If my last games were written in Java, why am I using C++ for my new Roguelike?
Countless religious wars are fought over programming languages, just look at any forums frequented by programmers.
I’d like to think that I’m pragmatic in my technology choices - Languages aren’t often better or worse, but in many cases some are […]

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There are a number of references to other video games in Caverns of Underkeep
I wanted to put alot more in - Some obvious some not so obvious, but maybe I’ll just save it for the next Roguelike.
Super Mario Bros

Everybodies favoriate Italian plummer.
Quest for Glory

The Antwerp from Quest for Glory I
Doom / Doom II

The […]

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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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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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A little while ago I decided to start doing monthly projects. Attack of the Meeplings was the first of such projects.
I’ve got another idea for another game that I could do in around a month, a sort of maze based shooter. But because I’m about to finish uni in June, I have decided that I […]

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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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