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Happy Halloween from the Spinfast Team.

Happy Halloween from the Spinfast Team

From left to right; Darren Ferdinando, Jeremy Byrne, Hugo Lawrence, Timothy Best, Robert Spencer, Scott Kerr, Steven Hilton, Petr Cervenka, David Keep, Brendan Ragan, Karthik Bayya.

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Batting Practice Part II: It Came Down to Fisticuffs

For Cricket we wanted both “tactical” and “easy-to-use”, but above all we wanted to capture the slash and parry of being at the crease under the big-game lights. We wanted that flow; we wanted TV-slick. We wanted modern. That meant 3D graphics, that meant a certain look, and it meant we couldn't plaster the screen with buttons, gauges, sliding indicators or Ragdoll Kung-Fu limb control. In different games all of those things have their place, but it didn't feel right for us.

Batting Practice Part I: Many Ways to Swing a Bat

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You're designing a game. Where do you start? If you said “gameplay” you've just warmed my designy-heart, but you still get a hearty, “not so fast, buckaroo”. Even if your game is pure gameplay, and abstracted to Timbuktu and back like Tetris, Trism or Bejewelled, you still need to have a guiding principle. You want to have something that you're looking to capture, a feel, a rush a challenge. If you don't work that out early on, you tend to get a weird Frankengame where the freaky-big arm punches the opposite leg as it walks.

The Making of Kolkata

It's good to see so many people downloading and enjoying the Kolkata ground, so I thought I would share a picture that shows a little of how it's constructed; on the left is the ground as it appears in the game and on the right is the wireframe showing the geometry that I created. It looks a lot better with the textures on it.

Welcome to India

Kolkata Our ongoing release of Cricket 2.7 saw the soft release of our free Kolkata ground on Friday. Even though we hadn't publically announced that it was available, we still had more than 10,000 downloads in the first day. The trend continued over the weekend, with the rate of downloads picking up steam. Our servers survived the onslaught very well, so we're very glad that we were able to give so many of you a bit of a freebie and successfully put the shop through its paces as the same time.

As a result of so many downloads, there are now a lot of games being played in India. Some fun stats from the "opening weekend" of the ground are below. While I'd like to congratulate everyone listed here, I think special mention is deserved by Sri_raja and Jamie P00, who are both mixing it at the highest level and getting some impressive scores against what is now a pretty ferocious AI.