Archive for the ‘News’ Category

15 Nov, 2009

Announcing “Depict”

Posted by: jamesj3k In: News

Depict is a unique multiplayer drawing game that tests players’ ability to solve simple drawing puzzles with strangers and friends.
It’s the drawer’s job to create something that will get everyone else to guess the right word out of up to six possible words.
Sound easy? You only get 1024 jumbo-pixels and 30 seconds to do it.
Coming [...]

21 Aug, 2009

Chuck Updates Bring OpenFeint Support

Posted by: jamesj3k In: News

Chuck the Ball and Ms. Chuck the Ball now support OpenFeint with over 15 achievements each.  There’s also leaderboards where you can compare the sum of all your scores across each game’s levels with other players’ scores.

08 Jul, 2009

Ms. Chuck 1.1 Fixes Levels, Improves Stability

Posted by: jamesj3k In: News

The latest version of Ms. Chuck is available now in the App Store.  Version 1.1 Includes the following updates:
-Fixed occasional crashing
-Fixed a few unbeatable levels
-Fixed pause issues
In our haste to beat the 3.0 rush (which didn’t work anyway) we let a couple levels slip into the 1.0 release that were not beatable- and for that [...]

24 Jun, 2009

Introducing Ms. Chuck the Ball

Posted by: jamesj3k In: News

Available now for just 99 cents in the App Store!
Ms. Chuck is a follow up game to the original- featuring all new controls, puzzles, and levels.  The goal of the game was to create something that captured the spirit of the original, while making it easier for non-gamers to play.  We tried to simplify the [...]

12 Jun, 2009

There’s a New Ball in Town

Posted by: jamesj3k In: News

A mysterious character has been spotted.  Who could it be?

23 Apr, 2009

Chuck on Sale for 99 cents

Posted by: jamesj3k In: News

Chuck is on sale for the lowest price to date.  Head over to the App Store and grab Chuck for only 99 cents.

18 Feb, 2009

Chuck v1.3 Now Available

Posted by: jamesj3k In: News

The latest version of Chuck the Ball (full and LITE) are available now in the App Store.  Now you can listen to your own tunes while playing.  Also, due to popular demand, we added a bunch more easy levels to the full version.  For the full list of enhancements, see our previous post.
Enjoy!

11 Feb, 2009

Chuck Update Coming Soon

Posted by: jamesj3k In: News

The latest version of Chuck adds:

30 new easy levels
15 user-created levels
iPod compatibility
Improved instructions
A couple minor UI improvements
Sounds in the level editor

We submitted Chuck v1.3 to Apple last night, so we expect the next version to arrive in the App Store on Monday at the latest.
Congratulations to the winners of our level design contest who each [...]

06 Feb, 2009

Chuck the Ball Level Design Contest!

Posted by: Tim Moser In: News

So, you’ve guided Chuck through a bunch of levels. You’ve gathered stars, avoided spikes, moved boulders, sunk marbles, and skated past black holes. It wasn’t always easy, but hey, you’ve got some mad finger-swiping skills.
- BUT -
Do you have what it takes to mastermind
a part of Chuck’s journey?
Makeshift Games is calling all Chuck fans to [...]

05 Feb, 2009

Chuck on Sale for $1.99

Posted by: jamesj3k In: News

Chuck the Ball goes on sale today for just $1.99. Now you have no excuse. Hurry over to the App Store and get your copy today.


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