AGameAWeek teaches us one thing. Some games you win, some games you lose. When you lose, there's not a lot you can do. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and move on. This is a post about how I threw myself on the ground.

Yeay! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Sheep_Goes_Left_20110614_Logo_thumb.png">

1. I'm waiting for Puzzobomb to pop up on the App Store, assuming they like it, and let it up there! 2. NinjaDuck is slowly plodding away, but I have no idea what type of game it'll end up being. I mean, I have a vague idea! Obviously it'll be a platformer! But other than that.. *shrugs* 3. I thought about Y-Box, and how that'd be a nice game to have on my iPhing.. Then I started juggling some sprites, built a nice set of gfx, but then couldn't be bothered to code anything. 4. I made a wall......

Add a simple pause menu. That was task number one, this morning, on a 5 item tasklist. The stupid menu took 5 hours! FIVE!!

<a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/photo.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/photo.png" alt="" title="photo" width="320" height="480" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1285" /></a> hmmm....

I've written that as "Mr Spike" about 30-odd times, this week. *sigh* Really have to start a new iPhing game, some time! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Mr_Swing_20110301_Logo_thumb.png">

Friday morning, bright and early, ready to tackle this week's game. Bluescreen!! A restart later, the password entry pops up on Windows, and I'm ready to tackle this week's game. Bluescreen!!! Restart. Bluescreen!!! Safe Mode. Bluescreen!!!! Ubuntu. No bluescreen, but no access to windows partition. dang. forgot about that bit. hmm.. This week's game is cancelled, due to me having to do a complete feckin' format, and everything that follows soon after, like removing all of HP's junk ...

This week there shall be no AGameAWeek.

Yesterday, Rob from RetroRemakes asked if he could do a spritesheet for Spike Dislike. After a lot of back and forth, I decided to write a how-to, so any future requests could go a little bit smoother! Here's some info on how to make 'em, alongside a bunch of all-important rules.

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

Why is it always the little random games with a dire lack of content that become the most popular ones?! Lesson Learned : I oughta stop trying so hard, and just knock out the simple little games! I was thinking this whilst doing the Advent collection. Some of those were really playable, and I had a whole lot of fun whilst making them. On the flipside, doing the larger games like that horrible nasty RPG, and.. To be fair.. a lot of the Year3 games. They've all been kinda half-assed, and not really muc...

You all know how to play this one! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Super_Spike_Dislike_20110104_Logo_thumb.png"> <a href="https://jayenkai.blogspot.com/p/spike-dislike.html">Also on iPhone/iPod/iPad</a> Bounce continuously to the right, avoid the spikes, shoot at them occasionally, Super Spike Dislike!!

Hmm.. I forgot to post a "This Week", and a "Suggestion Box", this week, didn't I. One little tweak to my weekly schedule, and the whole thing goes to pot! Today's Tuesday, and I won't (again) be posting AGameAWeek, and I'll be forwarding any complaints straight to my spam bin! 21 games, some of which are much more playable than recent AGameAWeek games, all done within the past few weeks. I think that's more than enough to stop you whinging about a lack of AGameAWeek. Still got about 4 more to go, alt...

Platdude Hungry!!

<img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Platdude__s_Retro_Advent_Collection_20101201_Logo_thumb.png"> A brand new game, EVERY DAY over Christmas!

I'm in too deep. I can't stop! And yet I also didn't plan ahead far enough, and will be spending most of this morning removing a bunch of stuff, and redoing it all. Gah! <a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/Jays_Retro_Sprite_Tool_(Screenshot_06_Nov_2010_103755).png"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/Jays_Retro_Sprite_Tool_(Screenshot_06_Nov_2010_103755)_thumb.png"></a> Tuesday's little sprite buildey bobby will be all nice and super, and with any luck, should...

I've no idea what I'll be tackling this week, again, so pop a random thought or two below!

Time to pick a new Jingle. I'm thinking that Year 3 should be marked, slightly, by tweaking the intro jingle a little, so I've gathered together a handful, and popped them all here.

54 games. Last year I only managed about 30-odd, so I think that's pretty good going. Sure, it might not have truely actually been A Game "Per" Week, but I did at least keep the ratio up. If I hadn't taken the time out to build the framework, I probably would've actually achieved the target a little better The stats show I was pretty much on top of things up until that point, but then things got slower and slower until my buffer zone was all dried up. Anyhoo, this is a nice big lengthy re...

54 games. Last year I only managed about 30-odd, so I think that's pretty good going. Sure, it might not have truely actually been A Game "Per" Week, but I did at least keep the ratio up. If I hadn't taken the time out to build the framework, I probably would've actually achieved the target a little better The stats show I was pretty much on top of things up until that point, but then things got slower and slower until my buffer zone was all dried up. Anyhoo, this is a nice big lengthy re...

This year, the Big Torrent is available from Monova.org! (Torrent is long gone!) If you'd like to play 53 out of 54 from Year 2, you can go grab it now. I left out Rock My Chords, since it's 49Mb on it's own, and I reckon it's got an audience of.... me! But otherwise, the rest are in there. All the Windows games, the DS ones and the one single little Java Mobile one, too. What I've NOT included is the Mac/Linux packs. I'll be doing those later. Judging by the interest in...

Hmm.. This iPhing dev is taking longer than my regular AGameAWeek stuff! But I'm learning, and I'm practising, and I'm breaking and fixing things, too! Today I got loading and saving to work, I got most of my menu working, and I even got the pause button going, too! I've popped in the regular "Platdude Jingle", figured it'd do for the meantime, and.. .. Well, it's looking and feeling much more like a game, now. The code is absolutely ghastly, mind, but that can be sorted. Hopefully! Okeydoke, ...

Jayenkai's World Cup Challenge : <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/2010/06/jayenkais-world-cup-challenge/">A plan to do something, rather than sit watching football for 90 minutes each and every day..</a> --- This was 95% done last night, with only a minor tweak this morning.. But it was far too late, and I couldn't be bothered faffing around with the three OS's, trying to compile everything for everyone, so... well.. Here it is now!

Jayenkai's World Cup Challenge : <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/2010/06/jayenkais-world-cup-challenge/">A plan to do something, rather than sit watching football for 90 minutes each and every day..</a> --- I'm off to watch the season finale of Stargate Universe! Meanwhile, here's my first 45 minutes. Not sure what I'm going to do in my other 45 minutes, but the first half turned out ok! .. although it took up all of my 45 minutes!!! And it really wasn't meant to take...

It's that time of year again, where everyone goes absolutely nutso over some stupid game of football. In the coming weeks, 95% of the world's population will be watching up to 64 games of stupid football. That's over 96 hours worth! ...I'd rather be doing something much more productive. So, I've decided to setup Jay's World Cup Challenge. (URL "https://socoder.net/bloodyfootball_1500.png"><img src="https://socoder.net/bloodyfootball_480.png"> Every...

Third week of chaos, and... well, in honesty, this was all thrown together late last night! MacWeek really took it out of me, and I had no time, but hey! Still did it!! Game : Bully Bob - Bob needs to learn a lesson Game : Sea Pea, See - Can you See the Peas in the Sea? Music : Plat 2 - 12" remix of Platdude's Theme Comic : Click Here - Click for Awesome Meanwhile, Shadow1w2's been sending me some nice .mio programs. I've yet to...