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4th February 2015
Monday : I randomly decided to buy a Pebble Watch from Amazon.
Tuesday : The Pebble Watch arrived, and I experimented by making a Platdude WatchFace.
Wednesday : SpikeDislike Jr!!

I expected to have to download a complicated devkit to get it all going, but was pleasantly surprised to find out that, in actual fact, you can do it entirely online.
The IDE is much like PlayMyCode, in that it's a language within your browser, only this time it's proper C coding, and it compiles on their server to produce a .pbw executable.
Amazingly, this .pbw can be executed using the IDE's built in emulator, so you don't even need a Pebble Watch to get yourself started.
If you know what you're doing in C, and can work Google enough to help figure out how to achieve all the bits and pieces, you can start coding for a Pebble RIGHT NOW, even if you don't have one.
Of course, you should ALWAYS test compiled exe's on a real device before publishing, but everything else up to that point is entirely doable right there, on the website.
Awesome!!!
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PlatFace 001

Pebble_PlatFace001
Creating "PlatFace001" took about 2 hours or so, mostly due to me learning the ropes.
It came together fairly well, and I'm quite happy with the resulting watchface.
There are probably things I could've done differently, but considering it's my first attempt, it's quite nice!

SpikeDislike Jr

Pebble_SD_002
SpikeDislike Jr is my second attempt at coding for the thing.
Took me AGES to wrap my head around the maths stuff, for the ball bouncing, but other than that it was a breeze to put together.
Fun Fact : Hit Up to start a completely random layout, or Select or Down to start with the predetermined one.

Tweaks that could be done include making the background parallaxed, but I didn't want to make my new watch explode
So, yeah, in all it's turned out fairly nice.
I'll probably rest my Pebble-Coding for a few days, now, or at least until I come up with an awesome new idea for it!!!
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