[OPEN-BETA] LetterWars

Hey everyone,

thanks again to all the closed beta testers!

It's finally there: the open beta is in the Play Store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.goddchen.android.letterwars



Keep testing, playing and post feedback here

I'm looking forward to play with you!

Goddchen

— modified on Nov 26, 2012, 11:13:19 AM

v0.9 Changelog:

• directly open game when clicked on notification
• play move submitted sound when game field is open and opponent submitted
• generate higher resolution thumbnails
• fix updating games in local database
• fix a typo
• make sure that google services are available before enabling GCM
• show game field thumbnail in game adapter
• add option to hide zero point players on leaderboard
• new notification icon
• properly update game stats on finished/dead games

Those are the standard Android Holo colors found here: http://developer.android.com/design/style/color.html

I'm currently thinking about adding a setting where you can choose from the available colors to customize the two colors to your liking. But it's not the highest priority right now ;)

Glad that you like the game. Would you mind submitting a rating in the Play Store? ;)

Goddchen

PS: Challenge me! -> "Goddchen"

v0.10 Changelog:

• don't allow to select the same color for both players
• disable negative points
• add color chooser preferences
• fix FC when trying to submit an empty move
• correctly refresh view when denying a challenge
• fixed typo
• use player nicknames in notification texts
• refactor player cache
• fix possible NPE in profile screen

Thanks, anything you are missing or want to see improved?

BTW: A Play Store rating is highly appreciated

— modified on Dec 2, 2012, 2:39:56 PM

v0.11

• add possibility to directly challenge someone from the leaderboard
• add AppBrain AppLift SDK
• add a notification if you haven't player for a long time
• update help

v0.12:

• check for player infos before sending challenge
• fixed possible NPE
• send a challenge from the game screen
• add hint to report dialog input
• update db structure
• add player reporting feature
• add AppLift banner support
• reduce launch notification interval

Kind of, it has some of the same game mechanics. But it also introduces some new mechanics, make sure to read the help text before starting your first game

If you have question, feel free to ask here

Exactly, the wordlist that it started with had ~87.000 words. I have already approved ~1000 words since the start of the beta. If you wanna help out that would be great. I have setup a web page for me to make the process easier (it does automatically look for german translations to help me out).

But you wouldn't believe what kind of words people are trying. I'd estimate that ~50% of those words are total crap, another 40% are just misspelled and the rest can be approved...

If you want to help out with reviewing the unknown words, get in contact with me in private (gmail, google talk, g+, whatever).

Goddchen

v0.13:

• Ask if unknown word should be submitted for review

v0.14:

• remove zero point checkbox
• drastically optimize performance of online games updating
• fix main activity loaders (signup)
• properly update leaderboard profile header onResume()
• refactor profile screen
• improve leaderboard loaders and orientation change handling
• enable fast scroll on leaderboard listview
• properly initialize loaders in MainActivity
• fixes for fragments
• don't log unknown words directly since we added the dialog

v0.15:

• add add-friend feature to leaderboard
• bind and restore your account with/from your Google account
• optimized friend list UI
• added invite screen
• friend list screen

v0.16:

• integrate HelpShift support
• do not open a game directly from notification since it's still buggy
• fix NPE in submit move loader
• update player cache more frequently
• optimize player cache
• new stat: games created today

v0.17:

• fix remove ads dialog display
• fix possible FC when sending feedback email
• fix possible NPE
• add an IAP for removing the ads
• add helpshift notification
• show crash dialog when app crashed last time
• add chat feature
• optimized drag n drop rearrangement logic
• rearrange current word with drag n drop
• fix max move icon size calculation
• apply color to move fields + auto resize when move row is full
• hide field while dragging
• add drag n drop
• new heyzap sdk

v0.18:

• add WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE for MMedia SDK
• Heyzap SDK 3.4.10
• integrate MMedia prestitial video ads
• fix more loaders
• fix possible FC in HelpShift initialization
• more loaders fixed
• finally fixed the main screen loading issue?
• properly update device id when binding/restoring account
• updated HelpShift SDK and some minor optimizations
• correctly update options menu on game screen when chat message is
• only handle billing responses when billing is fully set up
• also enable HeyZap ads in GameActivity, because it could be resumed via
• fix possible FC with billing
• fix for devices where billing is not available
• display more detailed billing error toasts + fix billing helper
• fix IAB helper
• properly mark unread chat messages as read when chat dialog is opened
• indicate unread chat messages in the game overview screen by a little
• hide remove ads options item when already purchased
• indicate unread chat messages with a red dot on the actionbar icon7

v0.18.4

• Fix the haven't-see-you-in-a-while notification that tended to pop up way too frequently