Off Center Software

iPhone Application Development

Toobz 1.8!

Oct 26

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It’s been a while but I finally was able to put out a new version of Toobz.  This is a retry from early summer — a packaging issue caused Toobz to crash whenever it was run which is, in general, not a good thing.

That’s all fixed up, though, and after a couple more additions we now have version 1.8.  I re-worked how the navigation is done, using a menu of sorts, and of course I updated to using Scoreloop for online high scores, achievements, and challenges.  The best part here is that the high scores are shared between iOS and Android versions, so if your friends haven’t upgraded to an iPhone, they can still be a part of Toobz.

For those of you who aren’t interested in online scores, I also changed how local high scores are kept and the limit is now 50 instead of 10.  It’s also using a table for scrolling and overall is much more iOS-friendly.

Hope you enjoy the update — I’ve got some more ideas coming down the pipe so stay tuned to the News section in Toobz for future plans!

Awesome iOS 4 App!

Jun 24

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Pretty exciting news for Off Center — right now in the App Store on the iPhone and in iTunes, Toobz is featured as an “Awesome iOS 4 Application”!  It looks like it happened around 2pm or so… not sure how long it will be featured but I’m a happy camper right now.  I hope all the new players enjoy the game as much as I enjoy working on it… I’m truly grateful for your support.

Thanks!

Jason

Updates for iOS 4 Submitted

Jun 15

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Hi folks!

Just a quick note about the upcoming iOS 4 release.  Apparently the OpenFeint libraries had some issues and would crash with iOS 4.  As usual, OpenFeint quickly updated their library and I’ve just finished submitting updated versions of both Toobz and Toobz-Free with the new libraries.  This means that both Toobz and Toobz-Free should be all set for iOS 4 when it launches.

These releases are also the first releases to drop support for iPhone OS version 2.x.  I hope the iPod Touch users have upgraded to 3.1.3.  If not I believe you won’t be able to install the updated versions.  Not a huge deal right now since it’s just the OpenFeint stuff, but I’d be interested in hearing how many of you this affects.

Enjoy!

Jason

Toobz 1.5 with OpenFeint!

Feb 4

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Hello!

Just a quick note to let everyone know that Toobz version 1.5 has just been approved and is in the App Store.  This release includes the much-requested online high scores via the OpenFeint gaming network.  I hope everyone enjoys the leaderboards — start submitting your scores!

Jason

Toobz and Toobz-Free 1.4.1 Submitted

Dec 30

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Hello!

Just a quick note to let folks know that I’ve just submitted a patch release for Toobz and Toobz-Free that fixes a couple of really annoying (and somewhat embarrassing) bugs:

  • At times, resuming a “Show Toobz” game will revert back to “Classic”.  This usually happens if you leave Toobz between levels.
  • The water will look correct if you’re using the “Classic” graphics.

And that’s all!  I’m working on a couple new things so as always, stay tuned and thank you very much for your support!

Jason

Toobz with Sounds!

Oct 3

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Hello!

Sorry, it’s been a while since an update, but that’s mainly because I’ve been working on a new version of Toobz.  It was just posted on the App store late last week and I’m proud to say that Toobz now has a custom background score and sound effects!

I had a good time adding these sounds and I really like how the background score came out.  I worked with David from Atomicon which was a pleasure.  I really like how things turned out and it’s a great feeling hearing Toobz now.

Unfortunately, in my haste in getting the update out to everyone, I did mess up the upgrade process a bit.  When you first run the new version of Toobz it will ask you if you want to enable sounds.  Hitting “Yes” doesn’t actually work… I’m really bummed about that,  but at least there’s a workaround that I’ve confirmed with folks: if you go into the settings and turn on and off the switches for Sound and Music a couple times, it will reset the settings correctly.

I’ve got an update that will fix things and hopefully we’ll see that soon.  Once you get sounds enabled, though, with the trick above, everything will be fine.

In addition to the sounds I added a couple more backgrounds, and a few bug fixes.

Enjoy, and thank you for playing Toobz!

Jason

AppsAddicts Review

Aug 26

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Happened across another review of Toobz from the fine folks at AppsAddicts.  A nice writeup with a 9/10 rating always puts a smile on a developer’s face!  Thanks!

Jason

Toobz-Free 1.3 Released

Jul 16

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A lot of you already know this, but yesterday Toobz-Free was approved and found its way to the App Store!  It was great to see that we had an approval after just a week — hopefully we’re back on that schedule.

I’ve had a report of two minor bugs which probably affect Toobz in addition to Toobz-Free.  The more annoying of the two is if you hit the ’start water’ button right as the timer reaches 0:00.  The water will never start and you’ll be stuck being able to drop in any Toobz that you want without any water.  At that point you’ll need to reset the game (tap the ‘Info’ button).

The other bug is if you have water spill when the timer is blinking red.  The next game will start with a red blinking timer, even though you’re not under 10 seconds yet.  Luckily that goes away if you advance to the next level.

I’ll get these bugs fixed and submitted as soon as I can, and see what else I can drop into the release, as well.

Thanks for playing Toobz!

Jason

Toobz-Free 1.3 Submitted

Jul 7

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Hello!

A quick note to the Toobz-Free players — I’ve just submitted version 1.3 which adds the same features as Toobz 1.3: Twitter support and classic graphics.  The same limit of five levels of play remains in place.  The last Toobz update took close to three weeks to get through the approval process, but I’ve heard that they’ve sped things up with recent updates so you never know.  I’m hoping we’re back to the seven day review period from before.

Jason

Version 1.3 Approved!

Jul 2

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A quick note that version 1.3 of Toobz has been approved!  It was added to the App Store late last night.

As I mentioned before, this version’s main feature is that you can setup your Twitter account in Toobz and then have the option to tweet your scores.  After less than 24 hours out in the wild some folks are already tweeting!  I’m going to try and setup some monitoring, including listing the latest score tweets on this web site.  Stay tuned — soon you’ll be able to see how your scores stack up to the rest of the community!

Now that Toobz has tweeting I’ll work on adding that option into Toobz-Free, perhaps with some restrictions.

Enjoy!

Jason