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Second day of the year, and I'm already finishing things off!

Beta Collexion was my Advent Calendar of Games for 2015. 26 wonderfully playable little games, all wrapped in a lovely giftwrapped bundle.
The games are now unlocked, and can be played at any time.
Beta Collexion can be found <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=352">here, in the Jayenkai Archive.</a>
You can <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Beta_Collexion_20151123.zip">Download it for Windows</a>, Play it in your <a href="https://gamejo...

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Finally got a decent looking box to appear!

It's time to throw balls!
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Overcoding, perhaps?!

Beta Collexion is my Advent Calendar of Games for 2015. 26 wonderfully playable little games, all wrapped in a lovely giftwrapped bundle.
Beta Collexion can be found (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=352">here, in the Jayenkai Archive.)
You can (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Beta_Collexion_20151123.zip">Download it for Windows), Play it in your (URL "https://gamejolt.com/games/beta-collexion/109096">browser via GameJolt), Play it on (URL "https://www.ouya.tv/gam...

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I can't keep calling it "Balls".. I have to give it a less crappy title...
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Let me know your thoughts in the comments below

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.. I think it's done..

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Continuing to play with my balls!

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T is also for Tilemap!!

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Playing with my balls..

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What'll be happening with Beta Collexion?
How can I get my games on Steam?
And.. Snooker?!

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I tried 3 completely different games for "Q", over the course of yesterday, but nothing seemed to be any good.
Instead, I left Q for another day, and moved on to C, at which point a nice ball-rolling game appeared and seemed to work fairly nicely.
This is the second ball-rolling game in the bundle, but hopefully it's different enough to warrant it.
What's becoming a rather worrying trend, however, is that there seem to be a lot of "Move X object through Y rando...

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Over at Socoder.net, Rychan suggested that I should make a "Bumper Cars" sort of game, whereby you need to whack opponents off a grid.
Taking that as a starting point, I figured it was probably a good idea to finally tackle "Thwacking Balls" physics.
About an hour or so later, I had a fairly rudimentary ball-physics thing going on, and a nice simple little bumper-ish game going on.
"Rolly Balls" won't be unlocked until the 17th December, in the Beta Collexion, ...

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Jumped back and forth through a couple of things, yesterday, but mostly spent more time working on the level builder.
Things are starting to look a little more varied, and thankfully the addition of vertical scrolling has added a little bit more.
I'm currently worried about making sure the levels are completable, as I haven't yet added an AI player run-through of the level, to ensure it's at least playable. I'll have to do that next, I suppose.
In the meantime...

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Last night I added some blocks to the Level Generator, which of course then required me to faff about adding extra rules to the player, and the baddies, and the other objects, to ensure they collide "roughly" correctly with the tilemap.
It didn't take too long to get the basics in, but having to essentially rewrite the rules for half-a-dozen different object types meant for a long and complex bit of work.
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Motivation seems to have taken a bit of a nosedive, this week.
I think the lack of SpikeDislike3 sales is starting to get to me, as every time I open the folder, I spend about 10 minutes staring at the code before closing it up again.
I feel like moving on to something else. Maybe that'll help kick me back into gear again.

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OK, so GoDaddy restored the backup, and I've spent the past 24 hours doing backups and fixes and all manner of server-based garbage.
I'll be watching the stats over the next few days, keeping tabs on the databases, and ensuring nothing like that happens again. Grrr.
You can read the (URL "https://socoder.net/index.php?topic=4833&viewpost=47700#47700">Waffley post here, if you're interested..)
I'm still tweaking, but I'm ready to get back to Spike Dislike, e...

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Aaah, iTunesConnect.
When Invisible Munky 2 launched, the other day, I noticed something odd in my iTunesConnect pages.
Where there's usually a "Request Promo Codes" link, there was none.

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Yesterday, I completely rejigged the "Bounce" of SpikeDislike.
Originally, the bounce was a simple Sine-wave, and has in fact been this in EVERY version of SpikeDislike, but this time I'm hoping to add a couple of new elements which have required a minor tweak in the usual ball bouncing mechanic.
This isn't something to be taken lightly, as I had to be absolutely sure that the end result still "felt" like Classic SpikeDislike.
At the moment it's a teensy bit fl...

Another big gap, as I try to figure out what's happening next. I figured you guys oughta be kept up to date with current goings on, in the world of AGameAWeek, so here's a rough bit of blogging so that you can vaguely assume you know what's going on!
Current projects are..
1. Kee Bo Ard Go Deep
Another sequel in the Kee Bo Ard collection. I've so far built a fairly capable engine, but am struggling to decide exactly what I'd like to do with it. I've got the game up to a "You can complet...

Thwack the Crocs over their heads with your balls! Swamp Golf!!
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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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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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