Centipong isn't coming together very well.

Over on the NintendoLife site, I just wrote the following comment about the latest Switch Picross title.

Over the past week or so, a growing pain in my wrist has been causing me to slow down my coding, and I think I finally worked out what it is that's doing it.

Saturday came and went, and I was supposed to spend Sunday getting back to coding Centipong again, but that didn't happen. Instead, I spent some more time looking into the possibility of bundling Future AGameAWeek games together into a single .exe

You can Download the "Gold - 10" collection from itch.io. It has 11 games in it, one for each of the 10 years I've been doing this..!?!

I spent most of yesterday contemplating various CentiPong based things, and one of the most difficult decisions is how to organise the visuals on the 3DS side of things.

Oh boy! Snake!!

I played through practically the entirety of WarioWare Gold on 3DS, yesterday. It wasn't as good as I'd hoped for.

Wooah, we're halfway there..

Not a huge amount of progress on the Snake game, since yesterday, or at least nothing major. Today I need to start thinking about adding audio into the game. Blips and Bleeps would appear to be the most logical way to go, so I'll be using bsfxr as I usually tend to do.

It's been a long long time since I did a bog standard Snake clone, and yesterday's code session reminded me of just how utterly simplistic a snake clone can be. Today I'll be making the tail follow the player, as it currently doesn't clear out as it goes, making things much harder for the player. Once that works, I'll be adding more tail-pieces as the player eats more, and then coming up with a soundtrack that matches the presentation of the game.

With any luck, assuming I have the time to cram it all into the space of just a week, and that my programmering fingers don't fall off from all of the difficult coding that lies ahead, by next Monday you'll be able to play a fun and exciting game that I have decided to call "Generic Snake Clone". It will be super and fun and exciting. You will be able to eat the green dots. Amazing gameplay lies ahead. Please be excitementing.

As each game is released, so begins the influx of feedback from players. Let's see what @RSKGames thinks of a bland looking ball in a bland looking maze! You can Download Might of the Balls here.

@RSKGames

Overview: Roll the ball and color more tiles than the AI opponent within the given time limit without falling of the edges. Easily one of the least interesting descriptions of recent months! This game is certainly not the best selling point for AGameAWeek.

Still oodles to do on this week's game, and it's already Sunday, but it is at least coming together.

I think I've got the enemy ball AI working to a moderately decent degree, but of course I can't be 100% sure until the rest of the game is coded, and I'm actually facing him as an enemy. Most of the day's coding was focused on making the enemy do corners a little better. Even with padded out corners, it was still managing to fall into the abyss much more than I'd like. In the end, I got it balanced reasonably well. It still frequently plummets to its death, but then so does my ow...

With so many games to play, there's oodles of feedback for each. Let's see what RSKGames thought of this week's game!

@RSKGames

Overview: A fast paced circular bullet hell game. I liked it better than the ''Orbital Projections'' and ''The Trouble with Vents'' which till day I can never play properly. (I had to look both of those games up! I've made too many games!!)

Spent a long time today fighting over how the control should work for our little Ball player.

Frantic disc blasting ahoy!