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Another day pondering about the should/shouldn't monkey issue. Another day wondering if I shouldn't just be writing a game.. I should be focusing on the important bits, but instead, my minds contemplating what could be. We're in March. Last March, I was using my brand new framework, creating lovely big character sprites, and making fancy colourful Mario styled games. This week, monochrome Asteroids. Hmmmm... So, perhaps the color thing isn't actually that big of a deal, then...

I've gone nearly a whole week without posting anything. That's not like me at all! This week was my birthday, and although that day was nice and quiet, the rest of the week's been utter chaos, with 110 different things to be done.. No matter.. I just about got this week's AGameAWeek done, and although it's a bit of a short one, it's still nice and fun in a "Randomly darting around the screen" kind of way. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Mr-Swing...

I don't usually do Friday updates, but today, day two of working on this game, I got things looking quite nice. Figured I might as well post about it. No gameplay (collision detection/death/scores/etc) yet, but I got a nice simple looking engine going, as far as scrolling, base enemy and shooting's concerned. The current enemy are Base enemy. They sit on the scrolling landscape, and shoot at you. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Shooty-Bang-Bang-Screenshot_18-...

Note : PlayMyCode is no longer available A slight change this week. I was planning to do AGameAWeek as usual, but was somewhat thrown off course by a request to make games, instead! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/PMC3.png">

Yesterday, Rob from RetroRemakes asked if he could do a spritesheet for Spike Dislike. After a lot of back and forth, I decided to write a how-to, so any future requests could go a little bit smoother! Here's some info on how to make 'em, alongside a bunch of all-important rules.

A nice slow paced shooter this week. Poor old CPC Basic couldn't really handle bullet-hell type games. Well, ok, maybe it could if you really really tried, and came up with a scrolling ascii grid of bullets, but for the most part it just wasn't happening. Instead, Cassette 50 creators had to rely on other ideas. Like trying to kill you with your own desire to kill!! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Inferno_20110125_Logo_thumb.png">

The story so far... Jay buys Mac Main PC Dies Jay worries not Jay uses Mac.

I'm out of ideas. I ran out about midway through Advent, and I think finishing that off has sapped every last ounce of ideaness out of my poor little head. So, in order to continue to do AGameAWeek, I'm going to have to start doing things in a slightly different way. I thought about this for a while, yesterday, and it does seem slightly plausible, if a little dumb! <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Cassette_50_K7_Cascade_Games_1985_Standard_Jewel_Case_-_Front.jp...

The year is new, but the logo's old. Sod it. I love this logo! I should be doing a year-long roundup thing, but I've not had much time, what with the whole Advent and stuff. No matter, there's been some good, and plenty of bad, and that's what AGameAWeek's all about!

Top 10 of 2010

1. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=219">Platdude's Retro Advent Collection <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Platdude__s_Retro_Advent_Collection_20101201B_thumb.png">

No normal AGameAWeek this Tuesday, but worry not, there's still some games to be played! <img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/xmasxompo_480.png">

Hello all!

Either it does, or it doesn't! |update| It no longer does. PlayMyCode.com is no longer a "thing". I'm sad to see it go. |update| Lemmie know! Code done using <a href="https://www.playmycode.com/">PlayMyCode</a>, a fantastically usable online game creation website, created by one of the Socoder forum members. Bravo!!! BRAVO!!! Long story short : Site first (properly) visited today*, first true look at the language today*, first gam...

Think of this as a christmas present. (URL "https://socoder.net/uploads/1/AdventCollectionSource.zip">You can download the Advent sourcecode here)

What follows is a review from PlayThisThing.com I screengrabbed it, because they're probably going to fix the "little" thing at the top, and I want to continue to take the piss out of them. Here's me taking the piss out of them.

Same as, Advent continues right through until Xmas! Although, whether the advent collection will include a game for Xmas day or not hasn't yet been decided.. If I can manage to do enough, I will, but I won't be spending christmas morning coding anything, so..! Meanwhile, over the past few days I've been building this. There's currently 52 tracks in there, and.. well.. It's a start, anyway. I have other stuff to go in, and extra features/tweaks to make. A "Song by URL" feature...

As we continue on our short Advent based journey, I'm having a bit of fun making silly little non-games for a change. It's been a while since I allowed myself to do such simplistic games, and I'm even finding myself coding them in the small hours of the night. eg, since 10pm, when I got home from work tonight, I've done the following.. 1. Watched an episode of Corner Gas whilst eating my tea/supper. (still watching repeats of that!! Doesn't get old!) 2. Made a game. 3. Watched tonight's Merlin. 4....

<img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Platdude__s_Retro_Advent_Collection_20101201_Logo_thumb.png"> A brand new game, EVERY DAY over Christmas!

Unfinished Or, to put it another way, this game got to about 70% done, I got really stupidly bored with it, I lost interest, and I still bothered to get it to about 92%. At 92%, I gave up. Here's a game at 92%.

If you've an idea for AGameAWeek, let it be known in the comments below!!! Meanwhile, thinking time...

Ooops, THAT's what I'm supposed to do on Thursdays! No matter, a day late, not to worry! Here's this week's suggestion box. Fill the comments with your ideas/suggestions for future AGameAWeek stuffs.

Right now, we'll call this version 0.5. The tool is at a working version, and most of the bugs are ironed out. I'll update it as the weeks go by, and hopefully we'll have something Most Excellent by the end. <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Jay__s_Retro_Sprite_Tool_20101109B_thumb.png"> Sliders, menus, buttons, etc. Fiddle about, you might figure it out! There's a bunch of presets on the left. Click one, and a sprite appears bottom right. If you click "New" the spr...

It's time for our weekly "Post anything in your head" topic!

I've no idea what I'll be tackling this week, again, so pop a random thought or two below!

Have any thoughts? I'm a bit blank, this week. But then I was blank last week, too, and that didn't turn out TOO badly. (did it?!)