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Random projects and stuff by Russ Hall in London

Tap Trap - The year of procrastination

Posted in JavaScript, MooTools, Projects, Tap Trap, Ubuntu, Uncategorised by Russ on the December 10th, 2008

Since launching Tap Trap, there have been a steady stream of players stumbling across the game and, in some cases, getting hooked!

I wrote the game a couple of years ago now (mostly as an experiment with JavaScript) and didn’t really plan to promote it particularly but it’s great to see around 15 new players a day having a go!

It recently passed the 500,000th game played - around half of those games were actually completed (a score was submitted). From a quick scribble on the back of a Topman receipt (taking a rough average of 2 minutes per game) this means there’s been about 1 man year of procrastination play so far.

Well done to Joe Bloggs 6140 for the current high score of 5,510. The average score is 1981.98 across all the games completed.

The booby prize goes to Joe Bloggs 2681 for achieving the lowest score of just 152. It’s actually quite a feat to achieve such an abysmal score - seriously, try it. It’s not as easy as it looks!

My favourite colour is …

Posted in Uncategorised by Russ on the October 4th, 2006

Hello, and welcome. Whilst I’m really not a fan of blogs in the traditional sense (with some notable exceptions), they do seem to be a convenient, central place to collate ideas and useful finds for future reference. Which is my plan for 2tap.com.

There are two sins for which I am consistently guilty and wish to address:

  1. Frequently coming across, and promptly forgetting, useful tidbits of knowledge - either from others or items I’ve stumbled upon myself.
  2. Leaving random projects I’ve done to languish on a CDR never to see the light of day again.

So this is what 2tap.com shall become. Random software, web and technology interests with the odd project to share for good measure. Primarily for myself but also for anyone who can glean anything useful.

To sumarise, it’s geek stuff without the angst and political agendas. Well, mostly!