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Turbo Chicken First Screen

moonground — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:53:17 +0000

Let me introduce the new upcoming game Turbo Chicken. The name is not final and may be a subject to change. All I can tell at the moment is that Turbo Chicken is a chicken that runs very fast:

More details come very soon.

MoonStones FREE

moonground — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:35:04 +0000

The next thing about MoonStones game is going to be the free version of the game with in app purchases inside:

The MoonStones game is released

moonground — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:17:34 +0000

Today the MoonStones game is finally released and available in the AppStore:

I want to thank everybody who helped and excited me createing this game.

Icon for Retina display

moonground — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:31:56 +0000

I’m still here
Now I have Iphone 4 and a chance to test MoonStones on Retina display. Although there is no Retina display support in MoonStones, the game itself looks fine. What didn’t look good is the original 57×57 application icon on the springboard. So I’ve made a special 114×114 icon for the Retina display:

PopCap releases Bejeweled 3

moonground — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:48:14 +0000

Last week the number one casual games company PopCap has released the third part of its number one casual game Bejeweled 3.

The game currently targets two desktop platforms: PC and Mac. However the previous part of the title presents in the AppStore for long time (as well as some othe PopCap‘s hit games).

I’ve been playing the game for about 20 minutes and haven’t notice much difference in the gameplay and the picture with the previous part. There are some new game modes but I had no time to look deep into that. In my opinion the game is as good as the previous part was. It will definitely hit casual game charts and make millions sales.

PopCap is still the trendsetter and the company that makes a lot of people going crazy about the game which is almost the same as its own predecessor.

Art update: stones

moonground — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:15:13 +0000

A little bit of new art again.

I’ve changed the way the stones look. They are now more bright and glossy.

Still coming soon

Appstore and Holidays

moonground — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:46:17 +0000

The Christmas and New Year Holidays are quite soon and this year Apple has decided to give a rest to its AppStore. The users won’t notice that, but the developers won’t be able to add/update their apps starting with December, 23 till December, 29.

This means that anyone who wants to release some Christmas- or New Year- theme/skin to his game has to hurry up (having in mind the fact that now a new game review typically takes up to 3 weeks).

It’s a little pity because I wanted to release MoonStones this year. On the other hand now I decided not to hurry anymore so I expect my game to appear more polished.

Icon for MoonStones game 2

moonground — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:35:30 +0000

So the final icon for the MoonStones will be:

I think the OpenFeint logo matches perfectly with the icon frame.

Game Loading

moonground — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:48:22 +0000

Long game loading is always annoying. But unfortunately textures are often big. For example, MoonStones currently has about 4 mb of compressed png textures. It takes something close to 20 sec to load them all on my 3G device which is very long.

So now I’m a little stuck in trying to separate the process of texture loading into several phases. The point is that you might not need a moster that fisrt appears on the level 10 and it is a good idea to load its texture just before entering the level 10 and not earlier.

The bad thing about this change is that the mentioned schema wasn’t in my mind when I was creating the initial project design. So it now takes some time to introduce it. The good thing is that you will only have to wait for the things you definitely need.

By the way the picture shows how the loading screen looks. Still coming soon!

Icon for MoonStones game

moonground — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:39:52 +0000

Today I show you four variants of icon for upcoming MoonStones game:

Please give me some feedback which one is better.