I might skip another AGAW, this week, sorry! I have a half-game play-thing half done, but I've just started another one of those spur-of-the-moment things that might take over my entire weekend. .. again.. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/logo.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/logo.png" alt="" title="logo" width="320" height="160" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1414" /></a>

I've been hyping this one all week!!! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Extreme_Unicorn_Racing_20110531_Logo_thumb.png"> .. don't expect much!

Last Sunday, I came up with a fun idea for a game/experiment. I figured it was WAY too big to fit into the next day and a half, so set it aside for this week, and instead made the (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/?p=1373">silly block diggy thing) that I did last week. On Thursday, I properly started the bigger project, hoping that 5 days of work would be enough. On day 1 I did the nice intro, made the outside-area work, and patted myself on the back for having done a really large job in a single day. ...

Today, another one of those mindbogglingly annoying issues that stops you, makes you scratch your head, then makes you go "Well sod that then!" and enjoy the sun for a bit. I'll do this again, tomorrow!

I've got a whole month to do a framework, so apparently that means I'm going to be a lazy git who does sod all, then crams the whole framework into the last day! .. Well, hopefully not, but I did manage to cram in a couple of hours of Burnout, yesterday! Been a long while since I sat and played a game for that long.

<img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/HammerTime.png" >

<a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/photo.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/photo.png" alt="" title="photo" width="320" height="480" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1285" /></a> hmmm....

Coming soon : A whole new world! I finally made my choice, and it's GLBasic. Hopefully that choice doesn't come and bite me in the ass later. For now, I'm going to be rebuilding all that framework goodness. It'll probably take a couple of weeks to get everything going properly, so I think we might end up missing a few AGameAWeek's here and there. Hopefully you don't all mind. Meanwhile, I'm going to do a Final Six. Six little End-of-the-road games, that round off my ...

Oh, Mark.. What have you done! I was happily coding away at AGameAWeek, and now I'm stuck in this odd Will I/Won't I scenario, unsure as to what to do next.. I spent a few hours playing with Monkey again, Yesterday, and am still unsure which is the better path. Monkey has no recolouring for sprites. That's a pretty big deal, and is a bit of a biggy when your onscreen text is sprites. No sprite colors means one text color. Even my Tandy TRS 80 could do more than one text color!! But right ...

You know what they say. If one PC break down, they all decide to do it simultaneously. That's exactly what happened this week. A PC at work literally fried last week. Power supply and motherboard were both dead dead, and the guy at work ended up having to buy a new laptop. Having spent most of the week reinstalling and organising files, I got through to friday hoping to do my AGameAWeek. Then found my PC was screwed, too, due to something dodgy. Was it the new drivers I'd put in the day before? Wa...

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

It's starting! Cassette 50, Game number 1. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Cassette-50-Royal-Rescue-Screenshot_09-Jan-2011_153935.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Cassette-50-Royal-Rescue-Screenshot_09-Jan-2011_153935-300x168.png" alt="" title="Cassette 50 - Royal Rescue (Screenshot_09 Jan 2011_153935)" width="300" height="168" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1135" /></a> If you're hoping to Collect Them All, ...

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...

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">

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

<img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/Platdudes_Retro_Advent_Collection_(Screenshot_24_Dec_2010_215837)_thumb.png">

Platdude Hungry!!

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

<a href="https://quote-un-quote.tumblr.com/">The Last and Final Word is a series of interviews with indie videogame developers.</a> A lovely new set of interviews which should lead to some insights about your favourite indie developers. <a href="https://quote-un-quote.tumblr.com/post/1705703619/interview-indie-dev-jayenkai-james-gamble">PS. I'm Nuts!!</a> Hopefully some of the others will be nice and lengthy, too, otherwise it's just me prattling on for ...

Thursday = Suggestion day, and usually a lookback on Tuesday's game. hmm...

"You just hold right, and jump a bit" <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Super_Happy_Speedy_Gerbil_20101116_Logo_thumb.png">

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...

Keeping with the classic retro theme, here's a nice and simple little 15-screen jumping platform game! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/GeeBee_Hop_20101101_Logo_thumb.png">