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Frog Box Xmas update in review

Frog Box Xmas update in review

The frog box xmas update made it to review , no idea if it will make it out before xmas. We will see. Essentially in this update we have done away with the box section and the ball section and focused on the classroom, since this seems to be the most popular. We have...

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FAYJU BALL INTERFACE

FAYJU BALL INTERFACE

We've given lots of thought to the interface for FAYJU BALL, but I think there is now a solution. To use thumbnails of all the levels. This is the levels that are present in the version on the App Store, and we have ten more that have been created for the next...

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FROG BOX updates

FROG BOX updates

We have been playing about with various different things with the frog. I had him swinging from a rope at one point, Hal made a fantastic motor bike so i had him driving along in that  nothing finished or polished yet. But I have come to realize that although making...

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FAYJU BALL was free for a day

FAYJU BALL was free for a day

Wow what a day. I decided to make FAYJU BALL free for a day and announce it on the touch arcade forum. I am currently integrating open feint into FAYJU BALL and a series of other apps so considering FAYJU BALL has a relatively low user base I thought It might be...

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Making videos of iPhone

Making videos of iPhone

As an iPhone developer making videos of your work is pretty important, especially if there is any attempt to promote your app outside of the AppStore. This has been pretty challenging with limited time, obviously i would prefer to spend most of my time building games....

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FAYJU BALL LITE RELEASED

FAYJU BALL LITE RELEASED

FAYJU BALL LITE finally arrived on the AppStore today and is available here. There are 6 levels of FAYJU BALL to play for free. This is our second free App along with FROG BOX which also was updated today FAYJU BALL itself has had a make over with the interface and...

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FROG BOX FREE UPDATE

FROG BOX FREE UPDATE

This is a test video for the update to frog box where you throw a frog around a classroom. It serves us as a test environment for DEAD FROG GOLF which we are working away at. We didn't want to waste development and wanted to see how this type of interactivity was...

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FAYJU BALL UPDATE RELEASED

FAYJU BALL UPDATE RELEASED

FAYJU BALL has received an update. It has 60 levels now and we have given the interface a major update. There is now a feed back screen at the end of a level and the ability to go to next level also a in game restart button. There is also a lite version about to hit...

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FAYJU Racer first view

FAYJU Racer first view

Here is a video of some initial tests of our racing game, currently in development. We felt we should make a racing game. We may launch this also as a free Application.

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Frog Box on App Store

Frog Box on App Store

Frog Box our first free iPhone application is now available on the App Store. Frog Box is a toy application where you tumble flick and drag a rag doll frog around the inside of a box. Frog Box Free on the App StoreHere's the video We're very pleased and excited about...

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Fayju Ball :: 3 new levels in update

Fayju Ball :: 3 new levels in update

We have updated Fayju Ball with 3 new levels in a new environment. Actually it has been in review for almost 3 weeks now. Which is a bit frustrating. But hasn't stopped us developing. in the new levels we tried changing the nature of the box, raising platforms and...

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Fayju Ball on Toucharcade.com

Fayju Ball on Toucharcade.com

We had a mention on toucharcade.com this week. You can view it here. So thanks to touch arcade for the mention. Publicity and promotion in the game is key. It seemed pretty positive. More than anything it makes it very clear that with a game like Fayju Ball it's...

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frogbox – deadfrog, Prototype

frogbox – deadfrog, Prototype

Dead Frog. its still as a working title. This is a prototype of the control system, still very early days. hoping that it will be available to download in about a month. The game as it stands will draw a lot of its gameplay from golf. "getting a ball in a hole",...

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Fayju Ball – updated

Fayju Ball – updated

The icon fix went through review after 7 days, not bad I guess. It was a bit of a pain. I guess things never go through smoothly the first time around. But development goes on with fayju ball. We have started build on ten extra levels in a new box I will upload a...

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Fayju Ball – updated

Fayju Ball – updated

The icon fix went through review after 7 days, not bad I guess. It was a bit of a pain. I guess things never go through smoothly the first time around. But development goes on with fayju ball. We have started build on ten extra levels in a new box I will upload a...

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Fayju Ball – updated

Fayju Ball – updated

The icon fix went through review after 7 days, not bad I guess. It was a bit of a pain. I guess things never go through smoothly the first time around. But development goes on with fayju ball. We have started build on ten extra levels in a new box I will upload a...

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frogbox test video

frogbox test video

frogbox is starting to come together here is a video of some test development We are currently working on a 3d ragdoll game (frog doll :0)) . The current direction we are heading is of a 3d environment where you target and throw the frog with the intention of it...

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fayju ball : available on the AppStore

fayju ball : available on the AppStore

fayju ball became available on the AppStore yesterday click here to viewIt was all very exciting, we have been playing it for some time now through development and to have other people playing it was great. Some nice members of the toucharcade.com forum started a...

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video: fayju ball

video: fayju ball

Here is a test video of our currently in review iPhone game. Will have to look into what the best practice is for creating these videos, will need some production to smooth the sound. With a game of this nature it seems important to show the device in movement to...

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In review

In review

Fayju ball is now in review stage. It will be interesting to see how long it takes. Very excited about this first release. Will make a post later with some video footage of the game and also post to the unity forum. One bit of learning here is that Taking video of a...

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Preparing for Launch

Preparing for Launch

We are just about ready to launch fayju ball. We are very excited about our first release and hopefully it will be the first of many. Summing up the game in a few words is surprisingly difficult and also condensing the look and feel down to one 57*57 pixel icon is a...

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SpriteManager for the Interface

SpriteManager for the Interface

When we started considering how to go about making buttons for level selection on fayju ball, it was looking to be a bit of a brainteaser. However after studying the posts about SpriteManager from the unity forum things moved along very...

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fayju ball surfaces

fayju ball surfaces

Unity provides us with some pretty realistic physics, so to add to gameplay we introduced different surfaces and allowed the different surfaces to have different physical characteristics. The surfaces also provide a nice way to separate out sets of levels.

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Fayju ball

Fayju ball

Nearing 50 levels at present but not quite there yet. The objective of the game is to sink your balls into the holes and when they are in the correct holes, it's level complete. there are switches in the space when your ball hits those switches the ball will change...

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frogfun

frogfun

We like frogs and would never harm a real one, we're gentle types. Sometimes you just have to put a dead frog in a box and jiggle it around. One of the great things about unity is its physics, and the fact that it performs pretty well on the iphone is fantastic. Frog...

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Fayju ball

Fayju ball

We are getting closer to the completion of our first iphone game. We have had plans to build various games and applications which would be well suited to this format, but we wanted to start off by creating something that was driven completely by one aspect of the...

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helloWorld

helloWorld

Welcome to the fayju blog. This blog has been started to talk about the game developments fayju is undertaking and out thoughts on the games world in general.

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