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I've got a basic scoring method in the game. 3 stars instead of 3 sheep, but basically a case of "Beat the level on your first try for 3 stars, 2 stars if you lose a life, 1 for losing 2, and anything beyond that gets no stars." A tally is on the right hand side of the menu, and that's pretty much all the scoring there is.

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The menu's now working, and the absolute basics of the world functions are in place. The game now runs about as well as it did the last time I made it!! Today will be about designing more themes and adding new obstacles, as well as hopefully adding a choon or two.

Radio One's 50 years old, and are celebrating with a weekend of Radio One Vintage. Head to the App or the site, and you can listen in to classic radio shows and music selections from years gone by. Radio One Vintage

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Time's whittled away from me, this week.

Geeze, that took a while. A few quirks as MonkeyX gets old, but nothing as-yet unmanageable.

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Spent quite a bit of time, yesterday, tweaking elements of the Music Player.

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Continued to work on New AGameAWeek, yesterday.

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Yesterday was spent working on "New Post" functionality for the new site.

..!?! (URL "https://josephmallozzi.wordpress.com/2017/09/01/september-1-2017-dark-matter-cancelled/">They cancelled Dark Matter)?! WTF?!

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I made a brief start on this week's game, but found my mind wandering over to a very different task.

Oops! Should've headed to bed around about 11'ish. Was still slightly awake around midnight, but starting to drift off. Then an Email. "New Episode available for download" Dark Matter's 12th and final Season 3 episode was available, and who was I to leave it until tomorrow!!

(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Simulator-Screen-Shot-21-Aug-2017-13.45.36.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Simulator-Screen-Shot-21-Aug-2017-13.45.36-1024x768.png" alt="" width="750" height="563" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-7903" /> Thwackity Puttz is now available (URL "https://itunes.apple.com/app/thwackity-puttz/id1273729273">on iOS devices, from the AppStore)

Unclaimed Garden

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Thwackity Puttz is uploaded to Apple, and is now "Waiting for Review"

<img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/IMG_7588.jpg"> Enter the code "VDVQS3QJ" into Smile Basic on the 3DS, and you should find a lovely little rendition of SpikeDislike. Be sure to let me know if it works!

( width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pP746eY6coQ?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>>

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Smile Basic Release Dates Japan - November 19, 2014 US - October 15, 2015 Europe - August 17, 2017 Gee, thanks, guys..

Each week, as people submit comments to the various games, I'll try to keep tabs on them all and collect them into these Player Thoughts posts. Luckily, RSKGames seems to be the only one doing it, so it's not that hard to keep track of! Feel free to give your own feedback. This week, RSKGames looks at (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/2017/08/release-2017-33-rainbows-shooting-from-my-balls/">Rainbows Shooting From My Balls)..!!

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Game Overview: Pong with a twist, many balls with trail...

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Today will be spent playing Sonic Mania! Got through 1.5 zones last night, but was too tired to get very far after that.

Over the past 3 or 4 weeks, I've been slowly getting back into the swing of doing iOS games. Two releases so far, (Quadoban and Letter Lattice) and today's AGameAWeek (Bugsplodings) has just, within the past hour or so, been uploaded for Apple Review. I thought I should write a blog about why these three have been created, and also explain why I've not yet gone "FULL PROMO!!!" about the games. (Warning : Long waffling post!)

Rollyblob has been released, and not everyone's happy. I thought I should make today's blog a bit of a "How it came to be what it is" tale.

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Yesterday, I got the level generator mostly working for this week's game.

( width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/331005076&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true">> (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/Music?Journal=Video">Journal Video)

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This week's game (assuming it even is this week!) still hasn't been decided on.

( width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/330336953&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true">> "Liquid Xigua Syrup" is the ingame music from Thwackity Puttz.

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Heading back in time, once more, I found myself working on the Workshop, yesterday.

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Yesterday I got the ball-thwacking physics working to within a half decent standard.

(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/525_001.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/525_001-1024x605.png" alt="" width="750" height="443" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-7599" /> Note to self : Make sure the "levels" are generating the same, before moving ahead!! This is approximately the game I'll be making this week. Tonight's been a nice productive night of getting the basic generator up and running...

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I'm getting near to the goal, now. The game seems to have a good feel, and I spent about 20 minutes last night ensuring that every single one of the 81 (9x9 grid) levels would generate without any crazy array-out-of-bounds errors.

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Took most of yesterday off, from coding.

( width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/--R3b5fsZwo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> Also available (URL "https://soundcloud.com/alodare/sonically-windy">on SoundCloud).

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Last night, I lay awake watching the glorious joyful results of people having voted the right way.