Finding it hard to make a start, tonight.
I think the daily blog's cutting into my ability to write cohesive sentences. Either that or my brain's fried from the AGameADay stuff.
I keep meaning to do this daily.
Every night, add a couple of little bits to the newsletter, then by Friday it's all done.
..
Thing is, I kinda suck at routines!
I'm doing ok with the Blog though.
Perhaps I should make Mobile Daily Alert #2, to remind me to do the newsletter, too.
OK, I'm gonna stuff that into my phone RIGHT NOW..
By next week, we'll either have a super-duper mega newsletter, or..
..
more of this.
DD's not been stuck making an iOS game, so his site's been getting loads of nice overhauls, all week. (lucky bastard!)
From a fantastic little playable 3D Wolfenstyled maze thing, to some neat little speedups and even a great new collision detection technique.
DD's been kicking ass! bit.ly/oXkx5B socoder.net/?topic=2419
; Snowball!!
The influx of games, lately, has been helping spread the word, and the word's bringing in new members who are making more games, which spread the word further, and on and on until they end up hosting 1,000,000 new games every day!
It can only get better from here on!
; pacWord
A little Pacman game where you run around a maze, eating pellet-letters in the correct order. bit.ly/re54ED
; PuzzleBlocks
A clone of the "tap a colour to remove all same-colour adjacent blocks" classic. bit.ly/ofKVjX
This week, I've been battling the need to do Socoder work, with the overwhelming urge to continue work on my latest iOS game.
It's a fun little game to play with, and I really want to finish it off, so.. apologies that I've done naff all Socoder work again.
sorry!
; Tile Map Drawing.
Waroffice struggles with that age old issue of 3D Graphics Cards vs 2D Techniques.
I swear.. Everything but a PC can manage decent tilemaps.
WTF is wrong with PCs!?
Bring back 2D graphics cards!! socoder.net/?topic=2437
; Libraries
Always a struggle when you're going with raw languages, as opposed to a pre-packaged "game builder" style language.
JediMasterSterling asks what sort of libraries he should be using.
JediMasterSterling also has complex issues with multilayered if statements.
Things can get quite complicated pretty quickly, once you move beyond the testing stuff. socoder.net/?topic=2433
; Gimme Ideas
I'm attempting 52 games, over at AGameADay.. Or at least, that's what I figured would be a nice number, anyway.
I'll probably have dried up, idea wise, within another week or two. Help the old feeble man come up with new games, by throwing random stuff at him until he ends up with no option but to give 'em a whirl! socoder.net/?topic=2435
You can also help design some new tiles for random anything games, using the simple 256x16 image provided, here.. bit.ly/oPetaT
; Nobody gets this..
It was blindingly apparent, when I clicked to the image that Steve provided, that there would only be Me, Steve, and maybe Spinal, who knew what the fuck MicroLive actually was, and why the image would've been perfect for it.
Given that nobody's replied, I'll assume that was pretty damn accurate.
I liked it, Steve!! socoder.net/?topic=2434
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; Lyle in Cube Sector
Mmmmmm..
Baddies that reappear when you return to the same room again!
Classic murderous platformy block throwing gameplay
Proper Hard
Nice simple little single-screen platformer but with a little too much "BLINKY!!!" for the jump sound, for my taste! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLJbKm8q0XY
raphics.library
