My second game "Mespfi" published!

My second game "Mespfi" finally published, yeah! Some info about the 3-in-1 game listed below.This was originally scheduled to be my first game in the beginning, but later was delayed due to some technical difficulties...What does "Mespfi" mean, you might ask? Well, I made that up from the first 2 character of each of the 3 modes: "Memory, Speed and Find" - so technically it should be "me-sp-fi".... :-PThe screens on App shop copied as below to give you some idea about the game:The description...

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No! There's no malware on my blog! It's someone else!

I was updating my blog last night and suddenly Safari pops up this message, WTF, my blog has malware??Tried Firefox from a Windows PC and it reports the same thing too, strange...Clicked on the "Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page" and it reports as below, something about "nachbaur.com" and "176.9.179.0", how could my blog has those craps?Start up HttpFox on the Windows PC, and as below, strangely it indeed tried to load things from those 2 URLs, how can that be?Checked page source, Ah ha! Found...

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Lots of fun with Unity 3D

While waiting for my 2nd game to be approved (submitted on 11/June) - which strangely takes longer than a week this time, I was wondering around looking for ideas and new stuffs. Then had a quick browse of this book "Beginning 3D Game Development with Unity" by Sue Blackman and I got hooked with Unity 3D!Only spent about an hour or two, and I got a spinning sphere and cube running in 3D, amazing.The most interesting part is it's ability to deploy to different platforms. I tried the Web one...

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What? iOS 6 is coming!?

Finally got some break after 2nd game submitted and was just started learning some of the new iOS 5 stuffs - as I like to have all my games to still support "older" version such as iOS 4.3. Then noticed this email from Apple about iOS 6 Beta, and all these news about new features in iOS 6.... What the....Am I too slow or is Apple too fast, or both ??!!Also saw a few posts complaining about iPad 1 and pre 3GS iPhones won't be able to get iOS 6. I guess it shouldn't be such a big problem when the economy is good, but under current situation I think probably not everyone would...

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Graphic/image design is too hard for me...

Just submitted my 2nd game "Mespfi". Found most of the time in past 2 weeks mainly working on final testing, tweaking, and doing some graphic design stuffs. As before, this graphic/image thing is definitely not my type... Codes can be easily written, tested, but trying to draw/design something that looks "nice" or "attractive" is just too hard for ...

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How to capture Exception while debugging

In Canberra today, doing training course (no, not iOS development related unfortunately :-P )....Found this handy post from iPhone Development Blog as below talking about how to capture Exception while debugging. This would surely helps with all those weired exceptions!Capture Exception While Debugg...

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