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In case you missed it, Spaceward Ho! is now available for iOS, and in Google Play for Android devices and on Amazon for Kindle Fire.
Enjoy!
grefos asked: Glad to see SH on iOS device. A suggestion: Since tech and planet adjustment bars are difficult to select and use (especially on an ipad mini), perhaps pop the panels open to adjust.
I think we will try to add something like that, since we have had a bunch of people say it is hard to use. Thanks for asking a question!
Here are the fixes to 1.1.1, thanks to everyone who submitted bugs and feature requests. We love getting to hear from you.
- Moved the iPad fleet movement back to next to the planet
- When dragging a fleet, you can see the fleet icon while dragging
- Fix crashing on iPod Touch, related to memory issue.
- Added in Arrows < > to the Build Ships and other sliders to make it easier to adjust
- Redid Organize Fleet Buttons to match style
- Aligned text in the Build Ships Class menu
- Increased the size of the Evacuate Button
- Double tap on a uncolonized planet to review the last battle at that location
- Made the “Name a Star” really save out, and allow people to rename stars they might have missed
There is a new way to abandon planets instead of selecting from the menu. First show the planets list, and select the planet you wish to abandon (a.k.a. evacuate)
Then just click the crossed out Hat to the left of the planet name.
The long awaited universal support for all iOS devices (iPhone/iPod/iPad including iPhone5 support) has arrived! Go get it now http://bit.ly/SpacewardHo This update incldues Game Center support, with leader boards to see how you compare to the other players, updated user interface dialogs and screens (try out the new Build Ships dialog!) and many other improvements and fixes.
Please be sure to contact us directly to give your feedback and we will try to address it. Best way is twitter @SpacewardHo. Up next, multiplayer! The full set of features added for this version:
- iPhone/iPod - universal support!!!!
- iPhone5 support
- Updated Icons and Dialogs, new buttons
- Removed Mac ads, extra help messages (thanks to KentBunn) We didn’t mean to leave these in, and now they are gone.
- Double Tap the Message Report window to make all the messages go away
- Fleet Movement - now there is a dialog to drag the fleets from instead of a list of names. Makes it much eas
- Review Battle Dialog — if you have too many fleets, you can now scroll up/down to see them all
- New Planet Icons to help with fleet movement, organize fleets.
- Evacuate Planet is now in the Planet List, Find the planet you wish to evacuate and select the button
- New Graphics for the Year Numbers
- Aligned and updated all the message icons
- Planet selection icons
- Completely updated Auto Play dialog (not as confusing anymore)
- Completely updated Preferences Dialog
- Completely New Build Ships Dialog, tap the Ship Type to create a new Maxed out Ship of that Type
As always, we want to hear from you.
We’re working on the iPhone version. There are lots of changes to shrink the interface down to work on the small screen. Be sure to follow us on Twitter.
The 1.0.3 version of Spaceward Ho! was released in the AppStore today. Go update and get the latest version. The following are the changes for the game:
- French translation! Yay for French! (Thanks to Jerome V. and Alan G. for the help)
- Once again, there is Hope is the Galaxy. See if you can evacuate it.
- When you win and go up in rank (display the rank screens), and you can now name a planet
- Add in the History Graphs. Now you can check your status with the other players
- Newly built ships are yellow in color to identify them as new ships
- Add completely redone “New Game” screen
- Fixed: If you never deleted games, you could crash on the “Continue” Only display the last 20 games.
- Fixed: Build ships after scrapping all fleets would crash, or any time you see the Planet(0) reported by so many people.
- Fixed: Player surrenders had duplicate $$ (reported by tjdunnigan)
- Fixed: Dip into savings a second time would give an invalid number
- Save the Best Buddies State on the new Game Screen
Thanks to all the testers and feedback. Keep it coming! Please be sure to rate and review the game again!
stevemcqueenonadirtbike asked: So what are these red clouds or whatever that appear around some stars? They look like the same formation that appears after a supernova, but what does it mean if it's just there without going supernova first?
Great question. As you can see in the screenshot on Spica, it has the red dust clouds. You are correct that it happens with a supernova, but it also happens if there was a “big battle” at that planet. The big battles involve lots of ships fighting it out, and afterwards there will be a red cloud that slowly fades away.
Development Blog: For those of you out there that like to scrap all your ships and encountered a problem when trying to build new ships, I’ve added safeguards to make sure that the Build Ship dialog is still usable.
Happy Birthday, Peter Commons (original developer of Spaceward Ho!). It looks like him, too.
