Cake Defence and the 360iDev San Jose – Game Jam

We just got back from 360iDev in San Jose and had an awesome time! Great to see old friends and meet new developers. If you’re an iPhone developer and haven’t gone to a 360iDev yet, you’re definitely missing out. It truly is one of the best, friendliest and most fun of all the conferences we go to.

And one of the best things about it this year was the Touch Arcade Game Jam. So many awesome developers, game dev veterans and novices, showed up and created some amazing concepts and games. This time, we teamed up with the awesome guys at Retro Dreamer and in a little over 9 hours, we managed to crank out Cake Defence!

Basically, you are a giant wedding cake and you have to defend yourself against the hungry masses. You do this by dishing out slices of cake (using tilt controls to aim) to appease and eventually defeat them. As you send out the cake though, you get smaller which means you have less cake to dish out – fortunately, this replenishes over time though. We even managed to include some powerups like Power Cake, Multi-Cake and even Infinite Cake.

We hope to have a video up soon, but in the mean time, here are some delicious screenshots.

Tags | 360iDev, Cake Defence, game, Jam

iMockups 1.03 submitted, big update, please read…

Our apologies, we had to resubmit so we decided to roll a few more fixes and features into this update (just submitted). Here are the full update notes:

New Feature & Changes:

• LOCKING/UNLOCKING size for UI objects, this can be done from the Info panel for any selected object. Once locked, an object can be moved but not resized/stretched.
• Control Properties Popover no longer automatically appears when you create new controls. This is to allow for rapidly dropping many controls consecutively without interruption. The Control Properties Popover can be displayed by selecting a Control and then tapping on the Info button along the Top Toolbar.
• Tap a Control on the palette to quickly place a new Control on the page. This allows for rapid creation of multiple Controls consecutively by tapping on the Control’s button.
• Improved dragging Controls from the palette. You will see the control appear at your finger and you can then drag it around the page to place.
• Removed the Delete prompt when deleting Controls. Undo allows you to undelete elements so a prompt is not necessary.

Bug Fixes:

• Optimized memory footprint of pages and projects, increases stability when handling large projects.
• Improved object selection and movement, fine tuned the blue dots touch radius.
- Info property popover for controls now always appears from the toolbar, preventing any fields from being cut off when the keyboard displays.
• Undo wasn’t tracking history when editing objects through the control’s properties popover.
• Fixed a bug where the Cut and Copy buttons would be disabled even though there were controls selected.
• Fixed a bug where the Control Properties Popover would not display the correct label or fields for the selected Control.
• Fixed a bug where the paperclip (current page indicator) was not moving with the current page when re-ordering.
• Improved accuracy when zooming in and out of the page.
• Fixed a bug where the Controls Properties Popover would not dismiss when going into Presentation mode.
• Fixed a bug where multiple popovers were appearing on the screen at the same time when switching menus.

Thanks for your continued support! If you like iMockups for iPad, please leave a review on iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/imockups/id364885913?mt=8, thanks!

Hopefully this will be approved soon, keep your eyes peeled

- iMockups for iPad Team

Tags | imockups, ipad, update

iMockups 1.01 update approved! UI & crash bugs fixed

It should be available within an hour or so, but here is the full update notes:

Bug Fixes:

- Greatly improved stability from general crashing when switching projects or between Presentation Mode and Edit Mode
- Fixed crashing bug with cutting,copying and pasting certain controls
- Multi-select (tap and hold TWO FINGERS on the canvas) should now be easier to activate
- Fixed bug where Properties popover for elements wasn’t displaying properly
- Controls Panel positioned incorrectly when iPad is laid down flat
- Slightly jittery animation when zooming and panning canvas with TWO FINGERS
- Erratic behaviour when swiping between projects in Project View
- Improved resizing controls (blue markers should be easier to touch)
- Disabled auto-hiding of Page Deck and Controls Panel when panning and zooming canvas
- Added an additional Toolbar button (INFO) for bring up the selected Control’s Info panel
- Updated Help page (HELP can be accessed from the TOOLS menu)

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IMPORTANT TIPS: PLEASE READ!
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- PLEASE Visit our blog http://blog.endloop.ca
 and follow @EndloopStudios and @iMockups on Twitter for the latest news and updates!

- Tap TOOLS > HELP for an overview of controls

- You must use TWO FINGERS to PAN the canvas since a single finger will select and move controls

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UPCOMING FEATURES:


- snap-to grid lines

- border and background color picker for UI controls

- more export options: email, XML, PDF

- improved customization of UI controls

- more UI controls

- more icons
- improved touch controls
- additional themes/skins



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Expect fast and furious updates!

We are listening and want YOUR FEEDBACK – we want to make the product that you want to use.

PLEASE Visit our blog http://blog.endloop.ca so we can hear your voice!

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If you’re happy with iMockups and our continued updates, please leave an honest review for us in the App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/imockups/id364885913?mt=8

We want as much feedback from our community as possible, so feel free to leave comments here or email us at endloop [at] endloop.ca

*UPDATE* We’re submitting another update before we move onto more features-focused update:
It will feature a short but essential list of improvements:

- improves object selection and movement, fine tuned the blue dots touch radius
- LOCKING/UNLOCKING for UI objects, this can be done from the Info panel for any selected object. Once locked, an object can be moved but not resized/stretched.
- reduced memory footprint of pages and projects, increases stability when handling large projects

Thanks again for your patience!
- iMockups Team.

Tags | fixes, imockups, ipad, update

iMockups first update resubmitted, fixed crash bugs, please read..

Great news, we tracked down the weird memory spikes and have resubmitted the update with more fixes and new stuff. Check it out:

• Greatly improved stability from general crashing when switching projects or between Presentation Mode and Edit Mode
• Fixed crashing bug with cutting,copying and pasting certain controls
• Multi-select (tap and hold TWO FINGERS on the canvas) should now be easier to activate
• Fixed bug where Properties popover for elements wasn’t displaying properly
• Fixed bug where UI objects palette positioned incorrectly when iPad is laid down flat
• Fixed slightly jittery animation when zooming and panning canvas with TWO FINGERS
• Fixed erratic behaviour when swiping between projects in Project View
• Improved resizing controls (blue markers should be easier to touch)
• Disabled auto-hiding of Page Deck and Controls Panel when panning and zooming canvas
• Added an additional Toolbar button (INFO) for bring up the selected Control’s Info panel
• Updated Help page (HELP can be accessed from the TOOLS menu)

Hopefully Apple will review and approve this quickly.

-iMockups for iPad Team

Tags | fixes, imockups, ipad, update

iMockups first update is submitted, read for details

Edited out outdated content, we resubmitted the 1st update, please read here:

http://blog.endloop.ca/blog/2010/04/04/imockups-first-update-resubmitted-fixed-crash-bugs-please-read/