It’s the end of the year and everyone seems to be doing there tax returns and stat analysis.
So here are the Bluestudios stats for last year..

Quick Overview of my monthly visitors..

This is easier to visualise over the daily stats as my weekend stats drop down to around 120 visitors – daily visitors are around 160 mark but have spiked to 300 depending on the post.

In total BlueStudios reached 44,528 visits over the previous year where it only achieved 30,118.

Country breakdown

Breakdown of the top 10 countries::

1. United States – 11,403

2. United Kingdom – 4,545

3. India – 3,763

4. Germany – 1,826

5. Canada – 1,698

6. Australia – 1,652

7. Brazil – 1,263

8. Netherlands – 1,008

9. France – 1,005

10. Spain – 990

Mobile Devices

Not many mobile devices accessed Bluestudios but I haven’t put in the support or time to blog about much on mobile devices. But still interesting to see that there are users accessing the site with a handheld device

… ok, if you were curious to know what – Danger Hiptop is – I just found out it’s a T-Mobile Sidekick.. Strange name.

Top Referring websites::

blogs.oracle.com
Oracles blog aggregator

pmoskovi.wordpress.com
Peter Moskovitz Webcenter Blog

corecontentonly.com
Jason Stortz Oracle UCM Blog

itnewscast.com
Oracle aggregator

bexhuff.com
We all know of Bex – Never met in person though..

twitter.com
My blog gets featured on twitter?! wow.. I don’t tweet.. Maybe I should start..
There are people who tweet about bluestudios.. hmm I bet it is all bad stuff…

forums.oracle.com
I used to be one of the UCM guys helping others in the top 10 list of helpers but this last year I havent had the time and all efforts have been dedicated to Webcenter Spaces

cfour.fishbowlsolutions.com
Fishbowls Solutions – US based Oracle consulting company.
These guys are one of the best out there for providing unique and innovative solutions to there clients.. They’ve even helped me out. They also have Billy Cripe leading the way on E2.0.

theappslab.com
Adopted into Oracle – I always get so jealous of this team.. They get to do what I consider to be the fun stuff and branch out to create unique innovative apps / tools with a great UI. In the last year most of the blogging has been on mobile devices and I believe these guys are really pushing apps to the limit and I’m sure 2011 will be there year to impress us all.

club-oracle.com
Not sure how I got featured here – I think through their blogs and people linking back to me.

cmstechie.blogspot.com
A great blogger – and one you should follow he always has good advice to give.

fishbowlsolutions.com
Fishbowl Solutions Corporate site

contentoncontentmanagement.com
David Roes’ blog – I`m not sure whats happened with David he just seems to have stopped but he used to come out with great ideas and awesome components releasing them before Oracle do – i.e setting media server to using S3 as a data store for UCM. etc go check him out if you haven’t

hishamgalal.blogspot.com
Hisham Galals blog – Previously an Oracle Consultant now setup on his own but provides useful snippets of info that you may not be aware of.

andrealmar.wordpress.com
Andre Almar – Another ECM Blogger interesting articles and often ahead of the rest with access to the beta Oracle software.

oraclecommunity.net
I’m not part of this site but I’m getting the hits you may want to check them out and signup they seem to have a lot of Oracle members.

iandevlin.com
Web Guru like myself – Ian gets stuck into anything and everything a bit like myself keeping up with the latest web technologies.

webmonkeymagic.blogspot.com
Aussie based web monkey – always keep an eye on this blog for useful code snippets and ideas.

Top Keywords::

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So here`s a quick update on progress made.
Before if you can remember we showed you a small clip on navigating around the map and the village with a few trees dotted around.

Today I have a small clip showing you a new type of context menu we are working on..
It’s Still very early days so please excuse rough items we are still working from sketches.

We have randomised the village shape as before it was a large generated hexagon – now we can randomly generate all our island maps and villages.

We also have included a small resource ticker that will calculate if you have enough resources like wood to construct your selected buildings.
(You should see it bottom right of the screen. When I place the building down the ticker goes down and begins to count back up.)

We have included 3 temporary building examples – these buildings are just for demo purposes and we will not be using these in the final release – it is just there to help visualise the game. Lumbermill, Quarry and a mansion of different dimensions. As you can see when we place a building down it appears half built; we are working on the JS refresh timer to display complete constructed items, at the moment we have the building complete timer set to 15 seconds. If I was to refresh the page after the 15 seconds of placing the building you would see the construction has been completed.

We also have object detection in place so now you can no longer build on a tile that already has something on it until it is destroyed.

Hope you enjoy.

Since September 2009 I have been working on a small game engine – which I hope to release as open source – after its predicted beta test release date

The engine is ie6+ compatible and of course works in all other browsers – so far tested and working in ie6+, FF, Opera, Chrome, Safari. k.

Here is a quick mini teaser of the dev environment::

I was on Ajaxian today and saw another engine built on similar technologies as mine – the Aves Engine. It’s still very early days for me and at the moment there are only 2 of us on the project but who knows we`ll see how it goes. You could always use mine as a free alternative if you are thinking of developing a nice web based game

We are also working on a mini game for the engine so you will be able to see the power of the engine in use.
We are using a slight different approach working with jetanhex (hexagon) tiles instead of the standard square isometric tiles which seems to work quite well for us as you can see in the mouse over examples in the above demo.

Ps. For some reason when I was recording the movement of the browser seemed to stager? But as soon as I stopped recording the game dynamics and scrolling appeared to be extremely smooth.