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

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.

Oh, hell, I gotta start this all over again!! Year 3 : October 2010 - October 2011 It's a month away, and I'm still being all lazy and relaxing, but I need to try and keep the site looking half-assed, so it doesn't disappear due to lack of activity

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...

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...

Is it really 200, already?! Blimey!

The quickly made retrospective "look at what you've done" post..

I started writing games as a kid, went through school making silly games, and ended up with not-much-at-all to show for it. <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/JNKPlat_5_:_Resurrection_20020910A_thumb.png"> <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/JNKFruit2K2_20020807A_thumb.png">

My super copyright infringing retro game is back! Take one part Pitfall, one part Tomb Raider, and mix in a little Indiana Jones, and this probably wouldn't be the first thing that springs to mind. Never the less... <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/RetroRaiderII_20100712A.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/RetroRaiderII_20100712A_thumb.png"></a> <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/RetroRaiderII_20100712B.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/c...

The people at <a href="https://forum.curlysworldoffreeware.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2606">Curly's World of Freeware</a> suggested that the original Microbes game might've been a wee bit too crazy. Sorry, CWFers, this one's takes the crazy up a notch!! There are powerups! .. and... ...um.. actually, there's not really a whole lot more to it than that! This is the original Microbes, with a little bit more, but rewritten to be smoother, and to run on Win/Mac/Lin! ...

Wait, that title's gone all weird and wonky... What's up with that!?!? This week, I made TWO games! (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/?p=680">Turret Rush) saw you running away from zombies, and shooting them from random turrets on the floor, before the turrets disappeared again. and (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/?p=682">Space Monkey Climbs the Space Towers) where you have to try and get as high as you can. Neatly, the graph now becomes a height-o-meter! Which was a nice unplanned feature! Nice f...

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!

"What ever happened to midis that we used to have in games, and all the little tunes we used to hear whilst we were playing Doom. Whenever we played we would forget about the quality, because we were too busy shooting Demons in the face with ammo..." .. Then I couldn't think of any more lyrics. Never mind, the tune was created, and sat on my hard drive for about a year or two. Obviously titled FM because it sounds like a classic FM midi file! Later on, I decided to use it on my JNKx15 ...

Uhoh, the ratio's dropping! No matter, this week's been SUPER busy, what with it being the week I finally got a Mac. As seen the other day, I re-released <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/2010/05/8-brand-new-freeware-mac-games/">8 of my games for Mac</a>. It's not just Steam on Mac!!! You can play UFO246, too! Today sees a couple of extra bonuses. <a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/JNKPlat_2010_edition_(Screenshot_18_May_2010_094853).png"><img src="https://soco...

With all the Mac stuff, I've not had a chance to do a new game. NOOoooooo!!!!!! I suppose I could rush something in the next 24 hours, but I'm much rather be playing with those extra trimming, and getting things a little nicer. First off, Gravity Bombs. Not touched it yet, but it definitely needs at least one tweak. .. the Mac's "Superior" (bah) Magic Mouse has a lot going for it, but it also has an inability to right click whilst holding down the left mouse button. Which is pretty much a require...

Cracking game, this week! What started out as an unknown game, quickly became fantastically playable. A remake of the little WarioWare UFO Spike thing that I made last week, only with more spike things than is probably sane! In the end, the game's turned out quite a lot like a Geometry Wars clone. I wasn't expecting that, but there it is! Two fire buttons, Z for left fire, X for right fire. I wonder how long it'll take for people to realise that, without me having written it anywher...

<a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/UFO_246_Kill_Faster_(Screenshot_09_May_2010_164341).png"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/UFO_246_Kill_Faster_(Screenshot_09_May_2010_164341)_thumb.png"></a> This week I'm going for a good old fashioned shooter. Stuck between two side limits, fly your ship back and forth, and shoot all the baddies. At the minute, the baddies only consist of the spike thing from the WarioWare game, but I'm going to start adding proper baddies tomorrow...

AGameAWeek! Seems like a long long time since I last did this. In reality, it's only been a month, but BOY did that feel like an eternity! Let's have a look at this week's game.. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Gravity_Bombs_20100504A.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Gravity_Bombs_20100504A_thumb.png"></a> It's all about shooting the coloured pods. Controls might be a wee bit odd, at first, but you get used to them! Hold the left mouse butt...

After the fun of a JNKPlat-based April, it's time to get back into the AGameAWeek spirit, and out of the silly ranty 2BeesInDePub mood that I'm currently in. This week I'm playing around with black holes. Except they're not black. The player has 4 coloured shooty bobs, and must fire missiles to clog up the not-black-holes. Each hole hit blasts out more little missiles, and it all becomes a nice swooshy swirly colourful frenzy of dots. <a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/Gravit...

August 26th 2009 That's the last time I did a Mailbag post! Blinkin' eck! Over the past 6/7 months, I've occasionally dipped into the mailbag and plucked out little snippets, but I figured it was about time I did a proper one. A few of these have already been posted, but there's a whole batch of new ideas here. Let's go!!! (There's a lot!!)

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The current name of this game is "Box's Adventure", but that might change. Or I might be lazy and not change it! <a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/Boxs_Adventure_(Screenshot_15_Feb_2010_131242).png"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/Boxs_Adventure_(Screenshot_15_Feb_2010_131242)_thumb.png"></a> In this shot, you can see the following. 1. Box! He's a box! Actually, he's a square since he lacks a third dimension, but we'll ignore that for the moment! 2. ...