It's September. My boss is about to go on his hols, and I'm more or less at a nice "Not too much" level of codey work.

Sorry folks, kinda ran out of oomph again, there! Now, Where were we?

Something's been annoying me, lately. I've known what it is, but no matter how I wrangle the numbers in my head, it just doesn't seem to work out. So, apologies to all, but I'm going to have that well earned rest, whether my schedule accepts it or not..

Another donation received today. That's the third donation this month. Quite frankly I'm gobsmacked by the generosity of people at a time when, to be fair, AGameAWeek's actually been a bit shit!

Instead of my regular blog, today I'll retweet all the random whinging I posted to Twitter today!

It's a great week for disliking spikes!! There's plenty of free spikes, all over the place!

This morning, I took Voxel's advice, and overdosed myself on Jelly Tots and Milkshake.. If I didn't finish a game, I was in for a whole heap of trouble.. Did I make it through the day?! Did I finish a game?!! Find out below!!

I've mentioned, previously, how I'm going to attempt to make a 4-game template system. A couple of days ago, I started a neat little menu, but.. it really wasn't up to much. Today, I restarted said little menu, and it's turned out quite a bit nicer.

Not really sure when this started, probably the day I decided to stop doing AGameADay, but I now appear to be daily-blogging twice a day. eek!

The plan 1. Do 3 quick pieces of music. 2. Finish off the 50-level version of Sheep DS. 3. Check it. 4. Be a lazy goit.

Too tired.. Instead, I've been working on Sheep Goes Left DS, which is proving 17,000,000,000% more popular than it's iOS rival. Quite why, I don't know, but the fact that it's being mentioned quite a bit is a good sign.

Hmmm...

I've been very very sleepy today, so I had a nap!

Totally drained, today. Just about managed to post a few random DaisyChain based posts/emails, and that's about it. Out of all of 'em, I'm hoping the <a href="https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=20869.0">TIGSource</a> one prods interest a little, but.. .. I dunno.. Almost a day later, only 25 views, and 0 replies.. .. It's not looking good. *Jay grabs the defibs and cranks up the charge*

Although I haven't yet started to code anything, I have spent the past few days wondering how best to tackle redefinable keys in the PlayMyCode. I'm unsure whether to go for a menu based thing, or not.

Solutions are everywhere! There are springy splodgy sticky blobs you can slap on the screen, there's big fullsized controller connectors to wrap the phone in, and there's even wifi touchscreen iPod -> iPad controller things, too. Plenty to choose from...

If you tried to enjoy some TV yesterday, you probably had craploads of Olympic crap crammed down your face. It's still a smegging year away, and I'm already sick to death of it! Have you had enough yet?! Olympic Based AGameADay!! Why not attempt to carry the torch for the entire year that's left!? .. or not!

PlayMyCode games no longer work

PS, YEAY! GREENIE!!!!! And he's wearing Green, which is incredibly unlike him!

(Apologies, it's a bit "half-asleep/randomly ranty/jumping through topics/freeflow" today!!) As an iDev guy, I get 50 codes per Update for all my games. I can hand these out to reviewers or folk I know. Handy. So, off they go, sent out, willy nilly, to all the reviewers/people I can find, and see where it takes me.

When PhotonStorm sent over his lovely sprites, he included some nice wintery snow based ones. *shrugs* They'll be topical eventually!! (...next week, considering how entirely random the weather seems to be, lately!) For now, we'll play Hunt The Snowman!

PlayMyCode games no longer work

Today I coded a nice <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/?p=1601">Tower Defence</a> game, and then started to implement Template 2, for the next bunch of AGameADay games.

PlayMyCode no longer works

Template 2 honestly isn't that much different than Template 1 was. In fact, if I wasn't writing this blog, I'm not 100% sure that anyone would notice that much. There's been a number of background changes, though, and since I'm...

A couple of weeks ago, I set Sheep Goes Left as free for a nice big long happy weekend stroll. During this time, the reviewers (or is there just Stu doing it?!) at Free App Hero decided to write a nice big review of the little fella. Look inside for the complete review, then grab the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/free-app-hero/id403095549?mt=8">Free App Hero</a> app, to find more fantastic free apps.

Don't you hate it when you plan to do about 3/4 things in a day, but the first thing inexplicably takes about 4 hours.. FFS!

I woke up bright and early, planning to get a whole load done on my DaisyChains game, today. I started the day by installing iOS5 v3. This was a bad idea. It took me about 2 hours to get everything installed, reinstall XCode, get the new iOS5v3 iPod and Xcode working together, and then wait for all the apps to pop back onto the iPod. *grr*

I've always found Flash slightly more complicated than it needs to be. For a few years I attempted to learn various versions of the official Flash demoes, and SoThink's 900% cheaper clone. They were ok, but they weren't designed for coders. Flash was an artist's tool, with tweening and vector graphics and all that other none-codery stuff.

Got the Google Plus thing today and spent about an hour or so playing about with it's features. Twitter Lists seems the closest thing to it, in that you follow people, separate them into different groups, then flick through the groups to read/interact. Unlike Twitter Lists, though, here the grouping works both ways.. Now I could happily clump a bunch of iOS reviewers into a single group and quickly fire off a PR'ish spam bucket to all of 'em at once, without pissing off all my regular "we want chat, not s...

A simple little game about running around and eating pellets as they fall. yeay!

PlayMyCode games no longer work