Last night I finished off the C3ntipong stuff, and got the release edition compiled, tested, double-checked, and uploaded to Apple. That's it! It's gone.. It's off. There's no turning back, now! In about a week's time, C3ntipong may very well pop up on the AppStore, assuming it gets approved! A relatively painless procedure... well, except for all of <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/2013/02/ios-editions/">yesterday's palaver</a>, anyway!

You're probably wondering, by now, with all this wonderful "Monkey" stuff that I've been banging on about for the past month, where the heck my iOS offerings are. Well, while it's true that Monkey does indeed make the coding a heck of a lot easier, there's still another matter to attend to. The dreaded "iTunes Connect" area! ARGH!!!! You've probably read enough of my rants to know that iDev isn't easy. There are licenses to deal with. "Provision" codes, Certificates, all manner of stupid fiddly thing...

Next week's AGameAWeek is already in the works. Yet another remake, this time of a game that doesn't quite appear to run as well as it used to. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=56">The Heist</a> was coded in August 2008, and does still run on modern PCs. The thing is, though, it runs at about 30fps on most of my current systems. I'm not really sure why this is, and have tried a couple of things to get it up to speed, but nothing seems to be doing the trick. ...

I'm at odds over this one. The first possible launch date is Feb 23rd. Feb 23rd is my birthday, and for the last two years, has also been SpikeDislike=FREE Day on iOS. It'd be nice to have SpikeDislike2 Day on the same day, but then I'd also need to get it onto the AppStore by that date, and ... that's a wee bit tricky! It'd mean I'd have to get the iOS App submitted by around about this time next week, and .. yikes. that's cutting it a bit close, especially considering I...

Hello all. If you're a regular reader, prepare to be marginally disappointed. Today's release is NOT for you Today I'm releasing a private beta edition of SpikeDislike2 (currently for Windows or Android) to people who would like to blog about it, and help publicise it's existence. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/deargodno2.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/deargodno2.png" alt=""...

Part of SpikeDislike 2 will be it's various game modes. I've a few simple ideas in mind, and may be asking for additional ideas in the future, if I start running out! Meanwhile, here's the first to be fully integrated, and playable, and kinda fun. Sheep Goes Right! Yes, it's a bog-standard endless-runner mode, but it has a sheep, so that makes it 89% more awesome! More modes a-comin'!

Don't worry, it's not Unijuggler again!! Yesterday I started my first "bigger" project of the year. These are the games that I know are going to take a little more than the usual week to complete. Well, I say that, but I've actually managed to achieve a staggering amount of work in the space of only two days! <a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/SpikeDislike2Menu.png"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/SpikeDislike2Menu_thumb.png"></a> The game is playable, the cr...

You all remember Cardagain, right?! <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Screenshot_2013-01-27-14-48-25.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Screenshot_2013-01-27-14-48-25-640x1024.png" alt="" title="Screenshot_2013-01-27-14-48-25" width="590" height="944" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-2504" /></a> Cardagain was my first ever game on iOS, so it seems fitting that it also be my first on Android, too. The basic idea is this... A ...

So, here we go again. We're up to Year 5, and hopefully we'll get a full year out of it, this year (nnngh). With Monkey, we get a chance to go back over our previous games, and remake them for a new audience, with iOS, Android and Browser based versions. I expect this will prove to be an exciting year. Given that we can play at showing off, what games do you think would work best, and adapt well to the new touchy/mouse based gameplay options? Or, what games could prove to be an obscure tricky challen...

<a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/image-11-01-13-15-41-40.jpg"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/image-11-01-13-15-41-40_thumb.jpg"></a> o/yeayo/ There's a simple blast test. I installed Monkey on the Mac, I opened my Monkey Framework, I clicked "iOS", compiled, switched to XCode, built and run. It was quite simple, comparatively. Is anything playable? Is it buggery!! But it does show a few... .. Shall we say "quirks". First, and you can't see it, but I can ...

I don't seem to have much luck with dungeon crawlers, do I? Every time I start one, I kinda give up halfway. This week's "game" (if you can call it that) is yet another unfinished RPG game. It's all over at PlayMyCode, though, so if you're feeling up to it, perhaps you could delve into the code and bulk it up a bit, turning it into something a little less rubbish. Either way, I fell out with it pretty early on, and it never got finished to a decent standard. Boooo! Views 102, Upvotes 14  

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