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3rd February 2012
Last week, there was no AGameAWeek.
It was the clown's fault..
.. stupid clown..
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Daily Blog
Blog, Jay! Blog!!
Blog
19th January 2012
Bah.. I knew that'd happen..
As soon as AGameAWeek kicked back into action, the "Daily Blog" would take a bit of a fall.
I'm trying to keep up, though! Honest!!
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Daily Blog
The SpikeDislike Guy
Blog
17th December 2011
It's been over a year since the Platdude Retro Advent Collection had a bizarre game with a ball and some spikes in it, and as much as I've attempted to get on with other games, that one little game keeps on getting dragged back out again!
Last week, SpikeDislike won an IndieVisibility award, for being the best game to have with you on the toilet!
This week, the guy who nominated it for that award has written a great big sprawling mass of text, all about SpikeDislike! (Link no longer available)
...
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Daily Blog
12th December 2011
A lot of elements are currently coming together, and things are getting a little more chaotic than I'd like them to be around Xmas time.
If the past 2 years of Xmas themed chaos (12 games of Xmas, Advent Collection) have taught me one thing, it's not to EVER plan anything around Xmas!
Presents, family visits and the general filling of my face with Xmas cake, will usually get in the way of the coding time, and as such I decided not to push myself into anything moronic this year.
I apologise if you're deep...
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Daily Blog
11th December 2011
Yesterday was the #Indievisibility awards ceremony, which involved a bunch of indie guys, a pub, a brawl and a number of teabags.
Awards were given for all manner of things.. Different genres, games with certain features and other seemingly random reasons.
You can scan through a list of all the <a href="https://www.sizefivegames.com/2011/12/11/indievisibilty-end-of-year-awards-results/">Awards here,</a> and read all about the joys of the fight!
Awesome!
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Daily Blog
1st December 2011
1. Socoder Newsletter
2. NeonPlat Adventures iOS
3. That 4-pack thing I started ages ago, and still haven't finished yet. (Yeah, so much for the "make 4 quicky games" plan, there, Jay!)
4. I'm apparently not doing an Advent Calendar this year. Either that or I'm going to be really really late with it!!!
5. Xmassy Spike Dislike!?
6. Probably should start JNKPlat 2012 at some point, since I've said I'm aiming for April 16th.
7. Get Monkey, Get Learning, Get building a new Framework...
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Daily Blog
Evil and Sadistic...
Blog
30th November 2011
For NeonPlat Adventures, I tried my best to get rid of all those horrible nasty evil things that I tend to cram into my games, but as with all things Jay, there's always going to be a few leftovers that seem pure evil.
teehee!
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Daily Blog
Tutorial
Blog
26th November 2011
The following blog post contains words, which are built up using various letters.
You are expected to read the words in the correct order, moving your eyes from left to right to read each line, and then moving on to the left hand side of the next line.
Continue in this method until you have read all of the words of this blog post, and are <em>happy</em> with your understanding...
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Daily Blog
17th November 2011
I should take solace in a couple of facts.
1. My iOS Apps have been selling oddly, this week.
Usually I sell about 1 copy of SpikeDislike, every day, but this week I seem to be getting oddities like Puzzobomb and StringyThings suddenly springing back to life.
.. sure it's still a max of 3 a day, total, but...
it helps!
and it's odd!
2. My daily analytics stats have doubled.
Of course, I should probably also point out that for the past two months, my lack of AGameAWeek has caused the stats to halv...
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Daily Blog
9th October 2011
At the moment, I'm sending occasional beta editions of NeonPlat Adventures to two people.
One is AuthenticKaizen (/PixelProspector).
He got instant beta-status, because he started the whole NeonPlat thing.
This is all his fault!!
I've been sending him little hidden youtube clips, occasional "New Stuff!" screenshots, and discussing possibilities with him.
The other is Spinal (/Spinal Cord) who recently redid SpikeDislike as Nintendo DS Homebrew.
Spinal and I tend to think and code the same. ...
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Daily Blog
An Email..
Blog
8th October 2011
Hello developer,
We added your games to our website.
You can find the entries on <a href="https://html5games.de"> - and vote for it
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Daily Blog
Slow Down......
Blog
19th September 2011
Much as I expected, the initial burst of NeonPlat Adventure building, has now dropped to a stupidly slow rate.
I'm currently flicking through all the possibilities for standard baddies, and super-evil-mega-boss baddies.
Will the boss baddies be entirely seperate entities?
Or will they, like previous NeonPlat games, be the same baddies, but megasized!?
And what enemy types will work!?
I've already cut out the unpopular "squishy" baddy.
People didn't like him, because he wasn't catchab...
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Daily Blog
Warping Reality
Blog
12th September 2011
<img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/platneonplat.png" alt="" title="platneonplat" width="128" height="64" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1847" />
Platdude vs NeonPlat
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Daily Blog
9th September 2011
It's September.
My boss is about to go on his hols, and I'm more or less at a nice "Not too much" level of codey work.
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Daily Blog
Dislike the Spike!!!
Blog
25th August 2011
It's a great week for disliking spikes!!
There's plenty of free spikes, all over the place!
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Daily Blog
Coming Soon... 2!
Blog
17th August 2011
..wait a minute, wasn't I trying to take a break!?
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Daily Blog
15th August 2011
You could say I crapped out, and gave up.
I aimed for 52. I aimed for a 2nd whole year's worth of games, within a startlingly short amount of time.
..
But I probably would've managed it..
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Daily Blog
Spike Dislike DS!
Blog
14th August 2011
February.
The iOS edition of SpikeDislike was kicking arse, the WiLMa edition was doing well, and the PlayMyCode edition was being played quite a bit, too.
What else could SpikeDislike be ported to?!
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Spikedislike
12th August 2011
Yeay! More Sheep!
I need to make a feckin' level editor for the DS Sheep Goes Left game, and then rebuild all the levels, all over again.
Baa!!!
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Daily Blog
12th August 2011
Too tired..
Instead, I've been working on Sheep Goes Left DS, which is proving 17,000,000,000% more popular than it's iOS rival.
Quite why, I don't know, but the fact that it's being mentioned quite a bit is a good sign.
Views 55, Upvotes 14
Daily Blog
Bah...
Blog
8th August 2011
I tried, today, but I just wasn't quite into it once the game started to build up.
Today's unfinished game, Unknown.....!
PlayMyCode games no longer work
<img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/pmc_unknown-300x193.png">
The game didn't ever really have a heart. It started well, but it just kinda puttered out after just an hour or two.
The game remains unfinished, expecting some sort magical experience, but n...
Views 34, Upvotes 8
Daily Blog
Meteors and Coins
Blog
7th August 2011
Hey.. This is just Spike Dislike again...!!!
Sod it, different physics make it a different game, so it counts!
PlayMyCode games no longer work
Views 47, Upvotes 13
Release
Today's Doings..
Blog
5th August 2011
I've been very very sleepy today, so I had a nap!
Views 34, Upvotes 11
Daily Blog
Tweakyday
Blog
3rd August 2011
Spent some time today doing a bunch of little tweaky things.
First off, late last night, I started on reformatting SpikeDislike's GameCenter code, to make it a bit more universal, and easy to plop into other games.
Took about an hour to get everything working nicely, integrated into Daisy Chains, and get the highscores up and running.
woot!
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Ios Dev
Promo Stuffs
Blog
26th July 2011
(Apologies, it's a bit "half-asleep/randomly ranty/jumping through topics/freeflow" today!!)
As an iDev guy, I get 50 codes per Update for all my games. I can hand these out to reviewers or folk I know.
Handy.
So, off they go, sent out, willy nilly, to all the reviewers/people I can find, and see where it takes me.
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Ios Dev
Sleepy...
Blog
22nd July 2011
Won't be posting a blog tonight, so might as well do it now.
Long long night..
Sat up writing the newsletter 'til late, then posted the short blog, then headed to bed about 1am..
After lying there playing Sheep Goes Left for an hour or two, I finally drifted off, only to wake up at 5am.
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