Thanks!

Jason

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

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

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

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

Jason

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

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

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

No updates for Toobz yet… still waiting for our latest version to be approved and I’m still hard at work on the next version.  As soon as I have more news I’ll post them here first!

Jason