Archive of posts from June 2014
Sprint stories My priorities for this sprint are:- Write some more tests Other things:- Company bank account – this has become pretty critical now. I’m really unimpressed that it’s taken almost a month since I applied for a business bank account and I still haven’t got one. As a result I can’t sign up for ad networks etc so this is now a priority for me Register as a developer on the Play store Sign... Read on
Some tasks completed during this sprint:
Wrote three integration tests
More play testing
A few other things I did:
Continued to try and set up a business bank account… sigh
Created some test fixtures for the Identifier
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For many years I maintained an instance of Gallery 2 (http://galleryproject.org/) to share some of our photos with family and friends. However, life and technology moves on and I simply don’t have time to maintain the installation of the Gallery software* and couldn’t justify the time to upgrade it to version 3. Similarly, we don’t tend to use it for our photos any more and instead share things via Flickr, Facebook or just plain email.... Read on
Some of the things I did this week: Finally created some integration tests for Bubblision. I’ve only done two so far but it’s a start. Went along to the monthly Unity meet-up – a talk on editor extensions. Great talk and an excellent night. Did a test upgrade of the Glossary to CakePHP 2.5.2 (from 2.5.1) Prepared test fixtures for the Identifier tool prior to attempting to upgrade it from the CakePHP 1.3.x branch to... Read on
Sprint stories
My priorities for this sprint are:-
Write some tests
More play testing
Other things:-
Company web site
Company bank account
Sign up for an ad network (company bank account permitting)
Expected duration
Two weeks (ending 29/06/2014)
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Some tasks completed during this sprint:
Updated the design of the game spikes
Updated Unity Test Tools to 1.3.1
Updated GameAnalytics to 0.6.3
Changes some of the shaders to more mobile friendly ones
A few other things I did:
Returned forms to the bank for my business account
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Some of the things I did this week: Finally got the forms for the business bank account from NatWest. Having done the initial sign-up online it’s pretty frustrating to wait two working days for a phone call then three more working days for them to email you forms to print out, complete and post back to them. It’s also the first form I think I’ve ever had to complete that switches back and forth between... Read on
Sprint stories
My priorities for this sprint are:-
Write some tests
Finally decide on a design for the spikes
More play testing
Other things:-
Company web site
Company bank account
Sign up for an ad network (company bank account permitting)
Expected duration
Two weeks (ending 15/06/2014)
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Some tasks completed during this sprint: Adjusted NPC bubble speed depending on the number of bubbles remaining Redesigned the end game screen Tried redesigned the playing area (still don’t like it) Updated NGUI to 3.6.1 A few other things I did: Went to a UKIE session on tax relief for games development Went to the Bristol Games Hub monthly social – excellent talk on sound and music in games Tried to set up business bank account…... Read on