Entries in ios (3)

Tuesday
Oct112011

Bug in latest version

We've discoverd two bugs (and have one squashed, working the other).  The first bug is as follows:

1) Run a meeting

2) Exit the app

3) Double Home button and kill the app

4) restart the app...

At this point the app will lock up.  What should happen is that Wasted Time should ask if you want to continue the meeting.  If you touch anywhere but the continue button then the counters reset.  This was designed for low memory condition on your device and a long meeting.  We have this fixed on iOS 4.3 and iOS 5.0 on the iPhone, and are experiencing an inconsistency between iOS 4.3 and iOS 5.0 on the iPad.  We hope to have a fix posted very shortly.

 

The second bug has been fixed which is the screen orientation on the iPhone.  It was starting in Landscape mode, and we have resolved this.  However, given that this is not a major issue we are holding this fix until we can resolve the iOS 5 iPad problem.  Stay tuned!

Saturday
Sep102011

Need a Name

We have been working our 1st game design.  It is a real time strategy game set in a futuristic space environment.  It has more in line with a western but it is NOT Star Trek.  You are in a single solar system with a series of habital planets.  There are towns, space stations, and evil aliens.  

You can be one of two types of starting players, either a merchant ship captain or a military scout captain.  Either of these can advance to ultimately control the whole solar system.  But it won't be easy because there is a race of homicidal alien creatures that keep getting in your way.  

As military, do you wipe out the aliens?  Do you keep the peace? Do you take on the pirate merchants who steal and break the law?  

As a merchant, do you take the slow and safe path of building an empire within the bounds of the law?  Do you take the added risk and reward to grow thru contraband?  Do you try to discover the secret behind this canabilistic aliens?

Either way the choice is yours!  Now all we need from you is a name!

Wednesday
Aug102011

Working on iOS5 Updates

We've decided to do a bit of code clean-up and help improve the experience with Twitter for Wasted Time under iOS.  To that end, we've been completely redoing our Twitter integration.  Gone is the function that tweets for you without letting you make any changes.  We are going to use the new iOS built in Twitter support, which will check for your default twitter account on you iOS device and then present you with a Modal display, prefilled with information on the meeting. You can then either hit Send or Cancel, or even add your own comments.  As soon as Apple relases iOS5 we should have this version of WastedTime available. 

 

In addition to this change we will be removing the Twitter support from people who use older versions of iOS.  Given the number of people tweeting, we are sure this won't be a big problem.  We will also be removing any future cost for this app, and make it ad supported.  Ads will only display on the help screen, as we feel that they should not impact your meetings.  If you want to continue to support us, please support our ad sponsors by clicking thru when you can.