(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Futrino_001.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Futrino_001.png" alt="Futrino_001" width="640" height="480" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4374" /> I finally seem to have settled on a name for this thing. I think it sounds vaguely like an 80s Shoot-em-up might sound, and nobody else appears to have used it. I've spent today working on the Enemy Types, trying lots...

Enemy one is a bog standard squiggly looking alien creature. ( width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/R9i32sUR9tw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> He moves around the room any-which-way, and turns whenever he hits a wall. He is very boring! Hopefully I can make a few more interesting creatures, later. For now, he simply does as you expect, and also saves his position when you exit/enter rooms, which is handy. More to come!!

Today, I added Barrels into the mix. I figured it best to hide the disks somewhere safe, so I put them inside barrels. A pile of barrels will appear in each and every room, so you'll have to do a lot of blasting to try and find the three disks. ( width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/leuTP0ZOUf8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> I'm also considering putting other items in the barrels, such as extra lives, weapons and even randomly spawnin...

( width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/_1W-7gvDxAo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> I was going to do keys, but then I thought "Oh, sod it, let's use Floppy Disks!!" So, the ship flies around the maze picking up the three different coloured disks, which it then pops into the .. umm.. Let's call it a magic door! Collect all three, take them home, level complete. I now need to add enemies, other deadly things, and a weapon would probably...

After having played about with the maze layout a little, and getting the scrolling a little more workable, I added a little sprite for testing movement. ( width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Gy1HbJFl0dI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> Seems like we're heading down the Cybernoid route with this one! Next up, adding collision detection, 'cos right now there's nothing stopping the little ship from floating out into space!

This morning I drew some pipes to replace the plain white bricks. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/402_002.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/402_002-1024x576.png" alt="402_002" width="590" height="332" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-4353" /> I'm still not sure what sort of game I'm making, but I appear to have narrowed it down to two possible candidates. A) A bit like the old BBC-Micro game Pip...

Since I'm spacing out my dev-time, I should hopefully have more time to do Dev-Diary type posts, as the games progress. Hopefully, this will give you a little more insight into the sort of decision making that goes into AGameAWeek. I'll also try to take the time to add odd bits and pieces of craptastic-useless-trivia whenever I get the chance. As frequent players will have noticed, I've been using a strange secondary numbering system for a long while. (Check out the Windows-Downloads to see them!) Th...

I've opted to call Year 7 the "Gap" Year, in the sense that not every week will be a game... There will be frequent Gaps! I'll be trying out the usual crazy ideas, but each game will be given a little more breathing room than I usually give them, in an effort to make games a little more substantial than they usually end up being. The Rules are as follows.. After week one, the game should at least be playable. If it isn't, then I throw it out and start something else. No good forcing bad ideas down p...

Things I should be doing. 1. A new Alien Deathmatch 2. A new RetroRaider 3. A new JNKPlat 4. That space-platformer-shooter thing 5. YBox Drops 6. SpikeDislike3 Each and every one is too large for a Weekly timescale, and as such, I've not started ANYTHING! They're all random unstarted ideas, waiting for "just the right time", but at the rate of AGameAWeek, there's never really going to be time to get around to them. Heck, I was supposed to do JNKPlat 2 years ago! I started it for the Xmas speci...

Currently on my list of ideas, I have... 1. A kind of space shooter style platformer. 2. A redux of YBox Yahtzee from the Alpha Collexion 3. SpikeDislike3 There's also a few other ideas bubbling away, in my head. The main problem I'm having, is getting started on any, because I know that whichever I choose to start on, will more than likely take more than a week to complete. As such, I've kinda been sitting here all week going "well, what else could I do...?" and not actually getting ANYTHING started....

It's time to fry some Butterflies! Use the electrical hubs to generate lightning, and Zzap those bugs to oblivion. <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Zzap_Lines_20150113A_thumb.png"> <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Zzap_Lines_20150113B_thumb.png">