Flappadiddle-Doo and On A Space Shooting Trail are now both up on itch.io and GameJolt. The itch.io collection doesn't seem to be too popular, right now, but it'll be interesting to see if interest grows as the collection does. With GameJolt, there was a lot of excitement with my first couple of games, but then it all died down and went quiet. Hopefully itch.io turns out to be the opposite?! Current count Itch.io 2 - jayenkai.itch.io/ GameJolt 97 - gamejol...

With each release, the feedback is fed back, and I like to gather any important comments and post them into an easily accessible post. This week's game is the lovely neon shooter, On a Space Shooting Trail

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Last year I played one the NeonPlat games and marveled at the neon graphics style. This game has the same style but the way the looks is achieved seems to have matured a lot. Using the new framework some crafty blending techniques have been used to convert the simple white s...

Each time I release a game, the thoughts and comments come rolling in. Let's take a peek at this week's thoughts.

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I find Flappadiddle Doo having the smooth gameplay like its predecessor and the polish found in ''Sheep Goes Right''.

A bit late in the day to realise you'd only coded half the blinkin' online scoreboard stuff!! True, the Framework was happy to send the score data to the server, but ... Then what!? I'd not coded ANYTHING about receiving the data back, parsing the data, popping the scores and player names into internal memory, and then displaying the online scores to the player. D'oh! So, that's what I've been working on all day, today. As a result, the game might be del...

The 3D printer finally managed to start printing, last night. It managed about 8% of the print, before the print "popped" off the mat, and everything went horribly awry. Bah, humbug.. I'll probably have another attempt at it later. Since it's my birthday, I'll be sitting about and being generally lazy, today. Nothing much more to say than that! Lazy Jay wins, today..

If you haven't yet tried out Flappadiddle-Doo's first release, please give it a try, and let me know how well it does or doesn't work on your given system. Thanks for trying.

Continuing my trek through the Blog, (fixing old broken links, adding references to associated games, etc) I'm now up to page... 150! Out of 5000+ As an example of how the Wiki will be grown, the Wiki page for Alien Deathmatch 2 is now nice and populated with just links to various blog posts. I'll also need to add in elements that are on the game's release page, but AD2's actually surprisingly sparse, as far as that goes. Once I've sifted through all the pages, adding in the ne...

I started work on the "Enter Your Name" screen, yesterday, but ended up doing something vaguely, but not entirely related!

It began, last night, at about 2am. *pop*

click for uninteresting, bigger, more readable image Aha!

The new server has a great virus-scanning feature, which blocks any downloads should the file contain any kind of possible dodgyness.

Yesterday was spent mostly watching a lot of progress bars. Not a lot I can do when both the MacMini and Laptop are sitting there copying insane amounts of data over to the new NAS drive.

About time I added this in!! The scoreboard flips between Top 5 and Last 5, and once I add them in, will also show the Online Top 5, too. All in one neater space on the right, leaving the left hand side relatively uncluttered.

Creation Crate #2 popped up yesterday, only 2.5 weeks after the last one did, and it was a nice fun little build+code event.

My monthly calendar reminder popped up, last night, to remind me to do all of my "full" backups.

So, after having read up on URL access for a couple of hours, I managed to get about 0% through it, yesterday. I might actually end up trying to find a proper book on the subject, and having a good focused read-through. .. Although I imagine any book would probably focus on Win/Linux, and not the cross-platform usage I'm after. I've really coded myself into a pickle, here!

Today I've been working through what will and won't be part of the "Framework". That is, what values and settings and functions should be "Framework", which should be "Engine" and which should be "The Game".

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Also available on SoundCloud Happy Halloween! ... OK, maybe not the spookiest choonage I've ever done, but it was the only thing that seemed to pop out of tonight's unplanned ALChoon session, so it'll have to do!

Notebook

I've added another page from my old Notebook onto the Patreon page, for Subscribers. If you'd like to take a peek at some random GameDev notes and scrawls from about 15 years ago, that's the place to look!!

Developments

Remarkably, loading a png wasn't all that hard.

So, time to kill my Monkey-X Android SDK. I knew going in that this would be a chore, but blinkin' eck, that's an understatement!!

OUYA's been dead for a couple of years, now, but it seems that Razer's latest plan is to replace "Android TV Gaming" with "Android Mobile Gaming", and .. well, I've written about that, before.

If you'd like to contribute to the lifestyle of someone who makes a great number of freeware games, there are a variety of methods to do so. Feel free to donate anything you feel comfortable with. Every little helps

Each week (or whenever I get aroud to releasing a game!) Players submit their thoughts. I say players, but it's pretty much just RSKGames at this point. Feel free to submit your own thoughts, and I'll add them to these posts!! This week, RSKGames looks at (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/2017/08/release-2017-35-the-sheriff-of-cardington/">The Sheriff of Cardington)

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Overview: Another week of giving a new twist to a very popular game. This week it is the turn for memory match up pair...

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hlw2CP7_RD4?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Tonight I gave Flappadiddle a quick test on iOS. I've expanded the "ground" on either side, making them slightly taller and wider. This is where your thumbs will go whilst playing the game. Unfortunately, they're still a little "too" close to the bottom of the screen, and weird "iOS Slider" glitches are occurring. You can see at about 35 seconds into the v...

Each week, as people submit comments to the various games, I'll try to keep tabs on them all and collect them into these Player Thoughts posts. Luckily, RSKGames seems to be the only one doing it, so it's not that hard to keep track of! Feel free to give your own feedback. This week, RSKGames looks at (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/2017/08/release-2017-33-rainbows-shooting-from-my-balls/">Rainbows Shooting From My Balls)..!!

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Game Overview: Pong with a twist, many balls with trail...