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		<title>Android Screen Scaling and Cross-Platform Support</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 01:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are tons of resources online discussing the best ways to implement cross-platform support for android.  Most of those articles however are aimed at building xml interfaces that automatically scale. When I started Storm the Castle two months ago I really couldn&#8217;t find a good explanation for getting Cross-Platform support on games.  Additionally I fell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey Abbey?  How&#8217;s it going? I&#8217;m good, thanks for asking.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 13:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: Most of you should ignore the title.  To the individual it concerns, you should probably stop reading here.  I can assure you that the following post isn&#8217;t that well written.
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Because of the whole school thing I had to do, I haven&#8217;t been able to work on my game &#8220;Storm the Castle&#8221; for weeks.  To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pathfinding and Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post will cover two very different topics.  If you could care less about programming or any of my projects, you might as well scroll down to the next topic in this post or close the web browser completely.
Pathfinding
Right now I am in the middle of development on a combination tower defense/arcade shooting game.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solo [Defense]</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to some trademark issues with the word &#8220;Pong&#8221; Google removed Solo Pong from the Google Play Market.  I have renamed the application and re-released it.  I have updated the links on my portfolio and throughout this website.  The new title is Solo Defense, which hopefully doesn&#8217;t violate any laws.  
I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Petronic Arts &#8211; Idea to Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I put Solo Pong on the Android Market, after registering as an Android Developer under the name Petronic Arts yesterday.  Petronic Arts has been a &#8220;company&#8221; a long time in the making.  Dating back to my 6th grade year in fact.  6th grade was when I started writing software.  I felt that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solo Pong</title>
		<link>http://nathantornquist.com/code/solo-pong-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all of the time I&#8217;ve been dumping into learning the Android APIs and Java, I decided that it was time for a bigger project. Bringing back &#8220;Super Fun Saturday Programming Time,&#8221; I spent all Saturday morning locked in a dark dorm room under the premise that I could leave when the game was done.
Because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Key to Vanishing Software</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve been fiddling with Android programming, I keep seeing software vanish from my &#8220;My Apps Folder.&#8221; Specifically my new projects.  I became convinced that certain development settings didn&#8217;t actually install my application on the phone.  Today I learned that I was very wrong.  I kept overwriting my applications with new, completely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TiltBall.java &#8211; 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a problem in the threading system of the previous copy of this code. The application worked perfectly with the standard lock screen, but when you locked the screen with something like WidgetLocker while running it, the app froze and had to be killed before it would work correctly again. This is the updated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TiltBall.java &#8211; A Basic Android Application</title>
		<link>http://nathantornquist.com/code/tiltball/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have recently been playing with the Android SDK.  The following code is the culmination of my efforts so far.  These files allow you to create an Activity that will run on the phone, create a Thread, and then create a SurfaceView that will act as the main application.
While there are no controls used, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forgotten Updates</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am truly awful at updating this blog.  I have all these great ideas and thoughts that I want to share, but I never get around to organizing them, or presenting any of the ideas in a manner that I want to share.
I am finally getting back to recreational programming.  During the last month and [...]]]></description>
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