Developments

I'm still fiddling about with the level generator for the new Boxsplosions game. Currently it's coming up with either of two level styles. Either the arena a HUGE and has one or two targets to hit, thus leading to a huge chasm where not much happens, or it's generating a teensy tiny level that's completely flooded with millions of little bloody targets, which completely kills any sort of gameplay mechanic. It's going to be hard to get it to balance that out, without ending up wit...

Developments

Yesterday's doings. Boxsploding I continued work on Boxsplosions, and got a nice new control scheme up and running for touchscreens. I might have to zoom out a little bit, though, as you can currently only see an area of about 8x8 tiles, whereas the whole arena is 128x128!! Today I'm going to be playing with the actual Splosions, and seeing if the gameplay matches the previous edition, or whether it all needs to be rethought and reimagined.. Hmm...

Developments

So, I suppose I'm making a new version of Boxsplodings, then.. I spent most of yesterday coming up with a nice Arena-Generator. It took a while to get the feel "just right", but it seems to be coming up with nice enough shapes. You can see some of the generated shapes in (URL "https://twitter.com/Jayenkai/status/610214745283653634">this Vine). So, assuming that's the levels, what of the splodings..? That'll be today's task. Trying to find something that doesn't end up being...

<a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=347">Alpha Collexion</a> was AGameAWeek's 2014 Advent Calendar. You can <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=347">Download it Here</a> for Windows, OUYA or playable in your browser using HTML5. All games are now unlocked, and will remain playable forever! woot!

(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=347">Alpha Collexion) is AGameAWeek's 2014 Advent Calendar. You can (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=347">Download it Here) for Windows, OUYA or playable in your browser using HTML5. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/AlphaCollexion/400_Q.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/AlphaCollexion/400_Q_thumb.png">

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For a limited time only, a select few AGameAWeek games are 100% off, on iOS! (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140721-121206-43926951.jpg"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140721-121206-43926951.jpg" alt="20140721-121206-43926951.jpg" class="alignnone size-full" /> Until July 23rd (2014!) four of my more recent iOS games are free, because.. Um.. *shrugs* (URL "https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/bloc...

Do you have an iOS device? Are you sick to death of seeing nothing but clones of Flappy Birds and Threes*!? Want a little more variety on your iPhing?! (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Jayenkai-Bargain-Bucket_1600.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Jayenkai-Bargain-Bucket_1600-1024x1024.png" alt="Jayenkai Bargain Bucket_1600" width="590" height="590" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3675" /> ...

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:left;"> AGameAWeek Gold looks back at some of the best, and worst, games that have been previously released on this day in history. Today's game from the archive is a lovely little arena battler, with lots of weapons and things to shoot!

OK, I'll admit it, I'm enjoying the OUYA. You can keep up with (URL "https://www.ouyalytics.com/developer/Jayenkai/">all my OUYA games here). There's currently 5 of them, and there's oodles more to come! (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/icona.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/icona-150x150.png" alt="" title="icona" width="150" height="150" class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3272" /> (URL "...

The internet is a place for trolls and complainers (like me!) who like to gripe at every opportunity. For the most part, we tend to ignore these types, which generally means that comments sections have become largely ignored. Here at AGameAWeek, the opposite has happened. There are apparently no trolls daring enough to even attempt to play my games! I seem to have scared most of them away. As a result, there are no trollers or complainers here, and since those are the types that make up the 99% of the ...

An extremely rapidly cobbled together game, this week. If you've been following me on Twitter, you're probably expecting a nice swirly glowing awesome shooty thing. .. Tough, this isn't it!

I'll try not to make a habit of making iOS Pay-For apps the "Weekend Retreat" thing, but there's something to be said for having decent iOS games that charge you upfront, rather than slamming adverts into your gameplay, and IAPs all over the damn place.. So.. Yeah.. If a game's good, it's good!!

Although this week seems like a quick re-use of old sprites, I can assure you that they are in fact a completely different set of sprites!! Brand new Puzzobomb sprites, ready for an all new Puzzobomb game! But before I tackle the lengthy process of making a whole bucketload of levels, let's see what it's like without any levels at all...

I don't give up, very often, but on this occasion, it's unfortunately going to happen to my big Month-Long project. I seem to have narrowed the problem down to the following issue. ... Wasn't hard enough! It seems that, nowadays, I can only tackle a project if it's got enough of a challenge attached. Either a game has to be coded in a stupidly small amount of time, or the game needs to have lots of new things required, to keep my interest held. <img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/RRDS_M...

I wanted to have made a nice big super-sized sequel, this week, but I got sidetracked. For starters, I played a lot of Animal Crossing, so there's that!! But that wasn't all, as this week's game took an alarming amount of time to settle into a groove. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ssa3.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ssa3-300x225.png" alt="" title="ssa" width="300" height="225" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2981" />Views 185, Upvotes 29