Level Master 2000: screenshot0001

Today I prepared the initial launch of Level Master 2000 at google code: http://code.google.com/p/levelmaster2000/. There are still a lot of features missing, as the project page states:

August 24th, 2010. Commited as is. Consider this more a preview/announcement rather than a real release. A major restructuring will occur within the next months, but anyway – here it is!

Nevertheless, it’s a good feeling finally having it on air and getting some feedback!

[2010-08-16 19:56:41 - xxx] ------------------------------
[2010-08-16 19:56:41 - xxx] Android Launch!
[2010-08-16 19:56:41 - xxx] adb is running normally.
[2010-08-16 19:56:41 - xxx] Could not find xxx.apk!
[2010-08-16 19:58:04 - xxx] ------------------------------

after importing a project (maybe doing some reconfiguring), just remove the project (only the project from Eclipse, not from disk!).
Then simply re-import it and it should work again!

1. Clean all targets
2. Regenerate the qMake file via Qt Creator
3. Rebuild the project
4. Install the latest Flashplayer and add the app/AS3/bin directory to Flash Player’s local trusted

That was it! See for yourself:

Level Master 2000: running on OS X

The GUI needs a bit work though (e.g. the “delete entity” button), but all in all I’m really impressed how easy this was.

I also stumbled over this interview.
Wow! If only part of this is true, I can’t wait for it to be released! Unfortunately, the PC release seems to be delayed and a new date has not yet been announced.

Last weekend I logged into Android Market on a mobile phone and somehow the old stupid email nick got activated again. And not that that would have been enough, it also replaced my google account name, showing up in e.g. all the google code pages…that sucks hard! Again I tried deleting or deactivating all the apps which use the name (google mail and talk) – with partial success. Yesterday evening, my old nick appeared on google code again. Today, the stupid one once more…and now after some more clicking around – nearly getting crazy – the old one again.

We’ll see how tomorrow turns out…way to go!

!!! DISCLAIMER: NO WARRANTY! YOU COULD RUIN YOUR DEVICE !!!

First I recommend cyanogenmod. Go to their wiki and follow the instructions: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=HTC_Magic. Thanks to their nice write up, I discovered the first important thing: I have a HTC Magic 32B. So, the next step is to proceed to the Full Update Guide – HTC Magic 32B. Read it carefully! And also, if you live in Europe, read the last section! For me, I saw the three skateboarding Androids in the fast boot menu (access it with back + power on). I got the “Incorrect Model ID” error after loading the SAPPIMG.nbh, but didn’t need the goldcard part! I just followed the “Non-TMobile 32B Magics and ION/ADP2” section – everything worked fine. Maybe it’s just me, but after that step I restarted the “old” system, and also copied the backup on my PC…just to be sure.

Now proceed to Upgrading From CM 4.2 or other rooted ROMS to 5.0.x(Dream/Sapphire). Don’t get overwhelmed, it’s a straight forward process. The important thing is, to perform a FULL WIPE. First I only cleared the dalvik-cache, which resulted in a never ending boot phase. Then I tried again with a full wipe, and it worked like a charm!

And that was it. Hope this helps…the whole process took me a few hours, but if you do it like described here, you can do it within half an hour (including all the downloading ).

I’ve ported a small 2D game we did for Android in about three days. Since I also had to get the hang of ShiVa, I think that is quite a small amount of time. I am going to wrap up the experience I made the next few weeks (hopefully more frequently than the last two months), so stay tuned!

Recently, he also started blogging about this, so if you’re interested in some alternative programming thoughts and styles, check out his blog every once and a while: http://lambdor.net/

I also linked him in my blogroll in case you can’t remember his URL .

There’s also an interview with Cory Davis (Lead Designer). I can only say this game is going to rock, so check it out: http://www.incgamers.com/Videos/1532/igtv-spec-ops-the-line-interview