At the start of this week, I completed a nice quick game of Atoms for my phone, so here’s that..

It’s a classic Amiga PD game from many many years ago. Tap to place an atom, place too many to explode them, capture all the tiles you can.
Simple gameplay, but lots of fun!

You can Download Atoms here

For the rest of this week, I’ve been working on a mock board-game. Confined to the rules of board, it’s been fun creating a game that could conceivably exist in the real world.
Unfortunately, that game’s nowhere near ready yet. It’s a fairly complex board game and has a great big bunch of rules to go along with it.
Crazy crazy stuff..

No matter. I still managed a game this week, and that’s what it’s all about, right?!
Next week, I’ll probably have the board game done!

I’ve about 20-odd projects on the go, this week, so you’ll have to excuse the lack of blog entries, and even a decent AGameAWeek game.

Most of this week was spent trying to roll a dice! (die, whatever)
I figured that, with 4 frames per roll, I’d need around about 200+ frames of animation.
I tried to work out all the animations, and it drove me crazy!
Then I rested, and eventually worked out a way to do it, without bothering to animate it, which was a lot simpler to do.
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Then the game idea I’d had actually turned out to be really rubbish, and the whole dang thing got scrapped.

Aw well, what can you do!

So, within a mostly wasted week, take a peek inside and see what I actually did do!

continue reading "Two Games you probably can’t play!"

My cookie work’s kicking off, now. With a fully working keyboard, and sprites flying around the screen, I’m ready to start building games.

I’ve a few games in mind and am hoping to get some work done during the week.
But what does that mean for AGameAWeek?
Well, A Java game is still a game! So, if I get anything nice working, that’ll be this Tuesday’s AGameAWeek release.
Sorry for all if you’d rather complain about that! But I can’t work on 100 things at once.

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Or rather, I can’t get the 100 things done within a week

If I can get Blitz + Java games done, I’ll probably post them here, too.
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But then I also have to get the PRC2 DS thing done, too!
Yikes.. So much!!

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 out it wasn’t…

continue reading "Puzzobomb"

Last month I got my Samsung U600 phone.
On Sunday I decided to get Java installed, and give it a go.
Today, I’m releasing Centipong Jr.
 

 
You should know how the game goes, but this one’s lacking in a few features.
1. It’s not got any audio, ‘cos I haven’t figured out how to do that yet!
2. There’s no Levels structure, just more and more centipedes.
3. There are no powerups.
 
Will these features be added?
More than likely.
 
Will they be free?
We’ll have to see.
 
I might try to make a bit of cash from my Mobile developing, but we’ll have to see how good I get at it first!
 
In the meantime, you can download it here.
 
It may or may not work well on your phone!
Let me know how it goes, along with your phone type, and any other info you can pass along.
Thanks.
 
Enjoy.