Here’s a histogram of the 4,842 scores in the Attack of the Meeplings database. At first glance the data looks realitively normal - However, it’s far from it. The horizontal axis is not linear, but exponential (2^n) the data is heavily right skewed which tells us that there are some people who are just so […]

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Many months ago I bought a book on CSS, DHTML and AJAX and have only got around to flicking through it now.
To make cool webpages nowadays you probably also need to know PHP (or ASP.net) Javascript (or Silverlight or Flash) and of course HTML and maybe XML too - As well as some […]

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Well curb it at least
I’ve had a couple of problems with people cheating on the Attack of the Meeplings scoreboard. My guess was that they were using some kind of memory hacking tool such as Quick Memory Editor - Which is quite a cool program
The way it works is by searching […]

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Japanese -> English
Attack of the Meeplings
“It is the simple vertical scroll shooting game which does not have power rise!
When the item which the enemy drops is taken magnification ratio of score keeps raising.
But simple the degree of hardness being high well enough, the feeling which does and answers.”

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I’ve just removed a particularly suspicious score from the AOTM boards - Please don’t cheat people, it ruins the fun for everyone and makes more work for me.
Of course, now I have to improve the highscore boards security now anyway.
Anyway congrats to NIMITZ who is the first person to break 1,000,000

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Jay is Games posted a pretty positive review of Attack of the Meeplings
Heres a snippit:
“The game is glorious, retro-styled fun from top to bottom, including every pixel and the tough but fair gameplay; however, the real stand out is the music. Usually I find myself playing with the sound muted, but with this game […]

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I’ve just finished a new version of Attack of the Meeplings - Play it here!
So Whats New?
Added an ‘Easy’ difficulty level for those who are not quite experts at playing these types of games. The downside to playing on easy is that your score will not be included in the highscore table. But it should […]

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Apparently computer manufacturers are always looking at ways to cut costs. My Laptop keyboard cannot register if I press the left arrow+down arrow+z keys at the same time - This makes playing Attack of the Meeplings very difficult!
However, I’m planning to release version 2.0 of AOTM within the next week, it will have an autofire […]

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Attack of the Meeplings is a Neo-Retro shooter that loops indefinately, getting faster and faster and harder and harder until you just can’t keep up anymore.
Check it out here
Only some minor things to do before declaring version 1.0 such as coming up with a more secure way of handling the global high scores and some […]

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Attack of the Meeplings is the next game from Tiny Frog Software. It’s a Neo-Retro shooter that will be played in the browser. Aside from being your typical shoot ‘em-up, it’s going to be an infinite shooter with waves looping over and over and getting faster and harder until you finally succumb - Yes it’s […]

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