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Drawing silly pixelart characters is one thing.
Having to animate a horse!? That's a whole other thing!!!
Over the past week, I've animated a cat, a dog, and now a horse, too.

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Longest Backup.. EVER!!
Finally, SyncToy has reached a point where it's no longer stumbling across oodles of random files that it somehow managed to miss on the previous 80-or-so p...

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Not a very productive day, yesterday, if I'm honest.
I continued to play about with that Lester&Ralph theme, but I'm hitting the same roadblock as the last time, with the Sheep Goes Right theme, in that the characters run at the same constant speed so the entire point of the Combo system is completely ruined.
I'm not sure what I can add to mix it up, and am desperately playing with all manner of elements to see if I can find that one little thing that suddenly makes ...

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First, I'd like to apologise for one of the new themes.
It seems that in my rush to get the game out, I neglected to realise how much blank space was left in one of the sprites.
What appears to be unfair collision is in fact "empty space on the upper right of the sprite".

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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!!
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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!
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(URL "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyncToy">SyncToy) is a co...

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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..

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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?

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Yesterday, I finally got around to animating that cat and dog that I've been putting off for a good number of days.
I knew what I had to draw, but .. Animating?! Eeek!! And so the poor cat and dog remained undrawn, until yesterday when I practically forced myself into doing it.
And, I must admit, they turned out rather nice!

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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.

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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 NA...

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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!

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App : SpikeDislike3
Status : Waiting for Review
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Give it the obligatory 10 day wait, and you should be playing the 5 new themes in portrait mode without parallax scrolling! (or howe...

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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!!"
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(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 he...

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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...

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I finally rejigged those basketball-reflections, so they look much better now. Hurray!
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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 sp...

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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!
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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 g...

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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...
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...transforms into...
(URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-...

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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 hab...

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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, e...

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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.

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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.

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My Socoder site has been mostly inaccessible for about 18 or so hours, now.
I'm trying to sort it out, but there seems to be something wrong with the file system on the server. It's acting very strangely.
I've asked GoDaddy to do a server-restore, but if things are still.. .. weird.. I'll have to ask for a complete overhaul of my server. Very strange behaviour.
Due to all of that madness, I've had little/no time to code anything. I spent what little time I...

Well, @Jayenkai , I've always supported you in the past. And I warned you focusing on piracy would turn you into something untenable.
Point one : I'm NOT focussed on the "Piracy"
I'm focussed on the twat that took my game, and uploaded it to Amazon, then tried to make a profit from it.
That, to me, is a million times worse than anyone who simply finds the game online and downloads it.
That's not just taking something, that's taking something then trying to profit from someon...

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It's been about a week and a half since SpikeDislike3 appeared on Android and iOS.
In the space of just over a week, it's managed to do "fairly" well on iOS, and has sold over 100 copies. True, that's not amazing, but at least it's something, and it's great to know that at least 100 people still enjoy good gaming!
Meanwhile, on the Android side, the game has now sold 12 copies. Of those 12, at least one was a pirate, and that copy ended up being splashed over every ...