Y2:W5 – No Game..
Awww..
I was thinking of doing some sort of fruit machine thing, but I didn’t really have any kind of plan for it, so it didn’t really get off the ground.
Poor thing.
Maybe this week for that?
Or the RPG!
Oops, forgot about that!
It’s getting the Patent Wars treatment!
As you all know I’ve been working on The Jayenkai Archive this week, and it’s looking pretty darn good, if I do say so myself. A few more little tweaks and it all should be suitable for any new games I create.
Although, I did forget to save a plain version of the “Windows/NDS/J2ME” buttons, so I’ll probably have to redraw all them when I get around to adding more systems. Whoopsy!
Since there’s no new game this week, I’ve decided to instead draw your attention to a few games you might not have seen before.
(Using the archive, of course!)
Stickman!
Get the stickman to the library to return his books.
A silly short game, doodled!
Lightholes
A great little puzzler that I’ve attempted to update on more than one occasion. But usually fail horrifically.
This version’s short and sweet, and it manages to pull it off.
Greenie’s Gameboy Adventure
And here’s another example of simpler=better.
Once again I’ve worked away trying to redo this game, but it usually ends up horribly wrong.
Not sure why, but it works fine in Gameboy mode!
7 Games in 7 Days
If you think AGameAWeek is crazy.. Well.. it’s not!
7 silly little remakes within the space of a week, including the first super-fast version of Greenie – The Helecopter Hero
And lastly, Plattings
Man, I completely forgot I’d made this one!
It’s Lemmings, only much much shorter.
AGAW Score : 5 weeks, 4 games, booo…
Comments
Comment from Jayenkai
Time September 16, 2009 at 7:44 am
Yeah, I suggested that last week with the Space Munkys, that it would be fun to have a storyline evolve over the course of a few games.
Much like Space Monkeys 5, but over the course of a couple of weeks.
Those would still count as seperate games, though.
Different engines, different games, no cheating! But the same overall style and theme.
Might work out.
Gotta try and come up with a few that’d mix well, though..
Not sure.
Still thinking about that!
Comment from Thunderskull 4024
Time September 20, 2009 at 12:22 pm
What about Lemmings, but with Monkeys? Brick-Eater added if you solved all 30 levels of Monkey Blocks. Will that go for y2w6?
sorry for too long posts
Comment from Thunderskull 4024
Time September 20, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Common stylistic hint: completing one game unlocks a skin/editor part from it in the next game – like turning Lemmings into Monkeys and giving Brick-Eater and bricks to be moved like in Monkey Blocks. Those unlocks must be stored in a hidden directory with all the stuff like options and local hi-scores. isn’t it a way to make unlockable skins/editor items for the next game?
Comment from Jayenkai
Time September 20, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Y2W6 is pretty much a day away. No chance getting that done in a day!
The evolving skin unlock thing is a neat idea, but my main worry about Alternate Skins is that I’m a shit artist, and it’s usually a miracle if the graphics look good in the first place, never mind having to manage alternative skins!!
Within a week!!!!
Pure luck if that ever happens.
Comment from Thunderskull 4024
Time September 25, 2009 at 6:46 am
Hey, what about Platdude being trapped in a sphere, put in a pinball/breakout machine, with some bricks being beasts from other games? or Platdude Jumping Challenge (same arcade with pixel-based movement, but with angle/power of jump depending on the moment of hitting the jump button? and… make alternative skins based on art of previous games – like: If you beat JnkPlat and Monkey Blocks, in Blockman, you get Platdude rescuing monkeys and and avoiding bats (possibly, as a 4th “world”)
Comment from martiinko
Time September 16, 2009 at 3:16 am
Why don’t you try make some bigger game in 3 weeks maybe?
You can make one engine and 3 levels, or 3 chapters every with 10 levels… Then you will be able to make nice game for longer playing and you can say it’s 1 chapter for a week 
And I know it’s a game a week, but you’re kind out of ideas
so maybe there’s a way.