coding, automation, htpc, gaming, etc
Ibiza
Visited September 2014
Welcome to my little place on the web.
I'm a software developer and occasionally when time allows, I like to blog about my various coding project here. I also like to tinker with home automation, retro gaming and more.
I have also shared some of my software, which I hope may be of use to others. It's on my software page.
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Another week, another update. This update has integrated Google Play Games services.
The Google Play Game services will allow you to unlock achievements and submit your top score to a shared leaderboard. Give it a go!
It's available on Google Play at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nellyfish.spikesgalore or via htt... read more
Just pushed out a new update via Google Play. After some great feedback, I realised it was quite impossible. This update allows the game to start a little easier, but don't worry, if you get more then 10 it will get difficult again.
Also if you remove the ads, you get 3 extra bonus game modes!
It's available on Google Play at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nellyfish.spikesgalore or via http://nellyfish.com
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Meet Thingy. I'm not sure what he is, just some abstract thingy. He is the character in my new game called Spikes Galore.
The game is available on Google Play at the moment.
It's been developed using the libGDX, which is a cross platform framework, so this should make porting the game across to iOS fairly simple. It will hopefully be in the Apple store soon. Watch this space!
Not really anything exciting, but I have made an update to Dave Dangerous android game. It will now support Bluetooth gamepads. But the biggest part of this update is integration with Google's in-app purchase API's. When the application opens, you will now get the option to opt-out of the adverts for 60p. Will be interesting to see if this creates any revenue. Currently the application is serving thousands of adverts daily, but only makes around 20p a day !!
If you're quick, here are some promotional... read more
Over Christmas I purchased a new TV that runs Android. Just for a bit of fun, I made some minor code changes to the Trex Runner application that was released back in August. The application just uses a webview to run the javascript endless runner game in Chrome. It's not the smoothest experience, but then it is just javascript.
You can download at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nellyfish.trex... read more
Now that I have a few games in the Google play store, I thought it was about time that I created a website. Why the name nellyfish? Well, I was struggling to think of a simple, easy to remember name. At the time, my daughter kept drawing what looked like a jellyfish, so it stuck. Unfortunatly, jellyfish.com was unavailable, so it became nellyfish.com.
The website is a simple one page affair. I used html5 and jquery to give a simple transition effect when the mouse moves over the images. It could take a few seconds to load the image... read more
My first full featured game is now in the Google play store. Join Dave in his quest to save his beautiful girlfriend, Daphne, from the clutches of Evil Steve! Fight through 40 levels of nostalgic platform mayhem. It's free and it's available on Android. Click the image below to be directed to the Google play store.
Well, for something that was origina... read more
Just a short entry today. A few days ago, I was having internet problems, and by accident I managed to press the space bar on the 'you are offline' page in chrome. To my amazement that cute little retro dinosaur came to life and became a great little addictive game!
After a bit of investigation I discovered this easter egg was added to Chrome earlier this year. As the source code is all open source, over in the Chromium repositories. I got the javascript and created a simple Android application using a webview. You will need to be running... read more