eSpecialized Blog

In our new game BeCandied, just submitted last night to iTunes for approval.  I also included a “Made In USA” graphic with button linking here >> http://www.willynillyinc.com/madeinusa

For those of you who are programmers out there, making a game or an App, I encourage you to place these type of badges in your Applications and Games.  Taking back America is one step at a time.  Link to a blurb a badge like this stating why you think its important.   Before this page read the way it does now, it was more political, but as one of my family stated, it was not a good idea.

removed

As a indie developer,  I have to do everything.   One thing I did was to limit release to just those countries Apple assisted with taxation.

As of last Thursday October 7th 2010, SudokuGeek is now available to all countries in the Apple App Store.

I waited a week before posting any article on this, but to open it up like this has doubled the interest and purchases.  More so than advertising on Facebook and Google Adwords did.

And finally my plug;

SudokuGeek just got released to the rest of the iOS app market in 60 more countries. So go get your vulcan on, and play some sudoku already!

So get on over to http://www.sudokugeek.com on how to get access to this fine video game.

- Made by one indie developer eSpecialized (and the help of family and friends)

Color Cubes SudokuGeek Theme

SudokuGeek Wooden Cubes Theme

http://staging.laughingcatdesignsetc.com <- new

http://www.laughingcatdesignsetc.com <- old (the old site will move to http://staging.laughingcatdesignsetc.com/old eventually.)

Drupal is an incredible CMS (Content management system).  Our company purchased my wife’s web business a few months back.  And we are doing that now too.  Before I worked at a company who denied me doing web work.. I recall doing some websites.  Gladrags was interesting journey.  I had designed a shopping cart system using perl, mind you this is over 10 years ago..  Now they have a very nice sleek website and are using a new system. It looks like Drupal under the hood (view source).

I really do want to focus on games, but will see if we can whip some websites out for other people and business’s also.

My dad has an iPod, and he is having issues.  The OpenGL view initializes, and only a quarter of the view is available.

He is coming over tomorrow evening when I can take a look at the issue.  I am unable to replicate the issue on our iPod, which is almost the same model, just has more storage 65G.

Basically the issue is like iPad resolution, but only one quarter of the screen is visible. I’ll be sure to get pictures.  If your experiencing the same issue, we will have a fix out shortly.

I’m unsure how this could come about,

char *myplatform = GetHW(); //calls a C function to get the system version
NSString *platform = [NSString stringWithCString:myplatform encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"Platform = %@",platform);
NSString *platformsmall = [platform substringToIndex:4];
if ([platformsmall isEqualToString:@"iPod"])  //the problem may exist here. It may be smaller text, or something more bizzare, if its not the actual ipod thats at issue.
{
NSLog(@"This is an iPod = %@",platformsmall);
biPodSize = true;
}

So sometime ago Dec 2008, WoW had 11.5 million subscribers according to Wikipedia article.  And later one of the developers states about 12 million in this article.

With those kinds of numbers of monthly subscribers, we can figure out monthly and yearly approximates of income on the franchise.  Now this is just the subscribers.  At $14.95 each,  11.5 million becomes  $171.9 million monthly.  If that number is sustained for a year, its about a $2 billion dollar market by itself.  I admit I am ignorant, I bet there are yearly packages that provide savings.

Still those kind of numbers begin to get staggering.  Someone is racking in some money eh?  I don’t think its the developers.

Maybe someone has some strong opinions about this.  Personally I did enjoy watching the movie.  Here a year later I read the wikipedia article about all the huge criticism’s of the Transformers 2 Movie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers:_Revenge_of_the_Fallen

Basically despite all the horrible criticism of the movie, it topped almost every other movie, even in sales “$836,297,228 worldwide, making it the fourth-highest grossing film of 2009″..  Whats amazing to me about this, is how out of touch critics are with reality of viewers?  I was also kind of shocked that Megan Fox got so much flack for her acting in the movie.  Oh well, no biggie.

The truth will come about in the 3rd installment of Transformers,  if people really hated TF2., then fan fare will be down for TF3.  But from what I understand in the Wikipedia article, most viewers gave it a B+, so were not as concerned with the actors lack of performance, or some of the more shocking parts (the gal who is a transformer.. More than meets the eye baby!) [Best WTF Moment (Isabel Lucas turning into a Decepticon) ]

A really curious time we are entering into, people are more into stuff, even if they are not really buying.. But whats this?  1.7 million people buy the new iPhone 4 Retina released about 2 weeks ago.  And in 80 days, 3 Million iPads sold.  Something is going on, and I bet it is quality of consumable items, not quantity of crap from China that counts.

Turns out the iPhone 4 has no faulty antenna, but their formula for calcing the signal strength was incorrect. Ok.  I imagine lots of people would be returning their iPhone if it really was a bad design and lots of lost calls..  http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/07/02appleletter.html?sr=hotnews.rss

I installed a new Module in WordPress today,

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/openid/

OpenID allows you to use your Livejournal, Yahoo, Google, MySpace, or other OpenID provider login.  Having not used it myself yet, I have no idea how well it works.

Open ID information site is here

Platform = iPad
Symptoms = black render buffer screen.  Prior SDK3 showed just fine.
I fiddled with all the render init and resizeLayer settings..

I also changed the clear screen color to blue, but the screen remained black.

Upon inspecting my Console, I found log entries for resizeLayer missing.

I found these guys had the solution;

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/728372/when-is-layoutsubviews-called

Basically bring up the MainWindow.xib, and modify the setting as follows.. click the title bar, ensure “Visible at Launch” is checked.

http://www.penn-olson.com/2009/09/21/top-10-most-influential-tech-people/