This time last year, I reattempted the game Microbes, but it didn't really work out as well as I'd hoped for. This year, I opted to give it another go, and have mixed in oodles of lovely glowyness! Seems to have done the trick! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Disc_Blaster_20140311A_thumb.png"> <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Disc_Blaster_20140311B_thumb.png">

A randomly doodled oddity, this month. Not sure why I ended up drawing this, if I'm honest, but never mind!! <br /><br />(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140309-095347.jpg"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140309-095347.jpg" alt="20140309-095347.jpg" class="alignnone size-full" /> Click for Bigger!)

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Just a few short hours ago, I hadn't yet started a game for Tuesday, so in a vaguely panicked state, I decided to cobble something together. I've attempted this game a few times in the past couple of years, and each time I've tried, it's never quite come up to the same standard as the original and it's sequel. (URL "https://socoder.net/uploads/1/microbes_evolved.png"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/microbes_evolved_thumb.png"> I can safely say, wi...

Platdude tried to join in, but forgot he has no mouth...<br /><br />(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140306-145153.jpg"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140306-145153.jpg" alt="20140306-145153.jpg" class="alignnone size-full" />

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It was somewhat inevitable that we'd have to revisit the world of SpikeDislike, and since the last game was released around about a year ago, I might as well treat us all to a brand new release! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Spiky_Tower_20140304A_thumb.png"> <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Spiky_Tower_20140304B_thumb.png">

Due to unforeseen circumstances, my entire Cable service is currently down. The engineer's due to show up on Wednesday, but until then I'll probably be offline. I can just about get online via iPad, but that's no way to upload AGameAWeek!! This week's release will, hopefully, be on Wednesday, unless I somehow get online any earlier. Grrr...

This week I started on one game, but it fairly rapidly became something entirely different! What we've ended up with is a new game in the SpikeDislike family ( width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/qeUKUdBdPB8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> Coming Tuesday : Spiky Tower!

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The year of Platdude continues, as we head into Platdude's garden to collect all the lovely fruit that's been growing, in this heavily AGameAWeek-ified remake of the classic Mr Do! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Platdude_in_A_Bit_of_A_Do__20140225A_thumb.png"> <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Platdude_in_A_Bit_of_A_Do__20140225B_thumb.png">

If you, like me, get sick to death of resizing images to 75,000,000 different sizes, just so that iOS can show a tiny icon on your game, you'll probably love to have some kind of little tool to do it all for you. When I first started my development in Monkey, I created a little tool to make a bunch of icons. Over the course of the past year, the tool has expanded to cope with all kinds of other challenges. You can (URL "https://socoder.net/uploads/1/IconBuilder.zip">Download Icon Builder here). R...

Every year for the past few years, I've made one of my games free for the day, to celebrate my birthday. This year, it's been decided that SpikeDislike2 will be the game of choice. (URL "https://socoder.net/uploads/1/image-22-02-14-04-58-06.jpg"><img src="https://socoder.net/uploads/1/image-22-02-14-04-58-06_thumb.jpg"> Help celebrate the wonders of my birthday by (URL "https://itunes.apple.com/app/id604867277">grabbing a copy of SpikeDislike2, for...

It's a quirky game, and it can get a wee bit chaotic, but I've been enjoying playing it on my iPad and figured other folk might enjoy it, too, so I decided to submit it to Apple, and it's now available on the AppStore. <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Space_Popcorn_20140211A_thumb.png"> <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Space_Popcorn_20140211B_thumb.png"> You can BUY Space Popcorn here on the AppStore, where it currently costs just 69 poundy-pennies, or 99 dollar-cents, or w...

How fast can you destroy the final warrior!? Warning : This game is EASY!!

Since I appear to be making a sort of transition to OUYA, lately, I figured it'd be useful to know whether the general AGameAWeek crowd currently owns one of the things. <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="https://static.polldaddy.com/p/7803619.js"></script> <noscript>(URL "https://polldaddy.com/poll/7803619/">OUYA?)</noscript>

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Over on the OUYA website, they occasionally allow developers to write blog posts, and for some reason have decided that I'd make a good blog writer. Quite why this is, is beyond me, as we all know I tend to rant and waffle, and basically type any old crap into my own blog posts. But what the heck! I figured I'd join in anyway! (URL "https://www.ouya.tv/ouya-devlog-james-gamble-a-game-a-week/">My BlogPost!) It should be noted that I actually wrote this thing WAY back in December!...

Not normally the type of thing I post, here. I tend to leave AGameAWeek to the gamey stuff, but folk keep inquiring, so I guess it's something that some people seem to love to know about!

Space Popcorn : Battle your way through the evil forces of POPCORN!!! How much can YOU pop!? <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Space_Popcorn_20140211A_thumb.png"> <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Space_Popcorn_20140211B_thumb.png"> Sorry : Small screenshots really don't do it justice!!

I have no issues with the game. It's a bit shit, but then so is SpikeDislike.. SpikeDislike is "ball bounces, move right..." and has little or no substance beyond that. Of course, I then added a wonderful combo system, and then made a sequel with oodles of lovely new gameplay styles and plenty of options and such, but at it's heart it's still the same game it always was. Ball bounces, move right... In many ways, so is flappy bird. Flappy bird is "that helicopter game", but with harder obstacles to ...

Last night, I closed my laptop the lazy-man's way, by simply shutting the lid. I should know better. It never quite manages to "Resume Windows" without buggering something up along the way. This morning, it didn't boot at all, and I've spent most of the day doing the big format/reinstall stuff. At the time of typing this, I'm battling with Android and Java SDKs, desperately trying to get that stuff up and running again. Monkey's managing HTML5 and Windows targets, but OUYA and Android are currently o...

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