February 2012
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Having been a massive fan of DropBox since its introduction and hopelessly
dependant on it, I am chuffed to bits that I have just managed to get my
account up to 16GB and still be a free user.
Andy Lunn
Weigh-in No. 5
Crap… put on a pound this week. My will power sucks, who the hell
invented biscuits. Grrrrr!!!
Andy Lunn
Weigh-in No. 4
I should have posted this last week, but depressed about progress I ignored
it. I need motivation so I must confess on here that I maintained last
week. Got to really go for it this week and have a good loss.
Andy Lunn
January 2012
4 posts
Weigh-in No. 3
Not such a great week, but again I over indulged a few times, but still I
lost a pound. Here’s hoping for a better loss next week.
Andy Lunn
Weigh-in No. 2
Week number two and I’ve lost 2 pounds. Pretty happy with that and right on
track for an average weeks loss.
I had slippage though, takeaway Indian, biscuits at work and some devilish
chocolate cake. Still its a good loss and I’m staying positive.
Goal no. 1
Its been long overdue, about 10 years really, but 2012 is the year I must lose some serious weight.
4-5 stone is the goal, and all by November for a good friends wedding. Its a tall order, but for the first time ever something has clicked in my head and I am incredibly determined.
I’m a bit late in the update, but I plan to weigh-in on a Wednesday. Last Wednesday I had a great start and...
New Year, new me
I thought I’d wait a little bit into 2012 before I posted this, otherwise it would fall into obscurity with the deluge of New Year resolution evangelists and to be honest I wanted my ideas to bed in myself before public announcement.
So 2011…. in a nutshell it was a strain. There were some highlights for sure - birth of my second son, my eldest turning 2 and my beautiful wife putting...
November 2010
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To Fail is to learn
I think I have arrived at a point were I am happy to talk about recent events in my business ventures and hopefully allow other people to learn from my mistakes.
I started a business called Tizma Ltd back in Dec 2007 to undertake contract software development and sell my own brand of software online.
For at least a year things went well. I had a decent contract paying the bills and my first...
October 2010
2 posts
Fear The Dronx Is Live
Its finally happened my first XBOX Live Indies game is available on the Marketplace. It has been since yesterday and as I type it sits at position number three on the New Releases section.
I have a mixed feeling at the moment, yesterday I sent out quite a few codes along with the press release to a lot of gaming sites, but as yet I haven’t noticed any mention of it accept for XBLA Ratings,...
Aftermath
Well, three weeks on and the whole XNA submission process has been an eye opener. It takes a long, long, time.
You’re basically reliant on other XNA members to download, try out and critique the title. I’m not complaining about any of the really helpful members who have helped me out, its just frustrating to wait.
Of course I did my bit and tested for other people as its only fair....
September 2010
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The launch of Fear The Dronx is getting close
This day has finally arrived, Fear The Dronx has gone into peer review on XNA. I am truly excited to have finished this little slice of entertainment. Its been set at 240 MSP, I wanted 80 MSP but as the game is over 50mb Microsoft won’t let me :S
The product page is up and running with screenshots and the video trailer. If you would like to check it out go here.
Hopefully the process...
August 2010
7 posts
Superb indie developer →
Just wanted to give a shout out to Luke at Radian Games. He’s about to release his third game on XBLIG entitled Inferno and it looks just as cool as JoyJoy and Crossfire. Good luck buddy.
Feature complete
Its finally happened. Fear The Dronx is feature complete. All levels are in, tutorial finished tonight. Just some final testing and website prepping. Should be in peer review by mid week.
No more windows server
Its finally done. I have transitioned from a dedicated windows server to running all my windows development to a virtual machine on my mac.
I am amazed at just how good the performance is. I have Visual Studio running on Windows 7 in my virtual machine, cross compiling to my XBOX via XNA. All working beautifully. Big <3 to parallels.
And for web development I have IIS7 running smoothing. The...
Late changes
I think for some time now I’ve thought that Qoobz as a name was a real cop-out. A “crazy” play on words that is just marketing bullshit.
So I’ve been thinking hard about an alternative and now we have a winner. From this day forward Qoobz shall now be known as “Fear The Dronx”.
Menacing or what? Its far more interesting, thought provoking and gives a tiny...
Connectivity restored
Finally I have broadband back. Not great at 4.5 mbit but better than nowt. We are allegedly getting an exchange upgrade this year.
I can now get back to finishing Qoobz.
I hate moving
This is now the sixth time I’ve moved home and I’m sick of it. I have the process pretty well organised, but the bureaucracy involved in switching services over just blows my mind.
I’ve sorted everything except for Broadband. I’m using Eclipse who I’ve been happily using for the last six months, but this house move has been a disaster. Now, let me say a large portion...
trevorl asked: hi i just purchased a MIDI cable specifically to hook up my Guitar Hero drum kit to GarageBand, but I didn't know how hard it was going to be! I read your article and found it useful, until I got to the part where I had to sync my WiiMote. I closed the box that said something about syncing it because I didn't know what it was, and now I don't know how to get it back! Help!
July 2010
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The home straight
It’s been a long and somewhat bumpy road, but I can finally see the end of development now.
I’ll admit I hate creating levels, but the end result can be very satisfying indeed. Getting the balance right is tricky though and I added an incredibly fiendish level last night. Can just about be done by one player, but ideally with a buddy.
I’m considering tagging levels as to how...
Guitar Hero Drums as a real drum kit
This is an old post that I have now moved over from my old WordPress site, but didn’t want to lose….
I’ve always wanted to have my own drum kit in the house, but like many folks a real kit is expensive, large and extremely noisy. I noticed on the web that many a rock enthusiast wanted the same and turned to the likes of Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Using these plastic virtual...
New logo
Finally, I’ve created a logo today which is simple and I think quite cool. Do you agree with me or am I way off?
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New kid in town
Just had the confirmation email Crackdown 2 has shipped. Woo hoo! Productivity is about to hit rock bottom.
June 2010
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