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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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Checkpoints added to Lost Little Spaceman

Just rolled out another version of Lost Little Spaceman to the Google Play early access store. This is a minor update, but does include the much asked for checkpoint option. Look out for the small computers to save your progress.

This version includes the following

★ NEW checkpoints
★ NEW Russian language
★ NEW language select page
☆ Minor bug fixes and improvements

If there are any other languages you would like to be included, please let me know.

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Lost Little Spaceman at final beta !

Just released the next version of Lost Little Spaceman to the Google Play early access store. This is a massive update that includes a new station 4 with another 81 rooms to navigate!

Thank you to everyone for sending feedback, the response has been phenomenal. Thanks to the 44 thousand testers, i'm truly humbled 😍👍

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Nearly there !!

Just a quick update this morning, as it's been a while! School holidays have been keeping me busy!

Anyway I have been busy fixing the last few bugs in lost little spaceman. Think I'm now just down to 4 bugs. Once these are ironed out it will be updated on Google play to the next beta. This will be the final version before it goes to final release. I may add Russian language before it goes to final release as I have had a lot of requests.

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This new beta will have station 4, with another 81 rooms to navigate !

Look out for my next update... read more

Lost Little Spaceman now at beta 4

Just released beta 4 of Lost Little Spaceman. This release includes spanish language.

Thank you to everyone for sending feedback 👍👍 Just a small release, no new rooms/stations.

★ Added spanish language - please email me with corrections with the translations
☆ Improved timing on teleporters and lasers
☆ Fixed vortex force
☆ Fixed moving in corners with pad control
☆ Fixed bonus message at end
☆ Fixed pad control stuck
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Lost Little Spaceman now at beta 3

Just released beta 3 of Lost Little Spaceman. This release includes another 49 rooms to escape from !

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It's another big update. Thank you to everyone for sending feedback. This release would not be here without your support 👍👍

This release includes

★ Added station 3 map - 49 more rooms!
★ Added gravity in some rooms
★ Added spikes
★ Added dynamic tiles
★ Added zoom out maps
★ Added beep to buttons
★ More baddies
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Lost Little Spaceman has reached beta 2

It's been in beta for almost 6 months now on Google Play, wow, where did that time go! Reception has been amazing over 40 thousand downloads!

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It's a big update. Thank you to everyone for sending feedback. This release would not be here without your support 👍👍

This release includes

★ New level / station
★ D-pad controls
★ Controls page
★ Story
★ Room hints
★ Option to remove rotation
★ Compass when rotation is on
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How I make games

I number of people have asked me how and what I use to create games, so decided it was time to write about it.

My first game Dave Dangerous was written in Java, at the time this was a language I had not used. But being a c# developer the languages are very similar. Both object oriented and use very similar syntax.

I followed a tutorial from kilobolt. I found it very detailed and covers creating your own game framework. I found it a great way to understand game mechanics. Including creating your own physics, for my later games I used a physics engines, but was still nice to understand this logic. Tutor... read more

100 Platforms awarded Amazon UK Developer Spotlight !

I'm pleased to announce that 100 Platforms has been selected as a winner of the Amazon Appstore UK Developer Spotlight. This means that there will be a featured banner on UK, USA and Germany Amazon App stores for this week, and will be featured in the Apps & Games section in April.

This is great news and will hopefully get the game some much needed publicity. So far I have seen a huge increase in downloads :)

Check out the Wall of Winners! dev.amazonapp... read more

Lost Little Spaceman update

Wow, what happened to January ! It's been in beta for a few months now on Google Play and the reception has been amazing. It's been downloaded over 20k times and it's not letting up. I have also received thousands of feedback comments that i'm logging and replying to everyone (it may take some time) but some great ideas coming in from you all.

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Youtube has also been busy with videos of you playing my games too. It's fantastic feedback for me and great to see people enjoying the games.

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100 Platforms on Fire and more !

Well when I say Fire, I mean Amazon Fire. It's finally in the Amazon app store. Get it from nellyfish.com/100platforms

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Just a quick entry today, just really want to update you on a few things going on. I know it's been ages since my last entry. It's been a very hectic few months working on a new online shop called newfangledthings.co.uk. Sellin... read more

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