A 2012 Special! Final Countdown – An apocalyptic Live Wallpaper!
Kick off this new year with a live wallpaper that will constantly remind you the end is nigh! Featuring a snazzy countdown timer which updates every minute and an awesome background image that slowly disintegrates the closer we get to December 21st, 2012!
Watch the cessation of humanity one minute at a time.
Santa’s Journey
Hey guys, I’ve uploaded another wintery Live Wallpaper! Check it out: http://bit.ly/tQLUbr
Watch a beautiful scenic view of a wintery backyard/forest as snow gently drifts down, a snowman waves, and Santa makes periodic visits dropping presents on the ground below! The donation version sports three amazing backgrounds to choose from, allowing you to fully customize this whimsical addition to your Live Wallpaper collections.
Santa Bobble & Friends Plus
See the new themes! Download for only 2.98 today!
Winter Tiles
Download: http://bit.ly/rqJMMA
Winter Tiles is a new, revolutionary Android Live Wallpaper designed to put you in the Christmas spirit! It creates a real-time collage of images by using a pre-populated set of keywords and the Bing search engine to dynamically generate a unique and constantly changing background. The relevant pictures help establish holiday spirit in this unprecedented and unique Live Wallpaper.
I am constantly adding updates to both the app as well as the server component to bring you the best experience I can deliver! If you have ideas for new features, feel free to email me, comment on this post, rate the app, or get in touch any way you can. I love to hear what I can do to help improve upon my products and, as always, am totally willing to listen to every comment and suggestion posted.
Look for Winter Tiles in the Android Marketplace!
Zobble, the bobbling zombie Live Wallpaper for Android
From the success of Santa Bobble Live Wallpaper, we decided people love bobble heads! So let the bobbling begin! Next up with have our newest and coolest bobble ever, Zobble. He is a great looking Zombie friend who hangs out in his deadly graveyard.
Besides just the cool bobble head interactive effects, Zobble also has cool raining blood! Enjoy!
Windows Phone 7: Places To Get Your App Reviewed!
I have been looking for a comprehensive list of app-review sites for the windows phone 7 and I simply cannot find one. So I decided to compile my own!
This is by no means a final assessment. I could only find 6 sites that actually did app reviews (and I suspect its because of the infantile nature of the marketplace). If you know of more, feel free to leave a comment. I am looking to make my list extensive and would love to feature any and all WP7 App Reviews sites as they pop up 🙂
1800 Pocket PC
Website: http://www.1800pocketpc.com
This website is pretty awesome. The owner is very nice and very open to doing app reviews if you just give him a little time.
Youtube: WindowsMobileApps
Twitter: http://twitter.com/1800PocketPC
WP Central
Website: http://www.wpcentral.com/
This website is pretty awesome as well. Although they haven’t reviewed any of my apps, they seem to have tons of up-to-date information on WP7 happenings as well as comprehensive reviews on various top-shelf applications.
Cool Smart Phone
Website: http://www.coolsmartphone.com/
I haven’t really looked at their website too much but I did check out their youtube channel and it seems very quality.
Youtube: coolsmartphone
Windows Phone Review
Website: http://windowsphonereview.com/
This website is great. They have reviewed one of my apps before and did a pretty good job 😀
Windows Phone 7 Zone
Website: http://www.windowsphone7zone.com/
Another resource for app reviews with high potential, I think.
Everything WM
Website: http://www.everythingwm.com/
Last but not least, Everything WM. A very clean website/blog with some great information.
And thats all I could find on the subject. Again, if you know of any more websites — feel free to let me know!
New Windows Phone 7 Puzzle Game – GeoMind
GeoMind is a crazy addictive puzzle game with insanely simple rules! You start out with a shape. The goal is to re-create the shape by connecting a series of dots however; you cannot cross the same path twice!
The trial version sports the first 6 starter maps with low difficulty. You may play through them and even repeat them as much as you want!
The full version, however, is decked with over 30 maps, an in-game map update feature, and – as a Christmas special – we will be releasing 1 map every day until Christmas!
Are you up for the challenge?
Here is the Microsoft TAG Image For Direct Download:
Youtube Vide: View Video
Santa Bobble Live Wallpaper
One last live wallpaper before Christmas! This time, we engage the power of motion and bring you, “Santa Bobble” live wallpaper on Android!
Remember those little bobble head toys? Heck you might even have one! We all know they are fun and oh so amusing, so the thinking was, why not have one on your phone? And thus Santa Bobble was born!
Santa responds to 3D gestures. Right/left makes him shake his head, up/down makes him nod, closer/farther makes him bob his head forward like a pigeon. You can even rotate your phone and he tilts his head with you!
The snow is also animated and follows you as you rotate your phone!
This particular Santa character in the app is actually modeled after a real Santa bobble head toy. The style of this Santa is from a classic Christmas animated movie. Can you name is? Comment below if you know!
My personal favorite is to bobble santa to some hip hop or electronic music. Really fun stuff!
By the way this app is free so please enjoy it and let the bobbling begin!
Also, if you have an idea for another type of character that would make a good bobble, please let me know!
Winter Dreams hits 50k downloads!
Time to pop the cork! Thanks to all of our awesome fans, Winter Dreams finally hit 50k downloads! This puts it into the second to last highest download rank on the market. I never imagined such success when I released this live wallpaper, but the people have spoken and they love it.
To celebrate, I released an update giving the free and donation versions an awesome snow effect. Now the snow glows and looks much cooler.
So you might ask where to next? Well 250k of course! Let’s make it happen people!!! Start your downloads!
How To: Draw A Line in XNA for WP7
While working on my most recent game (super top secret!) I realized there was no drawLine function in XNA… At least, not an easy to use one! So I asked my Digipen friend about it (after attempting to derive my own formula) and he gave me this particularly useful link;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresenham%27s_line_algorithm
I quickly converted the psuedo-code into C# and came up with these two functions. Enjoy! I haven’t really had to time to logically step through it but essentially the gist(from what I understand) is that it determines where to place a “pixel” image based on the slope using a specific pattern that looks really good.
I recommend using a circular, 8x8ish texture for the pixel you use to render. Here is the code!
{
bool steep = (Math.Abs(y1 – y0) > Math.Abs(x1 – x0));
if (steep)
{
Swap(ref x0, ref y0);
Swap(ref x1, ref y1);
}
if (x0 > x1)
{
Swap(ref x0, ref x1);
Swap(ref y0, ref y1);
}
float deltax = x1 – x0;
float deltay = Math.Abs(y1 – y0);
float error = 0;
float deltaerror = deltay / deltax;
int ystep;
float y = y0;
ystep = (y0 < y1) ? 1 : -1;
for(float x = x0; x < x1; x++)
{
Vector2 position;
if (steep)
position = new Vector2(y, x);
else
position = new Vector2(x, y);
spriteBatch.Draw(pixelTexture, position, Color.White);
error += deltaerror;
if (error >= 0.5f)
{
y = y + ystep;
error -= 1.0f;
}
}
}
private void Swap(ref float a, ref float b)
{
float temp = a;
a = b;
b = temp;
}
Hope this helps! 🙂
David Berg
Indi Game Dev
Ionic Apps 