According to the AppleBlogs twitter coverage of the WWDC 2009 conference in San Francisco I had been following today, Apple just announced that it will release the iPhone OS 3.0 on June 17th. There will also be a new iPhone coming out on June 19th, the iPhone 3GS (S for SPEED). They boosted the camera, added auto-focus and video capture. They also claim extended battery life and a starting price for the 16gb unit at $199.
This is great news, we had been holding off on purchasing the iPhone and have been exclusively doing our development testing on the iPod Touch. We are also pleased because our recent releases of Meghan’s Memory Game passed the 3.0 test Apple had began at the beginning of May. Now we need to incorporate some of those new features into our apps! To learn more about Meghans Memory Game view the product page.
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As mentioned in our previous post, in the latest update of Meghan’s memory game we enhanced the way the cards flip over. Version 1.2 of Kindergarten should be showing up in the App Store anytime now (our updates status has been changed to “Ready For Sale”).
Here is a video of how it now functions:
Today I was able to finish up coding some important changes to the way the cards display when being selected and complete the coding of a 1.2 version of the game. In earlier versions, the cards flip over a bit too fast for little readers to be able to fully grasp what they are looking at. So, to make the game play more enjoyable and hopefully more educational I spent a good bit of time re-engineering how things work. I had to incorporate a game play timer and spawn off a thread to flip the cards after about a second of time has passed. The results look very good and we are excited to see how this change is received as we incorporate it into the other editions. Also new to this version and especially geared toward the younger players of the game are some extra sound effects when cards are flipped back over. The Preschool edition should hit the store on or about the 15th of May.
We are pleased to announce that today Meghan’s Memory Game Kindergarten for the iPhone and iPod Touch received final approval from Apple and is available in the educational games section of the iTunes Apps Store. Meghan’s Memory Games are classic style memory games aimed at teaching the reading and spelling of the most common words a child will come across in their daily reading. The Kindergarten edition contains over 250 two, three and four letter words.
Houston we have lift off! Meghan’s Memory Game 1st Grade received final approval from Apple this morning indicating that our app was “Ready for Sale”. So, it took only 7 days from the time we submitted our application until approval. That’s not so bad, considering how many apps they are reported to be reviewing each day. It will be interesting to see what kind of downloads and feedback we recieve. Hopefully it will be all good!
