Over on Socoder, RSKGames posted a lovely "Top 10 AGameAWeek Games of 2018", so here it is lovingly reproduced with links and pics! (And with extreme apologies that it's taken me a week to get around to doing this!!) -=-=-

10. Roland Eats a Stale Biscuit

First puzzle game of 2018. If it was not so insanely difficult it will be higher up in the list.

The majority of the important bits of Foldapuz-Unfolded are now in place, and it's all now nicely playable.

Wooah, we're halfway there..

Yesterday, as I watched the empty scoreboards once more, I decided it was probably about time I "switched them on" properly. -=-=- Note : In order to activate online scores on my recent games, hop into the options screen, and Enter Your Name.

Someone over on the GBATemp forums mentioned Centipong being one of their favourites of my DS Homebrew collection. To be honest, I never did solve the "What Comes Next" issue with that.

I've often wondered about stats like this, so today I built a quick little took to make a little stat list for me. (55%) 499 3DSBrew (17%) 158 Windows (14%) 132 Linux (11%) 106 MacOSX Downloads (since May 1st) of games created using my new C++ Framework.

As each game gets posted, the feedback occurs. Let's take a look at the feedback from Blockman Gets Retro! You can Download Blockman Gets Retro here.

RSKGames

Overview: While last years Blockman game was a platformer this year's Blockman game is back to the roots maze puzzle game where the player has to traverse the maze, eat the required quantity of yellow dots to cross each of the levels. Blockman cannot move backwards and cannot traverse a path already traveled unless there is a ...

Blockman returns in this super-retro dot-munching remake.

Going through my list of "games I probably should do using the new C++ Framework".. I should probably do something a bit like this.. Thoughts?! I think I'll strip it back to the original "just a plain puzzle game" mechanic, and then see where I can go from there. Possible titles : Blockman Gets Retro, Blockman Gets Classic, Blockman Gets Deluxified... *shrugs*

The MacMini's still doing the "All my music over to the new NAS" file copy, so I can't currently do anything iOS related. Instead, then, I'm wondering what style I might go in for a new JNKPlat. Do I do "fluffy" like 2010 was, or super retro like 2008? Or do I try to come up with something new? I'm not sure. But either way, a new JNKPlat will be happening this year. Definitely! (Unless there's some kind of unexpected disaster that stops me from doing it..) After all, it'...

Developments

Oh dear.. Where does the time go!?

Oh dear, that hasn't gone down very well, has it?! Hmm.. First up came the issue with the Level Generator. Things seemed to break fairly late in the project, meaning that different systems were generating different sets of levels. For this reason, the online scoreboards were removed, as they'd be impossible to properly compare between all the different level sets. Doing test after test after test, right up until the last minute, led me to accidentally upload a broken version of the game. .. And no...

Developments

Last night's final set of uploads was done about 11pm, in an attempt to fix up a few "quirks" which had arisen during my battles with the level generator.

If you've downloaded RetroRaider-3 at any point today, you might want to re-download the game. Whilst stress testing my level generator, I accidentally left a few "quirks" in there, including a cheat mode, and a "feature" that locks the game up and doesn't let you play. Ooops.. A fix has been uploaded, so if you're stuck with the broken version, you should go and grab the new one. The broken version sees the current level end if you hit the V key, and the whole game lock up if you try to load levels...

Laura Plat is back, and she's searching for Crystals

( width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Fy9lxj3862E" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> Also available (URL "https://soundcloud.com/alodare/sonically-xtra">on SoundCloud)

Developments

As per usual on a Thursday, most of yesterday was spent on "other" stuff.

( width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CfWm5MIWnjk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> I've decided that AL's next Bum should be a Pulpish one. "Something Borrowed.. Something New.." Track one is above, and is merely a test. I've still got a few more of SonicALly to finish off before I can officially move on to the next one!

Developments

Took most of yesterday off, from coding.

Watching

I watched the UbiSoft E3 conference, yesterday.

( width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/327594652&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true">> ^ RetroRaider III's current Ingame music. The titlescreen music is (URL "https://soundcloud.com/alodare/journal-undertakings">here) Both might change.. We'll see!

Developments

(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/logo.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/logo-1024x512.png" alt="" width="750" height="375" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-7558" /> I've got "RetroRaider : Three Crystals" up to a decent standard, but it's not quite 100%.. It's barely 80%.. Heck, the bullets don't even collide with the enemies! I still have to create music for it. I also need to construct so...

Developments

Yesterday was such a long, tedious day of database/site coding.