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Yesterday my new NAS turned up. I bought a Western Digital "My Cloud", and instantly disabled the My Cloud gubbins. An NAS is enough. I don't leave the house enough to warrant external access! So it all got setup, and then I did some quick file-access tests. The thing is roughly 3 or 4 times faster than my previous Buffalo Linkstation is, so it should make backing up of files a lot quicker, as well as those occasions when I copy a folder from the PC to the NAS, then to the Ma...

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Having done the upload of the update to Apple, I intended for yesterday to be the start of a new set of themes and "the next update" type stuff. But I didn't. In fact, I didn't do a bloomin' thing! A milestone was reached, and my brain said "OK, let me rest now!" so I spent the majority of yesterday actually playing SpikeDislike3 instead of working on it. I also spent a lot of time watching the going-on's at Amazon, since they were having their "Not Black Friday, Honest!" ...

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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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Not a whole lot happened yesterday. I mean, it did, but nothing that noticeable. I found a couple of counting errors that were being thrown up by the new Basketball theme, and had to figure out exactly what was/wasn't going on with that. (The hoops replaced spikes, and all manner of crazy scoring events were taking place!!) Took a fair amount of time to fathom exactly what was happening, but I think I've managed to get it to a respectable method of counting! Even if it's not...

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I finally rejigged those basketball-reflections, so they look much better now. Hurray! ( width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AVwlN0kRMdw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>> There we go! Much better!! So, with those done, I turned to the last remaining themes where I have to somehow come up with imaginative ideas for those challenges, too. I've got absolutely nothing in mind for them, and spent a good few ho...

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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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Still working on getting SoCoder back to full strength, but things are slightly easier now that GoDaddy have finally uploaded that damned backup that I asked for, about 3 days ago. *tsk* Now it's a case of shuffling file about, and making some nice strengthy tweaks to the site. *sigh* So, last night I opened up SpikeDislike's code properly for the first time in about a week. Over the past week I've been battling server outages, and the whole Android issue, so I haven't really...

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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...