Monday, July 15, 2013

Version 1.2 Android Beta 2

Unfortunately, did not hit my July 1st goal for release of version 1.2.  Honestly, I can't remember what happened exactly.  I think Kent had a few suggestions, and then I found an issue maybe....not sure.  But the good news is that now we've added even more good features, most suggestions from Kent, including:

-- 2x resolution map icons!
-- more padding on opening instruction text
-- fixed formatting on monster details page
-- store page now shows "YOU BOUGHT IT" if you've purchased special items
-- BUY MONSTER COINS is now green
-- Changed "10 Nets Remaining" to "10 NETS" in header, per readability consultant, Kathleen. She'd prefer it to be white, but I think the caps help enough and are more consistent.

And..... I generated 500,000 treasure chests of 3,7,13,17,23 coins. That was a bit of a funny process. I asked Kent what he thought about a graphic for coins --- maybe a pile, maybe a bag. He suggested a chest, and then maybe we could have other things in them later. That sounded good, so we had Matt draw a chest. Only after tat did we discuss amounts of coins to drop. 50 coins can be bought for $1.00 and we didn't want to be dropping dollar's worths of coins everywhere. So we came up with 5 amounts under 25 coins. I realize now that it seems funny to have a whole treasure chest that has only 23 coins at most, LOL. So I made a couple jokes about it in descriptions for chests of 3 and 7. Also made them visible at level 4 and put in some teasers in descriptions about them being dropped by vampires, which are next level

Hoping to release some time next week.  Then Kathleen will start contacting some geocaching clubs to let them know about it.  Hopefully that will ramp up the registrations again.  We'd been getting one every day or two for a couple months and finally stalled at 96 people on the leader board.  I really think the new version has a better registration experience and will make more new players active players.

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