Hundreds Chart Dev Diary

June 28, 2015, 12:32 am

I've had this idea for a game to teach kids times tables since I finished Wordflight two years go. I got bogged down in my initial implementation using OpenGL ES and a few weeks ago I decided to re-boot the project with flat UI, vivid colours and UIDynamics to make things interesting.

This time the project took two solid weekends (and a few late nights), but I am pretty happy with how it turned out


If you are reading this and you live in Australia, make sure you check out goCatch next time you need to catch a taxi.

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Interactive Hundreds Charts

June 11, 2015, 12:16 pm

Four engaging math games to help children learn their multiplication tables.

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CLGeocoder is not an Opera fan

April 15, 2013, 6:22 am

I realise that Reverse Geocoding is a pretty tricky problem and probably will always be a work in progress, but the CLGeocoder bug I found today was so amusing I had to post. Things like this make this API less useful than it otherwise could be.

One of these is not the Sydney Opera House:


I built a quick test app demonstrating that CLGeocoder thinks "Opera House, New South Wales" is a suburban bungalow.

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Four months later and I still suck at this game

April 14, 2013, 12:52 am

Four months of indie game development in under three minutes.

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WordFlight

April 14, 2013, 12:07 am

The Classic 'find a word' game reinvented. Compete with your friends and the world.

Free to play with no advertising. Upgrade for more challenging games and word lists.

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