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		<title>Using bitcoins for donations or in-game currency</title>
		<link>http://blog.electricgoat.net/2011/01/using-bitcoins-for-donations-or-in-game-currency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ElectricGoat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bitcoin is a virtual distributed currency that allows people to make very small payments (less than one cent) without any transaction fee. We&#8217;re already using it as a possible method for making a donation, but we&#8217;re considering using it as an in-game currency for some future projects. The biggest selling point is not having to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Micropayment instead of ads, and opensourcing</title>
		<link>http://blog.electricgoat.net/2010/12/micropayment-instead-of-ads-and-opensourcing/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.electricgoat.net/2010/12/micropayment-instead-of-ads-and-opensourcing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ElectricGoat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Micropayment I don&#8217;t like ads in my mobile application; who does ? But developing application costs money; we need to host our websites, we need to buy test devices to ensure everything works alright, and of course, we need to eat. So we do have ads in our applications. I don&#8217;t believe the Android Market [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buying good reviews on the Android Market ?</title>
		<link>http://blog.electricgoat.net/2010/12/buying-good-reviews-on-the-android-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ElectricGoat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people offer to sell good reviews for your application by the thousand. Could it be that they're also spamming negative reviews if you don't buy ?]]></description>
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		<title>Is Google doing any cleanup of the Android Market ?</title>
		<link>http://blog.electricgoat.net/2010/09/is-google-doing-any-cleanup-of-the-android-market/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.electricgoat.net/2010/09/is-google-doing-any-cleanup-of-the-android-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ElectricGoat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I flagged a few applications on the Android Market as inappropriate, because they were ripoffs of our applications (Renverse, Footsteps and BusinessBingo). Not just remakes, that wouldn&#8217;t be illegal; they were completely identical. Only the AndroidManifest.xml file had been altered to change the version and, of course, the AdMob publisher ID. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stealing games to make money</title>
		<link>http://blog.electricgoat.net/2010/09/stealing-games-to-make-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 05:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ElectricGoat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An easy way to make money with Android: steal a game, change the AndroidManifest file, and upload it back. That&#8217;s what a certain Adam Gates has been doing with our games. Check yours. Any idea on how to protect against that ? Is there a way to check the admob key from inside th app [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The end of boring business meetings</title>
		<link>http://blog.electricgoat.net/2010/08/the-end-of-boring-business-meetings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ElectricGoat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time I have to sit through a meeting, I wish I could play a game of Business Bingo (also known as Buzzword Bingo) to pass the time. To my surprise, I couldn&#8217;t find any software to do that in the Android Market. I&#8217;m proud to announce that it finally is available. Boring meetings will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updates of the week</title>
		<link>http://blog.electricgoat.net/2010/08/updates-of-the-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ElectricGoat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since we don&#8217;t want to spam on our game updates, we&#8217;ll try to make at most one post per week on the subject. News of the previous week: Footsteps, our bidding game for two players, gained a better computer opponent (and some bug fixes). We were glad to receive some positive comments on the game. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adding global high scores</title>
		<link>http://blog.electricgoat.net/2010/08/adding-global-high-scores/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ElectricGoat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a few things that players expect to find in a good game today: achievements and global high scores, aka leaderboards. For the developer, they both have the advantage of encouraging the players to play more, or to try new things in the game, so we're happy to implement them. Since we're in the process of adding global high score to our games, I'll show how we do it, both as a tutorial and in the hope that others will tell about their experiences.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Renverse 2.2</title>
		<link>http://blog.electricgoat.net/2010/08/renverse-2-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.electricgoat.net/2010/08/renverse-2-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ElectricGoat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Version 2.2 of Renverse if out. It doesn&#8217;t contain any new features, only more &#8220;Lights&#8221; puzzles, because it lacked any really difficult ones. It also introduces ads on the playing screen, something we hesitated about. It may not stay that way, but it seems like the only way to get some ad impressions, so we&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>A good host for web applications</title>
		<link>http://blog.electricgoat.net/2010/08/a-good-host-for-web-applications/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.electricgoat.net/2010/08/a-good-host-for-web-applications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ElectricGoat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to use the online capabilities of android devices, we need to be able to host some applications online. There were two big constraints: we don&#8217;t like PHP, and we&#8217;d rather use a more advanced language. Ruby on Rails would be a perfect framework, but few hosting services offer a Rails platform. our ad-supported [...]]]></description>
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