{"id":2345,"date":"2013-07-05T14:25:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T14:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2013-07-06T09:23:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T09:23:29","slug":"timbles-week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2013\/07\/05\/timbles-week-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbles – Week 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"icon_android_1024\"<\/a>The fourth week rolls by…
\nI was actually pretty concerned this week, it’s been a bad week for development. I lost both Tuesday and Wednesday to company admin. In particular, I had to process my accounts. The end of June was the end of my VAT qtr, and that needs to be submitted by the end of July. I also needed to calculate the royalties that I need to pay for The Lords of Midnight. What had become apparent was that I didn’t really have a good fix on how much of my company money, in the company bank account, still belonged to the company. Now that’s not normally an issue for me, I’m only usually 3 months away from processing my accounts, and I don’t spend money based on the balance of my business account, but having given up my major income stream, I really needed to resolve the issue. The last thing I want to do is to think I have more money available to me than I do. So, as hateful as processing my accounts was, it was a necessary evil. However, the positives still don’t make me feel any better about the two days of development I lost.\u00a0It was also my wedding anniversary on Tuesday, and Victoria’s birthday on Thursday. I took Victoria out for lunch on Thursday, so that was another half day given up.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_1457\"<\/a>With that background to put the week in context, I have actually ended it positively. At the end of last week I set myself the goal of having the game running on an actual iPad. For a while I was thinking that I was going to miss my own milestone. But, it all came good in the end.
\nI development on the missing bits of code that I needed to have the game running properly on a device. The game now goes into a menu, you select to play. You can return to an in-game menu to exit out, or just resume back to the game. And the game returns to the menu when it has finished.
\nI\u00a0went through the process required by Apple to create all my certificates and profiles needed to get this new project on a device. I built all the assets needed to cover all the different iOS devices, and created icons and launch screens.<\/p>\n

A couple of test deployments while I shook out some issues with placement of assets and inclusion of correct files during the build process, and Timbles is running on my iPad. There are issues with it running on the iPhone but that is just about the screen size. A day or so next week should resolve that. And the rest of the week will be about polishing a few things, and in principal I should have a fully operational game mode by the end of next week.<\/p>\n

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