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Paid apps are here. You need to sign up here to purchase apps checkout.google.com After youve signed up when you purchase app/game it will verify card then install normally just like any other market app/game. If you see a 1.00 charge on account that is google verifying funds, not to worry it technically isn't charged at all and will disappear in a day or so. All apps/games are fully refundable within 24 hours so even if you dont like it no worries which i think is pretty awesome of google! Once your G1 shows paid apps in market, reboot your phone and a new option will be in menu that gives you the option to either view free, paid or all apps. Worked for me anyways! Oh and they update like most normal apps do, just got update this morning. NON U.S. g1's can't get paid apps
I thought it would be a good idea to get a thread going on all the paid apps/games available out there for the G1. I have wasted some money on garbage and if i or any of us can save someone wasting their hard earned money on trash why not right?? Recommend an app/game as well, not much out yet but hey good for future use as well

Paid App Reviews
I think it would be a good idea for us to review paid applications on these forums, since the Market typically gets flooded with "first" spam and other nonsense.
To do this we would need a template to rate the applications, I suggest the following:
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Name: <Name of the App>
Type: <What kind of App it is>
Cost: <Price of the App>
Rating: <Your review, please keep this on a 1 thru 10 system>
<Any comments you have about the App>
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Please keep this thread organized and follow the template laid out above.

And screenshots would also be awesome...
Don't know how easy it would be though.
Nice to know the refund thing works though.

Name: Prime Full
Type: Game
Cost: About .79 US
Rating: 4/5
Comments: I was a big fan of the free version (not Lite version). The only drawback to that was that you couldn't get past lvl 59. The full version seems way better. Allows you to change between two backrounds, and gives you multiple shots as you get highter. A nice feature, but currently makes it easier. We shall see how it goes on the later levels. For 79 cents, it's was worth it just to try out the buying experience.

nEx.Software said:
And screenshots would also be awesome...
Don't know how easy it would be though.
Nice to know the refund thing works though.
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Good idea, I just posted a quick screenshot of it. Unfortunately screenshot was acting a little weird and I only got back "black" screens every time so I did this one using a timed delay, so I couldnt really get into a song.

Name: Bettercut
Type: Tool
Cost: $2.99
Rating: 10
Comments: This app is just like anycut but BETTER it allows you to have "custom" icons to replace the default app icons on your homescreen with any icon you find online or make yourself, its very nice to have matching icons on my homescreen now =D
here's a screenshot:
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Name: Aevum Obscurum
Type: Game
Cost: $4.99
Rating: 9/10
This is a fantastic strategy game with a risk-like concept. Great thing about this game is that there's a demo. Try it out, if you like it, buy it! The full version adds world domination mode (As opposed to race to 100 pts), and different eras you can play in (Changes the amount of factions, etc). There is a currently inactive spot for online multiplayer, which hopefully they'll add soon. If you like strategy games, give this one a go!

Name: Retro Defense
Type: Game
Cost: $4.99
Rating: 7/10
This is probably the cleanest tower defense game I've played. Reminds me of Vector TD. This is a huge upgrade from the lite version as you get tons of levels. There are still just the 3 towers (3 ranks each) and the slow tower, could probably use more. This game would be a 10/10 if it was $1-2.

Name: QuickOffice
Type: App
Cost: $7.99
Rating: 9/10
Full editable office app for G1. Alllows editing of Word and Excel files. Will also open attachments from Gmail.

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Name: QuickOffice
Type: App
Cost: $7.99
Rating: 9/10
Full editable office app for G1. Alllows editing of Word and Excel files. Will also open attachments from Gmail.
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I heard this program doesnt allow you to edit only allows you to view and thats what it says in the description also.

Name: Guitar Hero: World Tour Mobile
Type: Game
Cost: $9.99
Rating: 7/10
The game is ok, with only three notes and no true "strumming" action it feels kinda bland. The biggest drawback is it's price. At $9.99 its a pretty expensive game for what it currently offers. Unfortunetly this was my first paid app and I mis-clicked refund/uninstall on the market and got a refund before I could really even play. Doing this voids you from getting any future refunds of that particular app. All in all it's Guitar Hero for your phone, with free monthly updates.

1.) Word to the mods! Either make this thread a sticky, or one like it because a Paid Apps Review thread is sticky worthy! Also I expect to see this topic get a lot more action within the next week.
2.) I've paid for BetterCut and Advanced Task Manager, both of them at reasonable prices and both quality apps. There are garbage paid apps out there, most of them should be a dead giveaway from the title alone, but some are not. For BetterCut, I would recommend this app to anyone and give it 5 out 5 stars. The only added value I see would be if it included stock icons (like iPhone icons). Advanced Task Manager is great as well, but its true value is for rooted phones. Like Task Manager before, it gives you the capability to kill apps if you're rooted (no dirty pun intended) ;-)
3.) There should be a way for theme developers to now start charging for their themes, of course warning the customer that they only work with rooted G1s, and make some money for their hard efforts. Theme devs, I hope you're paying attention, I would be willing to shell out a few bucks for some very nice themes!

Advanced Task Manager
Type - Application
Price .99
Size 76kb
Comments - Improved ui, many new options including kill all and tells you how much memory each app is using, still allows you to kill individual app as well. Comes with refresh option, services section that are automatically started and systems tab. Worth a buck by far!! 10/10

Snap Photo Pro
Type - Application
Price .99
Size 952kb
Comments - Hella worth it has new features set as default camera, focus, jpeg quality, whitebalance, effect, night shot, anti banding, pic size and self timer. A must have!!! Edit - Having never used this app was told has all the same options as free one, still nice to donate to him for making camera alot better! 10/10

stats555 said:
Price .99
Improved ui, many new options including kill all for root users and tells you how much memory each app is using. Comes with refresh option, services section that are automatically started and systems tab. Worth a buck by far!!
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can you kill one app at a time?

Million Dollar Poker
Type Game
Price 1.99
Size 3mb
Comments Well worth it its alot of fun, awesome ui! Big game however but most good ones are. Only complaint is skipping option, needs to skip to end of hand versus having to skip every turn of dealers cards. Give it a 8/10

MontAlbert said:
can you kill one app at a time?
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Yes sir you sure can

stats555 said:
Yes sir you sure can
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cool- made by same people as task manager for root users? ****edit*** yes it is.
million dollar Poker app looks good- i see there are a heap of poker games out now.... gonna be hard to see which is the best....

Who wants to be a millionaire
Type - Game
Cost 4.99
Size 302kb
Comments - Nice ui, its entertaining but not sure if its worth even 5 bucks. If you like show you will like game. Rate 7/10

stats555 said:
Price .99 Size 952kb
Hella worth it has new features set as default camera, focus, jpeg quality, whitebalance, effect, night shot, anti banding, pic size and self timer. A must have!!!
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So for $1, what changed? Those are the same options offered in the free version, every one of them.

Dyno App

I was just wondering if anyone has heard any more information on this app.
http://code.google.com/android/adc_gallery/app.html?id=11
It has been floating around for a couple of months now but i cant seem to find any more info on when this might come out.
It looks like a fun app to play around with and see how your car performs

I doubt it would be that accurate

AsaSpades said:
I doubt it would be that accurate
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Im not sure on the accelerometer & GPS v the iPhone but the iPhone does have a dyno app and i have seen video comparisons of their Dyno app v a dedicated unit and every time the app won out over the dedicated unit.
Im not saying that it will be exactly the same but to me its promising.
Check out this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-DFbJQbeSY&feature=related

memphisraynz said:
Im not sure on the accelerometer & GPS v the iPhone but the iPhone does have a dyno app and i have seen video comparisons of their Dyno app v a dedicated unit and every time the app won out over the dedicated unit.
Im not saying that it will be exactly the same but to me its promising.
Check out this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-DFbJQbeSY&feature=related
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I retract my previous statement, but we'll c how it comes out, hopefully the same or better

might be waiting for paid apps. if this thing is as good as Dynolicious for the iphone then its definatly going to be worth paying for.

i agree, if this thing is as good as Dynolicious then i would definitely pay for it. Hope it wont be much longer now, as the market is accepting paid apps.

Thats awesome. Hope we have that soon.

just for reference, i have used a mobile dyno device a long time ago, and it was pretty accurate.
if you want spot on results go to a shop with a dyno.. but it gave a very good estimation for a 200$ device back in the day

it more of something fun to find out.
And if its as good as the iPhone version than it will be really accurate.
Plus i wouldnt even think about spending 200 on something like that, if i can get something for 10

You mean you got your phone for $10?

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Plus i wouldnt even think about spending 200 on something like that, if i can get something for 10
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If you make a statement like this, then obviously you're not a car guy, not even with that screen name.
Yeah, it would be a "cool" app, but if someone was to quote me their engine power based on the reading from a phone (G1, iPhone or otherwise), I would laugh.

a nice dyno app would be better if you have fuel management hardware. there is a system called megasquirt which you can build the hardware from scratch and download their application to tune the engine. i think its open source so it should have the source code and it can possibly ported to the g1, im not an expert. just know how to use a dyno and an engine management system. just integrate an android device with megasquirt or aem, or greddy emanage it would be a nice combo. so there would be no need for a laptop. too bad im not a programmer.
megasquirt website
http://www.megasquirt.org/megasquirt.html
mega tunix. opensource application to run megasquirt
http://megatunix.sourceforge.net/

xyrcncp said:
If you make a statement like this, then obviously you're not a car guy, not even with that screen name.
Yeah, it would be a "cool" app, but if someone was to quote me their engine power based on the reading from a phone (G1, iPhone or otherwise), I would laugh.
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Im just not a guy who wants to waste money. Going off the video i posted in this thread the iPhone version was more accurate.
so i wouldnt care if the dedicated unit was the same price id still go with the one that was more accurate.
If i can spend $10 on an app for my phone have it more accurate than a dedicated unit and easer to setup and use with multiple cars. I know which ones a winner for me

sensimila said:
a nice dyno app would be better if you have fuel management hardware. there is a system called megasquirt which you can build the hardware from scratch and download their application to tune the engine. i think its open source so it should have the source code and it can possibly ported to the g1, im not an expert. just know how to use a dyno and an engine management system. just integrate an android device with megasquirt or aem, or greddy emanage it would be a nice combo. so there would be no need for a laptop. too bad im not a programmer.
megasquirt website
http://www.megasquirt.org/megasquirt.html
mega tunix. opensource application to run megasquirt
http://megatunix.sourceforge.net/
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That would be cool or even if you couldn't tune with it. You could have
Your boost and lamba reading on your phone display.
Qtronix

memphisraynz said:
Im just not a guy who wants to waste money. Going off the video i posted in this thread the iPhone version was more accurate.
so i wouldnt care if the dedicated unit was the same price id still go with the one that was more accurate.
If i can spend $10 on an app for my phone have it more accurate than a dedicated unit and easer to setup and use with multiple cars. I know which ones a winner for me
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Problem is the HP data it displays is pretty much useless. Sure it can show you what your MAX HP is, but it won't show you Torque output and what's most important your power curves. Max power is useless unless you know WHERE your max power is in your RPM range. Dyno tuning is used for more then showing off big numbers, its used for tuning your engine where and when you want that power to come into play to suit your style of driving and the kind of racing you're doing. For engine tuning stick to a real dyno.
Now, as for the other data such as 0 - 60, braking, turning G's, etc etc. THAT data I find useful because combined with google maps of the track you can help yourself identify where you made mistakes and to better tune your suspension.

Ron,
Good point with using with on the track to find your weak spots.
I didnt even think of this.
To be honest i was thinking of it more of a toy to mess around with, with a few mates.

Ron Overdrive said:
Problem is the HP data it displays is pretty much useless. Sure it can show you what your MAX HP is, but it won't show you Torque output and what's most important your power curves. Max power is useless unless you know WHERE your max power is in your RPM range. Dyno tuning is used for more then showing off big numbers, its used for tuning your engine where and when you want that power to come into play to suit your style of driving and the kind of racing you're doing. For engine tuning stick to a real dyno.
Now, as for the other data such as 0 - 60, braking, turning G's, etc etc. THAT data I find useful because combined with google maps of the track you can help yourself identify where you made mistakes and to better tune your suspension.
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I wouldnt call it useless, obv if they want to tune their car, and/or want to know their curves theyd jus go dyno their car. The app is for the people who just want to know what the app tells u. Its not replacing an actual dyno

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I wouldnt call it useless, obv if they want to tune their car, and/or want to know their curves theyd jus go dyno their car. The app is for the people who just want to know what the app tells u. Its not replacing an actual dyno
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Oh that I know, but you know as well as I do that there will be some wannabe dyno-queen ricer that would think otherwise. I rather lay out reality on the table before anyone who doesn't know what they're doing comes back whining about how its such a horrible app because they blew their motor trying to net 300+ hp out of their poorly tuned honda while trying to get a base-line on some back road.

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Oh that I know, but you know as well as I do that there will be some wannabe dyno-queen ricer that would think otherwise. I rather lay out reality on the table before anyone who doesn't know what they're doing comes back whining about how its such a horrible app because they blew their motor trying to net 300+ hp out of their poorly tuned honda while trying to get a base-line on some back road.
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Ahaha the word ricer changed everything completely, now I see where your coming from.

http://www.dynolicious.com/gallery.php
it looks cool... but yha, id stick with the real deal
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[Game] Sketch Defense, Tower Defense Game

Hey guys, just wanted to announce my game for windows phone called Sketch Defense. Its the first game I've ever made (I just started programming this summer). It's a fixed path tower defense game that I think is pretty fun. Sorry there is no trial and no way to give out free codes for downloads.
If you feel like spending a buck to check it out I would love to get some feedback from you guys! I also look forward to the dev community and seeing what they can come up with! Hopefully with my limited knowledge of C# I'll be able to participate a bit more than on other platforms!
Update 1/14/2011 - New version has been released with a new account. Working on fixing some bugs and re-coding the particle system. New version should be out in a few weeks. Hope you all are enjoying the game!
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i remember seeing this on youtube a while back. playing it now, looks fun!
haha i dumped 2 hours into this thing. really addictive. will there be updates?

some pictures or videos in the first post would help you to get some insight on whats it like

ekw said:
i remember seeing this on youtube a while back. playing it now, looks fun!
haha i dumped 2 hours into this thing. really addictive. will there be updates?
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Did you play the unlimited stages or just the normal levels? There is actually an update I'm uploading right now that just fixed a few bugs. Do you think it's too easy? On the emulator it seemed more difficult, on the device its easier. I also may need to tweak the stars... on the device I dont seem to get nearly as many points as on the emulator. The game ran horribly on the emulator for some reason, but runs really well on the device thank goodness.
Got any suggestions? Like I said, this is my first game ever (just started programming a few months ago) so any suggestions are very welcome!

I think it was quite difficult, until I bought the boost tower. After that it was smooth sailing.
Suggestions:
-Have an offset when dragging the tower, so that the finger doesn't cover the tower during placement. makes it much easier! (may require additional logic for edges)
-Maybe in the future allow a maze mode! I think it would require a snap-to-grid layout, which i don't think the current implementation implements.
-Air units and air towers/invisible units and invisible sensing towers.
-Races, each race has different towers and different special effects.
-Individual upgrades to damage/range (perhaps after the max upgrade?)
-Description of towers would be nice
-Space the towers a little bit, i tend to always grab the wrong tower. (perhaps there could be a build-tower button that opens up a scrollable menu that gives tower selection (can also place descriptions here).
-Ability to pause the game (for tower placement)
-Trial mode (would probably bring you the most cash)
Bugs:
-For some reason all my lightning buffs disappear
-When reloading the game, the boost tower disappears
-Can't upgrade the boost tower, had 15K gold and it still didn't work.
-That ice map didn't follow that pathing, is that intentional for the "slipping"?
I am quite impressed on your first project, did you use game studio when implementing this? or you did it straight up in c#? If so do you have any links that helped get you started (so i can take a look at them )?

ekw said:
I think it was quite difficult, until I bought the boost tower. After that it was smooth sailing.
Suggestions:
-Have an offset when dragging the tower, so that the finger doesn't cover the tower during placement. makes it much easier! (may require additional logic for edges)
-Maybe in the future allow a maze mode! I think it would require a snap-to-grid layout, which i don't think the current implementation implements.
-Air units and air towers/invisible units and invisible sensing towers.
-Races, each race has different towers and different special effects.
-Individual upgrades to damage/range (perhaps after the max upgrade?)
-Description of towers would be nice
-Space the towers a little bit, i tend to always grab the wrong tower. (perhaps there could be a build-tower button that opens up a scrollable menu that gives tower selection (can also place descriptions here).
-Ability to pause the game (for tower placement)
-Trial mode (would probably bring you the most cash)
Bugs:
-For some reason all my lightning buffs disappear
-When reloading the game, the boost tower disappears
-Can't upgrade the boost tower, had 15K gold and it still didn't work.
-That ice map didn't follow that pathing, is that intentional for the "slipping"?
I am quite impressed on your first project, did you use game studio when implementing this? or you did it straight up in c#? If so do you have any links that helped get you started (so i can take a look at them )?
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Offset when dragging towers: There should be an offset of over 100 pixels already, at least there is on my copies and I've tested it on a couple different phones.
Maze mode: What do you mean?
Other suggestions: I'll take them into account. I do plan on making some changes eventually to give it more depth, but the hardest part of making this game was "balancing" the different towers so that one wasn't way too powerful or really weak. As it is, the arc tower needs a strength or range upgrade I think, albeit slight.
Bugs: The lighting buff only lasts a few seconds and it is global, so if you use it on one tower, it will take away from your global pool. The normal levels only have one lightning boost, the unlimited levels have 20. I'll add some better descriptions to the help screen about this.
I'll look into the boost towers, they must not be getting re-loaded correctly. Not sure why you arent being allowed to upgrade them.
Ice map "slipping" is intentional, a friend did the map and it was his idea.
How I got started: I used XNA game studio which makes things really easy (compared to doing everything on your own). I started by reading a few C# tutorial books, then once I had a decent grasp of object oriented programming and C# syntax I started doing xna tutorials. After a few weeks of tutorials I started working on the game and just worked on one thing at a time. Each day I could typically work out one thing and eventually got a working game. Like I say though, the hardest part was balancing everything out.
Anyway, thanks for the suggestions and bug reports. There is already a new version being validated that fixes a few bugs you didn't mention (levels not loading after coming back into the game). I'll try and get a new update out this week with some other bug fixes. I'll also be adding another level this week or next and maybe a trial mode. The reason it doesn't already have one is because people were having problems with it before windows phone was released and I just didn't want to mess around with it.
Edit: new build submitted. boost towers can now be upgraded and will persist on load. Rocket tower range now properly indicates when being dragged. Offset from fingers has increased when dragging a tower. Arc tower names have been changed.

There should really be a trial option; let people play the first few levels, or try to add xbox live achievements, and let the trial run forever without them...

Since 1.5, I noticed that once I place a tower, I can't place other towers. Any attempted to "grab" a different tower results in that first tower being selected.

Revaric said:
Since 1.5, I noticed that once I place a tower, I can't place other towers. Any attempted to "grab" a different tower results in that first tower being selected.
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Thanks, working on a new version now. Strange how bugs pop up when you don't even touch areas of code that they deal with!

The game looks really nice, whish I would have a WP7 device.
This picture would be pretty nice as wallpaper, can anyone share it? Would like to have it for WVGA-device

Hey guys, new version was released a while ago but I've pulled it due to problems with Microsoft. I've had to create an entirely new developer account and my apps will be moving to that account. I've already talked to Microsoft and essentially, anyone that already bought this app won't be able to receive further updates.
With the new account, and the new apps that I'll be releasing, this won't happen.

so are you going to re-release sketch defense or just end development?

Hah this game is pretty fun, going to recommend to my friends
Played during lunch at work and had me going the whole time lol. Good stuff, but need to work on touchability a little bit down when you select the defense weapon, sometimes it chooses the weapon to the right of what you are actually trying to click.
Other than that, fun game!

Hi, i am an artist, Your game is pretty neat. I was going to offer if you wanted I could help you with art for this game or a re-theme under a different title. Or if you have something new in the works I can make it look slick. Basically I have been looking to developers because I want to bring life to my art. You can see some of my art by looking at the latest thread I started.

Great game, just purchased. How are your sales doing on the app?

Raptor550 said:
Hi, i am an artist, Your game is pretty neat. I was going to offer if you wanted I could help you with art for this game or a re-theme under a different title. Or if you have something new in the works I can make it look slick. Basically I have been looking to developers because I want to bring life to my art. You can see some of my art by looking at the latest thread I started.
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I have my little brother working on art for me. I am working on a new game, its a tower defense again, but you play as a ship and you fly around the level using dual thumbsticks. Your ship has lasers and you can also fly to different "dock" zones and build towers for defense. Graphics in this new game are going to be glow style, all black backgrounds.
CyiDev said:
Great game, just purchased. How are your sales doing on the app?
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I've had a few hundred sales. Hopefully when WP7 takes off more, sales will go up a bit so I can justify spending more time on development. Currently I only have a few hours a couple nights a week.
capsloc said:
Hah this game is pretty fun, going to recommend to my friends
Played during lunch at work and had me going the whole time lol. Good stuff, but need to work on touchability a little bit down when you select the defense weapon, sometimes it chooses the weapon to the right of what you are actually trying to click.
Other than that, fun game!
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That's really strange because when I play, it tends to select the tower to the left... I wonder if I modified the touch zones too much in favor of me playing. I'll look into it and hopefully fix it in future releases. Thanks for the report as well. As I mentioned, this is my first game ever (started programming a few months ago) and all the feedback is very nice to hear. Makes it much easier to get rid of bugs and enhance gameplay.

that sucks to hear about having to create a new account.
I paid for it before and it was pretty good. Not sure if I want to buy it again for updates.

Just wanted to let everyone know that I've completed a new update for Sketch Defense. I'll be uploading the new version either tonight or tomorrow. Assuming MS has no problems with it, it should be available later this week to download.
Changes:
I've re-written the particle engine so that it should be a bit quicker now, and the particles will be more random.
I've changed how the disc tower's "bullets" work. Hopefully you won't notice a difference, but it eliminates a bug with calculating damage inflicted upon nearby enemies.
Also, concerning the problems selecting the towers... I'm open to suggestions on making that better. Currently, the selection area for the towers are as big as I can make them without having them overlap.
And...
If you find that by next week there isn't an update available for you, please let me know by PM!
teoami said:
that sucks to hear about having to create a new account.
I paid for it before and it was pretty good. Not sure if I want to buy it again for updates.
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Check your PM.

courtlandre said:
I have my little brother working on art for me. I am working on a new game, its a tower defense again, but you play as a ship and you fly around the level using dual thumbsticks. Your ship has lasers and you can also fly to different "dock" zones and build towers for defense. Graphics in this new game are going to be glow style, all black backgrounds.
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Cool, well if you want art done PM me and well talk specs.

i really like this kindda tower defense game with the cool eraser function lol

[App][Free] AmazingWeather Lite v 3.2

What's better than a great paid app? A great Free app! We are happy to launch AmazingWeather Lite, the same app you love in a free version. AmazingWeather is a gorgeous, simple and informative weather app for WP7 which has almost all what you can ask for!
The app features detailed data for weather conditions such as temp, wind speed and direction, humidity, sunrise and sunset times, quick five days overview and a detailed view with a text forecast, detailed conditions for the next 24 hours with charts and many more.
**currently the app available in English only, we will add German, Spanish, French soon
**IMPORTANT If you have set your phone's display language to German, Spanish or French the app settings will not open, we are truly sorry and an update has been submitted for testing to fix this issue.
The choice between a metro theme with two shades or a realistic theme with astonishing animations is yours to make, in addition to the live tile theme either realistic or metro.
The free version has these limitations:
-Advertisements.
-One live tile that updates every 24 hours.
Changes in v3.2
- enhanced live tiles.
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You can always opt in for the full 1.49$ version to remove the ads and add more than one live tile with hourly updates.
Full: In Marketplace
Lite: In Marketplace

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Lumia 800 error
Program crashes on my Lumia every time I want to enter the settings.
Look an feel is cool but with crashes not worth 1,49

Nice looking and I am sure a lot of people appreciate the free version and can live with it's limitations, both apps are not for me, though. The free version is too restricting (24h refresh, single live tile) and the paid version is simply... paid. I can have pretty much the same functionality with my HTC Hub for free (allthough not as beautifull).

Great app... I do not mind ads but and single live tile, however a live tile which updates daily is useless imo... I cannot buy the app due to the restriction of buying apps in my area.. and I will not use the free version due to livetile update limitation...
I will definitely use this app if live tile can update hourly . at the moment, stormglass is my choice. Thanx

Thankyou for making this app!

acsgc said:
Program crashes on my Lumia every time I want to enter the settings.
Look an feel is cool but with crashes not worth 1,49
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An update has been submitted to fix this issue, plus the full version should not crash on settings you can try it out as there is trial available.

It keeps saying "radar imagery is not available for this location"...

Ok I have to be honest. This has always been a top notch, visually stimulating application that is comprehensive and well thought out. My issue is with the marketing. This has been the case from day one. I'm saying this as a consumer since I'm not a application developer (yet) and as a creator since I do make music, poetry and write books. I'm also saying this as someone who appreciates the great job you have done on this application.
I feel insulted when using your products because of the way the trial and free application have been formatted. When it first arrived I jumped on it because it frankly looks better than anything else out there (and still does - great job!). Since so many weather apps promise a lot and come up short on delivery I went with the trial. If I'm correct, the trial worked for 12 hours. This pissed me off. Really - I couldn't get 24 or 48 hrs to watch the weather read out change, see the visuals morph into the next day's forecast? That's the wow factor (the hook). That's the showoff feature for all your friends and family no matter what platform they use. Look at my weather app. This is the ****!!!! Instead I looked at a dead application that didn't give me the opportunity to even see if I liked how it worked and see if it was accurate in it's readings along with having the beauty of a super model. Needless to say, I uninstalled the trial and never looked back.
Then, I saw that you created a free application. Cool. I'll try it again and see if something can finally upstage my simplistic but consistent WeatherBug. Well the visuals, etc... are still there, but once again I feel cheated. The live tile gets updated once every 24 hrs. I could understand every 4 hours, but once a day? That's simply useless. Once again - uninstalled and not looking back.
Generally I would say nothing, but today I'm on a roll and truth be told - I really like your programming skills, imagination and ability to create beauty. Please stop being unfriendly. It's not helping. Allow the casual user in and let them fall in love with your fantastic work. Make the free app useful and change the live tile update and I swear your sales will increase. You deserve to make a lot of money on your work. It is truly a great piece of art you have created, but if you keep blocking people out, you are losing the thing you seem to want the most - people taking notice and spending money.
Best of luck and please keep programming.

addicus said:
Ok I have to be honest. This has always been a top notch, visually stimulating application that is comprehensive and well thought out. My issue is with the marketing. This has been the case from day one. I'm saying this as a consumer since I'm not a application developer (yet) and as a creator since I do make music, poetry and write books. I'm also saying this as someone who appreciates the great job you have done on this application.
I feel insulted when using your products because of the way the trial and free application have been formatted. When it first arrived I jumped on it because it frankly looks better than anything else out there (and still does - great job!). Since so many weather apps promise a lot and come up short on delivery I went with the trial. If I'm correct, the trial worked for 12 hours. This pissed me off. Really - I couldn't get 24 or 48 hrs to watch the weather read out change, see the visuals morph into the next day's forecast? That's the wow factor (the hook). That's the showoff feature for all your friends and family no matter what platform they use. Look at my weather app. This is the ****!!!! Instead I looked at a dead application that didn't give me the opportunity to even see if I liked how it worked and see if it was accurate in it's readings along with having the beauty of a super model. Needless to say, I uninstalled the trial and never looked back.
Then, I saw that you created a free application. Cool. I'll try it again and see if something can finally upstage my simplistic but consistent WeatherBug. Well the visuals, etc... are still there, but once again I feel cheated. The live tile gets updated once every 24 hrs. I could understand every 4 hours, but once a day? That's simply useless. Once again - uninstalled and not looking back.
Generally I would say nothing, but today I'm on a roll and truth be told - I really like your programming skills, imagination and ability to create beauty. Please stop being unfriendly. It's not helping. Allow the casual user in and let them fall in love with your fantastic work. Make the free app useful and change the live tile update and I swear your sales will increase. You deserve to make a lot of money on your work. It is truly a great piece of art you have created, but if you keep blocking people out, you are losing the thing you seem to want the most - people taking notice and spending money.
Best of luck and please keep programming.
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OK first we are very sorry for being unfriendly, but to be honest we are trying too hard not to be but the issue is that we have a limited bandwidth (number of daily requests to the Weather Service) due to high costs of the service, around 400$ monthly
As you know the live tile in the Full application is updating hourly, and to do some math, if a user have 1 city only times 24 update per day that's almost ~24 request per user for live tile only, well if you multiply that by 2000 users only its almost 48000 request per day and that is huge number.
so we've decided to go Ad supported, and giving users hourly live tile updates, we think in couple of days we will reach our bandwidth limit, that's why we've limited the updates to one city 24 hours a day. ;(, however depending on the Ad revenue we will consider hourly updates.
We hope that clarify our point of view.
EIZ

dfulgo said:
It keeps saying "radar imagery is not available for this location"...
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...ohh, now it's clear, thank you

dfulgo said:
...ohh, now it's clear, thank you
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As for the radar, we are working on expanding the areas of coverage, as our weather service ("weather underground") does not provide coverage for some parts of Europe, we are searching for alternatives right now.

Thank you Sir, I'll wait for it.
:good:

eizsoft said:
OK first we are very sorry for being unfriendly, but to be honest we are trying too hard not to be but the issue is that we have a limited bandwidth (number of daily requests to the Weather Service) due to high costs of the service, around 400$ monthly
As you know the live tile in the Full application is updating hourly, and to do some math, if a user have 1 city only times 24 update per day that's almost ~24 request per user for live tile only, well if you multiply that by 2000 users only its almost 48000 request per day and that is huge number.
so we've decided to go Ad supported, and giving users hourly live tile updates, we think in couple of days we will reach our bandwidth limit, that's why we've limited the updates to one city 24 hours a day. ;(, however depending on the Ad revenue we will consider hourly updates.
We hope that clarify our point of view.
EIZ
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Yes you have and it is greatly appreciated.

[COMPETITION] Food Baby - a nutrition and virtual pet watchapp

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Food Baby is Pebble's first nutrition app. Part-nutritionist, part-digital pet, Food Baby's goal is to motivate healthy choices through the raising of a virtual pet. As such, your healthy habits translate to both your well-being and your pet's happiness. Logging your food intake into major food categories "feeds" the pet. The pet provides recommendations for what to eat next to maintain a balanced diet.
Check the project out on the Pebble App Store!
Check the project out on Github!
About me:
I'm a 3rd year CS student at Dartmouth College. I have exams for the first part of the project, but expect to see a lot of updates during the latter half of the competition. Here is my personal website.
Special thanks to my sister, Amy, for helping with sprites and icons.
XDA:DevDB Information
food baby, ROM for the Pebble
Contributors
cheniel
Version Information
Status: Stable
Created 2014-08-18
Last Updated 2014-09-05

First update:
Time operations working, window stack set-up. Need more work on sprites. No actual recommendations yet, just figuring out dimensions and whatnot. Won't be able to do much more this week. Got exams and final projects, but stay tuned for more!

Finals have finally ended, and I'm going to start developing a lot more these next couple days. Here's an updated home screen with menu icons and one of many preliminary sprites.
Going to start working on data storage and recommendations soon.

Started working on the log screen where users will log the servings of food that they are eating in terms of food groups. Here's a screenshot:
The examples for each food group are randomly generated from a list of eight, just to mix things up and give some ideas for food. The food groups are ordered in terms of greatest to highest number of servings expected.
When the user logs food in this interface, the app will go back to the home screen and some animation will play where the food baby eats the food and gives feedback.

Finished the log view screen, added logging of water and activity, however data does not yet persist.
Next up is to set up logging for the rest of the variables, having it persist, and then having it reset on a daily basis.

added resetting of data and automatic sidebar hiding, among other things, significantly cleaning up the interface.
Here is the new home screen:
pressing a button now displays the sidebar for two seconds, then it goes away.
The home screen looks a lot better now, definitely looking to get a larger / better looking sprite now.

Haven't been able to do much dev, on vacation for the weekend but I've been testing the app out. All of the food logging is enabled and recommendations are being given. Found a couple minor bugs and oversights but nothing serious. Definitely found it useful in deciding what to eat and was surprised by what my daily food intake looks like.
The app is nearly done, I just need to animate the sprite depending on the user's intake. I've decided I will have four different states:
- sluggish and sad. Occurs before the user has done much eating and hasn't satisfied any food groups. The sprite will drag itself back and forth across the ground.
- content. The sprite starts to bounce and smile. occurs when some food groups have been satisfied.
- ecstatic. All food groups have been satisfied, the sprite bounces around a lot and has a bigger smile.
- sleeping. The user simply hasn't moved in a while (based on the trigger of the tap_handler)
Definitely check it out on Github (cheniel/food-baby) if you are interested in the app. The core functionality is done, it's just a matter of putting in the sprite and sprite animations.

@cheniel: You know, I really like this idea.
I have one huge request: make it work without always running it
I know it's pretty hard, because apps can't run in the background, but maybe with a companion mobile app, you can log the watchapp open/close events and calculate hunger/etc from the elapsed time.
I'd really love to use this watchapp, but I wouldn't leave a dedicated watchface for anything.

@Erovia: Hey! Thanks for the feedback. Glad to hear you like it.
The app is actually designed to work without having it running all the time. The recommendations are given based on the user's food intake so far for the day, and serves up recommendations for what to eat next based on what is lacking. "Hunger" isn't calculated based on elapsed time since last eating (I want to app to work with as flexible eating schedules as possible, and people can judge hunger for themselves). The baby's happiness is based on how balanced the user's diet is. Basically it's an application to get a recommendation for what to eat when you do want to eat, not an application that tells you when and what to eat.
I use the persistent data API to store info about the user's food intake, and reset it on date change.
In terms of a companion app, I'm definitely considering it. It'd be awesome to look at data over time.

@cheniel: Awesome. Now I'm sure I'd use is. I think you should mention this information in the OP because it's a major selling-point for many people.
Are you planning to release a public beta or something?

@Erovia Thanks! Good catch. Didn't realize my original post was out of date with the current state of the project. Nothing official in terms of a beta -- I figure since the source is on Github and most people currently looking at the project are reasonably technical people, they can just build and install themselves. It'll be released in the Pebble app store before the end of the week.

I've begun working on animations for the sprite. Here is an example of sleep (actual sleeping sprite pending)
The ZZZs display one at a time then all go away.
Also, I have another update regarding the sprite. As you can see from the screens and the mockup, the sprite has gone through quite a number of iterations. For the final app, I’ve opted for a more simple, minimalist approach of just a simple pyramid that bounces and slides around.
The sprite is partially inspired by research by Thalia Wheatley on motion, where manipulation of a single ball had to ability to convey emotion. For those who are curious, she talks about the work starting around 5 min in this video: http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/wegstock-11-thalia-wheatley/

Finished all the animations! All the functionality that I want is in there, all that is left is testing, cleaning up the code, and some potential sprite changes.
Here's the release if you want to check it out! https://github.com/cheniel/food-baby/releases I'd love to get some feedback.

I compiled it and I like it so far.
I also uploaded the pbw file, in case someone wants to try it but can't (or don't want to) compile it, I hope you don't mind.
If someone wants to use it with AutoPebble, the app's uuid is: a68ca36b-c578-4c3b-85f7-f4d02e9e283c

@Erovia Thanks for uploading the pbw! Glad to hear you like it.

The app is pretty much finished! Changed up a bunch of the sprites and bitmaps, fixed a crashing bug, and I will be releasing the app to the app store tomorrow.
Here's some final screens:
sleeping baby. occurs when the user hasn't shaken the pebble or pressed a button in 7 minutes. The Zs are animated to display one at a time, and then they all go away and restart.
sad animation. the baby paces back and forth.
sad animation showing the sidebar
view of app before opening, including icon
content baby. It jumps around the screen (see next)
content baby mid-jump
happy baby, also jumps around screen (see next)
happy baby mid-jump
portion of food selection menu -- you can see the reset option poking in at the bottom
the log view screen, where you can see the raw data of today's current servings

Spent the morning working on marketing banners for the app store, now working on last touches before release. Check out the banners in the original project description!
It's up! Check it out: bitly.com/food-baby-app