January 2011
1 post
new blog
so fickle… don’t like this blog any more, made a new one. this one will now languish….
for all future NYARLU LABS adventures, see http://nyarlulabs.blogspot.com
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December 2010
5 posts
I like the end of the year
Magnetic Shaving Derby is free for the rest of the year. Yay! Thanks so much to everyone who played it, wrote nice things about it, sent me emails, LOL’d at it and all :D You make it worthwhile. <3
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The overall MSD WINNAR of the year is Peevey, who managed the completely insane score of 46 MILLION in Score Attack mode. I still don’t know how he did it. My best so far is 29...
v1.3 approved
yay! guess it was just the Christmas rush slowing things down.
I have added Game Centre and multitasking support for the next update, but won’t be submitting it until the 29th because of app store submissions holiday downtime.
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my new music app project is going well. boogaloo beatbox is the tentative title. it’s going to be like a weird drum machine with some advanced sequence...
nothing yet.
MSD 1.3 in review...
After submitting this update a bit over a week ago, yesterday it reached Apple’s “in review” status. Yay!
But then, a couple hours later I received the famous email saying “We are currently reviewing an app that you submitted for inclusion on the App Store, and want to let you know that the review process will require additional time.” Eek!
Had a look round for...
November 2010
4 posts
Better surfing
So that MSD update’s been out for a few days. Cool. But I’ve decided Space Surfing mode needs more. It was originally inspired by the very simple Balloon Trip mini-game in Balloon Fight on the NES. I love the idea of an extra game mode, using some of the same basic mechanics and resources as the main game, but with different setting and gameplay.
So, Space Surfing in MSD 1.2 is about...
MSD 1.2
Submitted version 1.2 of MSD this morning. It has a new bonus minigame mode wherein a peguin surfs on a razor in space, collecting rings and dodging space junk. It has a bunch of small cosmetic enhancements and reworked menus. It’s a bit more optimised. It’s also now a universal app.
Running on an iPad, it doesn’t do anything fancy.. just upscales everything 2x and sticks it in...
September 2010
1 post
Memetic Shaving Derby
Charlie of Charlie’s Games is currently finishing off his amazing looking shooty game Scoregasm. It has a crazy amount of stuff in it. Including weird minigames, like the one in the video below.
You should go check out his games, especially if you’re at all into shoot-em-ups. Scoregasm, Bullet Candy, Irukandji, SPACE PHALLUS! They’re good fun, beautiful to look at (and listen...
August 2010
2 posts
wave crashing
I released a free album. Thirteen tracks made over the last decade. They were gathering dust on my hard drive so I figured I’d do something with ‘em. These were made with Jeskola Buzz on various ancient computers.. external sounds recorded with minidisc + stereo condenser mic. It’s odd sort of ambient stuff mostly. Best listened to on headphones, alone, in the dark. Share and.....
LD18 and other stuff
I’ve been messing around with this tumblr trying to make it behave. It looks pretty but I can’t get comments to work how I want (they work ok on blog posts, but not on ‘pages’?). Maybe I should make a blogspot blog instead. Not that I’m good at blogging… I tend to get grumpy and delete all my posts every few weeks.
In other news, I started learning Actionscript...