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Android Games Comments Available in Browsers
Jul 11th
android comments in manny pacman boxing game
I admit that the game was still infant, graphics is still temporary for now, and for all of you who downloaded it thank you so much I really appreciate it. Its just that I am still very busy on my Job right now, and Hopefully we can clear everything out by the end of October, so I can focus more in finishing the game that I have started. Actually I have a lot of plans for that game, I alraedy have the roadmap for it and as of now I am 10% of the whole game that I have planned so.. please jsut keep in touch, remain the game uninstalled I will be updating that game little by little ..
C# or Java?
Jul 11th
As SaaS is getting hotter today for Business Solutions, Web Developers are arming themselves, And Because I am a C# web developer I want to go to the windows azure platform, the problem is, it is more expensive compared to the app engine of Google which is also a problem for me because I am a noob to Java, although Java and C# has some similarities I am still comfortable with C# because of Visual Studio Support.
Well… any soldier has to make a stand. Google it is. Java here I come….
Hope early next year 2011 first quarter, I can be able to have a Google Qualified Developer badge. Well… lets see what happens next….
Android Game Development
Jul 3rd
I downloaded the source code of replica island, an open source project by one of Google’s advocate for android game development,
The codes are scattered everywhere and I don’t know where to start. I tried reading his diary building the game and it doesn’t help anything.
I stop my development right now because of a very tight deadline I have in office, so I want to open source my code to the github but… sad to say… I am having some problem creating a
repository, I already installed the github client and create a key, but somehow I still can’t connect, and because time is running out I just leave the task unfinished, And finish it nextweek. Still I am not confident on how I code the game, I want to structure everything clean and apply the notion of encapsulation so that when the game scales, the codes will still be manageable on my part.
Nexus one android boxing game prototype.
May 28th
Next thing to do is implement threading and OpenGl for this before proceeding to scoring and connection to the internet, after the prototype is implementation of the real graphics designed for this game.
I am Hungggryyyy!!!
Liquid Effect for Android
May 22nd
Android runs on different devices and they have different screen width and height, building application is easy to layout because of xml driven layouts but when you build customized views use particularly for games, you need to be able to calculate the width and height of the device and layout your games coordinates accordingly.
I inherited this technique from my experience in flash development, pc monitors have different sizes so you need to have a liquid effect if you want to go full screen. 
Got an Enemy already.
May 22nd
Now, the game already has an enemy, but I have a problem here, so before proceeding to the next phase, I need to recode everything so that the code will be manageable when this project kicks off.
How to Make Money on Android.
May 6th
Right now, I have uploaded a blank software in the android market title Manny Pacman Boxing Game, Even though it was a blank game (meaning no content yet) there are already 71 installs and 23 active installs – so meaning people are really searching for some stuffs in the android market, and competition in the android market is lesser compare to the App Store of Apple. And I am not confident yet to upload some stuffs in the App Store since Apple Guys are going to filter if your application pass their standards or not, and also, I don’t know how objective c look like, since I am a flash developers also and been following flash until action script 3 , I find it easy to adopt java since action script 3 was purely based on the java programming structure. Hopefully I can get more time to develop the game, I tried my sketching skills earlier today and to my surprise I can’t even draw a face… but no worries, maybe I can produce a graphic and design concept next month hu!hu!hu!.. so overwhelm with work right now.
(gutom na ku… ciao!!! )
How not to duplicate code example C# / Java
Nov 26th
Not so good practice:
private static final double SENTINEL = 8;
int val = reanInt("Enter val:");
while(val!= SENTINEL){
total+=val;
val = reanInt("Enter val:");
}
int val = reanInt("Enter val:");
while(val!= SENTINEL){
total+=val;
val = reanInt("Enter val:");
}
Good coding practice
private static final double SENTINEL = 8;
while(true)
{
int val = readInt("Enter Val:");
if(val == SENTINEL) break;
total += val;
}
while(true)
{
int val = readInt("Enter Val:");
if(val == SENTINEL) break;
total += val;
}
Avoid repeating codes in your program.
