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Doctor Who: Legacy is a free mobile RPG/Puzzle game app from BBC Worldwide and Tiny Rebel Games, yet another celebration of 50 years of the Tardis. It starts off with the most recent Doctor, Companions, and Villeins from the latest two seasons, but the plan is to expand it to cover everyone from the entire 50 year history of the series. They have versions for Apple and Android, and I should probably mention that the game supports micro-purchases, meaning you can acquire objects and characters by spending real money. Personally I went into settings and turned that function off, but every day in December they plan to have new stuff for free including K-9 and Sarah Jane Smith, and in early 2014 they will have everyone from Series 5 also available for free. The screen shot is the first point in the game where the Doctor speaks to you and invites you to become a companion; the music and artwork for this game are quite tasty.

Who Legacy screen capture
Who Legacy screen capture

Doctor Who’s Day Of The Doctor got an official Guinness World Record for being simulcast in the most number of countries of any TV show ever, a total of 94 of them. You can almost see me and my friend in the shot where they are facing the audience, but then Steven Moffat raises his hand and blocks your view of us and the 50 or so people immediately around us.

I am back, and I survived the Doctor Who 50th Celebration, which was amazing, no to mention huge. I could make every post to the end of the year about this, and still have material left over to take me into the next. I am not going to do that, but it is amazing that I could if I wanted to. The panels were epic, each with an excellent assortment of people, each different from the others. The displays and exhibits were likewise world class, not to mention the dealer area, with the high points being Big Audio Finish, Forbidden Planet, and the BBC themselves. The line to get into that last area went around the entire display area, because they were set up with a green-screen processing function that everyone wanted to be a part of.

DW50: Folks in the hallway between events
DW50: Folks in the hallway between events

What you can’t really tell from that photo is that the hall keeps going back, and is just as packed the whole way. The friend I attended it with has several much better cameras than I have, perhaps she will have a better version of that image for me to upload.

Thought I would try out using the Android WordPress app to see if it was easy or not. It did take a bit of poking and prodding to figure out which icon did what; hope I didn’t delete too many entries in the process. Of course, a build up of fatigue poisons could be playing a part in that fight, since I just spent the last 5 days in London celebrating the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who

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The one thing it seems to be lacking is the ability to create HTML tags and JavaScipt and source code in general. Looks like my shuttle bus is here, one more hour and I will be home. This has been serious fun.