Chain game modes could “forget” they were chain when reloaded. This has now been fixed.
I finally got around to something I’ve been intending to do since launching the app, and that is to create a proper website.
The site was originally hosted on Wordpress.com since it is quick and simple to set up, but quite restrictive.
The site is now created using Hugo, a static site generator.
The Prime “news item” on the home screen can now be dismissed. This is the first visible part of a wider effort to improve the home screen.
Just a couple of crash fixes:
- Most importantly, a long standing issue that basically prevented the app from running on versions of Android below 4.3.
- Additionally a crash affecting some people when saving games.
- Added stats tracking.
- Added game “fairness” to the chance-to-win display.
- Game animation now respects system animation rate value. Most importantly this means animations will be disabled when in battery saver mode.
- Fixed a hang when in battery saver mode.
- Improve initial loading screen.
- Fixed an issue with player setup (and potentially other screens) crashing during rotation.
- Improved layout of the custom game (previously game selection) screen on tablets.
Added Prime, a paid option to disable ads and gain unlimited skips in campaign.
Version 0.11 adds the first in-app-purchase to Tic-toe-collection: Prime. This is basically just an option to play without ads. It will disable the banner ads in game as well as the interstitials that appear when you exit a game. It also lets you skip levels freely in campaign (and thus, eliminates the rewarded ads that you might otherwise see).
The current price is £1.19, $1.49, €1.39 or whatever the equivalent is in your local currency. Exactly how it is these prices is interesting. In general, I don’t support the idea of ending prices in a 9 (I try to avoid psychological trickery), so I chose the price to be a nice round £1. Google adds sales tax on to this, which in the UK is VAT at 20%. So the price should be £1.20. Sadly, I was defeated by Google. Once the local price is determined, it is then adjusted using “locally relevant pricing patterns”, which in many cases makes the price end in a 9. I could manually edit the price for any currency I think, but there are a lot of them, and as the exchanges rates fluctuate, I think I would have to update them.
You can now save a campaign game as a custom game. A feature I added after I wanted to save a particularly interesting game of Drop Three to show someone later, and realised I couldn’t.
- Skipped campaign levels can now be selected.
- Skipping a level that has already been skipped no longer requires a rewarded ad view.