F is for Falling 1.4 Preview Video

Here is a quick preview video of F is for Falling 1.4. It shows off a bunch of the new enhancements in 1.4, due out next week.

  • Birds don’t kill you anymore, they spin you around during which you can’t move
  • There are now achievements with notifications
  • Tweaked High Score method (it count’s down from 40,000)

It’s in currently in review.

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F is for Falling 1.3 Bug / 1.4 Submitted

So, F is for Falling 1.3 was released last night, and a huge bug got by me, saving of high scores. I had completely redone the high scores to make it load faster, and I must have missed the ‘update high scores’ feature.  Not sure how that got by me, but it did.

In other news :), F is for Falling 1.4 was submitted this morning, and I contacted Apple about a one time expediated review (hopefully), due to the bug in 1.3. 1.4 also comes with a bunch of new features as well:

  • Bug Fix: High Scores were not saving
  • Bug Fix: Player would jiggle when hitting side of gameplay area
  • Bug Fix: If you died while spinning, the gameover screen would be rotated
  • *Massive* Performance Improvements in switching screens
  • Achievement Notifications
  • Scoring Updated – Since you’re falling, it now counts down from 40,000 feet.
  • Control Optomization – Touch controls are quicker, Tilt controls are even smoother

Hopefully it’s out soon.

Update: Apple approved my onetime exception for an expedited review, so it should hopefully be out today or tomorrow.

F is for Falling 1.3 is Out

F is for Falling 1.3 was just approved, and it’s a massive update:

  • Settings menu – just click on the info button
  • Scaling difficulty, it gets harder over time
  • Better Controls!! You can now select touch or tilt controls.
  • Tilt control refinement, the more you tilt, the faster you move.
  • Major performance improvements – everything is MUCH smoother
  • ‘Play Again’ speed increase, it now resets the level MUCH faster
  • Achievements, there are now 7 achievements (hit balloon boy, hit 100 birds, and fall for 1k, 2k, 5k, 10k and 20k feet)
  • New Hazard – a UFO
  • Hazard Adjustment – Birds don’t kill you anymore, but they do send you into a spin, during which you cannot move.

This update addressed many of the complaints on iTunes, the jerkyness movement and the slow load times. Please update your reviews once you have played it. You can find it in the App Store here.

I’m wrapping up work in version 1.4 and it’s even faster / smoother than 1.3. 1.4 is going to be a big hit.

HypnoPhone 2.0 is out!

HypnoPhone is a ‘game’ I made last spring when I was first learning how to get stuff on the iPhone. It was pretty basic, but has some measure of popularity in the App Store. A few weeks ago I completely rewrote it from the group up, and it was just approved!

This new version is faster, smoother, and most importantly, now has a speed slider to adjust the spinning speed of objects. Just touch the screen near the home button to see the slider, and touch the screen near the ear piece to go back to the main menu.

You can check out some screenshots of it in action by visiting the games website.

F is for Falling 1.3 Screenshots

Some screenshots of F is for Falling 1.3