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		<title>Game Center support is complete</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hearts Net version 4.0.6 is now available for download on the App Store.
Game Center multiplayer games turned out to be a lot of work. While I was in there messing with the network code, I also added Bluetooth support. This is probably the most work I&#8217;ve done for any release of the game to date.
If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.platinumball.net/blog/2011/06/24/game-center-support-is-complete/</link>
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		<title>Hearts Net and Game Center</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Game Center integration, and by extension, multiplayer games across the worldwide internet, is taking a lot longer than expected. For one thing, I discovered the hard way that it is impossible to test without two physical devices. I was able to test WiFi multiplayer games using only my Mac and a real iPhone, but that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.platinumball.net/blog/2011/05/03/hearts-net-and-game-center/</link>
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		<title>Hearts Net progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, dang. Quite a few of you have emailed to let me know that I have once again reintroduced the &#8220;shy robot&#8221; bug.
Some players have reported that when the game is interrupted in some way and they come back to it, the robots won&#8217;t play anymore. Here&#8217;s a simple workaround. Press the home button, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.platinumball.net/blog/2011/03/29/hearts-net-progress/</link>
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		<title>Hearts 3.1.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a week of waiting in the approval queue, Apple has finally put my new versions of Hearts Solo and Hearts Net into the store.
Alas, this is version does not yet include Game Center integration. This just fixes some graphics glitches, and updates the artwork so it doesn&#8217;t look quite so horrible on the iPhone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.platinumball.net/blog/2011/02/17/hearts-3-1-0/</link>
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		<title>UIButton graphics highlighting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have often tried to create a UIButton subclass to do something special, like draw a shadow, but couldn&#8217;t make it work. You can&#8217;t just override UIView&#8217;s drawRect: method and get the results you expect. My usual response to that is: Fine, I&#8217;ll make my button a subclass of UIControl, then.
That leaves the problem of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.platinumball.net/blog/2011/01/31/uibutton-graphics-highlighting/</link>
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		<title>i&#8217;m a bad parent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey folks! Long time no see! Sorry about my long absence. I started a new job and they are running me ragged. I work on a big complicated iPhone app during the day, so I don&#8217;t feel super inclined to work on yet another iPhone app on nights and weekends.
What makes me feel extra sucky [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.platinumball.net/blog/2010/09/07/im-a-bad-parent/</link>
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		<title>ongoing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple just gave me a little over 500 bucks for a month of Hearts Net sales. That seems pretty good to me. Plenty good enough to keep maintaining it. It appears that the iPad version of the program has boosted sales a bit.
So, I&#8217;ll be working on new features and more devious player robots in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.platinumball.net/blog/2010/05/26/ongoing/</link>
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		<title>Hearts Solo 3.0.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new version of Hearts Solo is available today. This one has all the latest stuff I&#8217;ve added to Hearts Net, including the theme selection feature, and native iPad support.
You still can&#8217;t play a game all the way through, though. This app is just a no-cost way to preview the features available in Hearts Net.
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		<link>http://www.platinumball.net/blog/2010/04/05/hearts-solo-3-0-0/</link>
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		<title>Hearts Net 3.0.0 for iPad!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well! I am as surprised as anyone that I have managed to jump through Apple&#8217;s series of fiery hoops and get the iPad version of my game into the App Store. And it&#8217;s still two days before normal humans will be able to get their hands on actual iPads. This version runs on iPhones and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.platinumball.net/blog/2010/04/01/hearts-net-3-0-0-for-ipad/</link>
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		<title>fix for game counts coming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing I&#8217;ve learned about my hardcore players: you guys love the games played and games won counters. I thought it was a silly trifle when I added that feature, but many people consider it indispensable. Some people report they&#8217;ve played many hundreds of games, which they know due to the counters, of course. One [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.platinumball.net/blog/2010/03/20/fix-for-game-counts-coming/</link>
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