How to play Pair_Up/Penguin_Links
General Rule:
The goal of this game is to eliminate all image tiles from the board by pairing up all the identical tiles. A connecting path will be drawn between the paring tiles. Here’s some simple rules about the path:
A path can can only go through the empty spaces
A path can have at most 2 turning [...]
Make Your Android Phone Vibrate
So I got this good suggestion from one user’s comment: when shake to shuffle, make the phone vibrate.
It’s actually a very simple 2-step operation, but android developer site wasn’t very clear about. Here’s how I did it:
Add permission in AndroidManifest.xml file like this:
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.VIBRATE" />
……
</manifest>
In your program when you want the phone to vibrate:
// [...]
How to detect shake motion on Android phone
When I was implementing the shake-to-shuffle feature in Pair-Up game, I googled for a similar code-snippet but didn’t have much luck. Eventually I came across this hidden code in Android Developer Guide which talks about using the phone motion sensor to program:
http://developer.android.com/guide/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/os/Sensors.html
Alas! It can be done! But I just need a very simple function to [...]
A Bug Found by Fast Fingers
OK, so there IS a bug in this game.
Comment posted by Tony this morning:
Fun, managed to end up with two tiles that didn’t match though….
The moment I read this, I immediately know what went wrong: he’s typing too fast! (well, not his fault though). Here’s more details: when you tapped on two identical [...]
Pair Up Screenshot
Here’s a screenshot of this game on my G1:
This is from the second level of this game. There are totally 3 levels:
Elementary: 6×4 tiles
High School: 8×5
College: 9×7
Also here’s a great site to check this apps comments:
http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.clingmarks.pairup
A Series of Upgrades
Things has been a bit hectic the past few days with the post-launch upgrades.
Pair Up v1.0 was launch 4 days ago, and I had 4 upgrades since then, which makes the current version 1.4 — a quite iterative launch. :-). I have to book-keeping the launches here or I will forgot what has been done [...]
Pair Up Launched!
It was officially launched midnight Mar 25th, 2009. Hooray!
Within one minute of the launch there was comment left, a rather encouraging one! The next morning I woke up, it was already downloaded 100+ times with an average rating of 60% — not bad!
Most of the complains are about small tile size: not fat-finger-Americans friendly :-). [...]
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