One of the main things putting me off doing a new version of The Quest is that my art style sucks when drawing anything larger than a 32x32 pixel image. Sheep Goes Right was an absolute fluke!!

OpenAI's Playground is a wonderful thing.

I think I might stick to a monthly schedule for Amiga games. So far I've done one at the end of March and one at the end of April, so. Yeah, that makes sense to continue in that way. I think... Maybe!

Roll along, minding your own business, and catch some numbers while you go. If you want to play this game, you can Play it Here.

Today is "Covid Vaccine Jab 2" day. If it's anything like the last stab, I'll be completely out of order, tomorrow!!

Seems everyone's willing me to make a bland and boring automated dice-rolling mechanic!!

As I struggled to come up with a nice "Dice battle" methodology, the thought occurred that the enemy could just kill you..

I struggled again to get the BODMAS working again, yesterday.

As the games continue to splot out onto the web, so the comments and thoughts are returned. Michael Fernie gives his thoughts on this week's Minesweepers game.

Time for a new Shoebox game, and there's one particular game that's been outsmarting me this whole time.

Although I did a few odd little tweaks, here and there, yesterday wasn't very productive at all.

This week oughta be a Shoebox week, so I've been sifting through the list of unfinished games.

Over the course of 2020, I've created a LOT of games. (113!?) In this post, I pick my personal favourites that I've made this year, for each of the four places that I've been juggling making games for. If you have your own favourites, let me know in the comments, or bombard me with tweets telling me how wrong I am!

Not happening.. .. yet..

Awake until 4:30am again. This hot weather isn't doing AGameAWeek any favours. It's hard to code when you're sticking to the couch!!

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

Sorry to get you excited, there, but the little dungeon puzzle thing has already been scrapped.

(As in.. A board made of cards!) Move around the Card Board and score points as you go. Points are awarded when you land on an unturned card, based on the card's value (Ace = 1, Jack = 11, Queen = 12, King = 13) If you land on a Diamond, you'll earn twice as much. A Heart will give you another go. Landing on a Spade will cause you to Lose the points, whilst landing on a Club will award the points to all the other players. The winner is the player with the most points, once the last card ha...

Right, I've had this idea bubbling about for a week or so. It's almost fermented, but I think I should be able to figure out what's going to happen along the way.

Alan suggests.. Did you ever see Reiner Knizia's _Decathlon_ dice game? Go check it out on boardgamegeek. Not that you'd want to copy it wholesale, but you could get some inspiration for different ways to total dice. PDF of the rules, and a scoresheet.

A blank slate, this morning, as I try to come up with a Shoebox game to do. I did consider getting back to finishing off The Quest, but every time I look at the code, the whole thing seems to be larger in scope than I ever imagined it might be.

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...