My iPhone/iPad Football Manager Game 24 – It’s different
I did more work getting the league table functioning in the way I wanted yesterday. Got some UI work to do on that today. I also spent some time playing other Football Manager type games. I haven’t done for little while. It was good to do so, and confirmed that what I am doing is different, my style, but different to the others.
My iPhone/iPad Football Manager Game 23 – Views, Navigation
Hmmm, today was interesting. Started off storming along, happy with so much coming together now. Then, started adjusting the sequence of views you go through. Not a big job, but it got bigger when I realised I need to do some refactoring and eliminate some duplication. So it’s gonna take me a little longer to do this bit, but when it is finished it will be a more robust, and a more elegant design.
Richard Herring, Football Manager and Comedy
Richard Herring wrote about my game and the iPhone Football Manager game I am writing in his blog entry.
It triggered me thinking about comedy and remembering my audition for a comedy show triggered by sending in my recording of this interview with Jason the UFO spotter. I am not a professional like Richard Herring, but I hope it makes you smile!
My iPhone/iPad Football Manager Game 22 – Progress
This week was highly productive. (For my European friends, who are still in Thursday as I write this, remember I am in your future timezone!). A substantial part of the game infrastructure went into place this week. It gave me a lot of confidence in my progress. After all, I have been writing this for quite a while and it gets to the point where you seem to be just building foundations for the game, and you wonder where the game is!?
So my plan by the end of next week, is to have a thin line through the game completely working so I can test it, and play it. There is still the most important part to get right, the fun, the playability, but I have done a lot of work on that I can build from. Meetings for the rest of the day, so the game continues next week!
AC/DC Rock break
Everybody needs fun, and AC/DC last night was exactly that, 50,000 people on a warm summer evening in Auckland.
*Great Band performance * Great guitar * Loud * Black T Shirts * Bare breasted women * and the constant smell and smoke from the world’s most popular cigarette!! – As Brian Johnson said about the smoke – “you’re making yourselves happy, you’re making me happy!” Lol!
My iPhone/iPad Football Manager Game 21 – League Tables
So, in the coffee shop this morning, I put more into the other team results calculations and started working on the league table. Tonight is AC/DC live at Western Springs stadium…Great!
My iPhone/iPad Football Manager Game 20 – Coffee shops
… Not the Amsterdam variety!… But, I do spend a lot of time in them, working. I like being where people are. Writing software like this is a solo, hermit-like job. But that is not my preference. So, I go to coffee shops, with my laptop and 3G modem. And, I do lots of work there. The noise and movement around me doesn’t affect my concentration. I have a tunnel vision and can barely notice where I am, I am in the world inside the computer where I am working. I even once looked up an saw a strange person staring at me. I had been in the coffee shop for 2 hours and worried how long they had been staring as I was concentrating so hard I would not have noticed!
When I finish this game, I wonder what percentage of it will have been written in coffee shops, quite a bit I think?
My iPhone/iPad Football Manager Game 19 – Going UI
All that code for the season is in place and it looks good. Today is the start of replacing the temporary GUI with the real code. Should see now how well I designed the GUI and how well the code works within it. I ignored the national holiday yesterday and worked hard and focused on making a lot or progress. That worked!
My iPhone/iPad Football Manager Game 18 – Week review
Well apart from looking at the iPad there has been plenty of work to do. I had a plan at the beginning of the week to complete the work on the Season. I previously have written a lot of software components related to this, so I was drawing them all together, and making it work.
The week was an odyssey through simple to use code that I had designed well, components that needed adapting, and restructuring the database. As the week went on I had the pleasure of seeing more of my design coming together, and the abstract of code turning in to the real solid stuff of functionality. Over the months I have become very comfortable and proficient in coding in Objective C for the iPhone. I have grown to like the development environment, mostly!
So the Season part is nearly there, not quite what I wanted by now, but it was a week of heavy productivity and I am satisfied. I am left enthusiastic to continue on from here.
My iPhone/iPad Football Manager Game 17 – The iPad
Yes, the iPad is an obvious improvement for the game and I will be targeting it as well as iPhone. I am delighted to have the opportunity to design for a bigger device. I look forward to enjoying relaxing times with my Football Manager game on the iPad.
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