<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:right;">AGameAWeek Gold is our occasional glance through the archive, to pluck out some of the great games that I've created over the many years that I've been doing this. Along the way we'll discover some great gems that I'd forgotten about, or occasionally the odd bit of garbage that I'm frankly happy to have forgot about! Today, we take a look at a strange little Pong game!

Awww.. Nuts. Today was supposed to be the great big release day, but annoyingly, one or two annoying issues have annoyingly cropped up. <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/NeonPlat_Extreme_20131126B.png"> First and foremost.. and quite bizarrely.. My Monkey games no longer appear to be working with Gamepads!! At first I thought I'd retweaked NeonPlat until my code no longer worked, but upon searching through my archive, it appears that they're all equally as broken. Either it's my Laptop...

It feels like AGES since I last posted a Sheep Goes Right test. In fact, it's been just over a month. October 14th was the last version, and today I'm posting a second test release. This time, I'm releasing an APK for OUYA. For testing purposes, this should also work on Android devices, but it's untested, and I'm not exactly sure how Monkey copes with things like that! ..it'll have a great big overscan border, for starters!!! Anyway, if you've an OUYA, I'd appreciate a quick test, and some feedback....

In the third of our NeonPlat Extreme tests for Neovember, we're playing against giant enemies! Each of the "Bosses" requires three hits to kill. Nothing massive, nothing awesome, just a screen full of great big bad guys. You can (URL "https://socoder.net/monkey/NPETest3/MonkeyGame.html">Play NeonPlat Extreme : Test Three : Bosses) in your browser.

Karl's Tiny Adventure was created way, way, way back in March of this year. You can (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=288">Play Karl's Tiny Adventure here). The game was my first true test of proper "Image Data Loading", and my first proper lesson in Android Fragmentation. Annoyingly, because different Android devices operate in slightly different ways, the Image Data Loading wasn't occurring in an accurate manner, and as a result, the level data was getting all screwed up. As well...

Neovember is a month in which I'm taking the engine from NeonPlat Raw, and playing about with it to create a bunch of different gameplay styles. Once we're done, I'll bundle everything back into a package, and pop it up on all the different systems. This week's experimental gameplay mode comes courtesy of Blockman. Not the hungry-pellet-eating version of Blockman, the classic platforming/collection form. You start the game as you normally would, with you, some balls, and some bad guys. There's also a...

(URL "https://socoder.net/uploads/1/NeonPlat_Editions..jpg"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/NeonPlat_Editions._thumb.jpg"> Click for MASSSIIIIVVVE) Haze inquired as to why there's no NeonPlat Raw on iOS. The answer is simply because, a full year earlier, iOS got it's own special little NeonPlat. In February 2012 (Just before my whole hospital saga!) I released NeonPlat on iOS. It featured tilt-controls, and 3 difficulty levels, and stands out as it's own special little version of the...

OK, I'll admit it, I'm enjoying the OUYA. You can keep up with (URL "https://www.ouyalytics.com/developer/Jayenkai/">all my OUYA games here). There's currently 5 of them, and there's oodles more to come! (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/icona.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/icona-150x150.png" alt="" title="icona" width="150" height="150" class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3272" /> (URL "...

Welcome to Neovember, the month of NeonPlat, where I take the original NeonPlat Raw engine, and gradually upgrade it, adding new gameplay elements, features and modes. By the end of Neovember, we'll have a lovely big Extreme version of NeonPlat, and we can all sit around and play it for days/weeks/months at a time! In this first week, I've decided to tackle the task of bringing over the NeonPlat Adventures enemies, and popping them into the new gane. So far I've managed the first 35 enemies, ranging ...

The internet is a place for trolls and complainers (like me!) who like to gripe at every opportunity. For the most part, we tend to ignore these types, which generally means that comments sections have become largely ignored. Here at AGameAWeek, the opposite has happened. There are apparently no trolls daring enough to even attempt to play my games! I seem to have scared most of them away. As a result, there are no trollers or complainers here, and since those are the types that make up the 99% of the ...

(URL "https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/blasttrax/id689619329?mt=8">BlastTrax is currently (27th October 2013) free on the iOS AppStore) I really do find myself in a bit of a baffled state over this one. As the AGameAWeek guy, I'm certainly used to shrugging off failed releases, and in many ways this one should be exactly the same. This is simply one of many releases that I've made this year, and over the course of the year, pretty much all the games have had a day or two of interest, and then quickly...

Over the course of the past 5 weeks, BlastTrax has sold 16 copies. SIXTEEN.... That's just bloody well shit... I've made the game free for a couple of days. Grab it while you can, and don't expect any more damn updates. Sod that shit! (URL "https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/blasttrax/id689619329?mt=8">Grab it Here)

So, I finally got an OUYA, and managed to get my first game into the OUYA store after a bit of tweaking. Time to update my Framework!

The Download

(URL "https://socoder.net/monkey/Framework_13_10_20.zip">Jayenkai's Monkey Framework, as of 20th October 2013) | (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/2013/10/monkey-skeleton-13_10_20/">Blog Post)

Older versions

(URL "https://socoder.net/uploads/1/Monkey_Framework_2013_06_13.zip">Jayenkai's Monkey Framework, as ...