hi all,

these past two weeks ive been working on a collection of the Game A Week games i made back in 2023

id like all the games to be in one place, with some cleaned up visuals, fixed bugs, and generally trying to improve them without changing things too much

its been interesting to play them all again after two years. it makes me want to do another Game A Week and hopefully get farther. maybe...

the collection is going to have 17 games. i decided to not include the small demos that did not really cohere. here is the final list:

	game	genre	progress
1	Deckchairs	platformer	complete
2	Smores	rpg platformer	complete
3	In Boxes	narrative	complete
4	Accounts of the Dead	narrative platformer	complete
5	Conjuror	rpg	complete
6	Poppy Heart & Rose	puzzle platformer	started
7	Your Personal Aquarium	aquarium	complete
8	Muscle Mouse	platformer	started
9	Photographs	text adventure	not started
10	Conjuror Tomb	rpg platformer	not started
11	Courier	narrative platformer	complete
12	Accounts of the Dead 2	narrative platformer	started
13	The Wind Sings in the Reeds	narrative	started
14	Your Personal Community	narrative	started
15	Courtyard Detective	first person narrative	complete
16	Nova Circuit	first person puzzle	started
17	In the Red Light	first person narrative	not started

most of the games were originally made in Unity. i am making the collection in Godot, which means i am rebuilding a lot of things. i am happy to do this, since i am able to work a lot faster than i could in 2023, and it gives me the opportunity to make some changes.

Deckchairs

the platformer physics across all platformer games has been unified. each platformer game originally had slightly different movement, depending on what felt right at the time. by the time i made Accounts of the Dead 2, the players jump height had multiplied by 4. this makes the games disorienting to play in conjunction, especially if you play them out of order.

other than a higher jump, the only changes Deckchairs got was polish. you can now carry multiple chairs, and they are animated to sway slightly with your movement

Smores

Smores was pretty buggy and very unpolished. i also did not have time to create any sort of difficulty curve when making it. i want to avoid adding too much polish and making the game feel totally different. i would like it to feel like "what if i had a little more time but no more skill." in this case, i changed some encounters and made some new enemies, so that should be interesting.

Poppy Heart & Rose

Poppy Heart & Rose is in a unique position because the files were corrupted and i lost the code. the final result is also buggy and does not work as intended. this means that the new version of the game will be almost entirely new. fun!

Courtyard Detective

being the first 3d game i made, i ran out of time building Courtyard Detective and it ended up with much more linear narrative than i had planned. i am taking this opportunity to give the player more options. hopefully this will feel a little more like an investigation.

those are the most major changes so far. hopefully you will be able to play it soon.

thank you for reading, and i will be back later this month
- ciaran

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