Here’s a preview of our next game, still in very early stages. More details to come.

Here’s some links to what we have been reading lately.

• Apotheon Makes Ancient Art Work in a Modern Game
• The Tip of the Iceberg: Storytelling and Reactive Design in Canabalt and Capsule
• One man attempts to remake the incredible and nauseous Descent
• Terry Cavanagh and the Heart of Super Hexagon

Version 1.6 is a minor maintenance release, correcting several bugs and improving graphics.

An update to Brick Busting, version 2.8, was released to the Android Market today.

This update contains:

• Bug Fixes
• Graphic Improvements

Interesting interview with Ian Snyder from Indie Games Blog:

Interview: Feign Developer Ian Snyder Turns to Jelly

Also, check his current project, The Floor is Jelly, dev blog. Lots of development notes and sketches. Its always fun and informative to peruse a good game dev blog.

We’re always on the look out for some good ideas and tips about game development, especially if it’s related to Android games. Here are some tips about sound management and activity lifecycle from the Android Developer’s Blog:

Making Android Games that Play Nice

Version 1.6 of Shooting Gallery has been released on the Android market.

An update for Word Search Tab was released in the Android Market today. It includes:

• New high frequency word list is used to create the list of words for each puzzle. The high frequency word list is a list of 1,100+ common English language words. From the settings menu you can control what percentage of the words are from this new list. Zero % would use none, 100% would exclusively use the high frequency word list.
• Several bugs causing crashes were fixed.

A new version of Mobile Word Search was released in the Android Market today.

Version 2.6 includes:

• New high frequency word list is used to create the list of words for each puzzle. The high frequency word list is a list of 1,100+ common English language words. From the settings menu you can control what percentage of the words are from this new list. Zero % would use none, 100% would exclusively use the high frequency word list.

Square Pop was updated today in the Android Market.

Version 1.4 is a minor maintenance release, correcting several bugs.

Check out the latest version of the game here in the Android Market.