I’ve been busy, but not on what you want.

Well, it’s Thursday again – my allotted slot for #iDevBlogADay – and I got nothin’. It was a tough week at the ol’ day job, and I haven’t had much time to think about game development at all, let alone come up with a poignant and thought provoking analysis of different death systems I’m thinking about for Dungeon Delver (coming soon) or an armchair treatise on the days when computer games were difficult enough to install and figure out, let alone beat (also coming soon).

So what does this mean? Well, I probably could have sat down and pounded out some half-assed post just to keep my position in the ranks of #iDevBlogADay bloggers, but I think you guys expect and deserve better. So I am going to relinquish my spot to the next developer yearning for the recognition, prestige, and heavy site traffic that comes along with a ride on #iDevBlogADay easy street.

Does this mean I’m going to stop posting regularly? Hell no. #iDevBlogADay was created to encourage us devs to share, and that spirit will live on here at Broken Platypus Games, even if my #iDevBlogADay hashtag belongs to someone else. I’ve got a head full of subjects I want to ramble on about, and I’m going to continue to shoot for at least once a week. Rules are rules, however, and while by virtue of posting this I have technically fulfilled my obligation to stay on the list, I think I will step aside and hand over the torch.

Changing the subject, or “Play some IF, dammit!”

Just so this post contains something iOS/game related, I am going to recommend, nay command, that everyone (yeah, even you) go and download the free Frotz for iPhone (and iPad) and play through Weapon. It’s a fairly quick single location interactive fiction.. took me about an hour to solve. If you haven’t played a text adventure in a long time, or ever for that matter, then you owe it to yourself to find a quiet spot, relax, clear your head and enjoy the simple beauty that is interactive fiction.

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