Ariton

Available on Android

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:58:01 -0500

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!

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.

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:39:18 -0500

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!

New Update, 1.1.1

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:07:45 -0600

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...

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:27:18 -0600

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.

Universal! iPhone/iPod/iPad Released!

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:27:00 -0600

Universal! iPhone/iPod/iPad Released!:

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.

Still making progress on iPhone

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:14:00 -0500

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.

Version 1.0.3 Released

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:08:03 -0500

Version 1.0.3 Released:

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!

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?

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 11:41:32 -0500

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.

Scrap all ships fix

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 01:44:00 -0500

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...

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:45:37 -0500

Happy Birthday, Peter Commons (original developer of Spaceward Ho!). It looks like him, too.

We’ve added the ability to name a star when you rank up...

Fri, 25 May 2012 08:49:00 -0500

We’ve added the ability to name a star when you rank up from winning a game.

A preview of the graph interface running in the iPad simulator.

Thu, 17 May 2012 11:22:34 -0500

A preview of the graph interface running in the iPad simulator.

A preview of Spaceward Ho! running on the iPhone. We’re...

Fri, 11 May 2012 10:12:38 -0500

A preview of Spaceward Ho! running on the iPhone. We’re making progress on the iPhone version. More updates soon!

Version 1.0.2 released!

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:31:55 -0500

Version 1.0.2 released!:

The 1.0.2 versions is finally released and available in the AppStore.

We improved the application from the feedback of users on Twitter/Tumblr/TouchArcade and the iTunes comments.

• Made the TechBar sliders a little bigger and easier to manipulate, since many folks were having problems hitting them correctly. (from Rancunier)

• Fixed Random Fleet Movement and possible random crashes from using the Organize Fleets dialog. If you had a fleet move to another planet instantly mistakenly, or lost dreadnoughts (from drdreric, Brett Kessler), it is fixed.

• Improved the pinch/zoom of the Galaxy. No more mega small planets (unless you really shrink the galaxy) (from Brett Kessler)

• Allow Built Ships to be renamed

• Allow for display of temperatures on planets colder than -99 (before it would display as just “-“)

• Deselect a Planet if it is already selected when tapped on again

• When selecting a planet, restart the selection animation at full (makes it not seem jumpy)

• No longer crash on Large Galaxy (>200 stars) (from trinko)

• Distances between fleet paths now are displayed on top of everything and with a background so you can see them. (drdreric)

• Fleets have a shadow so they are more visible when conflicting with other items

• When building ships, if you change ship types it will reset back down to 1 to build. This prevents building 100 colony ships right after building 100 fighters.

• In build ships dialog, if you run out of ships types and get a “Don’t Cheat” sound. You need to scrap some old ships. (thanks profsheldon for the bug report!) In next version, we will put up a warning and let you scrap old types.

• Fixed crash when selecting where a terraform bar would be on planets without one

• Fixed double percent %% in radical text strings

Great review of the game over at 148apps.com

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:16:39 -0500

Great review of the game over at 148apps.com

Hi Ariton - I have a couple questions... 1) Is Spaceward Ho! on iPad a multiplayer game? 2) Any plans for an iPhone version despite the resolution display challenges? Thanks, -DZ

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:31:00 -0500

The current iPad app does not support multiplayer YET! We will be adding multiplayer support, and it will be a great addition. But before we add it, to answer your second part, we are working on the iPhone version. We are confident we can make it work, since we did the game for the PalmOS and it worked quite well.

Updates for 1.0.2

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:17:00 -0500

These are a listing of fixes we are working on for 1.0.2. We updated the application from the feedback of users on Twitter/Tumblr/TouchArcade and the iTunes comments.

Fixed

Made the TechBar sliders a little bigger and easier to manipulate, since many folks were having problems hitting them correctly. (from Rancunier)
Fixed Random Fleet Movement and possible random crashes from using the Organize Fleets dialog. If you had a fleet move to another planet instantly mistakenly, or lost dreadnoughts (from drdreric, Brett Kessler, tjdunnigan), it is fixed. WORKAROUND: when using the organize fleets, be sure not not have ANY ships selected before you close the window. This avoids the bug.
Improved the pinch/zoom of the Galaxy. No more mega small planets (unless you really shrink the galaxy) (from Brett Kessler)
Allow Built Ships to be renamed
Allow for display of temperatures on planets colder than -99 (before it would display as just “-“)
Deselect a Planet if it is already selected when tapped on again
When selecting a planet, restart the selection animation at full (makes it not seem jumpy)
No longer crash on Large Galaxy (>200 stars) (from trinko)
Distances between fleet paths now are displayed on top of everything and with a background so you can see them. (drdreric)
Fleets have a shadow so they are more visible when conflicting with other items
When building ships, if you change ship types it will reset back down to 1 to build. This prevents building 100 colony ships right after building 100 fighters.
In build ships dialog, if you run out of ships types and get a “Don’t Cheat” sound. You need to scrap some old ships. (thanks profsheldon for the bug report!) In next version, we will put up a warning and let you scrap old types.
Fixed crash when selecting where a terraform bar would be on planets without one
Fixed double percent %% in radical text strings

Working on

Nothing! submitting to the AppStore

Spaceward Ho! Available

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 09:18:30 -0500

Spaceward Ho! 1.0 is available on the AppStore.

Now that I have my “The new iPad” (aka, iPad 3)....

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:22:00 -0500

Before the update to use Retina

After the update! NICE TEXT!

Now that I have my “The new iPad” (aka, iPad 3). I’ve been working on making Spaceward Ho! take advantage of the pixels. First up is to improve the over all text in the game. You can see by the two screenshots of the before and after just how much the text improves. Be sure to click on the images to view the larger versions.

A quick look at some of the screenshots of Spaceward Ho!

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:43:00 -0500

Large Cluster Galaxy

Build Ships Dialog

Battle of two fleets

Main screen of a galaxy during Spaceward

A quick look at some of the screenshots of Spaceward Ho!