Puzzobomb, a mix of Puzznic and Bombs.. (For Jericho!) Starting with the Wednesday Workshop base from the other day, I decided that yes, I would build it up a bit.   So, I opened up the Amstrad CPC game “Puzznix” which, since I was a kid, I’d always assumed to be “the original game”.. Turns [...]

The DrunkenCoders Christmas Compo finishes tonight. I bothered to enter the new JNKPlat Xmas Special (You can download that here) but it’s nothing too special.. So, this morning, at around 8am, I decided to get my arse in gear and actually make something nice and snowy for the compo. Around 5 hours later, give or [...]

Note : This is much more Game-Specific than my regular posts! Bombliss is one of my favourite alternate Tetris games. It has all the playability of the original Tetris, and it also has bombs, and chain reactions and things, too. Last night, I opened up the Tetris sourcecode for the Retro Collection, and started hacking [...]

Those expecting another Saturday filled with happy retro memories have a long wait. I took the week off! Mostly because coding 18 games within 3 weeks takes quite a lot out of you, but also ‘cos my DS finally gave up trying to hold onto the tiny shred of hinge it had remaining. (ie, it [...]

Another week, another pile of retro-mania! You get the idea by now, 6 extra games and the odd bugfix. I had to redo a lot of Tetris, this week, since I’d ballsed up quite a bit of it last week! But it’s all working rather well now, so you can happily settle down to a [...]

A week later, and I’ve insanely coded a whole new bunch of games! The Donkey Kong thing didn’t work out, and is so mind-numbingly dull it hasn’t yet ended up in the Garbage heap. But not to worry, Racer’s in there.. So that’ll be keep you occupied! I managed to fix up the Dot Popping [...]

If you’re following development of Platdude’s Retro Collection hoping for a new batch of great games, then you’re in luck! TWO great games have been added, TWO rubbishy games have been added, and ONE more game is being worked on right now, as I type this.. Games 1 and 2 are listed in the official [...]

And so it begins, the long boring task of making lots and lots of games I lie. It’s not boring! Centipede took shape, gradually, over the course of a day. Most of the tweaking was in the main engine, as opposed to the game itself, since I had to be sure of all my different [...]