Writing, on an iPad, on a train, with a Keyboard

Writing, on an iPad, on a train, with a Keyboard

By on September 22, 2011 in General

On a long train journey recently, I decided to take my iPad, for reading mostly. I then thought it would be a good amount of time to do some writing too, but certainly not if I was using the onscreen keyboard! So I got myself an Apple Bluetooth keyboard and this is how it stacked up against a netbook or laptop.

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Fixing Bugs – The QA Process

Fixing Bugs – The QA Process

By on August 4, 2011 in General

If you’re creating a game that anyone except you is going to play, at some point it will need some Quality Assurance (QA) testing. This could be anything from a several month long period of formal testing and bug fixing, to getting your boyfriend to play your game for an evening and give you some [...]

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Battleship for iPad (and iPhone update)

Battleship for iPad (and iPhone update)

By on June 23, 2011 in General

The newest FinBlade developed EA title is available on the App Store today, get it while it’s cheap (£1.79 as of 23rd June 2011).  Like Pictureka! before it, and the original iPhone Battleship, this is another of my babies.  Although we have a small credit in the game “Developed by FinBlade Ltd.” there isn’t a [...]

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URL Shortening with a Custom Domain

URL Shortening with a Custom Domain

By on April 17, 2011 in General

I’ve always thought that nothing says “I’m a twat” more than an obviously personalized car number plate. I guess the geek equivalent these days is your own custom short domain for URL shortening, so I’ve created lngs.tv for myself.

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Old WBMP Images (and Viewer Code)

Old WBMP Images (and Viewer Code)

By on March 15, 2011 in Code

See how easy it is to write a simple image viewer in Java. Also learn a bit about the old WAP games I programmed when I first joined iomo.

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Games I’ve Coded – Thief Deadly Shadows (Mobile)

Games I’ve Coded – Thief Deadly Shadows (Mobile)

By on January 22, 2011 in Articles, Games

Moving forward with the ‘Games I’ve Coded’ articles, the next big game I got my teeth into was Thief: Deadly Shadows. I’d finished off several Nokia ‘white label’ games (Adventure Race being the last), and the next project to come along was commissioned by Eidos Mobile, and based on the Thief license. At iomo, we [...]

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