Since I'm spacing out my dev-time, I should hopefully have more time to do Dev-Diary type posts, as the games progress. Hopefully, this will give you a little more insight into the sort of decision making that goes into AGameAWeek. I'll also try to take the time to add odd bits and pieces of craptastic-useless-trivia whenever I get the chance. As frequent players will have noticed, I've been using a strange secondary numbering system for a long while. (Check out the Windows-Downloads to see them!) Th...

<a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=347">Alpha Collexion</a> was AGameAWeek's 2014 Advent Calendar. You can <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=347">Download it Here</a> for Windows, OUYA or playable in your browser using HTML5. All games are now unlocked, and will remain playable forever! woot!

(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=347">Alpha Collexion) is AGameAWeek's 2014 Advent Calendar. You can (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=347">Download it Here) for Windows, OUYA or playable in your browser using HTML5. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/AlphaCollexion/400_R.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/AlphaCollexion/400_R_thumb.png">

Roller Runner

Concept A semi-board-game type col...

(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=347">Alpha Collexion) is AGameAWeek's 2014 Advent Calendar. You can (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=347">Download it Here) for Windows, OUYA or playable in your browser using HTML5. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/AlphaCollexion/400_O.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/AlphaCollexion/400_O_thumb.png">

Ooooh, Octopus!

Concept This ain't no Mummy! Ru...

(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=347">Alpha Collexion) is AGameAWeek's 2014 Advent Calendar. You can (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=347">Download it Here) for Windows, OUYA or playable in your browser using HTML5. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/AlphaCollexion/400_B.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/AlphaCollexion/400_B_thumb.png">

Bouncy Bobby

Concept Bounce Bobby along the many...

Ok, so, I need a new archive. It's been a good number of years since I originally created the Jayenkai Archive, and although the software's lasted through a fair number of rethemes, and a fair number of enhancements over the years, it all still pretty much has the exact same issues that it did on day one.

Each year, time dependent, I like to do something special over Xmas, and this year I've opted to start early. If I want a whole Xmas Collection ready on the OUYA (And possibly iOS Store) in time, I need to get onto it quickly enough to have it finished, uploaded, and passed through review, in time for Xmas. And, if it's an Advent Calendar, then it needs to be ready even earlier, for Dec 1st. Yikes!! I started the planning stages of this thing a couple of months ago, when I asked folk on both Socoder a...

You may have noticed a slight lack of gaming over the past couple of months. Usually I cut down on AGameAWeek during the closing months of a year, and instead focus on a larger project, but over the course of this year I've already tackled a number of larger projects. Blockman Worlds, JNK Bombers, Future Classics.. They've all been substantially larger than my standard weekly output. As such, I'm actually struggling to come up with a decent "end of year project" that would be worth tackling. Instead, I...

It's time to revisit the world of Munky and his many colourful blocks. Take control, and match three! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Munky_Blocks_(dx)_20140908A_thumb.png"> <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Munky_Blocks_(dx)_20140908B_thumb.png">

Because sometimes, all you need is TRON! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Neon_Bike_Championships_20140812A_thumb.png"> <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Neon_Bike_Championships_20140812B_thumb.png">

Someone over at Softpedia has been closely following AGameAWeek for quite some time. It seems that each time I post a new game, within a relatively short period of time, it pops up on Softpedia's archive. Handily, they tend to link directly to my downloads, so if in the future I opt to update any of my games, people will be able to get the latest edition. They also write their own little descriptions and take nice screenshots, too. It's a nice way of doing things. I'm rather happy about the way their s...

And we're back to test-editions again! (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/GooglePlay-Feature_Graphic_2.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/GooglePlay-Feature_Graphic_2-300x146.png" alt="GooglePlay-Feature_Graphic_2" width="300" height="146" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-3902" /> I recently donated my Nexus 7 to my sister, thinking all was silky smooth in the land of Android dev.. Then I bought ...

The game's coming along smoothly, now that I've finally settled on a vaguely decent AI. Obviously, it'll play a LOT better when you've got actual players to play against, but if you're sad and alone like me, you'll have something to play against. (URL "https://socoder.net/uploads/1/JNKBombers_012.png"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/JNKBombers_012_thumb.png"> The Shop works, the AI mostly works, the Multiplayer stuff works, rounds are counted,...

As the game continues to get built up, I've started to work on a generic looking menu system for it. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/JNKBombers_009.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/JNKBombers_009-1024x576.png" alt="JNKBombers_009" width="590" height="331" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3805" /> Yep, it's as bland as bland can be, but the point of the menu is simply to get you into the game, so ....

You wait months for a new AGameAWeek iOS game, and then two come along at once! Apologies that these weren't posted some time last week, but they've been sat in "Waiting for Review" status for AGES!! Much, much longer than the regular "7 days" wait.

The year of Platdude continues, as we head into Platdude's garden to collect all the lovely fruit that's been growing, in this heavily AGameAWeek-ified remake of the classic Mr Do! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Platdude_in_A_Bit_of_A_Do__20140225A_thumb.png"> <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Platdude_in_A_Bit_of_A_Do__20140225B_thumb.png">

Not normally the type of thing I post, here. I tend to leave AGameAWeek to the gamey stuff, but folk keep inquiring, so I guess it's something that some people seem to love to know about!

There are hundreds of great sites that I should probably link to, and much like linking to my hundreds of games, I've always found it a bit of a mess once I start trying to cram it all into a small sidebar on the right of the site. As such, I've finally opted to create one great big link-page, full of everything I could think of within the short hour or so that it took to add it! If you're missing from this page, let me know!! <table border="1px" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <t...

(URL "https://socoder.net/uploads/1/image-28-12-13-02-53-30.jpg"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/image-28-12-13-02-53-30_thumb.jpg"> Hmmm....

Welcome to the Top 13 AGameAWeek Games of 2013 No other Top-10 lists appear to want to give any of my games any recognition at all, which kinda sucks since I've made a whole bunch of REALLY great games, this year! I don't even get a token "Made a shitload of games, this year" mention! Sucks!! So, sod them all, I'll make my own Top-10 list. And it'll be all my games, and I'll even add a few more just to make it a bit more 2013 relevant. That'll show 'em!! Mwa-ha-haaa!!!

The Windows edition of NeonPlat Extreme has just been updated, and hopefully everything works properly, this time. Gamepad support should work properly.. Although it's still refusing to work on my laptop, it is at least working for other testers, so .. um.. I'll just assume it's working fine!! Music's in.. Was it in, last time? I can't remember! There's also a few other nips and tucks, and other little tweaks, to help keep the game running smoothly. *blimey* You can (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/Gam...

<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!

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...

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 ...

Late last night, NeonPlat Raw appeared on the OUYA Dashboard for the very first time. This is kind of a big deal, in that it's the first time one of my games has officially been released on an actual physical home-console. True, it's not a "PROPER" console, but .. Hey, it's a box with a controller that plugs into my telly. And it's got my games on it! So, Hell yeah, It's proper enough to me!! If you have an OUYA, you can grab (URL "https://www.ouya.tv/game/NeonPlat-Raw">NeonPlat Raw) for it. It's...

Do you have an OUYA? Would you like to see my Monkey Framework running on your telly!?! It's nothing amazing, and is entirely developer-test-functionality-stuff as opposed to being something that you can actually play with, but if you'd like to give it a whirl, you can download the .apk file right here. (URL "https://socoder.net/JaysButtonTest_ouya.apk">