Birthday's over, get back to work, Jay!

Blast your rocket across the water, to reach the launchpad.
If you've a Switch and SmileBASIC, you can grab a copy of the game using the Public Key

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The SmileBASIC edition of Hillside Conquest is coming along nicely.

Today's the day I need to start a new SmileBASIC game.

I made half a decent "Tanks/Combat" thing, in Petit Switch yesterday, but it's not quite right, and the collision detection is wonky as anything!

A decade is over, and what have I done?
373 games, created a new blogging script for here, rewritten the Socoder forum, started a few new sites and more!
Oh, and a brain tumour!
It's been a wild and crazy decade, and over the next few days I'll be looking back at the best (and worst) games from the decade.

A decade is over, and what have I done?
373 games, created a new blogging script for here, rewritten the Socoder forum, started a few new sites and more!
Oh, and a brain tumour!
It's been a wild and crazy decade, and over the next few days I'll be looking back at the best (and worst) games from the decade.

As the insane number of games increases, so does the mailbag!
This week, let's take a look back at Hillside Conquest.
You can Play Hillside Conquest in the Browsercade.

@RSKGames

The two tanks fall into line, and a battle commences.
Tilt your gun, line up your shot, and destroy the enemy tank.
Rather than being a simple "Destroy = 1 point" game, I've opted to add Arcade-style scores to this.
Earn points for closer hits to your opponent's tank. Your score is also increased by how much health your own tank has remaining.

I forgot that, this week, I also figured out a nice way to get the QWERTY keyboard to pop up for both Hangman and Triplets in the Shoebox.
There's now a little subtle [QWERTY]/[ABC] button that shows up in the top bar of the screen.
Tap that to switch between the two keyboards.
Oddly, I actually find the ABC keyboard easier to use, and that's really really odd!!

Saturday's Shoebox won't be Pool

Even more blasting around a circle!

Game

Missile Mayhem
(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/0387"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/Gamma/Gamma_M_thumb.png">

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:right;"> AGameAWeek Gold takes a look at the games that I've previously released on this day in history.
It's basically filler material!
But that's ok, because it's usually a nice trip down memory lane.

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:right;">AGameAWeek Gold peeps through the Jayenkai Archive to see what games I've previously released on this day in history.
Occasionally we'll pluck out some real gems.
Today's a cracker!
.. or rather, today's TWO crackers!!

A half-assed experimental thing, this week.
In all honesty, (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/2013/04/this-week-45/">I did enjoy the idea of this game), but the execution wasn't what I wanted.
This week it's a case of "Could this be better?!"

On Friday morning, (URL "https://twitter.com/MadGarden">@MadGarden) suddenly popped up on Google Chat and started chatting about some sort of game he imagined might be interesting.
Something about "a neat control scheme for a platformer/combat thing" being a bit like Tron, with the discs being both a weapon and a shield.
Not entirely sure what he was on about, but it started one of those oddball pots of insanity bubbling, and soon enough a random game idea had emerged from my mind..
It'...

Oooh, I got to click the "Release" tag today!
Not done that for a while!
The game is out, right now, and is available at..
1. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=268">The Jayenkai Archive</a>

I've about 20-odd projects on the go, this week, so you'll have to excuse the lack of blog entries, and even a decent AGameAWeek game.
Most of this week was spent trying to roll a dice! (die, whatever)
I figured that, with 4 frames per roll, I'd need around about 200+ frames of animation.
I tried to work out all the animations, and it drove me crazy!

Most of my remakes seem to fall into a single category, in that they all tend to feature my character Greenie.
To be honest, I'm not sure why I started doing this. It was never something I planned, it just kind of happened that way!
Still, here's a whole page dedicated to that stupid bumbling idiot!

Green's 8-bit Tiny Collection

BlitzCoder, 2005. The 8-bit compo asked us to create games in a 8-bit style. No more than 20 sprites, all of which were 2 colors, and 8x8 p...

I'm currently working on a nice shooter game. A "take it in turns to kill each other" type blaster.
Like Scorched Earth..
Or, if you prefered the Amiga version, like I did, Scorched Tanks.
Anyway, this game isn't exactly like either of those!