A few weeks ago, someone who obviously hadn't played Centipong enough to enjoy it, decided to complain away on the comments. Shitterwing's complaint was as follows Omfg! I'd rather play Pong against Tetris (untahris), than th1s th1ngy Now, I don't mind complaints, but there's two things wrong with that complaint. 1. But... Centipong kicks ass!!!! 2. Pong vs Tetris? WTF is that!?

Hello all, Welcome to year two! This year, I'll be keeping track of the weeks, and games, and things like that, so we can tally up as we go along. Week 1, Game 1, 1:1 ratio! Good stuff! This week's game isn't a game. It's more of a toy. If you've ever played Jam Sessions on the DS, you should know what to expect. And, yes, this is for RockBand/Guitar Hero guitars, so that'll probably rule a lot of you out. If it helps, I bought Rock Band for the X360, and it plugs right into windows without ne...

Uhoh, here we go again! To be honest, I really wanted some time off. I planned to make a nice lengthy game, take my time, and maybe even finish off Patent Wars a bit, but as is usually the case.. I've written a game. Well, it's not really a game, it's more of a toy. A play thing, if you will. That's ready for release tomorrow. Meanwhile, I'm once again looking at all the various tools. I'm happy with Blitz3D, with my 2D-in-3D engine, but damn, the lack of mod is annoying. BlitzMax still has...

It's been a couple of weeks since I added the new Suggestion box, up there at the top right of the site. Let's take a peek at what ideas we've got.. Tuesday 28th of July 2009 08:10:03 PM Name : CodersRule Idea : make a shopping game! Not too sure about that one, CR. It'd probably end up as one of those "Thought it'd be good, turned out not to be" ideas. The Tamagotchi DS games spring to mind.. Thursday 30th of July 2009 06:06:45 AM Name : Cormac Idea : Some form of simple, yet entert...

With the nice big experimental writeup complete, I figured we'd get a boost in visitors. Want to see the results?!! See inside!!

The AGameAWeek 2008-2009 Retrospective

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The Home Stret...

The AGameAWeek 2008-2009 Retrospective

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10 weeks, 3 DS...

The AGameAWeek 2008-2009 Retrospective

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The AGameAWeek 2008-2009 Retrospective

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Alien Deat...

The AGameAWeek 2008-2009 Retrospective

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First things first, here's this week's AGameAWeek game. I've done a few dozen "Get the Greens" before, so I figured I'd keep this one short. Simply put, get the greens, and avoid the holes. No enemy this time, just you and the floor, so if you're nice and gentle you could probably get quite far through and score a decent score. As it stands, my highscore is currently 15 points. .. So, not a super-high-scoring game, but definitely one you could beat me at! Since I've made...

Nice and big, specifically in the title, so as not to get ANYONE excited! I will be VERY surprised if anyone gives a rats ass about this week's .. um.. "game".. but here it is anyway. "Made for my cookie", although it's not a cookie anymore.. it's a viewty.. this J2ME Java App will allow you to play along with a real-world game of scrabble. See, lately I've been playing a LOT of Scrabble. I bought a ??40 "Scrabble 60th Anniversary Edition" set, thinking it's be all nice and lovel...

Aww. Didn't work. This week's Wednesday Workshop (#209) asked us to create a game with some kind of Gravity. If you've been following AGameAWeek for a while, you'll remember Puzzobomb. A nice puzzle game with Gravity. I also did MunkyBlocks as a kind of follow up. Well, this week I decided to try it again, but with rotational gravity, rather than plain gravity. As such, the block will fall in the direction they're placed. They ha...

Not much this week, or at least, not as good as Microbes anyway! I decided to redo Raining Bombs, from a few weeks ago. The last one was for my Cookie phone, (which has since become a Viewty phone) and this one's for Windows. It looks more dramatic than it is! Two turrets that shoot each other over and over again. If you blast your enemy beneath the bottom of the screen, you win a point, and then it all starts all over again. No intro, no music, not even a "BANG!", more a subtle silent...

A simple game, this week, but one that's already evolved quite a bit. As I mentioned the other day, I actually got this game done earlier on in the week, and it was quite a bit of fun even then. Since then, I've updated it a couple more times, and now it's even better than it was! woot!! The game is based on an Amiga game I once played many, many years ago. A simple design. You swirl around the outside of the arena, moving the mouse left and right. You fire with the Left Mouse But...

Yesterday turned out rather well. I actually coded a complete game, from start to finish, logo, audio, everything, yesterday. It's pretty good, and will be our AGameAWeek come Tuesday. (Because, if I posted it today, there'd be nothing to post on Tuesday!!) Look forward to more shootyshooty stuff!

Well, not all suck. Let's take a quick run through my week, shall we? Tuesday Posted last week's game, got prepared to work on PatentWars some more. Created a few nice looking player counters, got them moving around the board, all is well. <img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/counters.png"> Wednesday That little red counter looks really really neat. Attempted to mould it, somehow, into a Socoder logo. It worked! <img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/...

I've about 20-odd projects on the go, this week, so you'll have to excuse the lack of blog entries, and even a decent AGameAWeek game. Most of this week was spent trying to roll a dice! (die, whatever) I figured that, with 4 frames per roll, I'd need around about 200+ frames of animation. I tried to work out all the animations, and it drove me crazy! Then I rested, and eventually worked out a way to do it, without bothering to animate it, which was a lot simpler to do. .. Then the game i...

OMG! It's a Trial Edition!! WTF!? Demo! ARGH!!! Actually, I've not finished yet. But rather than skip out a week of AGameAWeek, I've decided to release a quick Trial edition. In this version, you must guide Platdude through 11 classic JNKPlatDS08 levels. They're all in there, and they all work approximately as they did before There are, of course, odd timing issues, as I've not quite got everything exact. It's not TOO obvious ...

Things are coming together quite nicely. The game's managing to build up in it's nice 2D environment, and so far none of the 3D stuff's killing the PC. I should probably point out that certain levels will obviously become a bit TOO complex for older systems, but for the most part even my Celeron's managing to cope. Roughly! It goes crazy if you build a whole level of ladders, but other than that, it's fine This is it in 3D. Thi...

Just a quicky, this week, as I know the spam is spam! But there were still a couple of oddities that stuck out. My Amazing Weight Loss Story writes... Thanks for writing, I truly liked reading your most recent post. I think you should post more often, you obviously have talent for blogging! Aww, shucks, thanks! We'll call this one "ComplimentBot" The trick is, if you weasel your way into accidentally getting approved, you can then reuse that username over and over, and no...

Another nice subtle title for Google to pick up, along with the odd sprinkles of text within. Last time we posted LG Cookie KP500 Java J2ME Free Games to Download *cough* we had the following 3 games. #1. Hangman #2. Slots #3. TensionSheet This week, there's 3 more Free Games for LG Cookie to be played with. #4. Ball Push #5. Tic Tac Toe #6. Matrix Blaster They're basically.. #4 : Ball Push Get the ball into the hole. Tap close = fast, tap further = slower. #5 : Tic Tac Toe ...

I'm a calm person. I will happily settle with what I've got, and be glad that I have it. I don't own a copy of Flash, I can't afford it, and I'm not going to steal it. So I carry on making games in Blitz, and whatever else I can get my hands on. So, with my £100 Phone, from LG, (The KP500 'Cookie') I started to write games using the freely available MidletPascal. It's a wonderful piece of software, and it does many great things.

Like Electronic Arts, my game titles are becoming ever more complex, with themes and years being added on, in an ever expanding way. No matter, it's still only 12 characters long, so that's ok Yesterday I made a decision that might break up AGameAWeek for a few weeks. I don't seem to have nearly enough time, recently, so I'll pad things out a bit, and work on a lengthy project. (Although, if it helps, I worked on a bunch of MidletPascal Java t...

I'm not really sure if this is good, to be honest, but here it is anyway.. Counters Strike BlitzBasic Sourcecode included. Game written in under 3 hours. Timescale written at the top of the Blitz Sourcecode (you can open it in notepad!)

Occasionally, I like to jot down my current doings. It helps keep track of projects, and ideas, and sometimes getting a bit of feedback helps. So feel free to do that! 1. Java/MidletPascal Since I got my latest phone (an LGCookie) I decided to get back into Java coding... Except, without that horrible Java bit. So, whilst learning MidletPascal, I've released a few games, and also started to write a series of MidletPascal tutorials, too. So, there's that! I'm continuing to build up a fun...