Good news to those android 1.5 device users (Sprint, etc.): Pair Up is now available on your android market! Go check it out! If you already have “Pair Up 1.5″ installed, convert to Pair Up now which will be continuously supported.
Stay tuned: we have more features coming soon! Enjoy the game!

As you might have noticed, we updated the Pair Up Scoreboard to reflect the last 30 days records. The old scoreboard is getting rather static these days: it becomes harder and harder to be in top 50. We hope this change will encourage you to play more SAT/GRE levels, and enjoy more of this game from the competition of other players!

I love to play the classic SAME game. It’s simple: click on more than 3 connected tiles with the same color to eliminate them, and your goal is to clear up the board with fewest clicks.
SAME 2D is a dynamic version of the SAME game, which fills the board over time. The more scores you have, the faster the new row will be inserted. After achieving 1000 points a new stage starts with reset speed.
Here’s how the game looks:

Since this PairUp game gets popular, we notice that more and more traffic to our site are from Android phone. But we know the site is not really mobile friendly, so we decided to do something about it.
Just now, we installed a mobile plugin for WordPress — yes, our site is powered by WordPress — and it turns out very nicely. Here is a screenshot from the G1 Android phone:
Hopefully this update can make it a little easier for those friends who enjoy surfing the Internet with mobile phones. As to the plugin we use, it’s from here. As you can tell, it’s such a great plugin for WordPress!
By the way, stay tuned, another update of PairUp is coming very soon!

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

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 when:

v1.0 (3/25/09): First launch. Got several comments saying the image tile is way too small.
v1.1 (3/26/09): Increased image tile size from 40×40 to 45×45. Well, seems that’s not big enough though, but I’m reluctant to compromise the number of tiles given the limited display size.
v1.2 (3/26/09): Moved hint/shuffle buttons to options menu. Heard user’s complain on these two small buttons. This alternative worked pretty well. Thanks!
v1.3 (3/27/09): Shake to shuffle! This is a long-planned feature, and my personal favorite one: makes the game much more fun compared to its PC alternative.
v1.4 (3/28/09): Increased game …

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 . I took immediate action of increasing the image tile size from 40×40 to 45×45, and the update was released before noon of Mar 26th. As of now (3pm), the number of downloads is more than 300. Someone left a comment saying looking forward to more updates — Great! I DO have a list of fun features to implement.
But now, most importantly, a detailed help page is very much needed. I read one comment saying that the time progress bar hinders — actually that was intended: if you had tiles eliminated, the time stopped for …