http://jayenkai.socoder.net A new game from Jayenkai, every week! (or thereabouts..) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:06:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This week, Munky in a Mario Costume. Next week, possibly Blockman in a Mario Costume. Third week, I should probably do Greenie in a Mario Costume, but that’s more ‘cos he’d look funny, than for any gameplay reasons! That brings us to April, and with my head spinning with ideas about “The BIG JNKPlat game”, I’m [...]]]> http://jayenkai.socoder.net/2010/03/three-steps-ahead/ Ever since I came up with this whole MAR10 Costume idea, I’ve had three games in mind. 1. Ted Bob was a great game, and needed an update. By making it More Mario, I could easily add extra bits into the mix. Job done, turned out nicely. 2. “Monsters Upside Your Head” played bizarrely, but nicely! [...]]]> http://jayenkai.socoder.net/2010/03/today-i-draw-a-munky/ Download Ace Paceman here. Week two of our fantastic little MAR10 quest sees an old obscure character, from This game, whose name was quickly thought up by Spinal, over at Socoder. (He’s the guy that made DSision, for the DS!) Thanks Spinal!! From this… To this… A nice little tweak, methinks. Although, if I’m honest, this game could’ve been better. It’s [...]]]> http://jayenkai.socoder.net/2010/03/y2w28-ace-paceman-in-a-mario-costume/ A bit of a chore, this week, to be honest. I started on a game, expecting it to be nice and fun, but it’s not really been all that great. Instead it’s been one of those “By the numbers” type things, and there’s not really anything special about it, at all.. Aww well, not to worry, it’s still [...]]]> http://jayenkai.socoder.net/2010/03/this-week-14/ Moving from DS to iPod Touch has been a decent improvement, but.. boy, do I miss having buttons!! There’s also a fair few other little bits and pieces that aren’t quite right. WordJong, for starters, is only about 1/10th of the game it was on the DS, And, what’s up with the audio, it’s like something [...]]]> http://jayenkai.socoder.net/2010/03/why-i-preferred-zookeeper/ I don’t usually repost this here, but. What the hey! Sign up, it’s fun, and weekly, and written!! Socoder Newsletter “Best viewed in Peiplum” #045 – 5th March 2010 Print Hello all The worst thing about writing AGameAWeek is that horrible lack of feedback. If you spend 6 months writing a game, and get only one bit of feedback, that’s enough to [...]]]> http://jayenkai.socoder.net/2010/03/socoder-newsletter-045/ Oh dear, I’m WAY behind, this week. I spent most of yesterday doing odd little bits of behind-the-scene Socoder stuff, so I’m a wee bit behind. Then, today, something that should’ve been a 10 minute job ended up taking AGES to do! I hate things like that! Not to worry, though. Our main character is drawn, and he now [...]]]> http://jayenkai.socoder.net/2010/03/um-the-characters-drawn-at-least/ And so it begins…. A whole month of MAR10 games, featuring your favourite (or not) Jayenkai characters, all dressed up like Mario! Hurray! Ted Bob in a Mario Costume Taking the character, and the gameplay, straight from Three French Hens, I’ve upped the stakes, upped the hens, and even added…. !!!!OMG!!!! TWO PLAYER MODE!!!! but you’ll need a [...]]]> http://jayenkai.socoder.net/2010/03/y2w27-ted-bob-in-a-mario-costume/ We’re about to enter MAR10, here in the UK, so I might as well show off a screenshot for Tuesday. Yeay! First game in MAR10 will be “Ted Bob in a Mario Costume” Ted Bob, of course, being the character in the 12 Games of Christmas’s “Three French Hens” You can play the original version here. The new one will [...]]]> http://jayenkai.socoder.net/2010/02/this-week-13/ *Very ranty, and quite wordy!* There’s a whole crapload of spam showing up in my inbox lately. Stupid rubbish uninteresting “Newsletters” that I probably did sign up for, expecting something good, but that I usually end up getting pissed off at, due to the lack of interesting.. anything! Aria is an example of how to do things well. Aria.co.uk [...]]]> http://jayenkai.socoder.net/2010/02/rant-gamedev/