Archive for March, 2009

Uggles – Featured on iTunes!

We are incredibly pleased to announce that Uggles has been selected for display on the “games – What we’re playing” section homepage in the US iTunes Appstore. This is fantastic news, and not bad for our first game on the iPhone, iPod Touch!

Uggles 1.1 is available now for $.99 for iPhone and iPod Touch.

Uggles 1.1 Now Available for iPhone and iPod Touch

Uggles 1.1 is now available for $.99 from the iPhone Appstore (or as a free download to all existing customers).

We’ve listened to all of the feedback and the following has been included:
1. Multiple control systems. We now support touch controls and tilt controls.
2. Added sensitivity options for tilt control. We default to medium — [...]

Uggles – Getting Touchy

Uggles has only been on sale for a few days and we’re getting some great and encouraging feedback. One thing that is coming back quite frequently however is that some players would like the option of a touch control system. It opens up an interesting debate on gameplay balance, but we think we’ve done a [...]

Uggles – Conquers the US and UK PAID games top 100 – in less that 24 hrs!

US Store:

UK Store:

In less than 24 hrs Uggles has already earned a place in the US and UK Top 100 PAID Games/Family Chart.
Thanks to everyone who has purchased it so far!

Promo codes for FREE versions of Uggles

Uggles launched yesterday and to help generate some interest we’re giving away 10 iTunes promo codes (redeemable only in the US iTunes Store). These promo codes will time out after 4 weeks, but would allow you to try the application and write a hopefully favorable review that we can link to.
Codes will be allocated on [...]

Uggles – for iPhone and iPod Touch – now available at the iPhone AppStore

Uggles v-1.0 is now available for purchase at the iPhone AppStore. Download it now!
It’s going to get UGLY!
Uggles — Fast, Furious,Frustratingly Addictive casual fun on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Based on the classic handhelds from the 1980’s it’s simple to play yet difficult to master. The more Uggles you catch the faster it gets. [...]

Apple Inc to Preview iPhone OS 3.0 on March 17th 2009

Engadget is reporting that Apple will be hosting a media event on Tuesday, March 17th to demonstrate iPhone OS 3.0, the next major upgrade to the iPhone operating system.
We just got the announcement, iPhone OS 3.0 is coming. Set your clocks, mark your calendars. It’s going down March 17th. Apparently, we’ll get a sneak peak [...]

iPhone SDK – CodeSign error: a valid provisioning profile is required for product type ‘Application’ in SDK ‘Device – iPhone OS 2.2

This is more of a ‘note to self’ than anything else, but if you’re developing for iPhone it may save you some searching…
As part of the Uggles gameplay testing process we had a requirement to add ‘multiple’ new devices to our provisioning profile. This process is well documented by Apple and is generally pretty straight [...]

Uggles – for iPhone and iPod Touch – submitted for review

The final gameplay tests are complete, and Uggles has now been submitted (WIP support site here ) to the iPhone Appstore for review. Hopefully it should be available for purchase very soon!
In the meantime enjoy some new gameplay footage.

Last night an iPhone Zombie (NSZombieEnabled) saved my life!

When developing for the iPhone / iPod Touch it is the developers responsibility to manage memory, not quite manually (never send a dealloc message to an object) but in a much lower level way than in higher level garbage collected languages.
Anyway, the application we are currently developing was crashing on the iPhone with a [...]