Another week, another sequel. This week, we're revisiting the puzzle-maze world of Kee, Bo and Ard (Occasionally spelled "Key, Bo and Ard" due to me forgetting the spelling of the green character's name!) I also need a couple of features tested, so there's quite a bit of rambling included below this post!

Although I am sort of planning things ahead of time, I'm not really doing a good job with the things I'm planning. In the majority of cases, the better AGameAWeek games seem to be those spur of the moment games that I cobble together fairly quickly. Anything over-planned seems to die a death, halfway through! At the start of May, I planned to do two fairly large projects. Both of those projects have remained untouched for at least a couple of weeks. Whoops!

A remake, this week, of a popular old game, but one which appears to have lost it's powerups along the way. The game plays well enough, but it feels somewhat lacking. Perhaps a little community-driven inspiration might help bulk it back up again?

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:right;"> AGameAWeek Gold takes a trip through my archive of games, and plucks out any games that may have been previously released on this day in history. Sometimes it finds recent games from the past few years of me doing AGameAWeek. Other times, however, it finds really really really old games, from a time when the concept of doing a new game every week wasn't even a gleam in my eye!

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:right;"> AGameAWeek Gold is a daily trip through the Jayenkai Archive, to see if I've previously released any games on this day in history. Sometimes the day is uneventful. Not even I have managed enough to pad out every single day of the year! Oddly, though, other days contain more than one game. And today's one of those days!

Or to give it it's full name, "One of These Will Kill You!". This week's game is a semi-remake of sorts, but one which feels a little more complete than the original version. Originally created as a PlayMyCode game, this version adds bonuses, along with some more obvious gameplay mechanics. You should be able to follow along, this time around!

SpikeDislike2 has just had a nice big update on the iOS AppStore, and I'm now thinking about what to add next, so I figured I'd make a nice rambling blog about it. That's what this is!! You can buy (URL "https://itunes.apple.com/app/id604867277">SpikeDislike2 in the AppStore)! It's nice and cheap, and full of lovely juicy stuff!

A somewhat simple remake, this week, as I couldn't even be bothered to add anything new into the mix. To be honest, this is one of those "Desperately trying to keep up a rate of AGameAWeek" games! It's fun, though, and now works lovely on an Android device (assuming your Android device of choice plays nicely with it!)

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:right;"> Each day, AGameAWeek Gold takes a look through the archive, to dig up any games that I've previously released on this day in history. Sometimes they're fantastic. Other times they're garbage. Let's have a look at today's, shall we!?

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:right;"> Every day, AGameAWeek Gold takes a peek through the inexplicably large collection of releases, and digs out any old games that I've previously released on this day in history. Occasionally there aren't any. I'm not fast enough to have that many! But other times, there's more than one! How odd!

Hardly the worlds most imaginative title for this week's game, and mostly a cop-out graphics wise, but I was trying out a gameplay style, so that's where most of the focus went. Was it a success? .. You decide!!

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:right;">AGameAWeek Gold peeps through the Jayenkai Archive to see what games I've previously released on this day in history. Occasionally we'll pluck out some real gems. Today's a cracker! .. or rather, today's TWO crackers!!

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:right;">AGameAWeek Gold delves through the Archive and plucks out any games that I've created, and have previously released on this day in history. Some days, there'll be something special. Some days, there'll be utter garbage! And on other days, there are no games at all!

Oooh, nearly forgot about this feature! Whoops! Anyway, as I was sat wondering which of my current two projects to tackle, this morning, I inevitably decided to waste a few minutes making something entirely unrelated. This month's wallpaper used two separate programs!! First, the Windows program PaintShop Pro 7 was used to doodle the sprite, and get the image up to a nice big resolution, then the iPad App Pixlr Express+ was used to add a nice filter over the top. Does that make it more interesting?...

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:left;">AGameAWeek Gold looks back at years gone by, plucking out games that I've previously released on this day in history. Sometimes they're good. Sometimes they're terrible. .. and othertimes, there's more than one!!

On Friday morning, (URL "https://twitter.com/MadGarden">@MadGarden) suddenly popped up on Google Chat and started chatting about some sort of game he imagined might be interesting. Something about "a neat control scheme for a platformer/combat thing" being a bit like Tron, with the discs being both a weapon and a shield. Not entirely sure what he was on about, but it started one of those oddball pots of insanity bubbling, and soon enough a random game idea had emerged from my mind.. It's quite a way...

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:right;"> AGameAWeek Gold peeks back at games I've released on this day in history. Sometimes they're great, Occasionally they're terrible, but usually they're odd. There are some games that you can pick up, tweak a little thing, and end up with a much different sort of game. Pacman->Blockman is a great example of this sort of mechanic-tweaking. Other times, however, there's not really a whole lot you can do to a game. There's no ro...

Over the past few weeks, a terrible issue has appeared, and it's been quite noticeable. It's caused my Stringy Things project to get stuck, as well as creating multiple issues in lots of other places. The problem is as follows.. Not all devices are the same!!!

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_256.png" style="float:left;"> AGameAWeek Gold looks back on the history of my huge Jayenkai Archive. Each day, we trawl through the archive to find games which have been previously released on this day in history. Some days, there are no games. Other days there are oddball crazy quickly cobbled together gameplay experiments. And then, some days, there are real gold games. The games that stay with you, and can be just as enjoyable many years later.

Wednesday night, SpikeDislike2 got its first update in the AppStore. Thursday night, some twat had already plopped it onto a pirate site.

General rule in life : Don't Poke the Bear. Other similar expressions include tidbits such as "That's just the way it is", and references to Burning Bridges.. Over the past few days, I've heard pretty much every single one of these, and a whole host more. About a week ago, IGN posted a trailer for SpikeDislike2. A few little things annoyed me about it, like the advert, and the watermark, but I initially let them pass. After all, IGN Exposure, right!? Woot! Then I noticed another littl...

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:right;">AGameAWeek Gold takes a daily peek through the archive, to see if I've previously released a game on this day in history. Some days there's greatness. Other times there's oddities. ..and some times there's nothing at all! .. Today's an oddity.

Coders Tool Ahead I don't know why I only just realised this, but I don't think I ever posted my Bitmap Font Creator, to go with the Monkey Framework! whoops! Anyway, here's that.

<a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/BitmapFontCreator.zip">Bitmap Font Creator</a>

It works nice and easily. You give it a bucketload of .ttf files in the "fonts" folder, then run it, and it outputs a bunch of monospaced bitmap font images in the output folder. Open the associated...

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:right;">Occasionally, our flick through the Jayenkai Archives fails to pick up any games that I might've released on this day in history. As rapid as my game development is, I'm just not THAT quick! But other times, it'll pick up more than one! Today's one of those days..

This week sees the addition of the "Racks" game into the mix. The object is simply to see what words you can make from your rack. Choose from the same number of time/word options as with Strings, then see if you can beat your highscore. A simple game, with simple mechanics.

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:right">Sometimes, our occasional glance back at previous games, released on this day in history, reveals some absolutely abysmal game ideas. Other times, however, it brings about a classic game which makes me wonder why I've not remade it any sooner.