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		<title>A brief display of the words when the game begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Moroz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Meghan's Matching Games]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A great suggestion came in today from one of  Meghan&#8217;s Memory Game customers. Add a feature to allow the front of the cards to display at the start of the game for a brief amount of time. This will give the player the opportunity to see where the words are before beginning to flip cards, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A great suggestion came in today from one of  Meghan&#8217;s Memory Game customers. Add a feature to allow the front of the cards to display at the start of the game for a brief amount of time. This will give the player the opportunity to see where the words are before beginning to flip cards, adding to the challange of achiving a low amount of tries. This feature will probably be added in as an option that can be turned on or off and should take only a short time to add in. To learn more about Meghans Memory Game <a href="http://www.ratcatsoftware.com/mmg">view the product page</a>.</p>
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		<title>Making progress on Meghan&#8217;s Memory Game&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Moroz</dc:creator>
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Yep, you can say you heard it here first.
RatCat Software is making progress in the development of its first educational game for the iPhone and iPod Touch.  Although the games design is not complete, there is now a working beta version that has been placed into the hands of the testing team (see previous post [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-70 alignright" title="mmgv1" src="http://www.ratcatsoftware.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/mmgv1-167x300.png" alt="Meghan's Memory Game" width="167" height="300" /></p>
<p>Yep, you can say you heard it here first.</p>
<p>RatCat Software is making progress in the development of its first educational game for the iPhone and iPod Touch.  Although the games design is not complete, there is now a working beta version that has been placed into the hands of the testing team (see <a href="http://www.ratcatsoftware.com/?p=51">previous post</a> for team description). Their approval is pending and they want to see some changes… changes that need to be made before this game becomes worthy of being the RatCats first release to be uploaded to the iTunes App Store.</p>
<p>So back to coding we will go, hopeful to one day have a product worth sharing.</p>
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		<title>Started the title sequence</title>
		<link>http://www.ratcatsoftware.com/2009/02/28/started-the-title-sequance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Moroz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow there is a lot to learn about coding in XCode. Being a visual basic programmer, its almost like starting from scratch. Luckily, there is a lot of good information available with some google searches. I found one blog maintained by a game programmer that walks through the entire process of creating a simple duckhunt [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_28" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 171px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-28" title="The Menue" src="http://www.ratcatsoftware.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/picture-3-161x300.png" alt="Meghans Memory Game Menu" width="161" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Meghans Memory Game Menu</p></div>
<p>Wow there is a lot to learn about coding in XCode. Being a visual basic programmer, its almost like starting from scratch. Luckily, there is a lot of good information available with some google searches. I found one <a title="CrystalMinds" href="http://www.crystalminds.net/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.crystalminds.net/?referer=');">blog</a> maintained by a game programmer that walks through the entire process of creating a simple duckhunt game. Following his examples I was able to start a new project and create a start-up splash screen and menu complete with some basic animation.</p>
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