Today's updates. 1. A change of instruments 2. An accompaniment 3. More channel-specific so as to stop instrument overlap. 4. Properly integrated into Framework (the sample below is literally the test, no cut/splicing. just as is, from game start... including the JNKDitty)

When I first started to think of "A game that uses Badges" the name "Dungeon Badges" stuck in my head, and slowly but surely evolved into Dungeon Badgers. Over the course of the week (during which I was finishing off Centipong 2) the idea had evolved to include a garden, a house, a cat, and of course.. mushrooms and... arrghh! A snake! Today's post is a brief description of the game that was in my head, before it got thrown out and replaced with an idea that could be drawn a wee bit quicker!

A full day's work, and this is the result. It should be noted that this is very early stages, and that I really oughta try and find some nice instruments, but this is the first proper test of my new Framework Music Engine. That is, I shove in a few bits of melody, chord, bass and drums, and the framework fiddles about, and plays with the tune, creating a constantly evolving background tune that'll continue to sound nice and playful throughout the entire game. Neat! But still needs work. ...

aka BadgeBox, because I kept changing it's name, but forgot to update the exe's title! d'oh! A nice simple maze game, with health points and power points. Collect the gems to up your health and power, and collect Badges to increase your abilities. If you manage to collect the four outer "Cornerstone Badges" you'll open up an exit in the level, which completes the game. Otherwise you'll probably die! <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Box__s_Adventure_20100216A.png">&...

Eeek.. It's scary to even consider this, but there's no free-forming games for a while. We're in a zone now, and I can't stop it even if I tried! Tomorrow's game is about ready, although I'm still missing 4 little parts that I might wimp out on!

The current name of this game is "Box's Adventure", but that might change. Or I might be lazy and not change it! <a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/Boxs_Adventure_(Screenshot_15_Feb_2010_131242).png"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/Boxs_Adventure_(Screenshot_15_Feb_2010_131242)_thumb.png"></a> In this shot, you can see the following. 1. Box! He's a box! Actually, he's a square since he lacks a third dimension, but we'll ignore that for the moment! 2. ...

1. If anyone with an iSomething has the TurfWars app, I'm in there as ROVER546 2. Adverts. I shoved these on about a week ago, and they're not being clicked, but at least they don't seem to be ticking folk off! Google ads are nice and neat, and behave themselves. If you do find one that does misbehave, let me know! Seriously, let me know!!! Screenshots tell all.. I don't trust 'em, but as long as they're not annoying folk, that's good enough. 3. Currently working on...

Late last night, as I was half-asleep and reading through Twitter, <a href="https://twitter.com/komiga">@Komiga</a> asked me if I was going to be using any version tracking software for my lovely framework. My twittered response was limited (by lack of sleep, and also 140 chrs!!), so I figured I should explain it a little better. Last year, around about Alien Deathmatch/Centipong time, I built up my 2D-in-3D framework to work in Blitz3D. It worked wonders, and let me achieve a whole new abi...

MadTinkerer's Net is now ingame. Simple method of adding it, there's a small blob in the middle of the screen, lining up with the mouse's X position. The player holds Right mousebutton, and the small blob grows into a little basket/net. The player collects 3 red pods and gains "Love" magnet mode. 3 orange makes the paddle grow and so on and so forth. I have 6 so far. Feel free to go nuts and suggest more, because there's a whole great big bunch of color combo's I can mix up! ...

Centipong has been wrought with issues since day 56. It's been a bit of a pain, but for a whole bunch of obscure reasons. I'm up to my last day, and I just wanted you folks to expect something slight odd with this release. See, the thing is, as much as this IS Centipong TWO, I didn't really want to tread the exact same path. I've already done Centipong, and Centipong Jr in Java, and Centipong DS as well. And starting this project seemed like a great idea, but it's the exact same t...

Having now sat up for more than 10 minutes, I figure I'd best get coding, but I can't really finish off Centipong in less than a day.. What to do? Well, assuming I now have all week to complete Centipong, I might as well spend today doing something a little different. One of my all time favourite (of my own!) games is Stringy Things. I know that a hell of a lot of folk don't like Word games as much as I do, but.. dangit, I love the things! I've always planned to add a huge wordlist into the BlitzMax ...

Today marks my fourth day of lying in bed feeling crappy with a flu. I wouldn't feel too bad about this, if it weren't for the following facts. 1. There won't be a game this week, again. 2. This is approximate the seventeenth time I've had a flu since about November, and it's really starting to tick me off. Guess all this snowy weather's not agreeing with me. Sucks.