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Implement “Focus Area” Special Effect in iPhone Apps

Nowadays, the competition in Apple App Store is so strong that it takes almost a perfect product and some luck to be successful there. You can’t control luck, then you got to make your product close to perfect. For games, that means not only fantastic game play and graphics, but also a lot of tiny details here and there. In my recent game “PenguinLinks 2″, I implemented a special effect in the level choosing screen, which I call “Focus Area”, to enhance the user experience. I don’t know how many users it has gained for me, but I certainly had a lot fun when I implemented it. That’s the topic we gonna cover in this post.
A picture is worth a thousand words. Then a video must be worth more than a million. Now let the video to explain what the effect look like.

As you can see, in my level choosing screen, …

Penguins Gone International

Since yesterday, I started to run a free promotion on PenguinLinks Pro v2. After 36 hours, it has exploded all over the world. This is a screenshot from appfigures just a few minutes ago, which shows the ranking of PL2 pro in top 20 countries.

Among them, France is the most amazing one. Just in a few hours, the rank of PL2 Pro jumped to 10 and in another few hours, it was No. 2! The number downloads from France is the summary from all other countries. But before the promotion, the number of download from France was almost free!

Penguin Links Pro 2 Featured

Penguin Links Pro v2 is now featured in “New and Noteworthy” in US, UK and Italia!
Board: US: #2, UK: #2, Italia: #2, Japan: #9
Puzzle: US: #9, UK: #15, Italia: #9