Um, yeah, here's Tuesday's game! I started this, a couple of hours ago, expecting to finish it off by Tuesday. .. I've finished it, already! sod it, here you go, have an early game!

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You didn't get to see a lot of the BlitzMax template, last year, but if you'd like to try your hand at rapid game-dev, you might like to have a peek at it's contents. If you're a BlitzMax owner, this might be useful to you... maybe.. but you'll have to wrap your head around my coding style, first! <a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/Template-2012.zip">Template - 2012 - Download Here</a> Soon, hopefully, there'll be a Template - Monkey - 2013, but that's ann...

I've been asked to chip in on this whole Kickstarter issue. If you follow me on Twitter (@Jayenkai) you'll have noticed my dislike of people spamming my twitter feed with constant requests for cash. It's annoying when you get into the busy periods, have your own cash issues to worry about, but still get bombarded by tens of hundreds of requests a day for things that don't yet exist. As a cash strapped indie dev, I'm in exactly the same situation as most of these guys, with the simple ...

We're getting back into the swing of things, now! Here's a quickly remake of a game I did a long while ago as Nintendo DS homebrew. The basic idea was that you take a classic arcade game, and rework it so that it fits the logic and rules of a slot machine. Worked out nicely, and the DS edition ended up with 6 of these games to play, along with a nice "score to unlock" mechanic. This is merely the Pacman edition. If its popular, I might add some more, but if I'm honest, Id rather get a nic...

Is this the official post-op relaunch of AGameAWeek? I'm not sure, yet. This is just a random sporadic game, at this point.

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Don't pick the box with the Red in it, or its game over. Otherwise, the more you pick, the more you score. You can reset all the boxes, to keep your odds up, by tapping the safety button on the bottom right.

Nice to see that you're feeling better and back to normal! Cheers, mate. Odnetnin46 Cheers indeed. Although, I wouldn't quite count me as back to normal, just yet.

I think I'm heading back to bed, today! Some days just don't seem to start off very well, and after a few hours of trying, don't appear to be getting any better! Today I've managed to complete the following amazing achievements. 1. Get two dice to roll on the screen. That is all... I also tried getting Blockman Gets iOS to feel right, but... I dunno.. For some strange reason the controls seem WAY off, and I'll probably have to redo them from scratch. Maybe it's the constant switching of framew...

\o/yeay\o/ Pancakes! <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Pancakes-Syrup-Screenshot_20-Feb-2012_140222.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Pancakes-Syrup-Screenshot_20-Feb-2012_140222-300x225.png" alt="" title="Pancakes Syrup (Screenshot_20 Feb 2012_140222)" width="300" height="225" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2330" /></a> This week, at the suggestion of <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/GlenMcNamee/status/16939209179175731...

...this iOS stuff isn't quick, is it!? Week one, decide on game, start game.. Week two, keep tweaking annoyingly broken things in framework and get game done. Submit game! ... Week three, Trailer, Forum post formatting, email formatting, gather email addys, etc. FFS, Week three's the smegging PR gubbins.

<a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Snaked-Up-Screenshot_07-Feb-2012_111452.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Snaked-Up-Screenshot_07-Feb-2012_111452-300x225.png" alt="" title="Snaked Up (Screenshot_07 Feb 2012_111452)" width="300" height="225" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2301" /></a> Last weekend, most of the developers on the internet took part in the great big Global Game Jam, whereby everyone settled down to a nice long ...

Last week, there was no AGameAWeek. It was the clown's fault.. .. stupid clown.. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/iTunesArtwork.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/iTunesArtwork-300x300.png" alt="" title="iTunesArtwork" width="300" height="300" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2288" />With my newer shinier iOS Framework running the way it was more-or-less supposed to be, I decided to take a week ...

(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Rooty-Tooty-Shooty-Screenshot_04-Jan-2012_123616.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Rooty-Tooty-Shooty-Screenshot_04-Jan-2012_123616-300x225.png" alt="" title="Rooty Tooty Shooty (Screenshot_04 Jan 2012_123616)" width="300" height="225" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2218" />This game makes you want to cry... .. or not bother..

Welcome to 2012 ..or, more importantly.. Welcome to AGameAWeek, Year 4!! The games start, right here... in a couple of days! Tuesday morning. I'll have to add a small "Mac Warning" disclaimer, though, 'cos my Mac's still being twitchy since it's OSX Lion upgrade, and I never did get around to doing a quick test compile. no matter.. Either it works, or there's whinges! We'll have to wait and see.

Before starting development on NeonPlat Adventures, I took great care to test all the alternatives. I'd read online about OSX Lion breaking Blitz, and people needing to fuck about with lots of settings and things. The scary part was that developing on Lion would probably break compatibility with Snow Leopard. As such, I made a few test engines, and got people with Lion to test my games, to be 100% sure that, if I stuck with Snow Leopard, my games would be 100% compatible with BOTH sets of users. ...

You can't possibly complain that this game is evil and sadistic! It's just a happy happy game, with instructions permanently written, right at the top!! Who could possibly complain!!!?

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Korodny Just finished the game, so I'm here to say *Thank you* for some real good entertainment. A couple of things I noticed: Loved the game concept, and the visual design is spot on for that kind of game. Unfortunately, sound doesn't work on Ubuntu 11.10. It's a shame that the progress isn't properly recorded: The game should automatically offer me to play at the 'highest' levelset and the highest starting point I reached in my last session. Having to write ...

I'm sitting here trying to come up with a multitude of silly Badges/Accomplishments/Awards, and inexplicably getting nowhere. Not sure why. I DID have a list. I think it might've vanished during my iOS upgrade sessions. Silly thing. Today's task will be to add as many of those as is humanly possible, as well as finally sorting out the Level Builder once and for all.. (maybe!) *shrugs* Late night tweaking resulted in a couple of nice new features, and I also got around to semi-sta...

Today, I became a complete and total recluse! It was the only way it was all going to get crammed into the day. Let's go through last night's list, shall we?

Gah! Extra hats today! I now need about 3 hats, and annoyingly I think I might need an extra bunch of baddies, which also means more hats! D'oh! Still, those can wait until after the Friday Beta. The things that can't wait, are those annoying things that build and build, until you realise you don't really have a whole lot of time.

First up, be aware that these aren't working yet, so the bit where one of the achievements would appear to be mostly impossible without the others, is actually down to the fact that they're 6 items apart, and nothing to do with anything that's been earned yet!!! .. having said that, here's the first screenshot of the Achievement table that I've been working on, today.

Saturday's my "At work for a while" day, so I usually get a lot less codey time done, but I still managed quite a few bits and pieces in the morning. A couple of new baddies, and a teensy bit of AI are in there, as is something which may or may not be confusing, depending on whether you remember the 7 year old oddity or not. Suffice to say, the bananas do definitely appear to be coming from below the arrow. .. not sure what that's all about.. ---

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5 more, today! woot! That's 42 little animated characters I've popped into the game, now! (43 if you count NeonPlat!) 50? Looking entirely possible at this point! And I've done 8 backgrounds, now, too, so we'll probably want another 2 of those. I'll be honest.. Background #8 was kinda lazily cobbled together, but it works! I'll leave you with a nice desktop for today. This one's from Background #2, which I like to call "Square Pixels", but which doesn't real...