This wasn't planned, but I'm pissing about with Cardagain again! So, I might as well kill two birds with one stone. I've spent a few hours rebuilding my original BlitzMax version of Cardagain, and I'm going to add a few test bits and pieces onto it (to see what does/doesn't work) before then transferring them back over to the iPhings. Meanwhile, I can post that nice new super-hi-def Cardagain here, and you guys can all play it. That'll be Tuesday's game, and it'll also be the thing taking up all my ti...

I'll post Mac and Linux editions of this tomorrow, but I just want to make sure it's working for all the PC Peeps first.. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/MICROBE2_20100705.zip">Here's a rerelease of Microbe2</a>, with ONLINE SCOREBOARDS!!! And those keyboard controls that everyone apparently wanted.. Lemmie know how it goes! Ta

In true "Better late than never" style, Apple got their act together exactly 7 days after I uploaded the game. That might be fast for a massive company like Apple, but it's a long long time in the world of AGameAWeek! No matter, the game's up and running, and you can buy it at the AppStore for 59p! Bargain! Now that I know I'm not breaking things, I'll be having a wee bit more fun with the iPhings, but worry not. AGAW will still be here, and I'll still be making plenty of freebie games for you. No...

Awww.. A missed week. They're quite rare, nowadays, but there we go. If Apple could get their act together, I could've said "Y2:W48 : Cardagain iPod", but.. guess that's not happening any time soon. Nearly a whole week since I submitted my game, and still no feedback at all. SUCKS.. So, what HAVE I been doing this week?

Nuffin'! Or, rather, I've nothing planned at all. It's Sunday morning, I've not started a game and I have no ideas. ... or at least, nothing that can be done in the next few hours, anyway. Maybe I will, maybe I won't, but I probably won't. I already said the other day that I'd be taking this week off, to handle all the Highscore stuff, but that idea kinda exploded in size, in my head, and is now (probably) going to take a lot longer than planned. Stupid ideas, need to put a lock on my brain!! ...

Although, I did say that last week, too! Never mind.. Read inside for techy stuff!

Looking at the stats, either everyone decided to leave when I released NeonPlat (Why?!) or folk started to get upset when I mentioned my attempts at iPhing Development. I'm not sure which, but there's certainly been an awkward shift. So, I'm going to split things up. Even though my iPod Development won't be "AGameAWeek" (or at least, not for a long long while) I've still decided to call my new site AGameAWeek iDev. Because, what the heck, that's my brand now! I might as well s...

This week's game came out a whole lot better than I'd expected it to. It's still not fantastic, but given that the game only just started to fall into place yesterday, it's not turned out so bad. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Chuffed_Tracks_20100720A.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Chuffed_Tracks_20100720A_thumb.png"></a> <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Chuffed_Tracks_20100720B.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Ch...

Still no name for the train game, so it's currently named "Jay's Train Game"! silly name! It's a bit more gamey, now. Some sort of cross between a proper sim-type thing, and a cheap arcade game! Odd. Needs a few more "This is happening" type notifications, but it's all falling into place. No idea if it'll all be done by the morning, but it's closer than it was yesterday, and it feels a lot more like I've bothered to plan it out!!! <a href="https://socoder.net/upload...

This week I've drawn a train, and some tracks, and am currently in the midst of desperately trying to get the train to behave upon said tracks. So far, it's a stuggle! Trying to get each carriage to turn at the right time, trying to account for the 30-odd track pieces that I've drawn, and trying not to make it look rubbish. .. meh, what can you do! <img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/tighttrain.png"> It looks a wee bit unrealistic, but it gets the job done! (hint for future Jay ...

Not quite the 200 I was hoping for when I asked for levels the other week. Only Shadow1w2 sent any in Still, Shadow1w2 sent us 10 whole new fun mean levels to play with. Meanwhile, I've been so busy with everything else that I hadn't much time to make any, so you'll have to make do with only 7 little levels that I made this morning! eek! In addition, there's a fun new tile to play with. (only 1, mind.... and I struggled to come up with t...

I made this about 4 or 5 days ago, and have had it as my desktop on about 3 different systems. Oooh, it's luvly! (Even if I do say so myself) <a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/RRII_MassiveDesktop.png"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/RRII_MassiveDesktop_thumb.png"></a> There's a game-logic-error in the thing, but other than that it's a nice looking desktop. It's a massive 3200x3200 pixels, but should scale nicely to your resolution... If not, feel free ...

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...

Tuesday : Game #200 : RetroRaider II, Lara's Quest Continues

<a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/rrII_editor.png"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/rrII_editor_thumb.png"></a> Mmm.. Editor! You can play along inside the editor, just like in the last one, but things get a bit shrinkied this time. The game scales down from 7*pixels to 4*pixels, so that a bunch of extra editor clickables can fit around the side. There's not a whole lot of clickables, right now, but it's all a WIP. The levels then save as nice neat XML files, so ...

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! ...

I just spent the past two hours trying to get my iPod game to pause when the user quits via Multitasking, or by the lock button, or whatever. Trying to pass a variable (a single little integer) from one part of the program (AppDelegate) to another (ViewController) is probably one of the most difficult things I've ever had to do! Good God, why do they have to make things so damn difficult!? I mean, seriously, can't we go back to... 10 Print "Hello" 20 Goto 10 Used to work fine for me!?!! Stupid ...

The plan was as follows.. A couple/more Big Remakes due to be released on the week of my 200th game A couple of little piddly games to tide me over. The plan is now.. Spent too much time on Remakes, releasing remakes instead!! Aw well.. First up, Microbe2 A great little remake with.. um.. powerups are thus far about as interesting as it gets! ... <a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/MICROBE2__(Screenshot_04_Jul_2010_134833).png"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/MICROBE2__(S...

Hmm.. This iPhing dev is taking longer than my regular AGameAWeek stuff! But I'm learning, and I'm practising, and I'm breaking and fixing things, too! Today I got loading and saving to work, I got most of my menu working, and I even got the pause button going, too! I've popped in the regular "Platdude Jingle", figured it'd do for the meantime, and.. .. Well, it's looking and feeling much more like a game, now. The code is absolutely ghastly, mind, but that can be sorted. Hopefully! Okeydoke, ...

Again, a bit more than 90 minutes, and again a lot like yesterday's task. Whereas yesterday I was, for reasons unrevealed, playing with Microbes.. Today I'm playing with... <a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/rr2.png"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/rr2_thumb.png"></a> That one!

Am I still doing that 90 minute thing?! *shrugs* Seems to have faded out a bit. Oh well, no matter.. Today I spent about 2 hours working on this. <a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/MICROBE2__(Screenshot_30_Jun_2010_021525).png"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/MICROBE2__(Screenshot_30_Jun_2010_021525)_thumb.png"></a> .. Yep, that..

This one didn't really turn out, so well. It's a nice nature based bee game, with lovely floaty music, and some words. <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Barry_The_Spelling_Bee_20100629A.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Barry_The_Spelling_Bee_20100629A_thumb.png"></a> You hit Tab to highlight the flower/bee, type it's unscrambled word into Barry's Belly, then hit return. Rinse, Repeat <a href="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Barry_The_Spell...

It's probably due to the sweltering heat, but my mind's not been very active today, and I've been really slow at getting anything done. I got quite a lot of Barry the Spelling Bee done, and then decided to do a little work on Cardagain. But, boy, that got messy. First off, I tried playing a bit of title music. That just plain didn't happen!! After 2 hours, I scrapped the idea of title music! Next up, the menu got half complete, and I figured I should add load/save mechanism for tha...

If you hadn't noticed, I've spent most of this week working on my iPhing game, so what happens to AGameAWeek!? Well, I've still got today and tomorrow, and there's nothing better than a rushed quicky game... right!?! Yeah, why not!? <a href="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/BarrySpellingBee.png"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/BarrySpellingBee_thumb.png"></a> I drew Barry The Spelling Bee back in January 2008, but I couldn't quite decide how his game should...

My mum had a couple of games of Cardagain, today! That's how far along it's come!! In less than a week, I've not only finally managed to get a grip on the language, I'm actually making a pretty damn good game, too! In the next couple of days, there's still a few bits and pieces to work on. 1. The menu is really really barebones at the minute, showing 4 items, but only having one clickable one.. (New Game!) 2. The loading screen could do with being switched for an AGameAWeek th...

\o/ yeay \o/ <img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/JNKPlatRetroGamer.png"> Platdude finally got his name in a Magazine! Oh yeah, and congrats to Shadow1w2, who got his Monster Level in the screenshot