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these days im finding it harder and harder to write posts, can never think of what to say or what to talk about. today its the same, open flock’s post editor, just left it sat there with an empty textbox.

sometime in the future (6 hours or so) …

recently iv been changing my life around abit, trying to improve myself!! iv stopped smoking cigarettes, started running, redesigned my blog, renewed some old projects like firemint, started game development and iv started studying AS / A2 advanced maths from a few textbooks. the aim is to make myself better, and to keep improving my knowledge. w00t w00t!

in the game development area i’ve been thinking about some ideas for iphone games. after watching my flatmate play quake (from cydia) i realised a first person shooter really doesn’t work on the iphone. instead a time crisis game style could work quite nicely, since the user doesn’t need to control the movement of the character (as in moving around a map not aiming). time crisis works by moving the user’s character to points around a map, at each point the user can crouch behind an object and fire at a group of enemies. its generally a multiplayer arcade game that uses a gun as a controller, on the iphone the accelerometers could be used to move the cross hair to shoot enemies, a touch on the screen could simply toggle the crouch mode / change weapon.

my second idea is a bit different, simple game where the user controls a spaceship and can move around a 3d environment to shoot down enemies. the accelerometers being used to control movement, touch on the screen controls shooting and weapons. after i told beef, he had the geeky idea to make it star wars themed, user flies an x-wing star fighter and shoots down tie fighters.

might start one of the ideas as an open source project, stick it in cydia or maybe app store depending on how it goes.

on a different note, last night i decided to add multiple mint support to firemint v2. amazingly it wasn’t too much of pain to implement, xD

sssssssssssssssssssssssshhh

its almost ready, just needs a few more tweaks. so far firemint is working well in firefox 3 and flock 2 beta, its not been tested in firefox 2 yet. it should work fine though. *i hope*

expose is almost ready as well, just need to write up some documentation on how to use the api and add in a few more methods for querying data.

the install / download buttons arent working on the moment, im hoping this weekend both firemint + expose can be released.

until there ready enjoy my last.fm tag cloud;

to sort wordpress out i decided to move the firemint and expose posts to there own pages, since it makes more sense! tomorrow im going to try and sort my sidebar out, make it abit easier to navigate.

everything about firemint is now here; http://84degrees.com/firemint/

enjoy

im back with my blog on 84degrees.com, trying to come up with a design. hopefully this time my blog will be used, hoping to release firemint v2 soon and im considering the redevelopment of zenses but as a cross platform application (rather than .net).

firemint v2, will contain extra stats but will require a special pepper to be installed in mint. fully compatible with firefox 3, and flock 2. will post some screenshots soon.

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/pokerstars.tv

interesting … or not 

not sure if anyone knows or not, but i’ve been working with videojuicer for a few months now. and today, after lots of work, many late nights and a few all nighters. we launched our newest platform, pokerstars.tv.

enjoy