Author Archives: keith

In a post last week, I gave a kind of convoluted solution to pinning a document to the Windows 8 Start Page. Jesse Freeman just pointed me to a Windows 8 app that does the same thing in a bit more … Continue reading →

Before diving into all the stuff below (which still might be useful in some cases) you might want to look at this post: http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=3657 If you’ve read past the post title and into this text, I’m going to assume you … Continue reading →

At the end of October this year, Falling Balls was released into the Windows 8 Store. After just over a month, I thought it would be interesting to discuss how it is doing, and to answer the question, “should I … Continue reading →

I pushed Falling Balls out the door with bare minimum functionality. In the week or so it’s been out though, it’s gotten a couple of thousand downloads and a solid 4 star rating. Early this week I decided to enhance … Continue reading →

Just got the email last night, Falling Balls is now available in the Windows 8 Store! I’m really interested to see how this does. I’ve implemented Bing ads in the game, exactly the same way they are implemented in the … Continue reading →

As of this writing, I’ve submitted two apps to the Windows 8 Store. The first one is Particle Art. This one took four tries to get approved. The second is a port of Falling Balls, which I just submitted for … Continue reading →

Building native Windows 8 apps in HTML and JavaScript is – dare I say it? – fun. I’ve been enjoying learning and building things with JavaScript over the last couple of years, but the cross-platform/cross-browser/cross-version issues can become a pain. … Continue reading →

As of this writing, I have three Windows 8 apps/games in the pipeline. Particle Art has been submitted. Falling Balls is 99% done and will be submitted by the weekend, and another game I’ve started is a bit past the … Continue reading →