Every Tuesday morning, 10:30 GMT (or thereabouts, later if I sleep in!) I post a brand new game, right here on the site.
Or at least, I try to. Sometimes life gets in the way! But most of the time, there's going to be something here.
Each game is 100% coded by me, 95% of the graphics are done by me (with rare dips into the Google Image archive when I'm absolutely dry) and 95% of the audio is also done by me (with rare dips into the Aminet archive for the odd bit of music when I'm not in a composing mood!)
Sometimes they'll be in Blitzmax, ready to be played on Windows, Linux and Mac.
Occasionally they'll be created as Nintendo DS Homebrew.
And on very rare occasions, I'll try playing with something else entirely!
Meanwhile, there's already 200 games, and there'll be plenty more, each and every Tuesday.
54 games. Last year I only managed about 30-odd, so I think that’s pretty good going.
Sure, it might not have truely actually been A Game “Per” Week, but I did at least keep the ratio up.
If I hadn’t taken the time out to build the framework, I probably would’ve actually achieved the target a little better
The stats show I was pretty much on top of things up until that point, but then things got slower and slower until my buffer zone was all dried up.
Anyhoo, this is a nice big lengthy retrospective, and we’ll be looking back at each game, giving ‘em all a fresh score, and seeing how it all tots up.
You can download each one by clicking their titles, or you can grab the super-sized 150Mb megapack torrent, here.
54 games. Last year I only managed about 30-odd, so I think that’s pretty good going.
Sure, it might not have truely actually been A Game “Per” Week, but I did at least keep the ratio up.
If I hadn’t taken the time out to build the framework, I probably would’ve actually achieved the target a little better
The stats show I was pretty much on top of things up until that point, but then things got slower and slower until my buffer zone was all dried up.
Anyhoo, this is a nice big lengthy retrospective, and we’ll be looking back at each game, giving ‘em all a fresh score, and seeing how it all tots up.
You can download each one by clicking their titles, or you can grab the super-sized 150Mb megapack torrent, here.
We’re currently inside Jay’s Month Off, so there’s no game this week.
Meanwhile, I’m playing around with a few bits of tech.
I’ve made a couple of new bits of music, fiddled with some nice big useless pictures that won’t ever be used, and am pretty much sitting here quietly doing nothing all month.
Woot!
At some point in the next few days, I’m going to sit down, and flick through the complete collection (again!) and jot down a few little notes about each game. How well they play, how well they turned out, things like that.
You can look forward (!?) to that, or otherwise just wait things out until October, when we’ll all meet up again, with a whole new batch of luvliness!
This year, the Big Torrent is available from Monova.org!
If you’d like to play 53 out of 54 from Year 2, you can go grab it now.
I left out Rock My Chords, since it’s 49Mb on it’s own, and I reckon it’s got an audience of…. me!
But otherwise, the rest are in there.
All the Windows games, the DS ones and the one single little Java Mobile one, too.
What I’ve NOT included is the Mac/Linux packs.
I’ll be doing those later.
Judging by the interest in the current pack, they’ll be super popular, too.
…
ho-hum
This weekend I’m planning on doing a nice big happy writeup about Year 2.
I’ll be hopping through and replaying all my year’s games, and jotting down little should/shouldn’t's about each one. I might even take the time to record a few seconds of each and then build up a nice big Year-2 Video.
That’d be nice!!
Meanwhile, I can’t sit still, and have already begun a new’ish game.
Fred is a happy Flea, and he loves to hop.
He especially loves it when all the Dandelions are casting their seeds around in the air, as he can grab on, and go for a ride.
