People keep asking about how I manage to code AGameAWeek, and one thing they all eventually pick up on is that I'm currently doing it all with Monkey. (URL "https://monkeycoder.co.nz">Monkey) is a fantastic language which allows for all manner of different targets, and does a great job doing what it does. It isn't perfect, and it's not for everyone, but it suits me down to the ground. As with any development tool, it all comes down to preference, and whether or not you agree with the methodology o...

I don't give up, very often, but on this occasion, it's unfortunately going to happen to my big Month-Long project. I seem to have narrowed the problem down to the following issue. ... Wasn't hard enough! It seems that, nowadays, I can only tackle a project if it's got enough of a challenge attached. Either a game has to be coded in a stupidly small amount of time, or the game needs to have lots of new things required, to keep my interest held. <img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/RRDS_M...

Last night I was asked how I got Monkey to do all the things that I managed to make it do. I tried to describe it as best as I could, but was already wrapped up in bed, trying to remember it all, whilst only holding an iPad! Not an easy job. I suggested to (URL "https://twitter.com/retrorusty">@RetroRusty) that he waits until the morning, when I can better write a nice big (BIG) waffling (WAFFLING!) blog-post about it all. .. This be that!

Good Grief, it's been a long long time since a little video clip caused utter chaos in my Twitter feed! I feel that last night's occurrence needs a little explaining, because people are WAY more hyped about it than they probably should be!! <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Platdude Gets!!!! <a href="https://t.co/GZcwBtJ255" title="https://vine.co/v/bgVBqEjqld2">vine.co/v/bgVBqEjqld2</a></p>??? Jayenkai (@Jayenkai) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jayenkai/status/...

You're probably wondering, by now, with all this wonderful "Monkey" stuff that I've been banging on about for the past month, where the heck my iOS offerings are. Well, while it's true that Monkey does indeed make the coding a heck of a lot easier, there's still another matter to attend to. The dreaded "iTunes Connect" area! ARGH!!!! You've probably read enough of my rants to know that iDev isn't easy. There are licenses to deal with. "Provision" codes, Certificates, all manner of stupid fiddly thing...

Next week's AGameAWeek is already in the works. Yet another remake, this time of a game that doesn't quite appear to run as well as it used to. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=56">The Heist</a> was coded in August 2008, and does still run on modern PCs. The thing is, though, it runs at about 30fps on most of my current systems. I'm not really sure why this is, and have tried a couple of things to get it up to speed, but nothing seems to be doing the trick. ...

You know what I hate? Icons. You might've noticed that very few of my games include icons. Not only do I hate having to draw icons, I also hate having to create 70,000 bazillion different sizes for every sodding size that might be needed. Gah, I HATE icons!!! AGameAWeek on Android means I need 3 icons every smegging week. Oh, great : Today, I made a "Jay is too lazy for this" tool, called IconResizer. <a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/IconResizer.zip">Download IconResize...