<img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Ted_Bob__s_Pet_Hammer__20101018_Logo_thumb.png"> An ever so slightly shorter edition of this week's intended game, which almost didn't happen!! Nice and playable, although it's probably much more playable on Hard than on the other two levels! This week sees the return of silly-name favourite Ted Bob, as he grabs an Amy Rose style hammer, and attacks oncoming crates. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Ted_Bob__s_Pet_Hammer__20101018...

This week's been super jolly. First, I couldn't settle back into the AGAW mood, then when I finally started a proper game, my Neck decided to completely screw up again, and I spent the next day and a half doing a kind of "1 line of code, 3 hours sleep" type thing. Today, I'm coding better. Which is probably just the right time for my PC to crap it's pants. The world seems to be throwing everything it's got at me, in an effort to stop me from starting AGameAWeek Year 3!!! I'm going to attempt to...

Arseholes. God damned feckin' arseholes. ---- A few weeks ago, my sister lost her job. She's currently in the midst of trying to get a new one, and so is hopping around site to site, grabbing Application forms, sending off CVs and all the other "Trying to get a job" types of things.

"Haniff" emailed me about 4 or 5 weeks ago, just as I was starting my lazyitis month, and asked if I could do a nice big video, showing how I create a game. I wasn't going to rush a game, there and then, so I figured I'd record my first AGameAWeek once I got around to starting things up again.. Turns out I haven't recorded my first AGameAWeek, because this game's shit! Still, here's a game. <a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/SomeGame.zip">Linkage</a> (Win only, but ...

I did post the pre-release of NeoPlatDS, this week, so that's nice. If you want to give it a whirl, try (URL "https://desmume.org/">DesMuMe), it's what I used 95% of the time during development, and has now overtaken No$GBA as my dev-emu of choice. I can't get FAT read/write working on it, though, so you'll have to make do without highscore load/saving. Other than that it runs nicely, and the default keys are easy to remember. Cursors to move, Z to throw, X to jump. Exactly the same as my Win/Lin/...

54 games. Last year I only managed about 30-odd, so I think that's pretty good going. Sure, it might not have truely actually been A Game "Per" Week, but I did at least keep the ratio up. If I hadn't taken the time out to build the framework, I probably would've actually achieved the target a little better The stats show I was pretty much on top of things up until that point, but then things got slower and slower until my buffer zone was all dried up. Anyhoo, this is a nice big lengthy re...

54 games. Last year I only managed about 30-odd, so I think that's pretty good going. Sure, it might not have truely actually been A Game "Per" Week, but I did at least keep the ratio up. If I hadn't taken the time out to build the framework, I probably would've actually achieved the target a little better The stats show I was pretty much on top of things up until that point, but then things got slower and slower until my buffer zone was all dried up. Anyhoo, this is a nice big lengthy re...

54 games. Last year I only managed about 30-odd, so I think that's pretty good going. Sure, it might not have truely actually been A Game "Per" Week, but I did at least keep the ratio up. If I hadn't taken the time out to build the framework, I probably would've actually achieved the target a little better The stats show I was pretty much on top of things up until that point, but then things got slower and slower until my buffer zone was all dried up. Anyhoo, this is a nice big lengthy re...

This weekend I'm planning on doing a nice big happy writeup about Year 2. I'll be hopping through and replaying all my year's games, and jotting down little should/shouldn't's about each one. I might even take the time to record a few seconds of each and then build up a nice big Year-2 Video. That'd be nice!! Meanwhile, I can't sit still, and have already begun a new'ish game. <img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/possibleNeoPlat.png">

Fred is a happy Flea, and he loves to hop. He especially loves it when all the Dandelions are casting their seeds around in the air, as he can grab on, and go for a ride. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Fred_the_Parachuting_Flea_20100824A.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Fred_the_Parachuting_Flea_20100824A_thumb.png"></a>

Not quite the 200 I was hoping for when I asked for levels the other week. Only Shadow1w2 sent any in Still, Shadow1w2 sent us 10 whole new fun mean levels to play with. Meanwhile, I've been so busy with everything else that I hadn't much time to make any, so you'll have to make do with only 7 little levels that I made this morning! eek! In addition, there's a fun new tile to play with. (only 1, mind.... and I struggled to come up with t...

I made this about 4 or 5 days ago, and have had it as my desktop on about 3 different systems. Oooh, it's luvly! (Even if I do say so myself) <a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/RRII_MassiveDesktop.png"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/RRII_MassiveDesktop_thumb.png"></a> There's a game-logic-error in the thing, but other than that it's a nice looking desktop. It's a massive 3200x3200 pixels, but should scale nicely to your resolution... If not, feel free ...

Is it really 200, already?! Blimey!

The quickly made retrospective "look at what you've done" post..

I started writing games as a kid, went through school making silly games, and ended up with not-much-at-all to show for it. <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/JNKPlat_5_:_Resurrection_20020910A_thumb.png"> <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/JNKFruit2K2_20020807A_thumb.png">

Hmm.. This iPhing dev is taking longer than my regular AGameAWeek stuff! But I'm learning, and I'm practising, and I'm breaking and fixing things, too! Today I got loading and saving to work, I got most of my menu working, and I even got the pause button going, too! I've popped in the regular "Platdude Jingle", figured it'd do for the meantime, and.. .. Well, it's looking and feeling much more like a game, now. The code is absolutely ghastly, mind, but that can be sorted. Hopefully! Okeydoke, ...

Again, a bit more than 90 minutes, and again a lot like yesterday's task. Whereas yesterday I was, for reasons unrevealed, playing with Microbes.. Today I'm playing with... <a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/rr2.png"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/rr2_thumb.png"></a> That one!

This one didn't really turn out, so well. It's a nice nature based bee game, with lovely floaty music, and some words. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Barry_The_Spelling_Bee_20100629A.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Barry_The_Spelling_Bee_20100629A_thumb.png"></a> You hit Tab to highlight the flower/bee, type it's unscrambled word into Barry's Belly, then hit return. Rinse, Repeat <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Barry_The_Spell...

Jayenkai's World Cup Challenge : <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/2010/06/jayenkais-world-cup-challenge/">A plan to do something, rather than sit watching football for 90 minutes each and every day..</a> --- No fair, I missed yesterday Blame Apple. They sent me my iPhing Dev License, and I spent the day playing about with that, and installing everything again... Nothing productive, just a wasted day. Today is marginally better..

Jayenkai's World Cup Challenge : <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/2010/06/jayenkais-world-cup-challenge/">A plan to do something, rather than sit watching football for 90 minutes each and every day..</a> --- This was 95% done last night, with only a minor tweak this morning.. But it was far too late, and I couldn't be bothered faffing around with the three OS's, trying to compile everything for everyone, so... well.. Here it is now!

You could say that this week's been a bit of a cheat. An update isn't REALLY a whole new game. But then, I also made <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/?p=656">ScoreRack</a>, this week, too.. So it all evens out! Good stuff!

Jayenkai's World Cup Challenge : <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/2010/06/jayenkais-world-cup-challenge/">A plan to do something, rather than sit watching football for 90 minutes each and every day..</a> --- Well, that didn't go to plan, but it's not entirely awful, either. In fact, it's turned out so nicely that I've even added it to the Archive. AGameAWeek just took a turn for the weird! Today's quickly made game was made in about 4 hours, and is a nice Scrabble...

Simply put, Awesome!!! Hop around, grab the balls, throw them at the bad guys, and paint all the white floor tiles in the colour of your pants! There are four difficulty modes on the titlescreen, and you can play Co-Op style with up to four players simultaneously!!! (although, you all have to be using the one system. Still haven't learned to do any Network stuff, yet!!) <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/NeonPlat_2_20100608B.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Ne...

This week's game didn't quite turn out as well as expected. We'll call this week a fail, I think! Still, you could probably play it once, if you could be bothered, and then delete it in a slight rage that you played something that wasn't all that good! <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Boing_Again_20100601A.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Boing_Again_20100601A_thumb.png"></a> Amiga's Boing Ball bounces around the platform level, and collect...

This week we're playing with Penises! A remake of a classic test game, that never really went anywhere. The game is only about half done, since I pretty much rushed the whole thing yesterday, but it has 10 nice levels, and should hopefully be a good start. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Penis_Extension_20100525A.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Penis_Extension_20100525A_thumb.png"></a> Click the penises to turn them around, and put their little hats on t...

Blimey, that didn't take too long. <a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/iphoneshot2.png"><img style="float:right;" src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/iphoneshot2_thumb.png"></a> Well, it DID, but it took significantly less time than I thought it would.

iPhing "View Based" Jumpstart

A series of tutorials that will allow old-style coders to quickly grasp the bits and pieces they need, to develop games for iPod/iPhone/iPad (iPhings) <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/?...

With all the Mac stuff, I've not had a chance to do a new game. NOOoooooo!!!!!! I suppose I could rush something in the next 24 hours, but I'm much rather be playing with those extra trimming, and getting things a little nicer. First off, Gravity Bombs. Not touched it yet, but it definitely needs at least one tweak. .. the Mac's "Superior" (bah) Magic Mouse has a lot going for it, but it also has an inability to right click whilst holding down the left mouse button. Which is pretty much a require...