S3 Games Dev Blog

So we are working our fingers to the bone with so many releases this month for iPhone & iPad. We are really pleased with ElevensHD which came out last week and we are not stopping there.

Here is a sneak peak of the new cards we are going to add to v1.1 – we like ‘em and hope you do too. (note the cross promotion with FruitZen our new game coming out next week – more later)

Lovin' the new Cards!

Rigid Classification Fees Threaten Australian App Market! – This will finally kill of what little hope the games industry in Australia has of rebuilding and surviving its toughest economic troubles since the industry first began.

Making it compulsory for game companies to PAY to have their games classified to be sold on the iTunes App store in Australia is stupid… bordering on idiotic. It will dramatically effect the small Indie teams trying to start something up and will also most likely kill off those hobbyists that develop games in their spare time.

Sure the Australian iTunes sales market is small compared to the US and Europe, but  imagine Australian games developers not selling their games in their own country due to excessive classification fees? Idiotic!

Read the full article here

Rant mode off.

Ok, so we might have jumped the gun a little with releasing 1.5.5 as it seems that there were some issues with a few button placements on the iPhone4 retina display as well as a crash bug on older devices when multi-touching… So we are happy to announce that Elevens iPhone 1.5.6 is now out and has fixed the these issues as well as adding the ability for OpenFeint to respect the devices orientation and display it’s panels correctly.

You can grab your copy now from iTunes or find out more about the game from our website.

P.S. Thanks also has to go out to Apple for approving the update in record time!

We have finally released an update of Elevens for the iPhone that addresses the iOS4 issues some customers where having as well as adding some new improvements to the app.

Changes include:-

• Added device rotation ability
• Added quit game option from pause menu
• Reduced memory requirements
• Improved performance
• Updated to latest OpenFeint version
• Fixed iOS4 issues

You can grab your copy now from iTunes or find out more about the game from our website.