip over the dull early parts, *ARRGGHH!! TUTORIALS!!!!* and get the player right into the game, instead. But folk are complaining. So a new plan of action must be decided. Today, I opened up my Skeleton frame doohickey, and decided to add a Game-And-Watch approach. The engine now has a simple "GameStyle" variable, right up top. Th...

I had intended to update this a fair bit. Add music, add extra pickups, things like that. But in the end, I instead decided to leave it as it is. This is (with added Highscore table) pretty much as it is at the end of the two hour session. A nice simple game, with a basic gameplay method. Guide the "worm" through the maze, grab all the blue + blobs, and avoid the barrels. They're very very volatile, so.. best to keep clear of 'em all.. (Although, you do get points for blowing them up....