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Now that ELFrun is finished and I’m on holidays, I’ve finally some more time to surf all the (indie) gamedev pages in my bookmarks again. One particular posting catched my attention and I nearly had to shed a tear when I heard Alec Holowka, one of the two people behind the highly respected Aquaria, playing [...]

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mattin posted at mac-tv.de and one particular comment gives a quite comprehensive feedback. Also, there’s a pictured review on a Swiss site, apfelkraft.ch.
Oh, and btw., version 1.5 is in the store and we’re working on version 1.6.
Did I mention the ELFrun review on iphonegamenetwork.com?
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mattin found ELFrun featured on “Englishtwist’s” Christmas Countdown for December 3rd. If you want to see the whole ELFrun intro video (because you don’t have an iPod/iPhone, of course, otherwise you would indeed buy the game to watch it), have a look at his footage starting at about minute 4 :-)
There’s another video from “ipodtouchlab” [...]

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mattin created a new video which shows ELFrun from starting it up on the iPhone to finishing a level (and most of a bonus level). It’s one of the easier levels at the beginning (level 5), so there are not many obstacles and the speed is still pretty low. I guess playing a higher level [...]

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ELFrun is available in the AppStore. Just follow this link.

And now, dear colleagues, please spread the word! Feel free to use one of the shots mattin posted and do some advertising. Greatly appreciated!
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I nearly shed a tear when mattin finally made it after 12 hours of struggling with code signing and stuff. Imagine that: a 3D artist builds, signs and deploys a whole C++ application using XCode and command line tools by himself. I couldn’t do something like that the other way round. I’m really proud to [...]

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The ELFRUN developers are fighting for the highscore during their last tests with the game. mattin, here’s my reply.
Now I’m stuck in level 20.
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Since mattin has let the cat out of the bag, here’s what we’ve worked on in the past weeks.

Head over to dermattin for more.
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I didn’t talk to my girlfriend very much lately. I didn’t read many blogs. I didn’t watch any movies. I didn’t breathe much fresh air. I didn’t use my PC for anything more than listening to music or fetching mails. I didn’t sleep much more than four hours the last two weeks or so. I [...]

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I didn’t write much lately because I am busy with other things that I will probably write more about later. But until then, I’ll give you a short insight in what I’m going to try over the Christmas holidays (and, as a consequence, what an ungodly man I am):
Left 4 Dead (already pre-ordered at amazon.co.uk)

Call [...]

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Plus MacBook Pro owner since Saturday. Plus soon to become an iPhone owner. Plus a bit confused by Objective-C syntax already.
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I’ve been doing a bit XP at home lately.

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I saw the following advertisement on AutoScout24 today.

5300 EUR for a 2007 Audi A3 ragtop. This looked too good to be true, indeed, but still I couldn’t hesitate to contact the seller. The telephone number shown in the ad turned out to be a fax number, so I tried to get in touch by email. [...]

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Last year, I wrote several entries and a review on Glow, a diabolic Jump’n’Run created by my friends at Black Chronos.

Unfortunately, Glow did not bring the commercial success the folks behind Black Chronos had expected, so they eventually had to cease business. Fortunately, though, Glow will be released as freeware soon as stated on the [...]

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I came across a funny side note in The Pragmatic Programmer:
In 1897, Indiana State Legislature House Bill No. 246 attempted to decree that henceforth PI should have the value of “3″. The Bill was tabled indefinitely at its second reading when a mathematics professor pointed out that their powers did not quite extend to passing [...]

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I have released another publication, a short (German) review of the last Spieleentwicklertreff NRW (Game Developers Gathering North Rhine-Westphalia) which took place at the Mediadesignhochschule Düsseldorf. Have a look!

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Ooops, I didn’t write much lately since there wasn’t much to write about. I had great holidays and a fantastic New Years Eve, and I met some nice people in the past few days. I hope you all had a great time, too. A happy new year to everyone!
I digged through StudiVZ the other day [...]

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Those who followed this blog for some time know that I attended a Genesis concert in June. On New Year’s Eve 3sat shows parts of the Turn It On Again tour concert in Rome. Should be worth watching, and the rest of the schedule looks promising, too. I’ll have a look before heading towards the [...]

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(Image courtesy of mybestdesktops.com)
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