Developments

Getting to that mildly panicky point of the week, where the game isn't quite finished yet, but I have to send it to OUYA at some point tomorrow. Eeek!

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My head burst!!!

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Added music and sounds, last night. The game's coming together, nicely.

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; American Pi

#257 - Friday 25th March, 2016

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Does your scanner work?

Developments

As one game is abandoned, a new one is born.

You can (URL "https://socoder.net/uploads/1/The_Abandoned_Turrets.zip">Download The Abandoned Turrets here). (Windows EXE) Last week, I set out to make an arcade-based "Tower Defence" type of game. Initially the plan was going smoothly. You could drag the little turrets around, plant extra turrets, and then start an "Attack". At that point, you shot the enemies and gathered up the coins. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/433_002.png" rel="attachment wp-att-5782"><img ...

( width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RsLC6ajg4-U" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> Also available on (URL "https://soundcloud.com/alodare/deconstructed-leviathan">SoundCloud)

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This game's at a crossroads.

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Yesterday's doings : Additional work on this week's game, and a couple of bland looking info-pages..

Tools

This is a list of the tools that I use when creating AGameAWeek. Tool list last update : March 12th 2016 (If this is terribly outdated, <a href="https://twitter.com/Jayenkai">let me know</a>!!)

Coding

Currently I do all my coding using the <a href="https://Monkey-X.com">Monkey-X</a> language, from Blitz Research. The language is one that I'm incredibly familiar with, since I've tended to stick to the Blitz range of languages for well over a dec...

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; Whiskey in the Java

#255 - Friday 11th March, 2016 Subscribe to Socoder Newsletter

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This week's game is starting to take shape.

( width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2ldL8CDwIQo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> Also available on (URL "https://soundcloud.com/alodare/spikes-have-rage">SoundCloud)

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I thought I had an idea for next week's game, but it all got fairly dull, alarmingly quickly!!

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Yesterday I drew a selection of backgrounds.. Only 4 of them, though. I'm no artist, and this is AGameAWeek!!

( width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gJyYzoZUfqk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> Also Available on (URL "https://soundcloud.com/alodare/deconstructed-jam">SoundCloud)

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; All About the BASIC

#254 - Friday 04th March, 2016 Subscribe to Socoder Newsletter

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I think I've got a cold, or something, as I can't seem to think straight, this week!

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Oh dear, this week's game still isn't 100% done!

This week's game gets an ALChoon! ( width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XDZKvLoLBw4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> Also available on (URL "https://soundcloud.com/alodare/dependable-carrier">SoundCloud) This seems to be happening a fair amount, this year. Bonus tracks as well as the regular ALBum.. Hmmm...

( width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/P8DuHdNGpOU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> Also available on (URL "https://soundcloud.com/alodare/deconstructed-isolation">SoundCloud)

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Bigger isn't always better.