Developments

I really should be getting back to Boxsplosions, but watching SpikeDislike3's journey through the AppStore has been so much fun!!

Yesterday, @CraigGrannell posted a glowing review over at PocketGamer.co.uk


8 out of 10?! And a Silver award!? AWESOME!!!

Afterwards, I chatted to Craig on Twitter, and was expecting his "visual" complaint to be the light-squinty nature of the Snow theme, and the dark-squinty nature of the Lava theme.
Instead, he actually mentioned Motion Sickness due to all the parallax.
I'll be honest, I hadn't given it much thought. As most of you know, I get a LOT of motion sickness myself, so I figured that "Just me" would be a nice enough selection of people to test that out.
Apparently not, though, as Craig suggests the amount of parallax scrolling going on was giving him issues.

As such, the next release will have a new option to disable the nasty evil parallax, and leave the game in a much less interesting way, so that ... hopefully.. Craig can play SpikeDislike3 even more

o/yeayo/
So, if that's a high, where's the low? There's always a low...

Aaah, of course..
The wonderful world of Android.
The .apk is now being rampantly traded around the web. As I know fully well, Android people really don't give a munky about bothering to pay for things. Take take take, gimme gimme gimme.
I knew this going in, but I had faith. I had faith in people to do the right thing.
I figured, if I get maybe 100 or so sales, then that'd be a good set of Android figures. I can live with Piracy, as long as folk are also willing to occasionally pay for things.

The actual ratio is shockingly worse.
I've sold 7 copies of SpikeDislike3 on Android, and from a slim picking of piracy sites, at least 300 people have downloaded it.
My only consolation is that those sites are rife with viruses and other evil malware things, and quite frankly you've only got yourself to blame, if you end up with yet another virus running rampage on your computer.
I have no sympathy for you.

Meanwhile, because GooglePlay are complete arseholes, the cost of all this piracy is the fact that my home address is being splashed directly on the GooglePlay site.. So, yeay for me. I make about ?2.50 from sales, and I get my privacy invaded in the most remarkably stupidly moronic way.
The wonderful world of Android..

From here on in, the iOS version will be the most well-kept edition. It already has the online GameCenter scoreboards, and achievements, and in the future will be getting the "better" updates!
If you're a SpikeDislike/AGameAWeek fan, but don't have an iOS device, grab yourself a cheap'ish iPod Touch. They're currently about ?160'ish on Amazon, are wonderfully well made, and will bring the world of iOS Gaming to your fingertips (/thumbtips!?)
And whilst you're at it, see if you can pick up an OUYA, too.

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