New game released! - AGSnake: The Last Bite

For reasons beyond my understanding, I've wanted to make a Snake game in AGS for years. Needing a small side-project to help me focus my brain for the last development stint of Captain Disaster 3, I decided now was the time to make it. I had fun working out the game mechanics, how to track snake music and direction, collisions etc - yes you heard me, I found it FUN! - anyway, I added a few features to hopefully make it more fun, like power ups / downs and 2-player cooperative mode. 

 

Hope you enjoy it!

Incidentally, I subtitled it "The Last Bite" because it turns out that another AGS user had the idea of developing a Snake game with the name AGSnake - albeit, 14 years later, that hasn't been released (but don't give up hope, you never know!).

Editor's Note (24.04.26) - the game was nominated for Best Non-Adventure Game and Best Programming in the 2025 AGS Awards. It won neither, but the games that beat it were most definitely worthy winners, so I'm not complaining :-) To see the winners, check out this post.

Voice test - Corneliustin

Corneliustin was a fun character to write - he's kind of a cross between Stan from Monkey Island and Foghorn Leghorn. When we released the demo which had no voicing, I watched a few playthroughs where the person playing was adding their own voicing - and without exception, everyone voiced him as a Texan, so my writing must have been reasonably successful!

Here you can see - er, hear - Rob McManus with his spot-on interpretation of the character.

(Incidentally the sparks one the faulty control panel affect my first couple of words. It wasn't me doing weird things with my voice!!)

Captain Disaster Audiobooks

A long time ago, in a galaxy pretty nearby, I started editing my original set of short stories starring the beloved space doofus and recording the results as audiobooks. I did the first five, and now I'm admitting defeat - I just don't have the time or energy to complete these. With the first 5 already recorded and available, I have made the decision to simply leave things as they are, but reduce the price from $10.99 (originally had 11 episodes to edit / record) to $4.99, to reflect how many episodes are actually available.

Below is an excerpt from Episode One, and the Itch page has excerpts for all 5 episodes.

Click here for the relevant page on Itch.

Website milestone

In the big scheme of things it means nothing of course, but it feels quite significant to me - this website has now gone past 750,000 page views. Or, to put it in a way that perhaps sounds more impressive, three quarters of a million views.

That's all - it means nothing really, but I do love a good milestone! :-)

Of course, the next milestone is going to be one million page views - that's definitely something I never really thought about reaching when I first started this blog. It's small-fry in terms of websites and even blogs, I know, but it's still nice to be realistically looking at reaching that kind of target.