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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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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.

APP/GAME [4.0.3+] Swift Word

Here's my first real attempt at making an android app/game
Swift Word is a fun filled and challenging word game backed by a simple, minimalistic UI.
Rules of the game would be that you have to change one letter in the four-letter word the computer gives you. The computer will then change one letter in the word you used and so on. You may not use proper nouns or reuse words that have already been used. The first person to use all possible words wins! You can avail three hints per game to assist you in the game.
Go play the game and see if you are good enough to beat the computer a over game of words.
All the words used in the game are sourced from the official dictionary used in TWL 2014.
Got any feedback or suggestion?
Leave it down as comments below.
Playstore Link : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ph.com.heliosword
Follow me on g+ : http://goo.gl/pmwOYK

cool
it's not easy to make good word game, let me try your one

mitsik said:
it's not easy to make good word game, let me try your one
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Cool. Do let me know what you think

Nice word game, I find it very hard for beginners, though. Maybe add some difficulty level, especially some easier difficulty ?

It has a nice clean interface. Permissions are non-existent (yeah). A great start.
I agree with those before me... It can be very challenging. I thought if it could have a multi-player mode, perhaps through bluetooth, that would be awesome. Instead of playing vs a computer with a dictionary at its disposal you could have a more level playing field.
Finally, I couldn't find an option to end the game (admit defeat). Is there a button I'm missing? I back arrowed out of my 200 something word game when I couldn't figure out another word. That didn't get an entry in my scores (as a defeat, obviously).

Out of curiosity, what word database is used?

The screens should tell more about the game. UI is simple, but there should be some hints on the screen. Take a look how they did it in Two Dots game.

mrdoug said:
It has a nice clean interface. Permissions are non-existent (yeah). A great start.
I agree with those before me... It can be very challenging. I thought if it could have a multi-player mode, perhaps through bluetooth, that would be awesome. Instead of playing vs a computer with a dictionary at its disposal you could have a more level playing field.
Finally, I couldn't find an option to end the game (admit defeat). Is there a button I'm missing? I back arrowed out of my 200 something word game when I couldn't figure out another word. That didn't get an entry in my scores (as a defeat, obviously).
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Difficulty Level, Multiplayer mode and the Give up button or accepting defeat button are all concentrated on now for the next update. Thanks for the feedbacks
pgoat06 said:
Out of curiosity, what word database is used?
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As I mentioned in OP it uses the dictionary from TWL 2014.

akhi24nick said:
Difficulty Level, Multiplayer mode and the Give up button or accepting defeat button are all concentrated on now for the next update. Thanks for the feedbacks
As I mentioned in OP it uses the dictionary from TWL 2014.
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My apologies...I looked over that sentence. Thanks!

[GAME][2.3+] Bad Fin

Hello everyone, I've just released a new FREE game on the Google play market called "Bad Fin", it's a high score casual game.
The aim of the game is to stay away from the shark whilst avoiding moving obstacles.
I've had a few friends to try it out and tell me what they think but I don't know if I can trust their opinions.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tap.f
I would love to keep improving this game, so please criticise away

Surely someone must have tried this game?

taptouchart said:
Surely someone must have tried this game?
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The game looks very nice. The graphics are funny and the movement is smooth. I think an increasing difficulty would make newcomers less frustrated. I played it and liked it but I was unable to get trough more that 10 columns

T-1000 said:
The game looks very nice. The graphics are funny and the movement is smooth. I think an increasing difficulty would make newcomers less frustrated. I played it and liked it but I was unable to get trough more that 10 columns
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Thanks, was trying to follow in the footsteps of games such as stick hero and flappy bird where the game is really difficult at first, but with enough practice you can get a really high score.

Such a hardcore game my highest scrore is 9. I think the player should get rewarded for not touching pillars. Big shark is acting like freaking Neo, dodging everything, loving life. IMO just slow shark a bit every pillar with crash/shake effect so good player can get away.

I really like how smooth it is and how it well it runs.
Here are my issues:
No explanation on how to control the fish
Tapping right should lower the fish instead of making it rise
Tapping left should raise the fish
Maybe these are just personal preferences but that's how it was intuitively for me.

Quite interesting app

Degineth said:
I really like how smooth it is and how it well it runs.
Here are my issues:
No explanation on how to control the fish
Tapping right should lower the fish instead of making it rise
Tapping left should raise the fish
Maybe these are just personal preferences but that's how it was intuitively for me.
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Hi, thanks for playing the game.
1) Their is a "How to play" button on the first menu
2) I thought right would be more synonymous with going up, but I can understand your preference.
I may add text on the main game to help users remember the controls and I'll see what I can do about giving the user the option to change controls.

timeflask said:
Such a hardcore game my highest scrore is 9. I think the player should get rewarded for not touching pillars. Big shark is acting like freaking Neo, dodging everything, loving life. IMO just slow shark a bit every pillar with crash/shake effect so good player can get away.
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Great feedback, I'll see what I can do about balancing the game a bit more, at the moment the shark swims at the same speed as the fish. and if you don't hit any obstacles you wont slow down.
I was thinking of incorporating some sort of shatter effect when the shark hits a pillar but flying pillar particles may end up hitting the fish in the back, making the game much harder XD
By the way what kind of reward did you have in mind? a tiny speed boost perhaps?

taptouchart said:
Hi, thanks for playing the game.
1) Their is a "How to play" button on the first menu
2) I thought right would be more synonymous with going up, but I can understand your preference.
I may add text on the main game to help users remember the controls and I'll see what I can do about giving the user the option to change controls.
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Giving the option to customize controls would be too much hassle in my opinion. Just go for a simple text or graphic when the game starts that illustrates that pressing right will make the fish down and viceversa for left.

taptouchart said:
Great feedback, I'll see what I can do about balancing the game a bit more, at the moment the shark swims at the same speed as the fish. and if you don't hit any obstacles you wont slow down.
I was thinking of incorporating some sort of shatter effect when the shark hits a pillar but flying pillar particles may end up hitting the fish in the back, making the game much harder XD
By the way what kind of reward did you have in mind? a tiny speed boost perhaps?
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I was thinking about "hidden" distance reset. "The shark swims at the same speed as the fish", but let's imagine little fish got some acceleration, every time player face tanking obstacle - you just reset current velocity to initial value.
onLittleFishSwimming(dt):
t+=dt
Vf = Vi + a*t
onLittleFishCollision():
t = 0; // Vf == Vi (reset)

Up

thunderstorm12345 said:
Up
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Lol, thanks for the up

Very cool underwater game Will you add music?

Entangled Multiverse said:
Very cool underwater game Will you add music?
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Thanks, I don't think I will as I know nothing about producing music.
Would love to if I could.

taptouchart said:
Thanks, I don't think I will as I know nothing about producing music.
Would love to if I could.
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Here you go: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/
Just saved you years of learning to produce music
All music on that site is free for commercial use as long as you give the author credit (either in the game or in the google play description). Check the "soundtrack" section on the site.
(I'm not affiliated in any way with the site)

Degineth said:
Here you go: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/
Just saved you years of learning to produce music
All music on that site is free for commercial use as long as you give the author credit (either in the game or in the google play description). Check the "soundtrack" section on the site.
(I'm not affiliated in any way with the site)
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Okay thanks, I'll check it out if I make another game.
Won't add any music to this game, I don't feel like it will take off.

[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:

[GAME][2.3+] Bounce Out - Puzzle Game

Bounce Out
I just released a new puzzle game, please check it out on Google Play here (free, no ads):
Bounce Out - Google Play
Short demo:
Tap the white tiles to add and rotate shapes. Bounce the ball through the exit to solve each puzzle. Buttons, bombs, ghosts, and more. Can you master the game and earn all 90 stars?
Making games isn't my day job, it's something I do as an outlet for creative expression. My post here is simply to share that expression with as many others as I can. I hope you find my games unique and enjoyable. Of course, they may not be perfect so any feedback is greatly welcome!

Yes! I've been waiting for this game.
Just downloaded it, the graphics are really clean and fun. I'll keep playing and let you know more.

tesla212 said:
Yes! I've been waiting for this game.
Just downloaded it, the graphics are really clean and fun. I'll keep playing and let you know more.
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Thank you! I got some feedback that the button color scheme is difficult for those that are color blind, so I may change it up a bit.

Nice game thanks for posting

aneesh1234 said:
Nice game thanks for posting
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Thanks for playing!

Wow, this game looks really professional. I am having a lot of fun with it!
I'm surprised this is free.

upita said:
Wow, this game looks really professional. I am having a lot of fun with it!
I'm surprised this is free.
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Thanks upita, please share with your friends. Just trying to reach as many people as I can, no interest in making a profit.

So I've been playing the past 3 days and here's my update for you.
I got through the easy and medium levels. I must say, awesome stuff! The difficulty in game play increases at a good rate. The music is relaxing, but most of the time I just mute it and put my own ambient music on in the background.
I like the gameplay, it's like no other apps I've played. The closest thing I can think of is Chip's Challenge from Windows 98, was this any influence?
Anyways great work, I look forward to trying the hard levels now.

Pretty good game, nice !

nice game! good graphics , looking forward a new update!

Nice
I love the game
Great job

good application, good gameplay , really well done!

Hey,
I liked the demo video
However, I didn't install as I am confused as to why 'location' is required as permission
Could you clarify?

ASIC SP said:
Hey,
I liked the demo video
However, I didn't install as I am confused as to why 'location' is required as permission
Could you clarify?
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Thank you for pointing this out! There is absolutely no reason the app would require location service. I was using similar build settings to a different app I was working on and forgot to remove this setting. I have corrected the permissions and am now releasing update 1.5.
I will let you know once Google Play has Version 1.5 available.

HIngalou said:
Thank you for pointing this out! There is absolutely no reason the app would require location service. I was using similar build settings to a different app I was working on and forgot to remove this setting. I have corrected the permissions and am now releasing update 1.5.
I will let you know once Google Play has Version 1.5 available.
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1.5 is now on Google Play - No special permissions required

Nice game, good idea. Well done

Omar_KBS98 said:
I love the game
Great job
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Thank you! I'm glad you enjoy it.

Catchy game with nice idea, i like it!

I really liked this game

Congrats on finishing it. Will test it