On Tuesday, things had started to go annoyingly slowly.. That part where the number of bug fixes grossly outweighs the number of fun happy additions you can be enjoying adding to your game. But I did a lot of fixes on Tuesday!

One of the hardest things about adding baddies to this game is, surprisingly for me, not actually drawing things! With NeonPlat I've created a weird skewed world, where nothing looks exactly as it should. This gives me a little artistic license with my artwork. .. or rather, I can be shit, and nobody'll notice! If something looks a little too odd, I simply make it look odder in the animation, and it somehow cobbles together nicely. Want an example? The Bats don't flap, they kinda invert-...

Much as I expected, the initial burst of NeonPlat Adventure building, has now dropped to a stupidly slow rate. I'm currently flicking through all the possibilities for standard baddies, and super-evil-mega-boss baddies. Will the boss baddies be entirely seperate entities? Or will they, like previous NeonPlat games, be the same baddies, but megasized!? And what enemy types will work!? I've already cut out the unpopular "squishy" baddy. People didn't like him, because he wasn't catchab...

Sorry folks, kinda ran out of oomph again, there! Now, Where were we?

I had planned a post, earlier. I was thinking the text through whilst walking to work.. I'm now home from work, and have sat down to write it. .. I need to learn to jot things down, because I can't remember what it was..

Instead of my regular blog, today I'll retweet all the random whinging I posted to Twitter today!

Too tired.. Instead, I've been working on Sheep Goes Left DS, which is proving 17,000,000,000% more popular than it's iOS rival. Quite why, I don't know, but the fact that it's being mentioned quite a bit is a good sign.

I've been very very sleepy today, so I had a nap!

I wrote tonight's Socoder Newsletter earlier today, so that I didn't have to do it tonight. The Plan? Get home, head to the Mac, Code some Daisy Chains.. The Reality? Get home, head to the Mac, answer emails, post tweet replies, forums stuffs, and then my phone started yelling at me because I haven't posted today's blog yet. FFS!! Sod it, let's blog a rant then.. .. you wanna know what I don't get..?

I had a decent topic in mind for the blog, earlier.... *shrugs* Should've wrote it down.. No matter, I can randomly waffle for 10 minutes! I usually do ok with that...

I keep meaning to do a screengrab of me making a game, but I always forget. My memory sucks! So, tonight, I decided to screengrab a quick little none-game. Head inside to watch me go "hmmm... " and accidentally hit the wrong key a couple of times

PlayMyCode no longer works

Today I coded a nice <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/?p=1601">Tower Defence</a> game, and then started to implement Template 2, for the next bunch of AGameADay games.

PlayMyCode no longer works

Template 2 honestly isn't that much different than Template 1 was. In fact, if I wasn't writing this blog, I'm not 100% sure that anyone would notice that much. There's been a number of background changes, though, and since I'm...

I've always found Flash slightly more complicated than it needs to be. For a few years I attempted to learn various versions of the official Flash demoes, and SoThink's 900% cheaper clone. They were ok, but they weren't designed for coders. Flash was an artist's tool, with tweening and vector graphics and all that other none-codery stuff.

Got the Google Plus thing today and spent about an hour or so playing about with it's features. Twitter Lists seems the closest thing to it, in that you follow people, separate them into different groups, then flick through the groups to read/interact. Unlike Twitter Lists, though, here the grouping works both ways.. Now I could happily clump a bunch of iOS reviewers into a single group and quickly fire off a PR'ish spam bucket to all of 'em at once, without pissing off all my regular "we want chat, not s...

Today I'm focussing my blog on iOS trials and tribulations. The basic steps of designing a game when working with iOS. These are pretty simple things, and should be apparent, but .. having played a fair number of iOS games.. they're not always done! Note, this isn't really about my actual development, as such, more the train of thought that generates the end result. In a future bloggy thing, I might focus more on the what/where, than the how/why that this does. Let me know if this is a goo...

I'd already got bogged down into doing the Socoder Newsletter, there, when my beepy alarm reminded me to do my new daily bloggy thing! Good job I set that, or there'd be no blog today!

Today I'm battling the forces of evil. Microsoft have "updated" my system so that all my games now run at about 1/3rd their normal speed. Thanks, Microsoft! You're AWESOME!!! ...

I'm thinking, I'm switching, I'm testing and tweaking, and nothing so far seems good. D'oh!! Barry Bee looks ok, but plays like a bag of crap. I'll leave it where it is, though. At some point in time, I might manage to make a playable game out of it. Not now though. Not in the mood!

Today, another one of those mindbogglingly annoying issues that stops you, makes you scratch your head, then makes you go "Well sod that then!" and enjoy the sun for a bit. I'll do this again, tomorrow!

Today I've been continuing to fiddle about with all the framework's drawing methods. The engine seems rather fickle, and will sometimes do a bunch of big sprites, and other times do a buttload of tiny ones. I've currently got the settings to a nice middleground. It can handle quite a bit, so long as you don't give it mountains of giant sprites to contend with!! <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/photo-1.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/u...

<img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/HammerTime.png" >

Well, that was a lovely little blip, there, wasn't it! I've written half-a-framework three times in a month! *sigh* It finally showed this week, when a crazy chaotic week of newness became a horribly pathetic week of giving up. No matter. I'll use this time to make things better. I've finally re-re-re-re-restarted my Cocos2D framework (another framework) and will be coming up with some kind of new-ness for the BlitzMax framework. .. yup, might as well stick with Blitz. Blitz wo...

<a href="https://agameaweek.spreadshirt.co.uk/stroke-my-munky-A10741539/customize/color/4">I just thought of a really good game..</a> but... .. Not entirely sure how doable it'd be. .. hmm.. another time perhaps.. Anyhoo, Monkey. So far so good. A .. "nice".. looking frontend, with a quick top-10 list, and a swooshy menu. It'll get fixed up as time goes by, but for now I'm going to push on and try to build a quick test game. Since Monkey can cope with Web/Desktop/Mobile ...

I've gone nearly a whole week without posting anything. That's not like me at all! This week was my birthday, and although that day was nice and quiet, the rest of the week's been utter chaos, with 110 different things to be done.. No matter.. I just about got this week's AGameAWeek done, and although it's a bit of a short one, it's still nice and fun in a "Randomly darting around the screen" kind of way. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Mr-Swing...

Note : PlayMyCode is no longer available A slight change this week. I was planning to do AGameAWeek as usual, but was somewhat thrown off course by a request to make games, instead! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/PMC3.png">

The story so far... Jay buys Mac Main PC Dies Jay worries not Jay uses Mac.

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