.. If only that was "Money!" and not "trying to update the cache for Shoebox"

Protect the city from the ominous bouncing meteors. It makes so sense, but shoot them all anyway! If you've a Switch, and have downloaded SmileBASIC, you can grab a copy of the game using the Public Key...

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Tonight I'll be posting this week's Petit Switch game, and then.. The week is over!

The game is currently titled Alien Spindome, but I'm not sure the whole "Spin" thing is going to end up being part of it, so I'll probably have to come up with a different title for it. Maybe I'll just do it as a remake of the Amiga PD original Super Obliteration, which is fairly obviously based on..!? Who knows. That's the game I started doing yesterday, after about an hour of staring at the HERO level data, wondering how to compress it into something I could type out.

Find the five blocks within the grid. The numbers on the edge tell you how many tiles are filled in on that row/column. Not all rows/columns have numbers, so watch out for that! You can Print off a Sheet full of puzzles here, or Play in your browser, here.

Right then.. Time to start on this week's Petit Switch game.

Oh yeah, Jumping Jack is that thing where the little guy hops his way up a tower, then gets hit by a random enemy, then falls, then is stunned just long enough that he can't avoid the oncoming fall, then falls, then is stunned again, falls, falls more and falls again, until he's down at the bottom of the level again, and you're left angry and rage-quit. It's that one, isn't it.. Bugger. Right, name change incoming. Please ignore any and all oddities in the database!!

Guide Jack through the maze trying to light up all the squares, but watch out for the evil ghosties! The game was originally intended to be a Q*Bert clone, but with a less diagonal approach. People REALLY dislike the diagonal controls of Q*Bert! Once flattened, however, the game actually ended up being more like Oh Mummy, with the end result being somewhere inbetween. Quick reflexes necessary, and try not to fall! You can Play Jack on the Blocks in the Browsercade in your browser, on Desktop, Mob...

Welcome back to AGameAWeek, and the first game you'll be playing if you don't have Petit Switch. This morning I need to double check the gameplay on Jumping Jack, then get it all uploaded, take a video, upload that, then faff about with all the blog stuff. Chaos!

Michael Fernie has been posting a bunch of ideas into the new game suggestion box. Feel free to post your own! One of his suggestions is actually a game I've been thinking about myself, for the past few weeks.

I didn't want to make a "Proper" QBert clone because people really seem to hate the diagonal controls of QBert, so have instead made it flatter and squarer.

Yesterday I spent the day working on a new game idea list, from scratch. For the past few years I've been working from an old idea list that slowly grew into insane levels, but it's gotten to the point where all the ideas on the list are ever so slightly samey. So, starting from scratch, I've made a list of ideas that might work well within a new year of AGameAWeek's. The list isn't very large, though, so if you've any ideas or concepts that you'd like to see me tackle, ...

OK, looks like I've started, then.

Throw the ball for points! Try to collect all 10 stars along the way to complete the level. If you've a Switch, and have downloaded SmileBASIC, you can grab a copy of the game using the Public Key...

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Went for a checkup this morning.

2020! Crikey. We're definitely in the future, now. Past Back To the Future's future, and even beyond Blade Runner, we're entering a world where literally anything is possible. I should probably carry on making games, then?

A decade is over, and what have I done? 373 games, created a new blogging script for here, rewritten the Socoder forum, started a few new sites and more! Oh, and a brain tumour! It's been a wild and crazy decade, and over the next few days I'll be looking back at the best (and worst) games from the decade. 2010 - BlitzMax 2011 - Touch Control 2012 - The Bad Year 2013 - Monkey-X 2014 - OUYA!! 2015 - The Gap Year 2016 - Forget-V 2017 - Cuddle Me 2018 - Ringing the Changes 2019 - Overl...

Here comes 2020!!

A decade is over, and what have I done? 373 games, created a new blogging script for here, rewritten the Socoder forum, started a few new sites and more! Oh, and a brain tumour! It's been a wild and crazy decade, and over the next few days I'll be looking back at the best (and worst) games from the decade. 2010 - BlitzMax 2011 - Touch Control 2012 - The Bad Year 2013 - Monkey-X 2014 - OUYA!! 2015 - The Gap Year 2016 - Forget-V 2017 - Cuddle Me 2018 - Ringing the Changes 2019 - Overl...

Two days, and two years, as I still need to write my Decade-Roundup post for 2018 and 2019.

A decade is over, and what have I done? 373 games, created a new blogging script for here, rewritten the Socoder forum, started a few new sites and more! Oh, and a brain tumour! It's been a wild and crazy decade, and over the next few days I'll be looking back at the best (and worst) games from the decade. 2010 - BlitzMax 2011 - Touch Control 2012 - The Bad Year 2013 - Monkey-X 2014 - OUYA!! 2015 - The Gap Year 2016 - Forget-V 2017 - Cuddle Me 2018 - Ringing the Changes 2019 - Overl...

A decade is over, and what have I done? 373 games, created a new blogging script for here, rewritten the Socoder forum, started a few new sites and more! Oh, and a brain tumour! It's been a wild and crazy decade, and over the next few days I'll be looking back at the best (and worst) games from the decade. 2010 - BlitzMax 2011 - Touch Control 2012 - The Bad Year 2013 - Monkey-X 2014 - OUYA!! 2015 - The Gap Year 2016 - Forget-V 2017 - Cuddle Me 2018 - Ringing the Changes 2019 - Overl...

You might've noticed an alarming number of "Top 10" posts, yesterday! Ideally I should've started doing that about a week or two ago, to get all 10 posted by New Year, but.. Meh, whatever! If you've not been voting in the polls, please do, as I'll be gathering up the winners of all 10 polls to make a topper-top-10 list at the end of all this. Today I'll tackle 2016 and 2017, and maybe 2018.. I'm dreading trying to organise a top 10 for 2019, though! 140 games in a year? Yi...

A decade is over, and what have I done? 373 games, created a new blogging script for here, rewritten the Socoder forum, started a few new sites and more! Oh, and a brain tumour! It's been a wild and crazy decade, and over the next few days I'll be looking back at the best (and worst) games from the decade. 2010 - BlitzMax 2011 - Touch Control 2012 - The Bad Year 2013 - Monkey-X 2014 - OUYA!! 2015 - The Gap Year 2016 - Forget-V 2017 - Cuddle Me 2018 - Ringing the Changes 2019 - Overl...

A decade is over, and what have I done? 373 games, created a new blogging script for here, rewritten the Socoder forum, started a few new sites and more! Oh, and a brain tumour! It's been a wild and crazy decade, and over the next few days I'll be looking back at the best (and worst) games from the decade. 2010 - BlitzMax 2011 - Touch Control 2012 - The Bad Year 2013 - Monkey-X 2014 - OUYA!! 2015 - The Gap Year 2016 - Forget-V 2017 - Cuddle Me 2018 - Ringing the Changes 2019 - Overl...

A decade is over, and what have I done? 373 games, created a new blogging script for here, rewritten the Socoder forum, started a few new sites and more! Oh, and a brain tumour! It's been a wild and crazy decade, and over the next few days I'll be looking back at the best (and worst) games from the decade. 2010 - BlitzMax 2011 - Touch Control 2012 - The Bad Year 2013 - Monkey-X 2014 - OUYA!! 2015 - The Gap Year 2016 - Forget-V 2017 - Cuddle Me 2018 - Ringing the Changes 2019 - Overl...

Oh boy, was I playing sleepy catchup, yesterday! Everyone's gone home, and it's just Me, Mum and the Cat left in the house. Calm, quiet, and finally a decent amount of sleep.