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rectorsquid

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Jet Hoverbike 2.0

The second version of the Trials Fusion Xbox One hoverbike track worked out well and is a lot of fun to play. Some people can’t manage to make it work or just don’t like what they found when they played it. So this skill game is never going…

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Computers & Programming, Games

Trials Fusion Skill Game

I built a fairly complex skill game for Trials Fusion on the Xbox One. Jet Hoverbike Challenge was created by me, rectorsquid, as a sort of Lunar Lander style game. Jet Hoverbike Challenge Gameplay Trials Fusion, and earlier versions of the game like Trials Evolution, have a track…

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Games

Castle Panic Game Review

The most recent game that we tried, my family and I, was Castle Panic. I must admit that I’ve been buying games that I’ve seen on TableTop. There are many of the games on the show that I have not bought and are not appealing to me. But…

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Computers & Programming

Alpha Color Mixer

I’m going to write a post about the Alpha Color Mixer that I wrote and published in the Windows ‘App’ Store (http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/alpha-color-mixer/63825206-eb36-4ab7-a223-42d52410ffa9). But I am working a little on the code and I want to clean it up before I publish it for mass review. The Alpha Color…

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Games

Tokaido Game Review

Since I reviewed Spy Alley yesterday, I will write another game review today. This is a new thing for me. If you’re looking for posts about programming issues or the Linkage program, you’ll have to skip over these reviews. Tokaido is a beautiful looking game. It has an…

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Games

Spy Alley Game Review

My daughter and I have been trying a variety of board games recently in a quest to find the absolute best game EVER! I decided that I should review some of these games here on my seldom-seen blog. As always, I write blog posts as a sort of…

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Computers & Programming

Lake Tahoe Temperature

A long time ago, I added some AJAX code to my blog so that the Lake Tahoe water temperature is displayed on my blog pages. It’s in the right navigation column down at the bottom. It doesn’t appear immediately and sometimes not at all if the temperature server…

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Linkage Program

Linkage Bug/Feature List

I’m getting more requests for features in the Linkage program than ever before. I am now using Axosoft issue tracking software to keep track of bugs and feature requests. Here’s the current list that I generated from user emails and from my memory of things that I want….

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Computers & Programming

Preview Upload File, Part 3

This post is just here to hold the sources for the latest version of the image preview JavaScript code. I moved the code out of some generic files that hold a bunch of other JavaScript code and CSS data, and into files specific to the image preview page….

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