People often complain that my games look "too retro", and yet, this mostly-monochrome game with a seriously shitty sprite, is getting lots of attention. .. You can't please everybody! Seems to be going fairly well, and is relatively popular, but the exact same issue seems to be cropping up over, and over, and over and over again.. The helicopter only ever faces Right, and the planes only ever face Left. "OMG!! It doesn't turn around!!" "Why can't I turn round!?!" "It should be able to turn!!!" P...

I'm sick to death of, every single day, deleting buttloads of spam-comments from my Jayenkai Archive. Every day, mountains of the stuff.. And practically no actual comments, whatsoever. I think I've had 2, so far, this year.. .. and one of those was me replying to the first!! Ludicrous amounts of spam, zero actual usage. I figured, for every bit of spam, there's a half-a-second of CPU usage going to waste, even if nobody ever saw it. So, they're gone.. All of them.. Every single comment that th...

A lovely little flying game, this week, as you take control of a friendly little chopper, and try to save all your pals. As you race about the landscape, you'll meet plenty of enemy aircraft, hellbent on stopping you. Attack, Defend, and Survive!!

I woke up late, this morning, and felt somewhat lethargic. I tried doing a bit of coding, but nothing seemed to fall into place, and I couldn't really be bothered to tackle anything. I closed the laptop before dinner, and opted to give up on the day. Here's what happened on my day off..

I love my iOS devices, and I love the iOS Ecosystem. I also love that iOS has (so far) been the only bloomin' way that I've managed to sell my games in a fruitful manner. (Android sales have been.. *shrugs* Pisspoor!!) In order to get a Monkey-x game onto iOS, I first need to transfer the code to the Mac (Drag 'n' Drop over the network) then recompile with a few choice tweaks along the way. The game then needs approximately 738 different icons, which all look the same, but are marginally different si...

Coming up on Tuesday, "My Little Rescue Helicopter!", a nice retro game with a helicopter, and some evil enemy aircraft! (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ssc.jpg"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ssc-1024x576.jpg" alt="ssc" width="590" height="331" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3516" /> A lovely little shoot-em-up/rescue game with good old-fashioned old-skool graphics. Then, next week, relax wit...

(URL "https://Twitter.com/lessmilk_">@LessMilk_) has opted to give the whole AGameAWeek challenge a go, and has managed 6 so far. You can keep up with his efforts over on (URL "https://www.lessmilk.com/">his own site, here.) I wish LessMilk all the luck with his attempt, and will be keeping an eye on his progress for as long as I remember to do so!!! (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/image.jpg"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/image-1024x57...

Welcome to February, everybody! ... How is it already February!!? In preparation for Tuesday's game, here's a lovely big wallpaper with a tiny little helicopter! (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Desktop_Feb2014.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Desktop_Feb2014-1024x1024.png" alt="Desktop_Feb2014" width="590" height="590" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3508" /> Click for MASSIVVVE!!!)

When I first bought my iPad, I never imagined the amount of "work" that I'd end up doing on the thing. The fact is, it's SO much easier to have your iPad on hand, than it is a giant laptop. That's not to say I don't use my laptop. It's pretty much an essential part of AGameAWeek. You can't exactly do your coding on iOS, so the laptop is there for the majority of the things I do, but over the course of the last year-or-so, I've found myself doing smaller bit-tasks on my iPad. I figured I should probab...

In the first of a (hopefully) full year of monthly Platdude related releases, Platdude gets to wander through a giant forest, battling enemy creatures, and avoiding deadly spikes! <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Platdude_in_The_Endless_Forest_20140127B_thumb.png"> <img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/complete/Platdude_in_The_Endless_Forest_20140127A_thumb.png">

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!!

This is a status post!

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!!