Friday, May 14, 2010
Next Aquarium Update
The next update should see notably better foreground plants! These are being worked on currently and will hopefully be good to go sometime over the weekend. Meanwhile I've got a completely silly new wallpaper in progress, I'm still figuring out what options to give people, but with some luck I might get that releasable this weekend, too.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Aquarium v1.2
- New Feature: Home Screen movement
- New Feature: "How to use" screen (free version only)
- Bug Fix: Rare crash upon texture loading
Oddly enough, implementing home screen movement basically allowed me to unify portrait and landscape behavior... both use a wide area for the fish and background now, and the big difference is how much of it the viewport can see at once. This means that landscape doesn't move much when swiping, but it simplifies a lot of things and avoids an image reload that was happening previously.
The How to Use screen has gotten a couple negative comments, but I can't deny I've seen a definite spike in purchases of the Donation version since I put it in. This suggests to me that a lot more people are evaluating the Free version than there were previously.
- New Feature: "How to use" screen (free version only)
- Bug Fix: Rare crash upon texture loading
Oddly enough, implementing home screen movement basically allowed me to unify portrait and landscape behavior... both use a wide area for the fish and background now, and the big difference is how much of it the viewport can see at once. This means that landscape doesn't move much when swiping, but it simplifies a lot of things and avoids an image reload that was happening previously.
The How to Use screen has gotten a couple negative comments, but I can't deny I've seen a definite spike in purchases of the Donation version since I put it in. This suggests to me that a lot more people are evaluating the Free version than there were previously.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Silhouette v1.25
- Update: New background image
- New Feature: How to Use screen
This update is a bit of an experiment. Basically, the free version of Silhouette has a runnable activity now. This means that when you buy it from the marketplace, you get a "run" button. Pushing it pops up a dialog that explains how to get to your Customize Wallpaper screen, which is where Live Wallpapers are used from.
This is in response to the huge collection of e-mails I've received asking how to make use of the wallpapers, and the number of 1-star comments I've seen saying they don't do anything. While there's good logic attached to how Live Wallpapers currently work (within the Customize Wallpapers area), I've found that users very much expect to be presented with a "use this!" button right after download. If it's not there, they assume it doesn't work. Given that in my experience only a very small percentage of people report problems, this means there's got to be hundreds or thousands of people who have no idea how to make use of these things.
So, I'm hoping this makes some difference there. Either that, or I'll just get a bunch hate mail for my condescending little popup. We'll see. :P
- New Feature: How to Use screen
This update is a bit of an experiment. Basically, the free version of Silhouette has a runnable activity now. This means that when you buy it from the marketplace, you get a "run" button. Pushing it pops up a dialog that explains how to get to your Customize Wallpaper screen, which is where Live Wallpapers are used from.
This is in response to the huge collection of e-mails I've received asking how to make use of the wallpapers, and the number of 1-star comments I've seen saying they don't do anything. While there's good logic attached to how Live Wallpapers currently work (within the Customize Wallpapers area), I've found that users very much expect to be presented with a "use this!" button right after download. If it's not there, they assume it doesn't work. Given that in my experience only a very small percentage of people report problems, this means there's got to be hundreds or thousands of people who have no idea how to make use of these things.
So, I'm hoping this makes some difference there. Either that, or I'll just get a bunch hate mail for my condescending little popup. We'll see. :P
Galactic Core v1.45
- New Feature: Orientation Sensitivity
This is disabled by default in favor of touch-sensitivity, but seems to work pretty well. If you enable the orientation sensor, you'll get the camera tilting based on your phone's orientation. This will work in both X and Y directions if you have home-screen sensitivity disabled, or just in Y if you have home-screen sensitivity on.
This is disabled by default in favor of touch-sensitivity, but seems to work pretty well. If you enable the orientation sensor, you'll get the camera tilting based on your phone's orientation. This will work in both X and Y directions if you have home-screen sensitivity disabled, or just in Y if you have home-screen sensitivity on.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Ladybugs Live Wallpaper v1.0
This is now live! I don't know about you, but I have a fiance who absolutely adores ladybugs, so it seems to me I should try catering to the ladybug-loving demographic. To that end, you get three different backgrounds and six different ladybugs (two in the free version), and seven animated ladybugs exploring your home screen. They play cute animations when they bump into each other, too!
This project made use of some Creative Commons Commercial licensed material. Huge thanks goes to Jayhay312, JonyCunha, and Clearly Ambiguous for source material!
This project made use of some Creative Commons Commercial licensed material. Huge thanks goes to Jayhay312, JonyCunha, and Clearly Ambiguous for source material!
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Aquarium v1.15
- Update: Marketplace icon and thumbnail updated
- Update: Fish will swim the screen width in landscape mode
- New Feature: New background
- New Feature: New fish -- blue tang
This is more or less ready to go, and should be uploaded tomorrow sometime. The landscape mode change is relatively simple, but does mean that when you go from landscape back to portrait it might take them a bit to swim back into view. They won't run away, don't worry!
The new background is a lower key fogged-out style that's on the less-busy end of things, and the new fish is a totally sweet blue tang. These used Creative Commons Commercial licensed source material -- credit for the original source material and much thanks goes to d'n'c and nattu!
- Update: Fish will swim the screen width in landscape mode
- New Feature: New background
- New Feature: New fish -- blue tang
This is more or less ready to go, and should be uploaded tomorrow sometime. The landscape mode change is relatively simple, but does mean that when you go from landscape back to portrait it might take them a bit to swim back into view. They won't run away, don't worry!
The new background is a lower key fogged-out style that's on the less-busy end of things, and the new fish is a totally sweet blue tang. These used Creative Commons Commercial licensed source material -- credit for the original source material and much thanks goes to d'n'c and nattu!
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