Clickomania.ch

Ich mutiere zum Fan des App Store. Kaufsüchtig bin ich noch nicht, doch was es da an kleinen, nützlichen Programmen fürs iPhone und den iPod Touch gibt, ist schon bemerkenswert. Natürlich, man findet nicht alles, wonach man sucht. Beispielsweise habe ich bislang keine «Videokamera-Software» gefunden – von Haus aus kann das iPhone nur Standbilder aufnehmen. Sowas soll aber kommen, habe ich gehört. Auch ein richtiger Flash-Player wäre eine gute Sache. Aber schliesslich hat Apple das SDK, also die Software zur Entwicklung von iPhone-Programmen erst im März freigegeben. Im Einsatz habe ich bis jetzt:
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Again, I am to offer my highest compliments to Bernd, the (again) unbeaten master in champions league of Clickomania. His record in the Classic game from October 2005 has been outplayed from miki four days ago. Miki has achieved 1888 points, one point more than Bernd over three years ago. But Bernd has been prepared – he has achieved a new record on May 31, 2008: Amazing, incredible 1889 points! That’s mind-blowing, folks! Everyone who makes it into the all-time list is a true master of the game. My best try would not take me there.
So, keep on playing, friends! (I am wondering if I will see the 2000 points in the Classic game.)

A web tipp from a friend, which I’d like to forward here:
http://phun.at
(I wanted to create a physics model for Clickomania, unfortunately, my programming skills, or rather my time management did not allow me to implement that plan so far…)

Ten years ago! At the end of 1997, I released the first version of the game:

So, a moment to celebrate! And please, celebrate with me! Use the comments to present your compliments to the guest of honor. Tell me there when you have started to play the game, if you still play or if you have stopped (tell me why and when, if you like) and what you still like about the game (or not…).

And lets clink glasses for the next ten years of happy clicking!

I’ve taken a look into the archive folder of my hard disk and found the very first version of Clickomania. And the file dates of those resources tell me: The tenth birthday of my game is ahead. I started at the end of December 1997 to program the game. I have been thinking how to celebrate this moment. For all intents and purposes, I wanted to do a new version. But alas, software development is terribly time-consuming and I already have a lot of duties scheduled for the days ahead. The anniversary version will have to wait.

I don’t do a new version right now, but I do something else. Because, after ten years, it occurred to me that this is finally the moment to reveal the last and biggest secret about Clickomania. It’s shameful, but after a decade, the time is ripe for a confession of the extent of that one I am about to give.

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