The purpose of this workshop is to create a (very) simple Android game from which participants can create their own (not-so-simple) games, as well as having skills for other applications.

The code will be based on the code structure of my two games Rune Escape and BoB lite,and they are examples of two very different games that has been created on top of this code basis.

To get the full benefit of this you should come to both sessions, and you should have plenty of programming experience  (preferable with Java using Eclipse, but that is not a requirement.)

You register by making a comment on this blog post, and what degree you are doing (and the year if undergraduate).

YOU CAN FIND THE TUTORIAL AT: http://oster-lundqvist.com/karsten/?p=4886

The twist is, that the game is Adfreeable, which means that players can gain awards from in-game achievements and by fighting other players. If they win 70 Rune Awards the game will become adfree.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.karlund.ballslite

or search for "bob lite" in the Android market.

It's a game that mixes the game dynamics of Labyrinth and Pool. You control the red ball using the accelerometers and the aim is to pot the red ball. THere are several game modes, Classic with no time constraints (except for scoring higher), Rush and Attack both have a time limit...

I'd really like feedback if you have any...

The export worked fine, and I only had to do a minimum of changes to remove some broken links and decide what to do with a few private/protected blog posts.

Now I find that astounding! First of all I have at many occasions used my Android phone while being vertical! Actually daily, if not 90% of the time I use it!

I've also used my tablet PC - sorry iPad isn't that innovative in my mind as I have had tablets for 5 years now - in vertical positions, heck even in reverse horizontal positions (as in in bed upside down!)

I have even found myself sat in front of my linux box pointing at windows to move them - yes, it didn't work - but it showed to me that using the fingers on my vertical screens would actually not fell that foreign, actually it would feel quite natural.

Am I really that different from other people?! Am I that geeky, that I can use my super geeky powers in such innovative ways that I can put my greasy fingers on a vertical screen and expect it to move stuff? Apparently! Or has this position by Jobs something to do with Microsoft's patents pre-dating Apple's patents on this, trying to avoid patent wars? I think the latter, and I would have liked Jobs to be upfront about it. I'd actually have praised him for it!!

This is not exactly what we do here, and although we definitely can use oauth, it seems a little convoluted just to receive what effectively is an rss feed on the front page. Therefore I decided to look at the rss route. Twitter however is not really helpful when it comes to rss feeds of tweets from a user's friends. They want you to authenticate the access to the feed using basic authentication, which they have removed from their site, thus no authentication is provided!

Not sure if I should spend the time - which I don't really have - on oauth, or take the easy option and wait until they fix their rss auth problem...

This video will show in detail how to use it.

I've managed to get tags to import, but they aren't assigned to the posts. This is weird as the xml is the same as the original export files from WP, so I thought some test would be appropriate.

If I export a original WXR to an empty WP blog, it seemingly works. The tags are assigned as they shoud, so I'll have to do more work on my export files. I suspect at this moment that WP break XML rules, we'll see.

However the reason for this blog is that categories are imported strangely! In my export file I have a category called "test cat" with a slug/nicename test_cat. This gets imported but not used, however a category, which isn't declared anywhere in the WXR with slug test-cat is created and assigned to the blog appropriately! This is bizarre behaviour.

I see a bug report coming up to WP...

This should allow you to export your blog to a Wordpress server. I've tested it with my own, and it seems to work fine, except for links to files on RedGloo, which still are pointing to the RedGloo resource. This isn't strange as this is normal behaviour for Wordpress exports, however IMHO an exporter really ought to export this - with links in blogposts changed to the new server.

We'll see if I make it...