71² - The ramblings of two 30-something developers

1 Week Apps

mike — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:42:29 +0000

Things have been pretty heavy over the last few weeks. Work has been busy and the very last edits for “Learning iOS Game Programming” have come in, plus working on Particle Designer 1.3. To try and spice things up a bit, Tom came up with the idea of trying to create apps in just one [...]

Particle Designer 1.3 – Preview

mike — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:16:54 +0000

I’ve just done a small video so show the remote control feature being added to Particle Designer for v1.3. We are working hard to get this completed ASAP and more details will be provided to a release date over the coming week or so. We really think that being able to remote control multiple different [...]

New Readers Game – Lexagram

mike — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:09:45 +0000

If you enjoy word searches then I think you’ll love Lexagram. Do you like crosswords? Do you enjoy completing a challenging sudoku puzzle? If so, then you’ll love the three-dimensional challenge of Lexagram. Lexagram is a word search where rearranging the game board is part of the challenge. Move letters around. Rotate rows and columns [...]

New Readers Game – Monster Melody Mash

mike — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:33:40 +0000

I wanted to share another readers game today which I love. Jonathan at Tui Studios has created a great music mashup app called Monster Melody Mash. The thing that really stands out for me is the quality of the graphics and animation. The concept is simple and similar to other music mashup apps that allow [...]

SLQ Downloads

mike — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:06:57 +0000

It’s been a while since I put Sir Lamorak’s Quest on the app store so I thought I’d share how the downloads have been doing. Apart from this blog I’ve performed zero advertising for SLQ which is most likely why the downloads have just been ticking over. The best day of downloads saw a staggering [...]

I’m officially confused…(FIXED)

mike — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:26:09 +0000

OK, I’m official confused now with an odd problem with Particle Designer. The rendering of particles is perfect as long as I apply a 90 degree rotation clockwise to the particle textures. Without that all the textures are rendered on their left side. THIS IS MADNESS. I’ve debugged the living hell out of this and [...]

What can mobile/network operators do for you?

mike — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:58:50 +0000

As a little bit of an off the wall question, I’m wondering what people would like to see mobile operators do for app developers. Most of the time app developers don’t even need to really consider the mobile operator being used as they are simply carrying data and is transparent to the developer. Also tying [...]

Particle Designer v1.3 – Feature Preview

mike — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:26:01 +0000

I thought I’d write a small update on Particle Designer v1.3. A LOT of work is going into this version and we are hoping you are going to really like it. The GUI is getting cleaned up a little and we have added the ability to drag any image onto the device for it to [...]

What does your rig look like?

mike — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:17:19 +0000

One more thing…. I recently took a photo of my setup for a friend and I thought it would be fun to see what others setup looks like. I’ve posted by photo below and I’d be interested to see how you guys are set up :o) Mike Share:

So much to do…so little time to do it

mike — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:13:57 +0000

There are just not enough hours in the day at the moment. My day job is not something I can drop in and out of as it needs my full attention, so my blog and development work is done in the evenings and weekends. At the moment there is so much going on I just [...]