If you've an idea for AGameAWeek, let it be known in the comments below!!!
Meanwhile, thinking time...

"You just hold right, and jump a bit"
<img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Super_Happy_Speedy_Gerbil_20101116_Logo_thumb.png">

This week's game will be slightly more minimal than originally planned.
I originally was going to add baddies and pickups and progression and all of that.
But then I started playing it.
After about 10 minutes without a single blink, I figured it'd probably be a bit TOO much to add anything more.
<a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/Super_Happy_Speedy_Gerbil_(Screenshot_14_Nov_2010_083303).png"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/Super_Happy_Speedy_Gerbil_(Scree...

Ooops, THAT's what I'm supposed to do on Thursdays!
No matter, a day late, not to worry!
Here's this week's suggestion box.
Fill the comments with your ideas/suggestions for future AGameAWeek stuffs.

Right now, we'll call this version 0.5.
The tool is at a working version, and most of the bugs are ironed out.
I'll update it as the weeks go by, and hopefully we'll have something Most Excellent by the end.
<img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Jay__s_Retro_Sprite_Tool_20101109B_thumb.png">

As I've already mentioned, the MiniRPG's on hold whilst I build the sprite maker doohickey. The doohickey's coming along nicely, and make quite a large leap today, but I'm still fiddling about trying to get it to feel "Just Right"
The thing is, although my old sprite maker seemed to come up with nice blobs, the new one appears to be much more random.
Either they're preset shapes, or they're crazily splodged messes.
<a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/Jays_Ret...

I'm in too deep.
I can't stop!
And yet I also didn't plan ahead far enough, and will be spending most of this morning removing a bunch of stuff, and redoing it all.
Gah!

It's time for our weekly "Post anything in your head" topic!

Keeping with the classic retro theme, here's a nice and simple little 15-screen jumping platform game!
<img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/GeeBee_Hop_20101101_Logo_thumb.png">

Oops, forgot to post this, yesterday! No matter.
After last week's retro styled "random" game, I decided to go for something similarly retro, but much less random.
I've drawn some supercheap gameboy style sprites, and have been building a batch of quick and easy jumpy platform levels.
I've done 11 levels so far, and am going to go the "Start from level 1, see how far you can get" route, so theres no checkpoints or anything. Just start, and hope you don't die..
9 lives seems adequat...

I've no idea what I'll be tackling this week, again, so pop a random thought or two below!

A game cram packed into the space of only a day!
<img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Space_Clusters_20101026_Logo_thumb.png">

This isn't important..
I just sent off a nice lengthy reply to PixelProspector.com's Authentic Kaizen, all about plans for the future of the site, the possibility of me wrapping my head around Flash, thoughts about new new new new newer NeonPlat, and some kind of unpondered random top down maze thing.
None of that's really important, just yet. It's all forward planning, and it all requires bits of learning all over the place.
Less importantly, halfway through the email, I used the term "W...

Have any thoughts? I'm a bit blank, this week.
But then I was blank last week, too, and that didn't turn out TOO badly.
(did it?!)

Stringy Things is out, for iPhone and iPod.
Slightly annoying that this didn't happen earlier.. That would've let me do a great big "First AGAW of the year, Second iPod release" thing, earlier.
No matter.
It's up, now!

<img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Ted_Bob__s_Pet_Hammer__20101018_Logo_thumb.png">
An ever so slightly shorter edition of this week's intended game, which almost didn't happen!! Nice and playable, although it's probably much more playable on Hard than on the other two levels!
This week sees the return of silly-name favourite Ted Bob, as he grabs an Amy Rose style hammer, and attacks oncoming crates.
<a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Ted_Bob__s_Pet_Hamme...

This week's been super jolly.
First, I couldn't settle back into the AGAW mood, then when I finally started a proper game, my Neck decided to completely screw up again, and I spent the next day and a half doing a kind of "1 line of code, 3 hours sleep" type thing.
Today, I'm coding better.
Which is probably just the right time for my PC to crap it's pants.

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This week I'm working with boxes, animals, and Ted Bob.
Not entirely formulated this game, yet, though, so... Could be anything!!

(URL "https://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/u-s-teen-mobile-report-calling-yesterday-texting-today-using-apps-tomorrow/">Today's Big News Story) is that kids are texting an average of 3000 times a day!
Good gravy, that's HUGE!!!!
...
Except, of course, it isn't.

Arseholes.
God damned feckin' arseholes.
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A few weeks ago, my sister lost her job. She's currently in the midst of trying to get a new one, and so is hopping around site to site, grabbing Application forms, sending off CVs and all the other "Trying to get a job" types of things.

"Haniff" emailed me about 4 or 5 weeks ago, just as I was starting my lazyitis month, and asked if I could do a nice big video, showing how I create a game.
I wasn't going to rush a game, there and then, so I figured I'd record my first AGameAWeek once I got around to starting things up again..
Turns out I haven't recorded my first AGameAWeek, because this game's shit!
Still, here's a game.
<a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/SomeGame.zip">Linkage</a&g...

As promised, a new weekly feature will be the suggestion box.
No longer will your suggestions be hidden away inside the locked box.
Instead, they'll be readable by all.
The first AGAW game (still unplanned, unless I decide to use the rubbishy game I made today) will be posted on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, suggest away!

It's not that I hated the old logo.
In fact, in many ways, the old logo fit my whole game making thing a little better than this one does.
So, maybe, at some point, I'll switch back.
The thing is, though, if you slap the old Recterange logo onto a Tshirt, it looks like a freakin' name badge!

This is it. End of the road for Jay's relaxation time!
Today's Tuesday, no game today, kinda, sort of..
Today I submitted Stringy Things (2 games) to the AppStore for review. That should be properly done by.. um.. about December, at current Review speed!
So, what about AGameAWeek?

In windows, to add a tab to the left of 3 or 4 lines, I've settled into the habit of doing either one of two things..
1. Up, Home, Tab, Up, Home, Tab, Up, Home, Tab, Up, Home, Tab.
Which goes up per line, heads to the far left, then places a tab.
or

Cee Lo Green's song, Fuck You, is the song of the summer.
As such, when I was in town yesterday, (Bury!) I figured that'd be the one thing I'd aim to buy.
I've not bothered buying physical games for a while, iPhing, Steam and Wii online ones do me just fine. Music CDs are just the same. I think the last one of those I went out, specifically to buy, was probably the Relaxed Muscle album! ©2003

I did post the pre-release of NeoPlatDS, this week, so that's nice.
If you want to give it a whirl, try (URL "https://desmume.org/">DesMuMe), it's what I used 95% of the time during development, and has now overtaken No$GBA as my dev-emu of choice.
I can't get FAT read/write working on it, though, so you'll have to make do without highscore load/saving. Other than that it runs nicely, and the default keys are easy to remember.
Cursors to move, Z to throw, X to jump.
Exactly the s...