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[GAME][1.6+] Binary Sudoku 1.0.8

Hi xda,
I'm new here, but wanted to post my first game to get some more feedback.
Android Market: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rickboerebach.android.binarysudoku
The game is free, has no ads, requires no permissions and currently has 100 puzzles, which guarantee about 8-12 hours of puzzle time
The Binary Puzzle:
The binary puzzle is a new and challenging logic puzzle that you can solve by
reasoning. Only zeros and ones occur in the puzzle, but this turns out to be
more complicated than it seems to be. This app offers binary puzzles of various
sizes and levels. A last warning: The binary puzzle is quite addictive.
Rules:
Each cell should contain a zero or a one. No more than two similar numbers
below or next to each other are allowed. Each row and each column is unique
and contains as many zeros as ones.

Version 1.0.9 released.
Updates:
-Bug fixes

will definitely check this out later. Two of my favorite things
sent from my fully armed and operational space phone

SwimDrewid said:
will definitely check this out later. Two of my favorite things
sent from my fully armed and operational space phone
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Great Feel free to suggest features / changes.

I've been waiting for a binary sudoku app for literally months. Thank you, sir, for bringing this awesome puzzle game to my phone at last!
Will install immediately, and report back on how I like it.

Great idea!
Here's a link for the lazy people:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rickboerebach.android.binarysudoku

Thanks for the replies. If you have any feedback or suggestions, feel free to post
Just updated to version 1.2.0 with OpenFeint highscores & achievements (suggestions for achievements are welcome)!

Nice game!
Good job man.

Thanks for creating this app! I love puzzle apps that rely more on the puzzle and less on the graphics & sounds!
Installing it now & will let you know.
EDIT: Going through the easy levels & loving the simple logic used (so far, simple
Questions
Each row & each column is unique - I presume that you can have the same sequence of numbers in a row & a column (just not 2 rows with the same sequence)? I haven't hit it yet, but want to know for when I hit them.
Are the solutions unique? Can each one be solved strictly with logic (ie, no guess needed to go on)?
Is this your own puzzle idea? I can't say I've heard of it before (will google shortly)
Thanks again!

Nice game -- just played through some easy levels. Definitely a fun little game.

Cool! You can add "easy" or "beginner" level

I'm really bad at sudoku, but I'm willing to give this one a shot since it's binary

Looks like a very solid app. However, would it be possible to add the functionality of adding your own puzzles? Like in OpenSudoku, where you can create your own sudoku from a blank grid; that way you can copy a puzzle from the newspaper that someone else has already filled in, for example, and still do it yourself.
That, and more puzzles, would be awesome.

polstein said:
Thanks for creating this app! I love puzzle apps that rely more on the puzzle and less on the graphics & sounds!
Installing it now & will let you know.
EDIT: Going through the easy levels & loving the simple logic used (so far, simple
Questions
Each row & each column is unique - I presume that you can have the same sequence of numbers in a row & a column (just not 2 rows with the same sequence)? I haven't hit it yet, but want to know for when I hit them.
Are the solutions unique? Can each one be solved strictly with logic (ie, no guess needed to go on)?
Is this your own puzzle idea? I can't say I've heard of it before (will google shortly)
Thanks again!
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Yeah, you can have the same sequence of numbers in a row and column and solutions are unique and can be solved strictly with logic.
Sadly, it's not my own puzzle idea i saw a puzzlebook with this type of puzzles at the local magazine store and pretty much got addicted. Tho, a puzzlebook is not convenient in the train etc, and there was no app for it. I'm a developer myself and decided to invest a day of work in making my personal traveling more fun, and introducing this puzzle to the rest of the Android world
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App Review
This apps looks great. I'm going to download this and review it on my blog (Android Cowboy) as soon as I can. I'll put the link once it's posted. Hopefully it will help get you more downloads .

Thanks for writing a post on the frontpage, didn't expect it to be reviewed This will definitely boost downloads!
Also, thanks to everybody who downloaded (and rated/reviewed) the game
ZeGuitarist said:
Looks like a very solid app. However, would it be possible to add the functionality of adding your own puzzles? Like in OpenSudoku, where you can create your own sudoku from a blank grid; that way you can copy a puzzle from the newspaper that someone else has already filled in, for example, and still do it yourself.
That, and more puzzles, would be awesome.
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Yeah, great idea. I want to implement more community aspects, but I first want to see how things turn out. If the game gets popular, I can get a dedicated server and write an API backend for these kind of things
Android Cowboy said:
This apps looks great. I'm going to download this and review it on my blog (Android Cowboy) as soon as I can. I'll put the link once it's posted. Hopefully it will help get you more downloads .
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Thanks a lot, greatly appreciated!

Hey, rickboerebach
Thanks a lot for your efforts. Your game is very amusing. It's, indeed, pretty addictive!
Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that the harder the level, it gets easier to reach more than one solution, but your application accepts one of them only.
Thanks again, anyway.
Best regards,
Carlos

casouzaj said:
Hey, rickboerebach
Thanks a lot for your efforts. Your game is very amusing. It's, indeed, pretty addictive!
Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that the harder the level, it gets easier to reach more than one solution, but your application accepts one of them only.
Thanks again, anyway.
Best regards,
Carlos
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Glad you like it. Each puzzle only has one solution People tend to forget the row/column uniqueness rule, maybe you overlooked that one? Each row has to be unique and each column has to be unique. Tho, you can have the same sequence of numbers in a row and a column.

Oops, you're right! Had forgotten that rule!
Thanks, again.

I downloaded your game and played a few levels, it's simple but challenging.
I really like it, I'm going to spend some more time with it at the university tomorrow.

[GAME][APK] Egg Catcher

Hi, I would like to ask for your help for our study. We created a game, entitled Egg Catcher, for our study/thesis. Our professor told us to post this game online to have an online evaluation, thus, we cant afford to upload it the market because it's a bit expensive for us. So we decided to post it here in the forum.
We kindly ask for your feedback, whether it is good, bad or if the game needs improvement, and also your comments about the game's compatibility issue. As far as I know, the game works well with Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830.
I attached some screenshots of the game such as the Main Menu, the game itself and the highscore. I also attached the apk of the game.
This is for educational purposes only, thank you guys!

Force close on adding name on score, also can you make option to use touchscreen instead of accelerometer, it's to slow. on wildfire s

Egg catcher
Force closes after game and no volume contol ... G-Nex

einstein.frat said:
Force close on adding name on score
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Same thing here, on unlocked HTC IncS

einstein.frat said:
Force close on adding name on score, also can you make option to use touchscreen instead of accelerometer, it's to slow. on wildfire s
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Same as he said. On Motorola Atrix 4G with CM7

wolfff said:
Same thing here, on unlocked HTC IncS
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Same here. HTC Sensation running ics. Runs well however.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA

Thank you for your comments and suggestions! About the force close issue, my partner, Pat Soo, already fixed the bug when entering the high score after the game. I've attached the new apk of our game, hope you like it!
_____EDITS_____
I tested it using my LG-P690 Optimus Net.

Great Start!
I checked it out using CDMA Razr XT912. I noticed a couple of issues among the other things that have already been said, (no volume control, posting name FC).
On the Razr;
1. The eggs fall all the way to the bottom of the screen, but, when they break they show up near the top 1/4 of the screen instead of on the "ground" at the bottom...
2. The sound buttons in the main menu, the sound button on the left works to turn off all sound effects and music, but the one on the right (Musical Note) does not work.
3. When opening the application, it goes straight to the high scores board instead of the main menu screen.
4. the rate of eggs dropping increases at a EXTREMELY high rate, this may be the desire of the developer but it seemed that after just a minute there were more eggs dropping than could ever be caught with accelerometer controls. (although contrary to other posts I have seen on this the speed of the accelerometer controls worked very well for me, quick and smooth with the Razr. Differences in manufacturing of each device and the accelerometers used in each could really cause some issues across a wide variety of platforms so a touch option would be a nice choice.)
5. Finally the last thing that I noticed is that if you press your "Home" button while still in a game it will not pause or even stop the music, so you will have to reopen the application from your app drawer to close out the game and stop the music.
I like this concept for a simple children's game and with accelerometer controls it could even be useful to help development of hand eye coordination skills. sadly as stated the wide variety of accelerometers in devices could cause a great variance of control speed, I think this is a really cool class project and hope to see more and more of these types of projects shared!!!
OVERALL RATING: Still sanding out the rough spots but... TWO THUMBS UP!!!

longino07 said:
Thank you for your comments and suggestions! About the force close issue, my partner, Pat Soo, already fixed the bug when entering the high score after the game. I've attached the new apk of our game, hope you like it!
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I tested it using my LG-P690 Optimus Net.
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You should attach the version no. on apk and upload it to your OP. If not, ppl coming in will still download the apk in the very first post and report force close...

jerryhou85 said:
You should attach the version no. on apk and upload it to your OP. If not, ppl coming in will still download the apk in the very first post and report force close...
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Sorry for late reply, I already edited the first post! Thanks!

longino07 said:
Hi, I would like to ask for your help for our study. We created a game, entitled Egg Catcher, for our study/thesis. Our professor told us to post this game online to have an online evaluation, thus, we cant afford to upload it the market because it's a bit expensive for us. So we decided to post it here in the forum.
We kindly ask for your feedback, whether it is good, bad or if the game needs improvement, and also your comments about the game's compatibility issue. As far as I know, the game works well with Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830.
I attached some screenshots of the game such as the Main Menu, the game itself and the highscore. I also attached the apk of the game.
This is for educational purposes only, thank you guys!
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You can send source code for me. Please!
address: [email protected]

[Game] Evolution of Tower Defense (Beta)

Hi 2 Everyone,
I have successfully launched my first game for Android.
The name is Evolution of Tower Defense
But i haven't a possibility to test it on different devices.
And i hope that you will try this game and will write some feedback.
All Programming done by me, through 4 months
It's free version so it has only half of all content.
-1 large Map
-13 units (foot and flying)
-34 towers
-3 directions to build towers
-- Military (High damage, massive weapons, slow/normal attack speed)
-- Magic (Normal damage, unique skills, normal/fast attack speed)
-- Lightning (Hight damage but have a lot of space between min and max damage [1-150], fast/very fast attack speed)
- Tower skills
-- Critical Strike (deal increased damage)
-- Shock (hold unit for some period)
-- Poison (deal damage for some period)
-- Type Destroyer (deal some damage to all units, which are same type with unit currently attacking)
-- Fear (force unit move back to start point)
-- Slow (reduce target speed)
-- Flame (put bad curse on unit, which increase damage of all next attack, for some period)
-- Instant Kill (tower has chance to kill target instantly)
- Many different upgrades such as
-- Treasure hunter (you have a chance, get double reward for a killed monster)
-- Nightmare (increase fear effect duration)
and many others
NO ADS
Marketplace:
FREE (I can't post direct link here, but you can find this game on market, searching for 'Evolution of Tower Defense')
Please, if you will find some problems during the game, leave a comment here or in market. Anyway, leave any feedback.
Thank you,
Best Regards

Links plzz
Accidentally typed with my x10 mini pro u20i using my fingers

Thanks, I'll give it a try, looks promising. Good job for not requiring any permissions .
Link for the game here.
Trimis de pe Defy CM9

I tried it, but draging towers to the field didn't work in two ocasions. Galaxy SII, Darky ICS.
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Nice game will try it thanks dude.

Gives a Force Close everytime I exit the game (using a Motorola Defy CM9 - ICS 4.0.3).
I would suggest to implement, as an option at least, a mini-map, so you can see where the enemy is headed without moving through the whole map. I'd also like to be able to Pause/Resume/Fastforward in any situation (example: if the game is paused I cannot put it on fastforward directly, first I must resume it). But good job, this game has potential .
Edit: Freezed my phone, had to pull battery out. Rebooted, started the game again and surprise: the waves are not shown. They're counted, but they do not appear and the health stays at the same level. It's as if I would play without an enemy. But now it's not Force Closing when I exit the game.

Thanks for your comments.
All wishes will be applied to make it better.
Some problems with forceclosing will be removed with next update.
Due to the fact that the application trying to load many images at one time and sometimes it leads to OutOfMemory problem, but it will be solved soon.

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Xperia x8.. ook!!
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vap_66 said:
I would suggest to implement, as an option at least, a mini-map, so you can see where the enemy is headed without moving through the whole map.
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I will increase the resolution , it will solve the observe problem.
vap_66 said:
I'd also like to be able to Pause/Resume/Fastforward in any situation (example: if the game is paused I cannot put it on fastforward directly, first I must resume it). But good job, this game has potential .
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Fixed.
vap_66 said:
Edit: Freezed my phone, had to pull battery out. Rebooted, started the game again and surprise: the waves are not shown. They're counted, but they do not appear and the health stays at the same level. It's as if I would play without an enemy. But now it's not Force Closing when I exit the game.
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Fixed. Except forceclosing...
So check this out.
Many thanks to everyone for yours feedbacks. It's very helpful for me, to find and solving the problems.
PS The full version of this game will contain 73 towers and 34 unique monster with BOSSes. But i need to solve all problems in current version before

Hi 2 ALL,
I hasten to inform you are, that the problem with WAVES is SOLVED.
It's wasn't kind an usual fix. It was really problem related to the build of final signed APK file. Build wasn't correct and the final APK do not work even on my HTC.
But now everything is alright. Please do update or download it again and check this out.
Thank you,
Best Regards

Great! Exciting atmosphere of fallout-like world

Now it works great on my Defy CM9. The map is easily visible because of the resolution increase, waves appear and attack, tower upgrades work.
As it was said earlier, it does have a Fallout atmosphere, which is awesome .
Trimis de pe Defy CM9

A good implementation of Tower Defense!

my last up to this thread
hopes it's not break the rules.

You should avoid auto-translating the market presentation (unless this has been done by Google automatically without you knowing it).
I have it in French and it really is poorly understandable. I prefer having the raw english presentation.
Other than that, the game looks interesting, I'll try it.

Can't download on galaxy s. Stuck on starting download. Did you translate the text into German? It'd be better to let the text English if you don't want to read comments like "lol noob translation".

thanks its fun
i hope next ver graphics better than now

New Updates
Hi 2 everyone
There are many new updates in this game. Enjoy.
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I'll give it a try, thanks.

[GAME][2.2+] iTavli - Three backgammon like games 3.2

Hi everyone,
I am really excited to announce my application "iTavli - Three backgammon like games", which is a board game. If you are familiar with the backgammon game, you will love the other two games: blockgammon (or plakoto) and narde (or fevga).
The difference between these two games and the backgammon game, is that in the blockgammon game you block your opponent's single checker when you land on it, and in the narde game you can land your checkers in open or friendly occupied places.
This app runs on Android devices running OS 2.2 and higher, is free of charge and you can download it at Google Play
Version 3.0 was released yesterday, with the following new features:
- New UI for tablets
- Minor enhancements in the UI for smartphones
- A player can resign an online game
As with the iOS version, all games are free of charge, but with ads. Currently, you can not purchase the extra games (i.e., the Plakoto (or blockgammon) and the Fevga (or narde) game), but we plan to add this feature soon
Please, do not hesitate to contact me for any question that you may have
Thank you,
Vasilis

Very nice. Here is a link to the app at play store. iTavli

Hello everyone,
Version 3.1 is ready for download, with the following new features:
Use virtual coins to rent and play a game without ads.
Use virtual coins to bet during an online game
Several reported bugs/issues are fixed
I am looking forward to your suggestions
Thank you

Very nice

Version 3.2 is ready for download
The iTavli application is integrated with the Facebook, and you can now invite your online FB friends to play a game.
Your friends are sorted alphabetically, and you can invite those who have installed the Facebook on their iOS or Android device.
Finally, this version has some minor changes in the UI, which should make the application more responsive
Enjoy the game

Good engine.

Very nice, a lot nicer than others tavli/backgammon apps.
I would loved to see though:
-quicker roll dice and moves
-combined moves
that way a game would be much quicker as the real one!

vespa.truccata said:
Very nice, a lot nicer than others tavli/backgammon apps.
I would loved to see though:
-quicker roll dice and moves
-combined moves
that way a game would be much quicker as the real one!
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Hi, thank you for your feedback.
With regards to the quicker roll dice and moves, did you check the option in the Settings screen?
What do you mean by "combined moves"?

We identified an issue with one of our ad network providers. We disabled that network, and the game should run again smoothly.
Furthermore we received some crash reports from various users, and we released version 3.2.1 which should fix this problem

Vasilis77 said:
Hi, thank you for your feedback.
With regards to the quicker roll dice and moves, did you check the option in the Settings screen?
What do you mean by "combined moves"?
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By combined moves I mean when I have a roll dice, let's say 5 and 6, I would like to have in the options not only the move of a 5 or 6, but also the straight 11 so I don't have to click twice, first ie. click 5 and then click 6.
No biggie, just a suggestion!

vespa.truccata said:
By combined moves I mean when I have a roll dice, let's say 5 and 6, I would like to have in the options not only the move of a 5 or 6, but also the straight 11 so I don't have to click twice, first ie. click 5 and then click 6.
No biggie, just a suggestion!
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xm, Depending on the dice and the selected checker, when you tap on a checker you will see 3 possible moves. Namely, if you roll a 5 and 6, and you tap on the checker which is at the beginning (this applies to all three games) of the board, you xan move that checker to three positions: 1) one which is 5 blocks away, 2) one which is 6 blocks away, and 3) one which 11 blocks away. Is this what you are describing?
Also, did you manage to change the speed of rolling the dice and moving the checkers in the Settings screen?

Ok, I didn't write that good enough last time. I mean, when you are playing "portes" and you have a checker out, when you have the options you can only do the first two, inside the first 6 block. In case you want to make a combined move (placed in and move) you have to click two times. Like I said before is not biggie but makes the game faster, that's all...
For your second question, I honestly can't find where settings are??

vespa.truccata said:
Ok, I didn't write that good enough last time. I mean, when you are playing "portes" and you have a checker out, when you have the options you can only do the first two, inside the first 6 block. In case you want to make a combined move (placed in and move) you have to click two times. Like I said before is not biggie but makes the game faster, that's all...
For your second question, I honestly can't find where settings are??
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oh, yes, this is definitely a nice and useful feature. It is one of the things that I would like to add, but it needs a lot of testing, as you may remove a chip that you are not allowed to.
If you have a tablet, then you simply click on the "Settings" button
If you have a smartphone, then you scroll the screen to left. If you scroll it to right you will see the players who are currently online, and if you scroll even more to the right, you will see some online statistics.

Man, i'm sorry, I really didn't know that I should scroll... Now, I've got it! Cool speed, ok! But perhaps an indication to slide on screen could be helpful.
Great work, thanks!
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vespa.truccata said:
Man, i'm sorry, I really didn't know that I should scroll... Now, I've got it! Cool speed, ok! But perhaps an indication to slide on screen could be helpful.
Great work, thanks!
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No problem, apparently you missed the welcome text
I am wondering if anyone is reading it

Sound really awesome game. I am downloading right now! Vasilis you are from Greece right?
Efharisto

bfc_xxx said:
Sound really awesome game. I am downloading right now! Vasilis you are from Greece right?
Efharisto
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Yes, I am . Thank you for your nice comment, and
I am looking forward to your feedback.
Enjoy the game

Version 3.3 will soon be ready for download, with the following changes:
- Changes in the UI
- Fixes the annoying "Please check your network" message..... you see this message only if you have disabled the network

Dear all,
I am pleased to inform you that version 3.4 is available for download. This version supports playing any game over bluetooth, but most importantly, it offers in-app purchase to purchase the games (Plakoto and Fevga) and play them without ads!!

Dear all,
I am pleased to inform you that version 3.4.1 is available for download.
This version has a new A.I. for the games Portes (Backgammon) and Plakoto (Blockgammon).
We are looking forward to your feedback

[GAME][2.3+] Bad Tap (fast paced tap game)

I just released a major update to my game, please check it out on the Google Play Store here (free, no ads):
Bad Tap - Google Play
Bad Tap is a fast-paced 'beat the clock' type game that will challenge your hand-eye coordination.
Tap each block before it counts down to zero. Starts with one block and increases as you level up. But watch out, one bad tap and the game is over!

Fun game! I'm trying really hard to unlock the hard level.

Had fun playing around with it for a while. Spotted a bug with the tutorial screen.
If you haven't already seen it, let me know here or in a PM and I can give you more
details if you need them.

Hi Scianthrope, thanks for the comments. Yes, any information on the bug would be very helpful!

Yesss finally got to the hard level. Now I'm trying to beat everyone on your leaderboard!

Scianthrope said:
Had fun playing around with it for a while. Spotted a bug with the tutorial screen.
If you haven't already seen it, let me know here or in a PM and I can give you more
details if you need them.
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Corrected a bug that would not allow users to properly close the tutorial when playing for the first time. I published it to Google Play and the update should appear in the next hour.
Thanks to Scianthrope for identifying the bug, this is what this forum is all about!

HIngalou said:
Corrected a bug that would not allow users to properly close the tutorial when playing for the first time. I published it to Google Play and the update should appear in the next hour.
Thanks to Scianthrope for identifying the bug, this is what this forum is all about!
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Thanks for the acknowledgement, glad to be of assistance.

Do you have any other games on Google Play?

tesla212 said:
Do you have any other games on Google Play?
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Actually I have a new puzzle game coming out soon, tomorrow possibly. I've put about 6 months into it and I think people will really enjoy it.
I'll keep you posted., thanks for asking.

Looking forward to the next one as well Good job on this.

Hi
Hi
I just played your game, I liked it, I just stopped one bug when you close the "Things to Know" menu it doesn't smoothly go away it slides up halfway up the screen and then disappears.

1DEA said:
Hi
I just played your game, I liked it, I just stopped one bug when you close the "Things to Know" menu it doesn't smoothly go away it slides up halfway up the screen and then disappears.
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Thanks 1DEA. I'll play around with the transition of the menu and make it smoother.

Very addictive and from time to time challenging game. Good for people that want to break their own limits ^^. Good Job!!
I Thing that if You add some better graphics, maybe something more colorfull it would be better perceived by players xD but it's only my opinion.

xKoMaRx said:
Very addictive and from time to time challenging game. Good for people that want to break their own limits ^^. Good Job!!
I Thing that if You add some better graphics, maybe something more colorfull it would be better perceived by players xD but it's only my opinion.
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Thanks, I appreciate the great feedback! Yes, I have been playing around with the color schemes quite a bit trying to create the right mood for the game. I may also include more animation.

Interesting

aneesh1234 said:
Interesting
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Thanks Aneesh. What score did you get?

Nice game. Great idea!

nickervision said:
Looking forward to the next one as well Good job on this.
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tesla212 said:
Do you have any other games on Google Play?
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Hey nickervision and tesla212, just wanted to let you know my new puzzle game has been released. It's called Bounce Out and you can find my post for it in the forum.
Bounce Out - Google Play link
Thank you for your interest!
Also, nickervision I've been playing all of your games - they are very good.

Really cool game, it gets so crazy trying to keep up.

I will try it :good: