Yesterday was a day for pinching ideas. Trying out old games and jotting down a few mechanics as I go.

As I added yet another game to this year's Advent Collexion, I realised that I'm pretty much out of ideas!!

Carrying on through my current flu symptoms, and I managed to get the last remaining "classic" tiles working in JNKPlat.
Those lovely exploding tiles, and pushable TNT block, along with the keys and gates, and an inventory for them, too.

The level select menu is almost up to a usable state.

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The video above shows a bunch of the stuff I've been doing, today.
The travellators were working the other day, as was the ability to hop up onto a ledge.
But pretty much everything else is new.

You might not have noticed, but in the 2018 Framework, the two main control schemes are ever so slightly different.

The centipedes have returned. Bring out your balls.

You can Download the "Gold - 10" collection from itch.io. It has 11 games in it, one for each of the 10 years I've been doing this..!?!

Oh boy! Snake!!

Wooah, we're halfway there..

In order to make the Bouncer format work properly, I'm going to need to give the player a different kind of control scheme.
I'm almost tempted to strip away the "constantly bouncing" form of the ball, and go for something more like Soccer Kid on the Amiga.

JNKPlat 2018

A new JNKPlat 2018 adventure is in the works.

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Going through my list of "games I probably should do using the new C++ Framework"..
I should probably do something a bit like this..
Thoughts?!
I think I'll strip it back to the original "just a plain puzzle game" mechanic, and then see where I can go from there.

Blockman Gets "Something"
Spike Dislike
JNKPlat 2018
Three classic AGameAWeek games that I really think should exist on the 3DS, more than anything.

Over at GBATemp, user bobdamnit suggested that it'd be better if I release my 3DS games as .CIA files, so they can be installed on the main 3DS menu instead of just the Homebrew Launcher.

Today I was reminded of the classic Amiga puzzler "Pushover".

All appears to be going OK on the 3DS front, but now I need to take the loaded image data and shift it over to video-ram.
And this is where things start to break down!

So, I scrapped the Sheep Herder engine, and started a new "time trial based" engine instead.
I got a classic Thrust style gravity ship, popped it at the start of the track on the top left of the screen.
Fire for Thrust and then left and right.

With each release, the feedback is fed back, and I like to gather any important comments and post them into an easily accessible post.
This week's game is the lovely neon shooter, On a Space Shooting Trail

RSKGames

Last year I played one the NeonPlat games and marveled at the neon graphics style. This game has the same style but the way the looks is achieved seems to have matured a lot. Using the new framework some crafty blending techniques have been used to convert the simp...

Probably should've got back into the swing of coding, yesterday, but spent most of the day playing with my new GPD Win.

Today is a day without my usual daily blog, mostly because I've been lazy, watching a lot of Festive TV, and am currently sat on the couch watching my Sister and her friend having a game of Scrabble, whilst typing this small bit of none-blog.
Later on, I'll probably need to hook up the SNES Classic for a short while, but given that my NES Classic hasn't ever been hooked up, that's not too likely to happen!
Anyhoo, Merry Xmas everyone, and if you don't do that sort of thing, t...

Radio One's 50 years old, and are celebrating with a weekend of Radio One Vintage.
Head to the App or the site, and you can listen in to classic radio shows and music selections from years gone by.
Radio One Vintage

Developments

Time's whittled away from me, this week.

As each week's release gets mentioned across the web-o-sphere, I trawl through comments and reviews, and post some feedback to the feedback!

RSKGames

Overview : A 3 X 3 puzzle block with a target pattern that players need to match within the given time limit. Game has one of the five different game modes per puzzle with a limit of 5 moves

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Thwackity Puttz is now available (URL "https://itunes.apple.com/app/thwackity-puttz/id1273729273">on iOS devices, from the AppStore)

Unclaimed Garden

Developments

Thwackity Puttz is uploaded to Apple, and is now "Waiting for Review"