Published at: 06:07 pm - Thursday July 30 2009
Puzzle Blox has received a silver award by the Russian web site and download portal SoftPortal.com! Very cool
Find the Puzzle Blox and Puzzle Blox Lite web sites over here:
http://www.softportal.com/software-11870-puzzle-blox.html [English]
http://www.softportal.com/software-11869-puzzle-blox-lite.html [English]
Thank you guys and I’m really happy that you like my game!
Published at: 06:07 pm - Sunday July 26 2009
AndroidPit.de, a very active German Android community web site, has posted a review of Puzzle Blox! The game was rewarded with 5 of 5 stars. Whoohoo! And the review features a very nice and appetizing video explaining the basic concepts of Puzzle Blox. (Note to myself: I have to do such a [...]
Published at: 06:07 am - Saturday July 25 2009
It is now eight weeks since the initial release of Puzzle Blox and Puzzle Blox Lite to the Google Android market…
Let me first state that the Google Android market is a great opportunity for all you independent software developers and people like me who do programming as a hobby. Since Apple launched their iPhone and [...]
Published at: 08:07 am - Tuesday July 21 2009
Android is an open platform and most developer tools can be obtained for free. That’s great especially for hobby enthusiasts like me and a lot of other developers out there
So if Eclipse and the Android SDK are free to use why pay a lot of money for Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Office [...]
Published at: 09:07 pm - Sunday July 19 2009
This is just a very small update targeting especially new users of the Lite version. It adds a short description text if the level failed. Judging from various comments some people where confused when the “You Failed!” message popped up and they didn’t understood what went wrong. Besides adding this new message I also fixed [...]
Published at: 08:07 pm - Wednesday July 15 2009
Whooo… A picture is worth more than 1000 words…
Actually that’s a PC x86 emulator running inside of the Google Android emulator. It already boots into the Bochs BIOS but then crashes due to an OutOfMemoryException. Stay tuned for more updates on this
And please don’t ask about the performance. You don’t wanna really know [...]
Published at: 03:07 pm - Sunday July 12 2009
Today I have another update to Puzzle Blox for you!
What’s new?
Added new calibration function within the options menu! As every phone is slightly different so are the sensors. Using the new calibration and sensitivity settings you are now able to adjust the accelerometer and orientation sensors of your phone to your needs. No more blocks [...]
Published at: 09:07 am - Thursday July 09 2009
I’m working on the tilting issue some people are still reporting. Here’s a short excerpt of a posting over at ktk.bz, the creators of the “Bubble” app for Android. If you encounter issues with the tilting functionality of your phone please check out the following two paragraphs:
Bubble uses your phone’s accelerometer to determine the current [...]
Published at: 09:07 am - Wednesday July 08 2009
Doh! Since Sunday morning my DSL modem is gone. Seems to be related to the thunderstorms we had in our area recently. Bad luck. Time for me to check out tethering applications for my Android phone…
A quick search on my G1 brought up to promising results for use with non-rooted Android devices: PdaNet and azilink. [...]