Author: Alex
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Getting to grips with Unity (C#)
After finishing my course at Bournemouth University, I wanted to invest my free time into improving my programming and game development skills. I decided that since majority of my course at University had focused on the Unreal Development Kit, it would be cool to try out Unity properly and see how it compares. I’ve done…
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CallofDutyMapPacks.com
When I first started doing work as a creative writer for certain websites around the web I started to learn the basics of how WordPress worked more and more and the potential to make some money from a blog / website if I set one up myself. I knew I wanted to start a blog…
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Final Year Project Bournemouth University
Abstract / Introduction: With the video games industry currently larger than it ever has been before, just creating a game and releasing it to the world is just the beginning of its lifecycle. Analytics has exploded in the games industry recently and is now regarded as one of the most important aspects of game design.…
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Beginning Windows Store 8.1 Development: Upgrading Starcraft II Profiler (C#, XAML, PHP)
For my final year project at University I had decided that I would be developing a Windows 8 application, something I, at the time had no experience in. Over the 2013 Christmas break I decided I would create a Windows 8 application in order to understand the basics and fundamentals of the development and just…
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Remastering Call of Duty Quiz
Being my most popular application to date, Call of Duty Quiz was one of the first applications I ever made for the Windows Phone and since creating it my programming skills have come a long way. I felt it was time to re-create the popular application with a visual overhaul and new questions alongside the…
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Google Analytics Experience
Having run multiple websites for a number of years now, Google Analytics has been an extremely important part of managing and running the sites. I’ve used the service provided by Google to analyse a vast array of different data in order to make for a better user experience and improve website SEO plus SERP. In…
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StarCraft II Profiler
Latest and Greatest app. Consolidates and builds upon all previous Windows Phone knowledge, having spent months creating previous applications as I was going through large learning curves, I was able to create StarCraft II Profiler in less than one week. SC2 Profiler uses API’s provided by Blizzard Entertainment in order to fetch data for specific…
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First Android Development (Eclipse, Java, XML)
In order to broaden my skill base and allow my applications to reach a larger audience, I decided to finally begin development on the Android platform. After years of solely developing for Windows Phone it was a brand new experience to being developing for an entirely different platform. While there are features which are amazingly…
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Steam Live Tile (Windows Phone)
After completing my Weather Phone 8 application I had grasped some very complex skills within the Windows Phone operating system as well as PHP, upon realising there was not application in the marketplace which would create a Live Tile out of Steam profiles I began work on Steam Live Tile. Expanding on my knowledge of…