MAC Gogo Digger, iPhones and poor Internet connections

Hello,
First off, sorry for this post been a day late, but my Internet connection just wasn’t working. I kept trying till about 1 am to send the post, but gave up in the end and went to bed. Still wasn’t working when I got up and I’ve had a few jobs to do today so only just had a chance to send this post now. The other really annoy thing about this is that I’ve just bought an iPhone and you need an Internet connection to active it, so I’ve spent a couple of hours just looking at a nice shinny phone and not been able to use it. Anyway, the Internet connection is back and I’m ready to post again. I’ll post a basic review up soon about the iPhone after I’ve had a day or too to play with it (first impressions are good, but the instructions are very poor (it took me about 30 minutes to find and install the sim card (this may say more about my logic and observational skill, then the phone itself, but please, a little icon on the inside back of the envelope isn’t good enough when you spend that much money on a phone and I then spent 10 minutes trying to find a paperclip to destroy so I could get the sim holder out, which after doing that, I found the metal clip stuck to the envelope, which just looked like a nice bit of design (okay after reading that, I know what your thinking and yeah, I may be stupid, but I would at least expect the icon and metal clip to be on the same page, it felt more like a puzzle from an old Lucas Games adventure (it felt like a puzzle out of Monkey Island, I was never any good at them either))))).
It’s been another long, hard week for me this week at the day job and I’ve been coming home to tire to do that much this week, still done a bit, but not as much as I would like.
There’s also been a few more people signing up to the newsletter, to which I thank you for doing that, we do appreciate it and we won’t bug you with e-mails every month like other sites do (we know you all have busy lives and don’t need us nagging you just because I’ve added a new paragraph to the website), so thanks again to everyone for joining.

Weekending 12/09/08
GoGo Digger:
Well I’ve added the MAC version to the website after having loads of trouble trying to upload it to the site (the supplied software I use only allows 10meg file uploads and I didn’t want to split the game up into files as that can get messy), so I had check to see why the MAC version was 2 megs bigger then the PC version. It turns out that there was a few temp files hidden away in the folders which I deleted so I could get the game under 10 megs and I was able to create an install file for the game, which was really easy to do (thanks to a quick Google search of course), so there’s now two versions of the game on the site and I plan on releasing it for the iPhone as well, but I will be charging for that version as it has cost me about £1,800 (about us$3,600) to get all the equipment and software, so I really do need to try to earn some of this back.
I’ve now got to start advertising the MAC version to various sites as well now, so if any readers can recommend and good MAC sites (totally new to the MAC world) could you e-mail me some links please?

Lucky 7:
Isaac has been busy again (as he always is) on Lucky 7 and has been adding new features to the game and is currently trying to add a couple of features, which if they work will let me create the game in a certain graphical style that I think could look really nice and be fun to play and it may even add a new dimension to the gameplay, but like everything, it needs to be prototyped first just to see how it all plays out as first and foremost, it has to be fun for the player and if it isn’t, that feature will get dropped.

Shuffle Blocks:
It’s been another poor week for me for doing work on Shuffle Blocks and my weekend was taken up with doing lots of little 5 minute jobs, that ended up taking most of the day (so much for my nice free weekend). I’ve done the menu elements that I needed to do and I think I’ve done all the trade items now (still need to render them out) and I’m playing with the main menu font again as Dave has done / found some code to display the non-proportional font for the game, it’s just proving a bit annoying trying to get the graphic file through the editor correctly (that’s a coder thing and I’m not going anywhere near that, Dave just tells me how he wants the font laying out and that’s it for me, I do as I’m told (you can ask my wife)).
Dave is also just about to buy himself a 360 XBOX, so it looks like this game will definitely become to the XBOX in some form or another.

Right I need to go off and install iTunes and start downloading some stuff for my new toy (it’s all for research purposes of course =) (Super Monkey Ball here I come)).
Of by the way, if anyone reading this in the UK, Morrisons are currently selling console games at about half price (I’ve just got Metal Gear Solid 4 for £25), but I think it ends on Sunday.
Hope you have a good week.

All the best,

Mike Moore.

www.badbumble.com

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