KF Hearts Live Wallpaper

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Since we're coming up on Valentine's Day, I figured we should cave to some requests and make an appropriate wallpaper!  This one's relatively simple but has some nice art in it, and has a number of settings to allow you to tweak its appearance.  Plus, you can set it to have puff of little hearts when you tap the screen!

Silhouette v1.5

This is a mostly invisible update that finally brings Silhouette in line with all the other wallpapers, in the sense that it has a consistent upsell dialog box, a how to dialog, etc.  It's also finally using the same back-end as everything else, which will save me some sanity.

Aquarium v2.25

  - New Feature: Fish flee when touched

A bit silly, but kind of fun to play with at the same time.  This actually came as a result of finally getting screenspace to worldspace translation implemented, as I needed it for the flame burst feature in the last KF Flames update.

Final Child's Play Donation!

It's  been a few says since the 15th now, so everybody who was going to keep their Snowfall charity wallpaper should've done so already.  Time to make the last donation!

Okay, so last time we had 24,793 sales.  Searching through Checkout this time, we're at 45,427 sales.  That's over 20k sales in two weeks!  Crazy!

So, let's do the math:

45427 - 24793 = 20634
20634 * 0.34 = $7015.56

I'm really kind of floored how well this has gone, tons of thanks to everybody who picked up a copy, we'll have to do this again next year.  :)

Checking the local Children's Hospital page, they're looking surprisingly set at this point, so I picked them up an extra Wii, WiiMote, and a copy of Spyro for the 360.  This is the second copy of Spyro we've gotten them, but as most 360 games are of the hardcore serious variety it seems important to get something friendlier for that system, to me.

Cost of Items: $313.97
Cast Donation: $6701.59

Total of all donations: $15,445.18

KF Flames v1.05

  - New Feature: Flame bursts on touch!
  - Update: New settings screen style

This is a bit of a silly feature but seems to work pretty well.  Basically, wherever you touch the screen, you'll get a little burst of flame!  There can be up to six of these at once, which seems like enough to feel responsive to me.

This actually got somewhat deep, as my particle system previously only supported looping particles.  This required I support one-off particles, which changed the spawning logic a fair bit, though most of the rest of the logic was fine either way.  I'm sure I'll find some more uses for this in the next few weeks.  :)

Snowfall v1.2

  - New Feature: Santa sightings
  - Update: Visual cleanup
  - Update: New settings theme

The main new thing here is that you'll see Santa and his reindeer fly by here and there, if you enable 'santa sightings' in the options.  This is a bit silly but fun, and will grow more frequent as we get closer to christmas. :)

The new settings theme is due to Samsung completely ruining the Light visual style that I've been using for the various settings screens.  The Samsung rendition is almost unusable, so I'm reverting to the default Settings theme instead.  I'll be doing this as I make updates, it's not an emergency.