Question : Name all the games in the new AGameAWeek header.

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Prize : The entire sourcecode to this week’s “Munky Train 2″ game!!

That includes everything I’ve done to the framework so far, so you can nosey through it, see how it’s all done, and perhaps even use the framework for your own stuff!
This could be the start of something big.

Or you might just flick through the sourcecode and wonder how on earth I can manage AGameAWeek with such a horrible nasty coding style!

Whichever!

Obviously, this is probably only useful to folk who use BlitzMax. Or maybe you’ll download BlitzMax’s demo, try it out, and think about buying it and starting your own coding.
Who knows!!
A crazy Code based adventure awaits!!

If you’re interested, email the answers, and I’ll pick out a winner.

No..

But, the lack of anything new, and finished, doesn’t always mean nothing on this Blog.. Let’s bring back the old “Experimental” tag from way back when, and show off a few random bits of unfinished garbage.

You can download ALL of these “games” in this neat package.

Lets start with…

Alien Deathmatch!!

11th of Feb 2007 (or thereabouts) I started to draw a batch of Alien Breed style graphics that would be put together to make a nice big DS Alien Breed game. I honestly can’t remember what it was that stopped be doing it, but something did! And then I forgot all about it.
A year later I decided to actually use the sprites, and that’s Alien Deathmatch on the PC.
At some point in the future, I’ll probably revisit the DS one, have a poke around, and come up with a finished game. But not right now! Too busy!!
This “game” features a man on an empty map, with 0 wall collisions, but with a selectable set of weapons, and even 4 different control schemes!!!! Blimey!

Mario’s Fiery Fourth

This one’s a real shame..
I couldn’t work out the whole “LCD Blur” thing, and the game knocks you sick when you play it too long. Or at least, it does me, anyway!
The gameplay in this “game” is pretty basic.. run left and right, collect a mushroom to grow, run into a goomba to shrink, and then that’s about it.. Nothing else happens because when I shoved it on my DS I went “Euw.. wTf!!?” and gave up around that point. Shame..
Looks ok in an emulator, though.. (bah.)
Not sure what those numbers are, by the way!

Puzzobomb!

This latest release was sneakily posted in the middle of the GBADev JNKPlat thread, but I don’t think anyone noticed since it never got posted to any homebrew sites.. I’m posting it here, so it probably still won’t get posted to any homebrew sites
Still, here it is again, and this time it’s got a much nicer frontend so you can pluck the levels out in a friendlier way. It’s not much of a difference, so I never really bothered to post it in a large enough way that it’d get noticed..
There’s also no editor, either.. But there’s a whole big batch of levels, so.. honestly, you won’t need an editor!

Centipong – Week 3

I added a nice blue background to Centipong in week 3.. And then sat looking at the game, and wondering what else to do, so I never really bothered to add anything, and then subsequently never bothered to release it… But here it is today! And it’s not really worth it, but there you go!

So, there’s your games for this week.. Not finished, not great, but still something to look at!

Now…. I really need to get AD2 finished!!!

The monsters will try to thwart you, scaring away Blocklets if you get too close.
In many ways, it’s a lot like Sega’s classic game Flicky. But in other ways, it isn’t! With 3 worlds available, and a whole bunch of pseudo-random levels, you’ll be playing this for at least 10 minutes!

A DS Version has been requested. Whether it appears will be entirely up to whether I can be bothered to make one! (And if I do, it might not quite be as colourful!)

You can download Blockman here.

You can download centipong here, and give it a go.

Keep control of both Platdude and his football.
You use the spacebar to jump. Jump and header the football to send it flying over obstacles.
If you pick up any items, you can use them by hitting the cursor key in the direction of the item. That is, the powerup display shows 4 items, 1 up, 1 right, 1 left and 1 down. As you pick up items, they rotate within the display, until 4 pickups later, the oldest is disposed of whether it’s been used or not.

The gameplay exists on a single 2D Plane. There’s plenty of Parallax scrolling going on, and the levels run on into each other meaning the whole game keeps on moving whether you’re in the main menu or halfway through level 8!

Not that there’s 8 levels, of course! It never quite got that far..

The game’s main issue is it’s collision detection and physics. At the time I was still learning all about the strengths and weaknesses of Blitz coding. I’m sure that nowadays, given my better knowledge of Blitz, I could come up with a much better engine.

In fact, I might even give that a go.

But not right now… Lots of other stuff to be working with at the minute!

Download Bouncer Demo

Use the flash thing on the top right of the site. Doodle yourself a little image, then click “New” which will not only start you off again, but also save the icon to a file on my site.

In the next few days I’ll be collecting all the icons (and moderating them!) and then placing them into future games. They’ll be used in plenty of ways, from Picross puzzles, to odd little incidental imagery.

Hopefully I’ll be able to collect a fair few of them, and I’m looking forward to seeing what images you can come up with.

Thanks for your help.

The first game I attempted was a UFO Fly game, the game you see entered.. But after I’d done that, I attempted a couple more engines.
#1 was a mess, and never really got anywhere. It was a nice graphical effect, but nothing more than that.

#2 however, was a Ball Bouncing AI Racing grand prix game!
Here it is, as it sits on my hard drive. Unlike last week I haven’t bothered to neaten it up at all, and this is pretty much how I left it… And it’s really unfinished, so there’s no end to it.. Just keep floating away!

Use the cursor keys to bound your way through the level. Start by pushing up, then right. But, obviously, don’t get stuck in the roof!

A very strange game.
Would it be worth finishing this one off?
No.. Probably not!

I started this entry in January 2006. I know this because the game has a directory numbered 031..Since starting Wed.Workshop I’ve been numbering all my dev-dirs according to the number of that week’s workshop!

Why I never finished it, I don’t know.
Maybe I grew bored of it. Or maybe I realised it really wasn’t that much of a challenge.

Whatever the case, tonight I decided to spruce it up a little.. So I added in a few sound effects, tweaked the settings a bit, and then added in a tune I found in my huge Chiptune directory.

So, Enjoy!

Mouse controlled, shoot the right, guard the left. Catch bullets in your trail!

Oh, and watch you don’t fall off the edges since there’s no edge detection! Nice and slow!

For those interested, the chiptune is “chromag-shock_therapy23.xm”

I worked on this game for a while, back in early 2003. The idea was to nick the whole Pokemon idea, and create a bizarre Coding based adventure game.
So, I nicked the graphics, too!

I also added a bunch of music that I’d grabbed from Aminet, and designed a nice Logo.
I got the map pretty much working as expected, and even got it so that text would appear in a little box.

It kinda looks like my recent workshop “Quest” games, really.
But, as with all my games, it got placed to the side and forgotten about.

Maybe it’s something I’ll ressurect in the future. I don’t know.
I think if I ever do come back to it, I’ll be better off starting from scratch.

Give it a go if you really want to! (Note : Runs in 320×240, fullscreen!)

Hyper Llama Man lasted for 6 pages.. Not a long time, but at least I managed to pull myself away from Ultima!
The first page of the comic was done entirely in PaintShop Pro. It’s kind of ugly. The next one was done using a quickly made comic strip editor. That was Strips. It worked, but it was specifically designed to create boxy plain-text Hyper Llama Man pages.
Pages 3,4,5 and 6 were all done using Strips 2.

Strips 2 was a much more advanced editor, allowing for sliced panels, bubble speech and a variety of fonts.

It’s more or less in a fully working state, but if you do decide to use it, keep saving often, because it’ll probably crash, or do something stupid!

You can download Strips 2 here.