I have 4 teams in the World Cup Finals. All based on time spent in those places. England of course, best chance ever (well since 1966). Spain – full of stylish players, and European Champions. Netherlands, always a chance, and of course New Zealand, well success for them will be qualifying for the second round. [...]
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Football is a simple game. I think it is the most entertaining sport. What makes it so good? The Premier League is big business, the World Cup is enormous business, which over 1 billion of the world population will typically watch. People say Football brings even warring countries or countries with huge political tension, to [...]
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“So close but yet so far!” – that is the expression. When you are close to something, in this case completing this game, it seems to move farther away. You know you have not much left to do, and yet, you keep finding new parts, new things that need doing. It’s frustrating, but it gets [...]
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Being independent has a lot of pluses, you do things your way, you can focus on what is important, you make all the decisions yourself, and you waste no time communicating ideas. But, it has its price, no-one to work with, and wondering about whether with more resources, more people, money, you could do a [...]
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It’s the language, the default language of the iPhone SDK, and is also used for Mac development. I spent a while learning it, and the SDK, adapting from Java. At first it was painful, clunky, even the syntax was annoying. But now I like it, it’s natural. Some things could be improved. Maybe because I [...]
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It was a brilliant piece of politics, getting the health care reforms through in the US. At times, as a British European, it can be disturbing to see some Americans view of our way of life. – The way that some of them view having a public health care system as socialism! But the cynical [...]
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I have recently been reading about app entrepreneurs- those who have made their businesses based around the App Store. It’s now evolved to the state where people are wondering where it’s going to go from here. Judging by my experience in the early computer games market it will start consolidating now. – Some companies will [...]
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I have built controls that allow you to set tactics. I have given myself a range of options, but I never settle it in advance. This is a key part of getting the gameplay right, and until I can see how it works and play with the controls, I can’t be sure not only whether [...]
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It’s about 10 years since the year 2000 issues. That was all about the fact that old software had 2 digit year dates and they would only go to 99 and then back to 00. This would mean that some software would not cope to the year going to 2000. New Zealand, where I was [...]
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I work on the core of the game to get that right, like concentrating on the plot if it was a movie. Similarly to a plot making a movie, if the core games design is right the game will work as intended, and be entertaining. But the look and feel is important too. In some [...]
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