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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...

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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 had, yesterday, ...

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 someone else's hard work...

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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 damn piracy ...

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For all that I've done over the years, I rarely get noticed. I'm ok with that, but other people see "Made LOADS of games, never got noticed" as some kind of terrible failure. Instead, I see it as just a fun little hobby, and I continue to do what I do because I still get enjoyment from it, after all these many many (many!) years. Recently, somebody stumbled onto my site. I'm not sure how, whether it be via my GameJolt archive, or something to do with SpikeDislike3, or whatever...

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Hurray! (URL "https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/SD3_036.png"><img src="https://AGameAWeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/SD3_036-1024x597.png" alt="SD3_036" width="604" height="352" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-4799" /> An old favourite returns.. Yesterday, I managed to get three themes into the game. Three!! Well, technically one of those was that horrible nasty brightly coloured mess, but rejigged so ...

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As I continued, for a ludicrous amount of time, to fiddle with theme #16 yesterday, I found myself finally getting around to tackling a second new theme. Over on the TouchArcade forum, (URL "https://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=3583882&postcount=17">Coolpepper43) suggested doing a Psychedelic theme, and so I attempted to do that. To say that the theme ended up as a tragic mess of nastiness would be a bit of an understatement. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm all fo...