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Silver medal at Android Hackathon

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I participated in Android Hackathon this weekend, where the goal was to build a game for an Android phone in one day – and the theme was retro (8-16 bits).

My plan was to make a game similar to Metro Siberia since I think that it fits very well on a phone with only a touch screen. Limited time and limited experience with Android forced me to abandon my plan of using ‘real’ levels and instead use randomly generated ones.

Still it turned out to be pretty good, and was voted as the second best game in the competition! This was even more honorable since the other entries were very well made and the competition was really hard.
Thanks everyone who participated, and thanks to Bwin, Stockholm Google Technology User Group for arranging such a great compo!

My entry (filmed with a crappy camera). Music is made by Simon Stålenhag and taken (with his permission) from our common hobby project Ripple Dot Zero.

When Dreams Come True

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People who knows me know I’m a big fan of Sonic The Hedgehog. I still remember very clearly exactly how I felt the first time I saw Sonic the hedgehog on my friends tv screen. I was eleven years old and the graphics was like nothing I’ve ever seen before, it was crisp like a cartoon.

And now I’m excited again. I have just learned that some of the songs, especially “Star Light Zone” – one of my favorite Sonic level songs of all time – is actually based on a song by a Japanese pop group named “Dreams Come True”. This was totally new information for me, and hearing my old favorite tune with lyrics just gives me the biggest smile =D

So I just thought I should share my new joyous discovery! You can read more about the connection between Dreams Come True and Sonic in this article: http://info.sonicretro.org/DREAMS_COME_TRUE or watch the youtube clip right below! Enjoy!!
/Tommy