Since I’m now finished with the Dots & Stars updates, I’m currently working on a childrens app together with my sister Eira. This “game” is mainly aimed towards girls aged 3-5 and will be the first of hopefully many childens apps from us.
Dots & Stars is free to download on Apple App Store for the rest of July. Check it out.
FINALLY you can now download / update Dots & Stars for iPhone on App Store. Man, this was one tough update to finish.. lots of bugs and stuff that took longer time than anticipated to fix. If you own an iPhone or iPod touch and want to support my work then please download Dots & Stars on App Store today. Thank you.
Link to iTunes -> http://bit.ly/ooGRDP
Today I made a gameplay video and uploaded it to Youtube. Dots & Stars (PLOP Master version 1.1) will be out soon on App Store.
I have now uploaded the first major update of my iPhone game to App Store. The game formally known as Plop Master will now be called Dots & Stars. Awaiting Apple’s approval (which usually takes one week) I will make a new gameplay video for youtube and move the official web site to Fogelberg.com.
And my four weeks of much needed vacation starts tomorrow. :)
So what’s up? Well, the first update of my iPhone game took waaay longer to finish than anticipated. Today all the major bugs have finally been squashed and I’m planning to upload it to App Store asap.
There’s a silver lining to this of course – I learned A LOT working on this update. Stuff I can and will use for future iPhone game projects.
Since I put all my spare time attention on developing this game I haven’t made any new music this year. I haven’t quit making music – just taking a break from it. I have several plans for new music in the near future – collaborations, and original material.
One release is coming up soon though – Inside Out, a track I did last year will be release together with a bunch of cool remixes on one of Ricky Ryan’s labels. More info will follow.
Finally I’m finished working on my first upload for my iPhone game formally known as PLOP Master. Some testing will be done in the next couple of days and if no major bugs are found it will be added to App Store next week. Some new features in this update:
– New name and some layout changed = nicer look
– New icon
– New type of dot added = more varied gameplay
– Moving stuff that the dots bounce on = more varied gameplay
– Gamecenter Leaderboard (yay!)
– Quit-button on pause screen added
– Minor bugs fixed
And more..
Big day today as my first game for iOS called PLOP Master was released on App Store. If you enjoy addictive little games for iPhone, then check it out and let me know what you think.
“In this colorful game you touch three red dots at a time to keep the energy meter in check. The farther away these “plops” are from each other when you touch them, the more energy you will gain as they join together.
Anybody can play PLOP Master. The game starts out very easy but soon gets harder. Objects will appear that you must avoid, and the energy will drain away at a faster rate.”
* Fun and addictive gameplay.
* Beautiful graphics with lots of happy colors.
* Unlimited number of levels.
* Bonus levels: Tap the stars as fast as possible.
* Three difficulties: Easy, Normal and Hard.
* Original 80s retro soundtrack. Chip tunes straight out of the Commodore 64.
* Retro sound effects, made on old analog synthesizers.
* Supports Retina Display.
I’m pausing the music making for a while until I have decided what to do. At the moment I’m putting most of my energy into making games and apps for iPhone. To be frank it hasn’t been that fun to make music in a while..
Well that’s not entirely true – making music is still fun, but releasing it is another story.
I don’t have fan base to speak of (not that I know of anyway), and after handing the tracks over to a record company for release, that’s mostly the end of it. The track is released – it sells, at most, a couple of hundred copies. I rarely make any money of it and basically never get any feedback besides from the record company and my closest friends.
So I’m playing around with the thought of just quitting making dance music for one shot releases and instead start to work on my third full length album.
Let’s see how things pan out in the near future. Atm it’s all about my iPhone game PLOP Master which will be released any day now on App Store. After that have two other apps in development and possible a third, music related app, that I’m planning to do.
