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...

Definitely needs a better title than that!

Frantic disc blasting ahoy!

Took a bit of a rest period, yesterday, and enjoyed the sun. Of course, with the football on, I needed something to take my mind off it, and so spent a couple of hours fixing up more posts in the archive of the blog.

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Developments

Aliens!

Beta Collexion was my Advent Calendar of Games for 2015. 26 wonderfully playable little games, all wrapped in a lovely giftwrapped bundle. The games are now unlocked, and can be played at any time. Beta Collexion can be found <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=352">here, in the Jayenkai Archive.</a> You can <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Beta_Collexion_20151123.zip">Download it for Windows</a>, Play it in your <a href="https://gamejolt.com/games/...

Beta Collexion is my Advent Calendar of Games for 2015. 26 wonderfully playable little games, all wrapped in a lovely giftwrapped bundle. Beta Collexion can be found (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=352">here, in the Jayenkai Archive.) You can (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Beta_Collexion_20151123.zip">Download it for Windows), Play it in your (URL "https://gamejolt.com/games/beta-collexion/109096">browser via GameJolt), Play it on (URL "https://www.ouya.tv/game/Beta-Col...

Beta Collexion is my Advent Calendar of Games for 2015. 26 wonderfully playable little games, all wrapped in a lovely giftwrapped bundle. Beta Collexion can be found (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=352">here, in the Jayenkai Archive.) You can (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Beta_Collexion_20151123.zip">Download it for Windows), Play it in your (URL "https://gamejolt.com/games/beta-collexion/109096">browser via GameJolt), Play it on (URL "https://www.ouya.tv/game/Beta-Col...

Developments

I spent some time thinking about hats, yesterday, and trying to find the best way to illustrate the lifespan of the hats. Annoyingly, they're all slightly different. Shields have hit-points, Speedups have timers, Weapons have ammo. Complicated trying to find a way to display all that. I think I'll probably just end up shoving a bar somewhere on the screen, or something. That'd probably work best. The old version had the Arc surrounding Platdude, but I don't think that's very...

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...

Another epic space based blaster. Complaints about control scheme were all the rage for our last game, so this week I've opted for something a little bit simpler, and easier to control. Especially since it shoots for you!! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Space_Clusters_DX_20140617A_thumb.png"> <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Space_Clusters_DX_20140617B_thumb.png">

Last month, I set aside the whole month to create a nice and lengthy month-long project. Blockman Worlds surprisingly took just a week to create, and then I was right back to the regular AGameAWeek schedule!! This month, I opted to delve into something even bulkier, and the resulting game is really quite nice. Oddly, it took alarmingly longer than expected, so isn't quite as chunky as I'd like it to have been. As it is, though, it's a wonderful little highly playable local-multiplayer edition of DynaBla...

One of the hardest things in the world of AGameAWeek is when you take time off. The past week has been chaotic at home, and things got a bit down in the realm of the real-world. As such, I opted to take the week off from AGameAWeek, mostly because my mind wasn't in the right place to be designing fun little games. The week off left me a little bored, and as is usually the case when in that mindset, I started to look back through the past few weeks and dig through the stats. One of the most depressing s...

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" /> ...

You wait months for a new AGameAWeek iOS game, and then two come along at once! Apologies that these weren't posted some time last week, but they've been sat in "Waiting for Review" status for AGES!! Much, much longer than the regular "7 days" wait.

This time last year, I reattempted the game Microbes, but it didn't really work out as well as I'd hoped for. This year, I opted to give it another go, and have mixed in oodles of lovely glowyness! Seems to have done the trick! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Disc_Blaster_20140311A_thumb.png"> <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Disc_Blaster_20140311B_thumb.png">

Just a few short hours ago, I hadn't yet started a game for Tuesday, so in a vaguely panicked state, I decided to cobble something together. I've attempted this game a few times in the past couple of years, and each time I've tried, it's never quite come up to the same standard as the original and it's sequel. (URL "https://socoder.net/uploads/1/microbes_evolved.png"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/microbes_evolved_thumb.png"> I can safely say, wi...

If last week was an example of a good week, then this week is most definitely the polar opposite! Welcome to a failed AGameAWeek!!