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If you've got a Pebble Time (The nice shiny new colour model) you can now get a colourful Platdude watchface, along with an updated colour edition of SpikeDislike Jr Both are available from the Pebble downloady doohickey. Photos : Beware : Hairy Arm!! (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Pebble_Plat.jpg"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Pebble_Plat-1024x768.jpg" alt="Pebble_Plat" width="604" height="453" class="alignnone siz...

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Yesterday was one of those Lazy days. Currently my laptop is doing a (URL "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyncToy">SyncToy) backup of my GameDev and WebDev folders, which as you can probably imagine, isn't very good for it's battery! I've had the thing plugged in permanently for about a day and a half, and the damn thing's still slaving away copying hundreds and thousands of files. Eeek! -=-=- (URL "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyncToy">SyncToy) is a completely free too...

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First up.. The SpikeDislike3 v1.5 update is LIVE on iOS. This all new update includes a lovely new menu, portrait mode, Music-Loop option (albeit a bit naff!), the ability to slide your finger on the lefthand wiggly-bar to scroll through the menu quicker, an option to turn off the Parallax, a number of background fixings.. Oh, and Five New Themes! And 50 New Levels!!! Wowsies!!! (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/IMG_0326-1.png"><img src="https:/...

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In the past couple of nights, I've begun to work on AL's new AL Bum, and have decided that it's going to be titled "Liquid" As per the past few AL Bums, each track will have a different ALphabetical title, from A-Z, but this time with the added benefit of all the tracks being vegetables. Why? Because I'm rubbish at coming up with names for songs, and this is a lazy way to do it! ( width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="...

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I awoke this morning to find that FileZilla had crashed. I'm using FileZilla to do a complete file transfer from my old NAS drive to the new one. I'm not sure how far it got, or why it crashed, but crash it did, so I had to restart the whole bloomin' thing. Grrr. It's been set to "Skip if identical" to that at least should speed it up a bit. Two whole smegging days, this has taken!! Once it reaches the end of the transfer, (assuming it does!!) I'm going to have to run one ...

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App : SpikeDislike3 Status : Waiting for Review (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/SD3_15Wait.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/SD3_15Wait.png" alt="SD3_15Wait" width="223" height="270" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4848" /> Give it the obligatory 10 day wait, and you should be playing the 5 new themes in portrait mode without parallax scrolling! (or however you choose ...

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One theme's challenge has been set, and only one more's to go. I've been struggling with these last two themes for a good few days, and suddenly yesterday an idea popped into my head, and the idea is so blindingly obvious that it looks 100% like I planned it like that! And if anyone asks, I'll just say "Yes, I definitely planned it like that!!" (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/SD3_042.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/...

(URL "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33502838">RIP : Satoru Iwata) As a kid, I was never a big Nintendo fan. I had a Gameboy and I LOVED Tetris, but much as is the case nowadays, I tend to code and create more than just play. I continue to buy Nintendo consoles and handhelds, even today, because theirs are the games that I get the most fun and enjoyment out of. Mr Iwata was first and foremost a developer, and I can only hope that Nintendo finds another suitably developer-minded helmsman to t...

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Yesterday's first task was, of course, to add the Basketball Hoop back into SpikeDislike3. The mechanic works the same.. Be "roughly" within the right area, and go down through the hoop to score. If you go up through the hoop, you lose your combo. It sure is evil, this Basketball game! (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/SD3_041.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/SD3_041-1024x709.png" alt="SD3_041" width="604" height="418"...

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Yesterday was mostly musical, as I tweaked a couple of ALChoons to fit the new themes, rerendered them, and then compressed them into the game. With all five new themes now having choons, I suppose I should really get those new challenges worked into the engine, eh!? Oddly, rather than thinking about gameplay styles, I've found myself doodling another new theme, and am already planning the next one in my head, too. Hmm.. That's no good! Must concentrate, and get the important ...

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So, I finally got around to rejigging that nasty looking options menu. It's been annoying me for a while, and it needed fixing, so... (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/SD3_038.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/SD3_038.png" alt="SD3_038" width="640" height="480" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4820" /> ...transforms into... (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploa...

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As is the case throughout the majority of the past week, yesterday was spent mostly fiddling with my website. There are still a few minor errors cropping up on the error logs, but nothing worth hassling about. Little quirks like temporary variable usage, an old BASIC habit that refuses to go away.. If I want to disable a huge chunk of code, I tend to throw in something like "If (Aliens=Attack)" which does of course disable that section of code.. .. Yeah, I know, bad habit! Espec...

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OK, so GoDaddy restored the backup, and I've spent the past 24 hours doing backups and fixes and all manner of server-based garbage. I'll be watching the stats over the next few days, keeping tabs on the databases, and ensuring nothing like that happens again. Grrr. You can read the (URL "https://socoder.net/index.php?topic=4833&viewpost=47700#47700">Waffley post here, if you're interested..) I'm still tweaking, but I'm ready to get back to Spike Dislike, except my mind's t...

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(URL "https://socoder.net">Socoder.net) It's been about 36 hours since I asked GoDaddy to upload a server backup, and STILL they haven't done it. Grrr. I've been told it can take up to 72 hours, which, given I only asked for a backup from the day before, shouldn't have been that hard of a task. In fact, if this fails, and I end up needing "the day before", by the time the upload has happened, I'll have missed the window to make use of it, because the 7-day rotation will h...