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Meghan’s Matching Game on iPad.. issue with sound?

Apr 4

Posted by Ted Moroz in Educational Games, Game Development, Independent Software Development, Programming | Comments off

No Sound!
So I got a new 2nd Generation iPad the other day and installed Meghan’s Matching Game Deluxe onto it to test things out with the latest hardware. Not really expecting to find any issue, but wouldn’t you know, right off the bat… NO SOUND!

After a little application debugging and then some goggling to see if any other developers are having similar issues, it turns out its a iOS 4.3 issue. There is a little trick to fix it I found that one developer posted and it worked for me, Go into the “Settings App”, then choose General. Tap Sounds, then make sure that “Change with Buttons” is set to “ON”. Not sure why, but this will fix the issue.

Please submit a support request if you have come across this same issue, I am trying to determine if my own issue is a one off, or if this is wide spreed.

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A brief display of the words when the game begins

Jun 1

Posted by Ted Moroz in Game Development, Meghan's Matching Games, Programming | Comments off

A great suggestion came in today from one of  Meghan’s Memory Game customers. Add a feature to allow the front of the cards to display at the start of the game for a brief amount of time. This will give the player the opportunity to see where the words are before beginning to flip cards, adding to the challange of achiving a low amount of tries. This feature will probably be added in as an option that can be turned on or off and should take only a short time to add in. To learn more about Meghans Memory Game view the product page.

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Making progress on Meghan’s Memory Game….

Mar 10

Posted by Ted Moroz in Game Development, Programming | Comments off

Meghan's Memory Game

Yep, you can say you heard it here first.

RatCat Software is making progress in the development of its first educational game for the iPhone and iPod Touch.  Although the games design is not complete, there is now a working beta version that has been placed into the hands of the testing team (see previous post for team description). Their approval is pending and they want to see some changes… changes that need to be made before this game becomes worthy of being the RatCats first release to be uploaded to the iTunes App Store.

So back to coding we will go, hopeful to one day have a product worth sharing.

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Started the title sequence

Feb 28

Posted by Ted Moroz in Programming | Comments off

Meghans Memory Game Menu

Meghans Memory Game Menu

Wow there is a lot to learn about coding in XCode. Being a visual basic programmer, its almost like starting from scratch. Luckily, there is a lot of good information available with some google searches. I found one blog maintained by a game programmer that walks through the entire process of creating a simple duckhunt game. Following his examples I was able to start a new project and create a start-up splash screen and menu complete with some basic animation.

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