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		<title>Some of our bits &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi!
Today I did some minors changes to our main site (please tell us if there is something wrong  ) and I thought it would be good to add another entry to the blog.
Well, since some time I was thinking about sharing this beautiful piece of code. It is beautiful because of the use we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southwindsgames.com/blog/2011/02/28/some-of-our-bits/</link>
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		<title>Airport Mania 2: Wild Trips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey!
It&#8217;s finally out  

If you are in the US you can get it at Amazon.
If you are in Canada (or in the US as well) you can get it at Game House.
We are all really happy 
- Juan Pablo
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		<link>http://www.southwindsgames.com/blog/2010/12/22/airport-mania-2-wild-trips/</link>
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		<title>Inner Quest, our 4th game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi all!
Yeah! our fourth game is here. It is called &#8220;Inner Quest&#8220;, a match-3 game which was created having in mind the best user experience possible. We focused on make it smoother and soft, relaxing and pleasant

A video says more than a 1000 screen shots:


We are getting older, actually getting older is good for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southwindsgames.com/blog/2010/05/19/inner-quest-our-4th-game/</link>
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		<title>We finally changed our look :)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we promissed after 2009 new year we finally changed our look  
The work was:

Redesign the logo
Update the graphics in all our games (Dylo&#8217;s Adventure is the only one with the old logo)
Redesign our site (which was the biggest challenger)
Customize the order pages at Plimus (not as easy as it sounds)
Re-skin this blog
Buy new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southwindsgames.com/blog/2010/04/23/we-finally-changed-our-look/</link>
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		<title>Simplz Zoo on Steam!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have an account on Steam you can now get Simplz Zoo with some of the Steam features like Achievements and Cloud file system.
Whatch out the free demo and full description here.

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		<link>http://www.southwindsgames.com/blog/2010/04/05/simplz-zoo-on-steam/</link>
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		<title>Airport Mania &#8211; Retail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi!
We were (are and will be) very busy because we are working on a new pretty ambitious project: www.simplzzoo.com. We expect it to be here really soon, will talk about it later.
Airport Mania hit Retail!
Just a little picture:

See you!
- Juan Pablo
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		<link>http://www.southwindsgames.com/blog/2009/12/13/airport-mania-retail/</link>
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		<title>Traversing an array in random order / Non repetitive Random Number Generator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The problem is simple. You have an array and you want to traverse it in random order. 
There is a trivial solution, to sort the array:
for&#40;int i=N; i&#62;1; --i&#41; 
&#160; &#160; &#160; swap&#40; array&#91; rand&#40;&#41;%i &#93;, array&#91; i-1 &#93; &#41;;
&#8230; but what if you can&#8217;t modify the array and having an array of indexes is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southwindsgames.com/blog/2009/07/20/traversing-an-array-in-random-order-non-repetitive-random-number-generator/</link>
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		<title>Useful Open Source Libraries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of course you won&#8217;t program everything from scratch, but there are situations where you can hesitate to create your own libraries or not.
In many cases the work involved and the results you can achieve with your own libraries is enough to satisfy your requirement but in other situations it isn&#8217;t even close.
One of the best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southwindsgames.com/blog/2009/03/29/useful-open-source-libraries/</link>
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		<title>Best of Casual Gameplay 2008 &#8211; Airport Mania</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Jayisgames.com (a very important game news and reviews site) has just published the results of its annual Best of the year, and it was a really nice surprise to find Airport Mania as the winner in the Time Management category.

The article describes why it was chosen capturing the essence of the game in a very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southwindsgames.com/blog/2009/01/29/best-of-casual-gameplay-2008-airport-mania/</link>
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		<title>Fast Integer Log2 function in C/C++</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some times, it happens that you need to have a high performance function that you usually use in a not optimized way. And since you never needed to optimize it you hesitated before realising it can be severly improved. Probably, this is what you would think of the integer log2 function, in general this function [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southwindsgames.com/blog/2009/01/19/fast-integer-log2-function-in-cc/</link>
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