Friday, February 4, 2011

Kung hei fat choi

Already CNY 2011! and the last year has been a busy one for me.
New job + multiple work related travels to USA/India/China + expecting a baby kind of took priority over getting to sit down for some iPhone coding... still cannot expect to have much (or any?) time for it after the baby arrives - however I have just ordered the Snow-Leopard Mac OS update (which I may or may not regret according to many reviews) in order to be able to make a start on iOS 4.2 and iPad apps.

First off I am still planning to do another version of GravSpace - just to get myself warmed up - and because it should be relatively easy to upgrade the graphics and make a few levels targeted at iPad - perhaps also make a much simpler control system - apart from a few fans of the genre most people I see try the game for the first time found it impossible.
It's also a chance for me to try out using the game centre for score tracking.
I'm not expecting it to be a big money spinner.. just an exercise in learning.

Next I have plans to do some simpler to play games or creativity apps.

Devices:

I ended up getting the iPad, and the iPhone 4 through work, and the iPad has become the sofa browser device of choice more than anything else - for which it is excellent.. reading on it is not comfortable for me (too heavy mainly) - email on it not practical since I share it with the wife and it doesn't support multiple account login - still prefer to use Stanza on iPhone for reading.
Can't believe I have so many Apple device now - 8 including the Mac mini.. -  at least I have a nice line-up of devices now for testing on.

Still can't get comfortable with Mac OS (copy and paste multiple files?) - still typing this in Ubuntu Linux which have been using for the last 5 years without any trouble at all - using XP at work only and for music recording - wish I could get ASIO drivers for my soundcards and use VST plugins in Linux in a decent sequencer (I'm using Cakewalk in XP).

OK, hopefully next postings have something to do with coding/projects! :)