The Plan!
NeonPlat Classic is the original edition.
If I hurry up and quickly build a version of that on iOS, I can get it released in time for my Birthday, then have a 24 hour giveaway like I did with SpikeDislike last year.
The Realism

<a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/iPhone_31.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/iPhone_31-300x200.png" alt="" title="iPhone_3" width="300" height="200" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2313" /></a>You can now head on over to the <a href="https://bit.ly/iOS_Unijuggler">iOS AppStore</a> to grab a nice new version of Unijuggler!
You can juggle the balls, ducks, clubs and rings, and aim for a super highscore to annoy...

...this iOS stuff isn't quick, is it!?
Week one, decide on game, start game..
Week two, keep tweaking annoyingly broken things in framework and get game done.
Submit game!

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Last weekend, most of the developers on the internet took part in the great big Global Game Jam, whereby everyone settled down to a nice ...

Over the weekend, Sheep Goes Left has been free.
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Don't worry if you missed it, because it's actually still free until the 8th of February, I just won't be banging on about it on Twitter like I have be...

Last week, there was no AGameAWeek.
It was the clown's fault..
.. stupid clown..
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This week I've been concentrating on iOS development, getting a nice half-assed version of Unijuggler up and running, and playing with the game's rules in a vague attempt to make it a bit more playa...

It's Saturday morning, and I've not yet started Tuesday's game.
Haven't even got any thoughts in mind, either!
As such, I figured I should warn you all incase I don't actually get a game posted, this week.
If I do attempt something, it'll probably be done in PlayMyCode, because that'll save all the current Mac crap that I'm having to put up with. Damn you Lion!!!

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A sequel for this week's AGameAWeek!
I've been thinking about Key, Bo and Ard since I popped them into...

News, today, of a new Sitcom under development at HBO.
<a href="https://www.deadline.com/2012/01/sundance-hbo-and-scott-rudin-to-turn-docu-indie-game-into-series/">HBO are converting Indie Game The Movie into a sitcom!</a>
A sitcom based on a bunch of videogame developers?
How on earth would THAT work!?!

Bah.. I knew that'd happen..
As soon as AGameAWeek kicked back into action, the "Daily Blog" would take a bit of a fall.
I'm trying to keep up, though! Honest!!

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It's another uninteresting game this week, so apologies if you just plain hate it!
It's not bad, it's just...

So, I'm sitting there trying to get a nice GameCenter thing added to my new framework, and I figured that having to display people's names might very well require a bit of Unicode..
(Note : This is the reason my other iOS games don't have names on the highscore lists!)
In Cocos, you can use 3 font styles.. one is a simple bitmap font (this one I can handle!) one is a complex bitmap font (with a required 50,000,000,000,000 images to handle all the possible languages!) and the third one uses ttf f...

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Today, I'm continuing to build a framework for my iOS games.
You might've noticed that I've started a buttload of iOS games, lately, and yet I haven't finished any of the things..
I've noticed that,...

Tonight, I got home from work with a game idea in mind.
Using my freshly reinstalled PC, I settled down for the first bit of coding on the thing, copied my FrameworkTemplate to a new folder, drew a couple of sprites, opened the code, built up a simple array/tilemap test engine, and then hit Build..
.. Aaah..
Seems my dev-environment isn't quite at 100% yet, because I coded the thing into a FrameworkTemplate from about a year ago, and all the nice new stuff is missing.

Another day, another install..
About 12 months ago, my bedroom PC basically crapped it's pants, and became an inexplicably unusable box that sat in the corner of the room.
Knowing I'd need to format, I hunted for the Vista install disc, then remembered that..
A) Vista didn't bloody well come with one (Buying from Comet would've been handy, there!)

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A nice and simple "Highscore" game.
Keep the Unijuggler's balls afloat, and if you're feeling lucky, you can...

I was absolutely shattered, when I got home from work last night.
I tried to watch an episode of House, but gave up halfway, and zonked out by about 11'ish.
Probably didn't do me much good, then, to have woken up at half one in the morning, and spent the next 4 hours coding away.
whoops!

Not sure why, but I'm finding it difficult to get a start on things, this morning.
Yesterday I managed to get a whole lot of stuff done, ranging from webby fixes, through to making a unicycle.
Today, I'm loading up bits of source, staring at it, closing it, trying something else..
I've been doing this for about 49 minutes, according to my playlist's timer!

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.. or not bother..

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I still haven't finished NeonPlat Adventures iOS yet, so I'm jumping between a whole lot of work at the moment. As a result, the first few AGameAWeek games aren't going to be the most...

Welcome to 2012
..or, more importantly..
Welcome to AGameAWeek, Year 4!!
The games start, right here... in a couple of days!

Thankyou Santa!!

My issue with Super Mario 3D Land isn't the fact that it's in 3D.
My issue is with the fact that the gameplay's in 3D.

A warning for all, as we hit the christmas period.
Be careful...
The Mince Pies are very tempting!

(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/jnkplat_Xmas2011.jpeg"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/jnkplat_Xmas2011-300x193.jpg" alt="" title="jnkplat_Xmas2011" width="300" height="193" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2195" />Coming soon, as in probably tomorrow, or maybe Xmas morning!!
This isn't a proper one.
It's only a quick little Xmas minigame thing, but it'll be nice and properly playable, and...

Between insane neck issues, and crazy days trying to cram WAY too much stuff in before Xmas, I've not blogged much, this week.
Last night, as it became increasingly apparent that there was no WAY I could cram it all in, before xmas, I decided to hell with it all..
This morning, I stop attempting to cram, and instead relaxed into something a little different.