ancient wisdom - Comments

Interview B - mrfungfung

mrfungfung — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:30:26 +1200

Hey nice work on the port! Ancient Frog is such a nice app control wise to put on those devices - essentially if you got a mouse you can do it - sweet!

Interview B - Tim

Tim — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:05:47 +1200

Dammit. I got all excited about this and actually downloaded the AppUp program before I remembered that actually I run Ubuntu on my netbook. Bother.

I may still have a working Windows partition banging around though... I'll check.

Interview - Tim

Tim — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:49:07 +1200

I'm pleased to see you flying the Fiendish colours, James...

Ports Ports Ports - James

James — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:05:25 +1200

As far as I know, the game is original. I'm not aware of anything similar, at any rate.

The skeleton of the frog has a set of rigid bones, constrained by ligaments which limit how far they can rotate with respect to each other. It's not based on any real biology, but rather on what looked about right while providing a set of constraints that gave rise to interesting puzzles.

Ports Ports Ports - Dear Apple

Dear Apple — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:35:29 +1200

I can't believe nobody's commenting in your blog. Could you please elaborate bit more on how you conceived the Ancient Frog?

I was always curious is it original concept or you got this idea from somewhere? And how does skeleton works, are there some artificial restrictions which doesn't allow me to move frog limbs or everything is completely natural?

I was always facinated by iPhone version. Gotta say that iPad looks bit worse I think, the frog is not that lively anymore and everything looks bit plastic. But anyway cool game, would like to know more about how did you develop it.

Thank you.

Ancient Frog on the iPad - p90x

p90x — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:11:57 +1200

That doesn't solve your problem at all, but I wonder if the general idea, of having your server track who has the iPhone version and therefore merits some kind of bonus in the iPad version, might help.

Ports Ports Ports - Berath

Berath — Fri, 28 May 2010 01:29:10 +1200

I bought the pre app.

It looks beautiful, the sound track is perfect...it's almost a zen-like experience! We don't have that many apps on the palm pre so it's great when we get decent ones.

Thanks for taking the trouble to port it over.

Ports Ports Ports - mrfungfung

mrfungfung — Sat, 15 May 2010 12:19:24 +1200

Nice one - good tip on the native coding on the pre. I would bet that the Android version would eventually actually be the most useful long term. It is also, I reckon, the most ARSE of all to port for.

The different aspect ratio + resolution problem remains another top top hate of mine too.

[ping] Ancient Frog on the iPad - iPad Spiele

iPad Spiele — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:33:07 +1300

Kurz zwischendrin:

Ich bin gerade einen nicht mehr ganz taufrischen aber sehr interessanten Beitrag auf iphoneblog.de gestossen. Es geht darum wie normale iPhone Spiele an das iPad angepasst werden können und wie einfach Apple es den Entwicklern gemacht hat. Kleine...

Ancient Frog on the iPad - Phillip Winn

Phillip Winn — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:01:15 +1300

The TapTapRevenge apps allow you to combine separate purchases into one app, but I think they do it like this:
1. When it runs, each app signals to the server that it exists
2. On the app you want to keep, you say "import"
3. The server knows which apps you have, so it downloads the qualified music to that app.

Ancient Frog on the iPad - James

James — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:29:38 +1300

As I understand it, you can't use an in-app purchase from one app in another, which makes things a bit tricky. I could potentially do something where I have my own server verifying the upgrade from iPhone to iPad, but that suddenly adds a whole lot of new coding and maintenance which is probably more than I can manage as a one man outfit. Perhaps simplest would be to get the iPhone version to generate a key based on name / itunes account, which then unlocks cheap download in the iPad version.

As for the idea about the leaf moving in the wind - this is something I'd intended to do yonks ago (along with getting the leaf to give a bit when you pull on one of the frog's legs), but for some reason I ended up deciding it wouldn't work. But I've just hacked in a quick test, and actually it looks really nice. So that's going in. Thanks for the suggestion!

Ancient Frog on the iPad - Florian

Florian — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:45:55 +1300

You cant download a second app from a other app via dlc. But I have no idea, how to manage the problem.
One thing: It would be so great, if the leaf would move in the wind.

Ancient Frog on the iPad - Tim

Tim — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:11:07 +1300

The landscape and portrait screenshots remind me that my vision is anamorphic.

[ping] Ancient Frog on the iPad - uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:56:37 +1300

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Naming Your Project - Vladimir

Vladimir — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:30:33 +1300

Hi,

just wanted to let you know that in the new XCode on Leaoprd Snow you now have an option to easily rename the whole project. No need to worry about hacking the files anymore ;)

Cheers,
Vladimir

Ancient Frog on the iPad - Brett Archibald

Brett Archibald — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:40:54 +1300

> It would be nice if there were a way to offer a
> cheap upgrade path for people who already have
> the iPhone version, and I'm looking at whether
> there's a clever way to do that.

Maybe offer free or 99¢ DLC in the iPhone app which then downloads the iPad version...

Awards - Jef Armstrong

Jef Armstrong — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:05:44 +1300

Congratulations!!!

Retrospective - Jef Armstrong

Jef Armstrong — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:28:34 +1300

Nice write up James. Maybe I'll do a post about the solver that I wrote.

Naming Your Project - James

James — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:16:55 +1300

I'm currently hard at work on project Blue Comb. (Sometimes pronounced 'Blucombe'.)

Naming Your Project - AssetStripper

AssetStripper — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:49:15 +1300

So just what is the - perhaps meaningless, perhaps not - name for the new game?