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Last month, I got to the end of the month, and opted to leave out the last week.
I was FAR too busy doing Unijuggler iOS, it grew out of control, and AGameAWeek took the fall.
This month, we’ve reached the last week of the month, and a similar kind of thing has happened.

I’ve spent the past four days working on a “Not Cluedo, Honest” game, and although it’s gone well, it’s also not!
The game looks ok, but it doesn’t really play well at all.
The game tries to be playable, but the boardgame nature brings with it an all to familiar problem. Mostly that the game would be 100,000% more enjoyable as an actual board game.

Try as I might, I can’t even begin to get any excitement out of the game.
It’s basically a case of click to roll, move a bit, wait a bit, rinse, repeat.
It’s dull.
It’s REALLY dull!!

And after even a few days of putting up with it, I don’t think I’m capable of putting up with it any longer.

I’m scrapping this week’s AGameAWeek because I’d rather top myself than play it any more! (A good purpose for those weapon drawings I did!)

I think I’m heading back to bed, today!
Some days just don’t seem to start off very well, and after a few hours of trying, don’t appear to be getting any better!

Today I’ve managed to complete the following amazing achievements.
1. Get two dice to roll on the screen.

That is all…

I also tried getting Blockman Gets iOS to feel right, but… I dunno..
For some strange reason the controls seem WAY off, and I’ll probably have to redo them from scratch. Maybe it’s the constant switching of frameworks that’s affected it somehow?

Bah.

A wholly unsatisfactory day, today.

I was in two minds whether to do this game now, or leave it for a couple of weeks to come up a few ideas, but I had nothing else to do, so I started it anyway!

Whether the board will end up looking like that isn’t quite 100% yet.
It took about 2 hours to get that working, and I’ve thought ahead for a change. The board is made up from a grid, which is either 1′s (movable hallways) 2′s (rooms) or 3′s (hallways with doors).
The game converts the simple tiles into the board, and that’s pretty much it.
I still need to add room titles, and maybe the little secret passages, but for the most part that’s the board.
(and it may or may not be random layouts, depending on whether I can be bothered to do that!)

Meanwhile, I spent this morning attempting to draw the weapon cards. *ugh* I can’t draw!

Tuesday : Not Cluedo, Honest!

I struggled to get anything new started, today..
I’m not 100% sure why that is. Perhaps I woke up too early, or maybe it’s that “End of Project” exhaustion, who knows.
I think it’s the first time this year, that I’ve hit that particular wall, and as a result I pretty much just sat about playing games all day, and not actually achieving a damned thing.

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This is an emergency post.
The future of AGameAWeek may be in jeopardy.
Everything hinges on the decision I make within the next few hours.

Do I do the Board Game thing, or do I do the Pancake thing?
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