Occasionally, I base games upon crazy bits of coding that seem fun to play with. Sometimes games can form from odd little artistic doodles that look strange and unusual. Other times, I'll start with a sound effect, or a piece of music, and allow it to fester away until a game has emerged.
This week is different..
This week, the game's idea came solely from the stupid mock game title that randomly popped into my head.
*shrugs*
<img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Alien_Spind...

This week, more adventures in outer space, as I get all the action I can out of that generic reusable starfield!!
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Coming Tuesday : Alien Spindome!!

Today is, apparently, Amiga Day.
Not entirely sure what it is we're supposed to do on Amiga Day, but I figured it'd be nice to compile one of my old AMOS games, and stick it onto my Archive for all to laugh at!
I've actually dated this one in the code, as being from 1997!! No idea when in 1997, so I'll say it's probably December... but yeay! Oldest thing on my Archive o/
<img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/JNK_Slalom_19971225A_thumb.png"...

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Apparently I'm now the David Hasselhoff of video game developers..!
(URL "https://ouyabrew.com/jnk-bomber/">OUYABrew's review of JNKBombers)

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*shrugs*
Been playing around with a nice control scheme for "Man with a Big Gun", and he seems to be fairly workable. Not sure exactly on how he'll interact with the world, yet, but I have a vague plan in mind, which may or may not result in a highly playable shooty game!
Looking forward to seeing how this one turns out!

What happens when you take Platdude, sit him on a rocket, and send him blasting his way through a colourful rainbow tube, full of stars!?
Time to find out, as we take our monthly trip into the realm of Platdude!
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Correct as-of May 23rd 2014!
The complete list of characters in JNKBombers, complete with main game title, and roughly where they came from.
You can (URL "https://socoder.net/uploads/1/JNKBombers_Character_Cards.zip">Download the full high-res versions of the cards here.)
You can (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=331">Play JNKBombers here)!

Last month, I set aside the whole month to create a nice and lengthy month-long project. Blockman Worlds surprisingly took just a week to create, and then I was right back to the regular AGameAWeek schedule!!
This month, I opted to delve into something even bulkier, and the resulting game is really quite nice. Oddly, it took alarmingly longer than expected, so isn't quite as chunky as I'd like it to have been.
As it is, though, it's a wonderful little highly playable local-multiplayer edition ...

So far so good on the JNKBombers front.
Most of Battle Mode's features are implemented as planned.
Human players, AI players, Bombs, Shield, Coins, Shop and today I added a few cheap-as-chips themes into the mix for good measure. There's only 6 themes, but it's enough to keep it marginally interesting!
Over the next couple of days, I'll keep tweaking away at the AI, and maybe add some new powerups, but otherwise I'm now at the point where I can say "Yeah, that's what I wanted to play!!"

A reminder that AGameAWeek.com is not a review site.
*sigh*
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The game's coming along smoothly, now that I've finally settled on a vaguely decent AI. Obviously, it'll play a LOT better when you've got actual players to play against, but if you're sad and alone like me, you'll have something to play against.
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The Shop works, the AI mostly works, the Multiplayer stuff works, rounds are co...

I'm a bit sad, tonight, as I reach Letter Y in AL'S Conspicuous Album.
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Since I bought (URL "https://www.korg.com/us/products/software/korg_gadget_for_ipad/">Korg Gadget for the iPad), I've been playing about with lots of varied twiddly tune...

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As the game continues to get built up, I've started to work on a generic looking menu system for it.
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Yep, it's as bland as bland can be, but the point of the menu is simply to get you into the ...

I've just added my first Amiga game to my Jayenkai Archive.
I've had access to the disk's files for a long time, but never got around to getting the compiler stuff up and running.
Today, I finally buggered about with WinUAE and my collection of Amos disks, and got Amos Pro Compiler up and running.
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I've got 15 little characters in there, so far, and I'm sure I'll find some more along the way.
Next step is to get some gameplay running, and try to stop the annoying generic "diagonal-pass" bug solved.. stupid bug.
Game expected by the end of the month, as it's far too big to be finished any sooner!

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Here's how the game currently looks.
The game will be a generic Bomberman clone, but with as many AGameAWeek characters in that I can think of, assuming they're vaguely recognisable. Feel free...

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I've not attempted a Bomberman clone for many many years, so after a fairly short discussion on the OUYA forums, I sprang to life, and got started.
So far so good, but I'm thinking there's a lot of stuff to implement, so it'll probably take a little longer to finish this game than my regular AGameAWeek schedule.
Don't be surprised if this one drags on a little!
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One of the hardest things in the world of AGameAWeek is when you take time off.
The past week has been chaotic at home, and things got a bit down in the realm of the real-world. As such, I opted to take the week off from AGameAWeek, mostly because my mind wasn't in the right place to be designing fun little games.
The week off left me a little bored, and as is usually the case when in that mindset, I started to look back through the past few weeks and dig through the stats.
One of the most...

Seems I'm currently in the mood to do more odd other stuff, rather than the core game coding, this week.
Aw well, here's another tune, which may or may not find it's way into a future game.
(URL "https://soundcloud.com/alodare/conspicuous-war">Conspicuous War)

(URL "https://soundcloud.com/alodare/conspicuous-ventricles/">SoundCloud Link)
AL's latest CHOON is available on SoundCloud. Have a poke through some of his other SoundCloud tracks for previous ingame sounds.

My Spreadshirt AGameAWeek store has been available for many years, but is rarely ever bothered with.. .. Usually because I never bother to link to it!
Yesterday I posted the "Evolution of Dude" pic, and someone on Twitter suggested it'd make a nice TShirt.
...Yeah, why not!!
So, today, I'm reopening (and/or re-using!) the store, and have added the (URL "https://agameaweek.spreadshirt.co.uk/evolution-of-dude-tshirt-A28273211/customize/color/4">Evolution of Dude TShirt.)
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Although I started a game, the other day, something else came up and it's removed my normally-frantic coding spirit.
Family life is always more important than AGameAWeek.
Normal service will resume next week, probably with the game I started the other day.
Happy 4th of May, folks.
Live Long, and Prosper.

Ooops, I think I've missed a couple of these.. Aw well, no matter!!
Here's this month's!
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Click for MASSSSIIIIVVVEE!!!)

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