Finally!

After some hard work, and last minute bug fixing, I released version 2.0 of Bubblomania X today!
Just in time for the christmas holidays! This version features 8 different game modes, online topscores, and improved graphics. I find it rather exciting to see the scores that people obtain with it!

Bubblomania has a long history, starting way back in 1994, when I invented the game principles, and tried to code it in BASIC This game is actually the reason why I learned to program in Pascal, using the Mac API! I released the very first version for Mac System 7 on the internet in 1996, the year I went to university. I had been working on it during school holidays for over a year before that, and it inspired me to go study Computer Sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)!

I kept updating and improving the game during ‘97-’98, and it was a modest succes in this period, receiving some nice reviews.
After that, I got too busy to code games. Until the summer of 2004, when I suddenly had this strong urge to port the game to MacOS X. In november of that year, I released Bubblomania X 1.0.

Which turned out to be a bit too soon, because the shareware games market had evolved quite a bit, and Bubblomania X was still a port of an end-’90’s game, with minor improvements.

So I kept improving the game and especially the graphics during 2005, resulting in Bubblomania X 2.0, a version I’m finally happy with! This version finally has features that I wanted to have for a loong time. But unfortunately, I have something called ‘a life’ that tends to eat away lots of my time…

Anyway, we’ll see how this one goes. Enjoy!

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