Added Tartan and Polkadot to add a few more repeating pattern options.
The Polkadot generator has a couple of really nice options to generate some lovely repeating textures, which can be great for menu backgrounds and the like.

Added Repeating Patterns, or at least patterns which "should" repeat!
These are handy for backgrounds and things like that.

I then reused those patterns to create Floor Tiles, and additionally Standard Platforms.
Additionally, I added in some Spaceships, which seem to work better at lower resolutions.

I spent a couple of hours yesterday working up a new Platform Generator for the Sprite-Gen doohickey.

I took some time, last night, to finally have a proper look at making 3DS Themes.

Last night I rejigged my IP Banning settings a little, to catch any spambots in their tracks.
Between 6:20 and 6:26 this morning, BingBot decided to do it's daily update, and requested over 800 pages of content within that short amount of time.
Woah there, BingBot!!!

Each time I release a game, an huge influx of feedback comes my way from all over the web!
Let's see what people thought of JNKPlat 2018!
You can Download JNKPlat2018 Beta here.

@RSKGames

Amazing what a little hand-made data compression can do!!

Centipong isn't coming together very well.

Over the past week or so, a growing pain in my wrist has been causing me to slow down my coding, and I think I finally worked out what it is that's doing it.

Link up for a happy robot!

As each game gets posted, the feedback occurs.
Let's take a look at the feedback from Blockman Gets Retro!
You can Download Blockman Gets Retro here.

RSKGames

Overview: While last years Blockman game was a platformer this year's Blockman game is back to the roots maze puzzle game where the player has to traverse the maze, eat the required quantity of yellow dots to cross each of the levels. Blockman cannot move backwards and cannot traverse a path already traveled unless t...

Saturday.
My "week-off" is nearly over.
As I look back at what I've achieved this week, I'm somewhat astounded by how little I've managed to get functioning correctly.

After spending hours retweaking the 3DS part of the framework, I'm now mostly confident that everything's a little more compatible.

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.

I'm sure there's a better name for this, which probably already exists, but this is a method that I've evolved since doing Army of Flags, and it seems to be working well for me and my enemies!
Thought I'd share.

I finally dug my heels into the Net code, last night.
For the meantime, it'll be very Windows specific, and I'll have to tackle each different system in it's own way.

Spent a few more hours working on getting things a little neater.

Developments

I've got a basic scoring method in the game.
3 stars instead of 3 sheep, but basically a case of "Beat the level on your first try for 3 stars, 2 stars if you lose a life, 1 for losing 2, and anything beyond that gets no stars."
A tally is on the right hand side of the menu, and that's pretty much all the scoring there is.

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

Comments are currently broken.
I can't merge the old Game Archive comments with the old Blog comments, because.. well, Disqus doesn't do that. Hmmm.

Unclaimed Garden

Developments

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

Developments

I spent most of yesterday working on Thwackity Puttz iOS.

Rollyblob has been released, and not everyone's happy.
I thought I should make today's blog a bit of a "How it came to be what it is" tale.

Each week, people share their thoughts with my games, and I like to make little community topics where I can answer/comment on their comments!
It's a comment-o-rama!

@TimeKillerGames

I find a little more effort could be put in to the title screens of some of your more recent games. Why not do what you used to do, and add a little more visuals of some kind to it?

Regular game reviewer RSKGames has sent his thoughts on this week's game.
If you'd like to do similar, then do!
There's nothing stopping you, and you'll even get your own section in these posts.
You can <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/0402">Play Flappadiddle here.</a>

Developments

Things are flowing fairly well.