This week we're going to be doing the first part of something that may or may not actually happen!! Since last year was Nintendo's Year of Luigi, the guys over at RetroRemakes have decided that this year oughta be the Year of Horace. I challenged site-admin RobF to attempt to create a different Horace game every month, and post it to OneGameAMonth. I'm not sure he's going to do it, if I'm honest. But the challenge was set, and although unspoken, I figured it would only be fair to challenge myself to t...

(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/20140124-160843.jpg"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/20140124-160843.jpg" alt="20140124-160843.jpg" class="alignnone size-full" /> A simple little retro platformer. Nothing magical, just a neat little run-and-jump game.

I don't normally do "Postmortem" type blog posts, but figured I might as well start. Not sure whether this will become a regular thing, or not, but I thought it'd be nice to keep track of what happens after I post each game. In future I might leave it until a good few days have passed, but the world of AGameAWeek tends to flow fairly rapidly. We'll have to judge it as it happens. Anyway, welcome to the newest section of AGameAWeek, where I take a look at the stats and things, to help figure out if the...

Welcome to the wonderfully colourful retro-styled world of Retroball! A spectacular remake of the bat and ball classic, but with all new rules, combo scoring, and even a few powerups along the way. ( width="480" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/uOwyUEbf994" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>>

A brand new site has just been launched. Interview an Indie does exactly what it says on the tin. Blog creator (URL "https://Twitter.com/g_unitt">George Unitt) sends email questionnaires to indies, and posts the replies Simple and effective! First up, ME! O/yeayo/!!! You can (URL "https://interviewanindie.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/an-interview-with-jayenkai/">Read it Here).

Over this past week, I've been inexplicably productive, and although I *could* spend some time bulking up my games, I'm instead focusing on the classic AGameAWeek rule of "Just get the game done!" As such, I've not only finished off RetroBall, ready for Tuesday (or already on OUYA), I've also actually managed to make ANOTHER entire game, this week! That's TWO games!! Blimey!! But I'm not launching both. That would be silly! Best to stockpile these things, and stick to the regular Tuesday schedule, ...

(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/20140119-022035.jpg"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/20140119-022035.jpg" alt="20140119-022035.jpg" class="alignnone size-full" /> Platdude goes out for a walk.

By default, the Graphene theme on Wordpress doesn't do comments on Status or Media posts. I'm not entirely sure why that is, and it took a little effort to get it working for me. In the end, it came down to a single line of text. Go to appearance/editor, and open the loop.php file. In there, you want to add the line... if (is_single() || is_page()) {comments_template();} Within the upper loop-based section of code, as in the following image. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/u...

(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/20140117-141120.jpg"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/20140117-141120.jpg" alt="20140117-141120.jpg" class="alignnone size-full" /> If you'd like to have a play of RetroBall before it's proper AGameAWeek launch, on Tuesday, you can find it right now on OUYA!!

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There are hundreds of great sites that I should probably link to, and much like linking to my hundreds of games, I've always found it a bit of a mess once I start trying to cram it all into a small sidebar on the right of the site. As such, I've finally opted to create one great big link-page, full of everything I could think of within the short hour or so that it took to add it! If you're missing from this page, let me know!! <table border="1px" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <t...

After this week's dire disappointment, I decided to go ahead and try to make something a little more.. um.. Gamey!! So, I went way-way-way-way-way-way back to basics, and made a Pong game.. (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/added_2_scores.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/added_2_scores-300x225.png" alt="" title="added_2_scores" width="300" height="225" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-3430" /> ...

If last week was an example of a good week, then this week is most definitely the polar opposite! Welcome to a failed AGameAWeek!!

Sorry, been FAR too focused on coding to have thought about the monthly wallpaper's, so we'll start the year with a nice simple Platdude wallpaper. *shrugs* (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Desktop_Jan_2014.jpg"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Desktop_Jan_2014-1024x1024.jpg" alt="" title="Desktop_Jan_2014" width="590" height="590" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3423" /> Click for INSANELY OVERSIZED!!)

Forewarning : I'm not entirely sure if I'll be able to finish off this week's game in time! For one thing, it feels like it should be a little more complex than it currently is. Loads of extra stuff could be added, but I probably don't have the time to add it all in. Secondly, however, is the current issue I'm having, health-wise. All of 2012's nastyness has left me slightly off-balance, and kinda queazy a bit. For the most part, I'm managing quite well, but this week's game.. (URL "https://AGameA...

Or, as the titlescreen would have you call it, "Greenie's Little Adventure" Feel free to use either of the two titles! Welcome back! AGameAWeek starts anew, this week, with a nice little remake of a game I made a good 7 or 8 years ago. My original "The Quest" game took a board-game-style approach, but never really got very far due to the limits and oddities of trying to play a board game on a computer. It felt strange to have to roll dice all the time, and the battles were never that great. I'm not ...

As week one rapidly approaches, and I'm posting less and less, it's probably apparent that I'm knee deep in the middle of a mega-coding frenzy. Or, if that's not apparent, let it be known.. I'm knee deep in the middle of a mega-coding frenzy!! Over the past week or so, I've overhauled quite a few features of my framework, including getting things prepared for OUYA, with controller additions and things like that. I've learned quite a few little bits and pieces about controllers over the last few months,...

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NeonPlat Extreme appears to be following the same path as BlastTrax, and gaining a nice bit of attention. Knowing my luck, this will probably result in an equally similar amount of sales. ie, bog all!! Folk seem to love my games, but getting them to try them is a bitch!!! You can (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=311">Download NeonPlat Extreme here) for all kinds of devices!

This week, Platdude gets his first real outing for about 3 and a half years!! Poor fella's been cooped up for so long, he's started to go a bit doolally! (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/GameList.php?ShowJust=312"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/JNKPlat_-_Xmas_2013_20131219B_thumb.png">

Welcome to the Top 13 AGameAWeek Games of 2013 No other Top-10 lists appear to want to give any of my games any recognition at all, which kinda sucks since I've made a whole bunch of REALLY great games, this year! I don't even get a token "Made a shitload of games, this year" mention! Sucks!! So, sod them all, I'll make my own Top-10 list. And it'll be all my games, and I'll even add a few more just to make it a bit more 2013 relevant. That'll show 'em!! Mwa-ha-haaa!!!

<img src="https://socoder.net/AGAWGold_128.png" style="float:left;"> AGameAWeek Gold looks back at some of the best, and worst, games that have been previously released on this day in history. Today's game from the archive is a lovely little arena battler, with lots of weapons and things to shoot!

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Over on the Monkey forum, a discussion about level data set me off thinking about making this post. Whenever I put levels into my games, I tried to keep them as small as I possibly can. I've been doing it this way for years, and always figured it's nice to compress my data into something that's easily shareable. .. True, I rarely ever get around to actually making these things easily shareable, but for the most part I try to keep things as minimal as possible.

NeonPlat Extreme sees most of the elements of the NeonPlat series of games, all cobbled together into one great big lump sum. There's lots of fun little things to play around with, and for the most part it's the same single-screen platforming action you've come to expect. ( width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/D1dkbggU6kU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> NeonPlat Extreme is now available on iOS, Android, OUYA and Windows! (URL "https:...

(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Flakes1.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Flakes1.png" alt="" title="Flakes" width="512" height="512" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3364" /> Today, I realised I could do with some proper little snowflakes, for use as particles, and started trawling the net. .. Then I went.. "hmmm... Might as well make a generator.." And then I did..

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I formally give you, and everyone else, permission to make videos of you playing my games, and then shoving those videos onto YouTube or Vimeo or whatever else you'd like to put them on. I'd prefer to hear some commentary over my games, so I can watch them and enjoy the silliness of seeing people rant and shout, as they lose life after life in my ludicrously difficult games. I would prefer if you didn't add any additional music to my games, but then YouTube will probably kick your arse for doing that,...