Another hard slog, this morning!

Stayed up until 7am binge-watching that Tunnel show again.. I'm down to the last episode, at least..

Stupid Flu Jab, getting in the way of my busy schedule.

Guide Proto-Plat over the castle's battlements, avoiding all the dangers as he goes. You can Play the game in your Browser, on Desktop, Mobile or Tablet.

Yesterday I didn't do "too" much..

So far, I've managed to get a decent enough style for the new DVD Case asset.

Created a new project in SmileBASIC last night, and started fiddling about with a swirly background effect.

A couple of suggestions on Twitter last night.

A Shoebox game idea popped into mind, late last night.

As I stated a few days ago (didn't I?) I've been working on a port of Poke 5,n over to SmileBASIC. It's been going fairly well, but I had to integrate Touch control to my framework. Eeek!!

The Browsercade edition of Space Popcorn is coming together well enough, but right now it's just you vs the popcorn, and there aren't any pickups or anything like that, to speak of. Today I'll be trying to decide what methods to aim for, and figure out what nice new powerups should be added. Incidentally, this'll be my 52nd game of the year. So, um.. Yeah.. Woot! From here on, I don't have to code a single game, for the rest of the year, and I'll still have made AGameAW...

I've been asked how I achieve my scrolling backgrounds, especially since (as you can probably tell from my games) I'm not using "normal" techniques. So, let's code a quick example, and you can hopefully follow along. WARNING : This is far from being the ideal, or even the "normal" way of drawing backdrops. I am NOT the best tutor for programming. I've been coding far too long without getting rid of my bad bad habits, and have been working towards "many games, quickly" techniques, rat...

Catch the spikes as they fall from the swirling vortex. Protect the planet. The people don't like spikes.. If you've a Switch, and have downloaded SmileBASIC, you can grab a copy of the game using the Public Key...

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I started a project on Switch yesterday, which looks an awful lot like Rotational Defence!!

Week Two, on the Island. The week started with a bang, as all the villagers gathered for the opening of the island's campsite. Even Mr Angry Brows decided to be slightly less mean, on this occasion.

Haven't started a game, yet. I think this might be a game-less week.

With the new SpikeDislike.com being in place, and me aiming to make the biggest, baddest, bestest version of SpikeDislike available, I've found myself heading back into the SpikeDislike2 folder quite a bit.

Lots of internal tweaks to the engine, today. The game now records your highest combo, and places that alongside your highscore in the saves. This means that, when necessary, I can pop that up on the screen. Your last score on the scoreboard is now highlighted and bounces to and fro, to stand out on the list. I do miss having that in the Browsercade. .. Maybe I should try to figure out a way to do that, but Browsercade's save data is there for lots of different types of games, and having a Top 10...

For the past couple of months, I've had the plan of a "One Touch Games" framework in mind, but couldn't ever decide on the best name for such a domain. A week or two ago, I just figured "To hell with it", and opted for SpikeDislike.com instead. SpikeDislike.com!

Every week or so, I think about SpikeDislike. How big it once was, and how abandoned it now is. Going from it's hefty days back in 2011, when it actually SOLD a decent amount on iOS, to the current day where it's all been removed from the AppStore because I haven't updated it in years. And yet, it's something I keep coming back to, and it has pretty much defined the sort of things that I've been doing for the past decade. Spike has whittled his way into becoming an alarmingly com...

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. 2010 - BlitzMax 2011 - Touch Control 2012 - The Bad Year 2013 - Monkey-X 2014 - OUYA!! 2015 - The Gap Year 2016 - Forget-V 2017 - Cuddle Me 2018 - Ringing the Changes 2019 - Overl...

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. 2010 - BlitzMax 2011 - Touch Control 2012 - The Bad Year 2013 - Monkey-X 2014 - OUYA!! 2015 - The Gap Year 2016 - Forget-V 2017 - Cuddle Me 2018 - Ringing the Changes 2019 - Overl...