I have a few things to mention this morning…

I’ve added a few links to the Contact Us page – one for my Twitter account, and one for the Streaming Colour Facebook page. I’ve also added a link to my Twitter account off the blog page in the sidebar. I post things to Twitter that are too small to warrant a full blog post. Blog post notifications are also sent to Twitter, so it’s a good way to get blog updates if you don’t use the RSS feed.

I started implementing the 2-player mode for the game yesterday. So far I’ve got all of the game state classes converted to storing state for two players and all of the calling code now passes a player id into the calls. I’ll be getting to the first big changes today, namely: layout changes. After the new layout is implemented I’ll make the actual gameplay changes.

Finally, I’m putting out a call for beta testers for Dapple. If you would like to beta test Dapple, I’ll hopefully send out a build sometime next week. Here are some details:

• You must be willing to play all of the game modes of the game fairly regularly.
• You must be willing to send me reports of any bugs/crashes you encounter (in as much detail you can provide about what you were doing, what happened, crash logs, etc).
• You should feel free to send me feedback on the difficulty of the various game modes.
• You should feel free to send my any other kind of feedback on the game.
• You will not be compensated for beta testing. (i.e. you will not be paid)
• You will not receive any kind of game credit for beta testing.
• You must have an iPhone or iPod touch that is running OS 2.1 or higher.
• You must be willing to provide me with your unique iPhone/iPod touch identifier number so that I can create an ad-hoc build that will run on your device (I will provide you with instructions on finding the number).
• You will get to play Dapple before it’s released!

If you want to get in on the beta, please email me at: “info AT streamingcolour DOT com” with “Beta Test” in the subject line before 11:59 PM EST, Sunday, January 25th, 2009. I haven’t decided how many testers I need yet, but it will probably be up to 20 or so. I’ll accept testers in the order the emails arrive.

Finally, if you’re reading this from the U.S., happy inauguration day!

Owen

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