<img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/platneonplat.png" alt="" title="platneonplat" width="128" height="64" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1847" /> Platdude vs NeonPlat

This morning, I took Voxel's advice, and overdosed myself on Jelly Tots and Milkshake.. If I didn't finish a game, I was in for a whole heap of trouble.. Did I make it through the day?! Did I finish a game?!! Find out below!!

You could say I crapped out, and gave up. I aimed for 52. I aimed for a 2nd whole year's worth of games, within a startlingly short amount of time. .. But I probably would've managed it..

A couple of weeks ago, I set Sheep Goes Left as free for a nice big long happy weekend stroll. During this time, the reviewers (or is there just Stu doing it?!) at Free App Hero decided to write a nice big review of the little fella. Look inside for the complete review, then grab the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/free-app-hero/id403095549?mt=8">Free App Hero</a> app, to find more fantastic free apps.

Mark this down as a "Well, it DOES work, it's just not for me" kinda game. <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Word_Trundle_20110524_Logo_thumb.png">

A random game idea on Sunday, with a totally random name, and then a shock co-incidence when Monday turned out to be Roger Hargreaves' birthday, and the Mr Men ended up being plastered all over Google! I couldn't have planned that.. I'm far too lazy to have planned that! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Mister_Smash_20110510_Logo_thumb.png">

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<a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/photo.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/photo.png" alt="" title="photo" width="320" height="480" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1285" /></a> hmmm....

About 40-odd times I've decided "Right, let's give GLBasic a try!!" This morning, I was finally ready to actually do that! ... And then, right out of the blue, and totally co-incidentally, a twitter conversation began with <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/Indie_DIJ">@Indie_DIJ</a> about that very language. He's uncertain whether his next GLBasic project should be aimed at iPhone or iPad. ... hmmm... Should that be a decision? ..? Apparently GLBasic has issues here. You...

Am I doing the RPG or not!? Damnit, Jay, make up your mind! <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/dungeon8.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/dungeon8-150x150.png" alt="" title="dungeon8" width="150" height="150" class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-985" /></a>

(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. When I was a teen, I was on ICQ, AIM and MSN, ALL DAY! If you racked up the number of back+forth messages I used to achieve on that, all day, every day, I'm pretty damned sure it'd be a buttload more than 3000 a day. Except...

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! (c)2003 So, Asda then. .. Hmm.. No singles in Asda? OK, WHSmiths! .. WTF!? No music at a...

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 same as my Win/Lin/...

54 games. Last year I only managed about 30-odd, so I think that's pretty good going. Sure, it might not have truely actually been A Game "Per" Week, but I did at least keep the ratio up. If I hadn't taken the time out to build the framework, I probably would've actually achieved the target a little better The stats show I was pretty much on top of things up until that point, but then things got slower and slower until my buffer zone was all dried up. Anyhoo, this is a nice big lengthy re...

54 games. Last year I only managed about 30-odd, so I think that's pretty good going. Sure, it might not have truely actually been A Game "Per" Week, but I did at least keep the ratio up. If I hadn't taken the time out to build the framework, I probably would've actually achieved the target a little better The stats show I was pretty much on top of things up until that point, but then things got slower and slower until my buffer zone was all dried up. Anyhoo, this is a nice big lengthy re...

Tuesday, Fred the Parachuting Flea. Needs a few "I didn't get that!!!?" kinda tweaks, but it otherwise working nicely.. If I drop dead tomorrow, at least the game's ready for release

This week's game came out a whole lot better than I'd expected it to. It's still not fantastic, but given that the game only just started to fall into place yesterday, it's not turned out so bad. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Chuffed_Tracks_20100720A.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Chuffed_Tracks_20100720A_thumb.png"></a> <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Chuffed_Tracks_20100720B.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Ch...

On Friday I had a really rather productive day, and managed to build up my iPhing knowledge quite a fair bit. I didn't have enough time to do a 90-minute thing, though, and am quite disappointed by that. Saturday came and went, with most of the kitchen getting it's new ceiling up, and no 90-minutes being spent, again! Dangit. Today I aim to play catchup, although how much of that gets done will remain to be seen. First off, there's a few things over at Socoder that need tweaked, so I'm going to go ...

I'd planned to make a NeonPlat post, this morning.. But then, I've also planned to do WarioWare on Wednesdays.. .. and then there's the Music thing, which I've also decided to do on Wednesdays. ... Derp! So, looks like we're going to start having a Megapost every Wednesday, from here on. Aftermath, Music and More!

I've a couple of new games ready, but what day should I be aiming for? Monday's Ninty's day, Tuesday's AGameAWeek day so I'm already busy with that.. Maybe Wednesday for my Wario games? *shrugs*

2beegames.com has, since May 1st, become IndiePub, but haven't bothered to claim indiepub.com domain, or indiepub.co.uk, or .net, or.. well.. whatever. For the past month or two, they've been banging on and on about their all-new coming soon site, and how amazing and new it'll be. They were originally going for a nice bright yellow theme, with all nice sparkly-ness, and instead seem to have settled on kind of dull desaturated brown/orange theme, along with a complete identity change. Still, their m...

Oh dear, I'm WAY behind, this week. I spent most of yesterday doing odd little bits of behind-the-scene Socoder stuff, so I'm a wee bit behind. Then, today, something that should've been a 10 minute job ended up taking AGES to do! I hate things like that! Not to worry, though. Our main character is drawn, and he now has a fantastic Mario costume to wear. He's even been given the name "Ace Paceman", by Spinal, over at Socoder. Because, for one reason or another, he never really had on...

Eeek.. It's scary to even consider this, but there's no free-forming games for a while. We're in a zone now, and I can't stop it even if I tried! Tomorrow's game is about ready, although I'm still missing 4 little parts that I might wimp out on!

<a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/argh.png"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/argh_thumb.png" style="float:right"></a> Because there may or may not have been resulting copyright issues, I've left this post on the backburner until the magazine went off the shop shelves. Usually I'd happily scan in a bit of a page if my games are mentioned, but this time it's a whole entire page, and that's a completely different kettle of fish. (Although, to be fair, I've wr...

This week, due to popular demand, Blockman's Getting More. As you may have read, I attempted a new art style (fweeDee!!) last week, which really didn't work out at all. So, this week I'm aiming for the Pseudo popped-out-a-bit art style, and all seems happy in the world of Blockman. <img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/blockmangetsmoreb.png">

Same game, different system. I started working on the Munky Portal thing this week, but it didn't really happen. A shame. No matter, because it gave me just enough time to remake Blockman Gets and pop it onto the DS. <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Blockman_Gets_20091006B.png"> <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Blockman_Gets_20091006A.png"> (Note, those are two different levels! Screenshots are single-screen so that they fit in the archive better!!) I've rem...