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About metawrap

CTO Massive Interactive. Ex Computer Whiz Kid - Now Grumpy Old Guru.

The impending or maybe never ‘AppleTV’ and what it means for storefront developers

Posted on April 17, 2013

“Yep. If there is going to be an actual TV… the SDK for the current device will be its herald.” Changed my mind on this statement. I guess I was just really hoping that they would publish a SDK and … Continue reading →

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The Game – Progress Report #9

Posted on March 23, 2013

I love it when a plan comes together. In my last post I mentioned that there was a problem in X/Y translations of hexagon ‘bitmaps’. I was a little worried when in the middle of this I realised the hexagon … Continue reading →

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The Game – Progress Report #8

Posted on March 16, 2013

I’ve created a Hexagon ‘bitmap‘ that is going to act as a primitive for menu layouts, buttons etc. On top of this ‘bitmap’ primitive I intend to create a kind of hexagon ‘postscript‘ which is an almost ‘Turtle” style language. … Continue reading →

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The Game – Progress Report #7

Posted on March 7, 2013

More game design by Mr11 – Ship Engineering

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The Game – Progress Report #6

Posted on February 15, 2013

More game design by Mr11 – Space Battles Ships See Each Other Fire! Aftermath!

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The Game – Progress Report #5

Posted on January 5, 2013

Here is an update on the game design. This time. Building a planet. Mining from the ‘Youroid’ and gathering resources. Building A Spaceport and building a SpaceShip.

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The Game – Progress Report #4

Posted on December 17, 2012

We took some time off. I was busy on another super sekret project and Mr11 has been working on learning Java,  video editing and  and his youtube channel. We have been doing some design in the background on and off … Continue reading →

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The Game – Progress Report #3

Posted on September 29, 2012

We are back after a long well deserved holiday overseas. This was my first real holiday in close to 15 years. Yay. I’ve kind-of been in a daze since I got back and I’ve really only caught up on everything this week. … Continue reading →

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The Game – Progress Report #2

Posted on May 13, 2012

Another good weekend of progress. Decided that to document some of the user interface nuances we needed some kind of stop motion capture system. Back in the day when I was more hands-on in UI/UX I had a lot of … Continue reading →

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The Game – Progress Report #1

Posted on May 6, 2012

We have made good progress in our Sunday sessions over the last few weeks. I have resurrected my decades old physics engine. See these videos. (1 , 2, 3) I have been comparing various game development frameworks, at this point MonoGame is looking like … Continue reading →

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