Hey - due to popular demand, I’ve implemented 2-player servers for Galcon for the iPhone / iPod Touch.  Now when you sign into find games, the maximum number of users will be listed next to the game server name.  For example:

“Alpha-3 3/4″ is 3 players on a 4 player server.
“Beta-1 1/2″ is 1 player on a 2 player server.

Hope you have fun with this new feature :)  Tell me how it goes!

-Phil

Hey, I’ve just put up “The Maze of MADNESS” which is a free web-based create-your-own adventure game.  Check it out!  You get to create your own rooms and items and add all sorts of things to the game

Have fun!

-Phil

Hey,

A friend of mine (who helped me develop Galcon for the iPhone / iPod Touch) just put out a new game!  It’s called Smiles, and it’s quite a clever matching puzzle game:

“Smiles is a colorful collection of two carefully crafted puzzle games for gamers of all skill levels, filled to the brim with extra game modes, achievements and more!”

I’ve put up some screenshots and a video on my site, so be sure to check it out!

Enjoy!
-Phil

Hey,

So Galcon 1.3 is finally in the AppStore today Here’s the rundown of the swell features:

• Colorblind option in settings. This changes the colors used in the game to be more accessible to colorblind users. Thanks so much to everyone who responded to my questions about color preferences. The colorblind mode restricts Galcon to using just four colors which I picked as colors nobody listed as conflicting with each-other.
• Deluxe Galcon Music - I’ve added the music from my first video into this edition of the game. For those of you who prefer to listen to your own music, you can go into the Settings App and turn the volume down to 0 and your iMusic should work just fine.
• Various enhancements - The most notable one is the addition of being able to click on enemies planets during the multi-player game to see what their rank and name is. This is handy for helping you gage a player’s skill.

This week I’m also launching a Super Sale of Galcon. The sale price is 4.99 (down from 9.99) and will be running for about one week. No promises I will run it for longer though! Here’s the scoop:

• We’ve (almost) reached our 100,000th multi-player game, it’s time to celebrate!
• Everyone wants improved match-ups in games. The way to do this is to have a huge increase in players. Right now there are usually around 12 people playing at any given time. If we can get this to 100 or more people, then there will always be people available with comparable rank to play against!
• So tell your iPhone / iPod Touch using friends that NOW is the time to get Galcon while it’s on sale! Yay!

Here’s some awesome user testimonials:

“Just imagine, a game so fast it could be over in 20 seconds, so strategic it could take 15 minutes, so well networked that at any moment there are always countless people blasting each other, so fun that you will play it hours at a time even when there’s no WiFi, and so addictive that you’ll soon start seeing little triangle spaceships every time you close your eyes!” - davidejorgensen

“Hands down, the most intuitive game for the iPhone. And multiplayer…are you kidding me?! This game is awesome and it truly shows the capabilities of the iPhone. Developers learn please learn from these guys as they have made one hell of an app!” - Higa27

“Wow!!! I bought this game because of the added ONLINE play, I am impressed! I think this game is officially the best Game on the App Store! You’ll be crazy not to own this game…$10 is a steal.” - tushoih

-Phil

Watermelons is the ultimate fruit rescue mission game! The local watermelon tree has gone berserk and is producing fresh watermelons at an amazing rate.

You must move your trampoline at high speed in order to save the melons from splattering horribly on the ground. You get ten slip-ups before you lose your job as the Melon Master.

Includes high scores, realistic watermelon sound effects and authentic watermelon bouncing soundtrack.

Buy it NOW!!

Buy it NOW!!

Hey, just a short while ago Galcon 1.2 was released on the iTunes store! It’s a very exciting update, not only because it allows you to toggle the sound effects and select all the planets via a double-press … but it also includes the addition of multi-player Galcon! So now’s the time to tell all your iPhone/iPod friends that they MUST to buy Galcon so they can play it with you for hours on end :)  Here’s a snapshot of the server list:

Hope you enjoy Galcon 1.2 !!! If you want to help out, blog about it! Make a youtube video about it! Tell your friends and your enemies and your boss about it! And put up posters and start a support group and buy a t-shirt!

-Phil

Hey,

I was finding the bbpress forums weren’t really working out for Galcon.com

But I’ve found that the forums I was using for the Desktop version of Galcon have always worked just great! So I’ve set it up so that Galcon.com actually has the same forums. I will probably be enhancing them a wee bit over time. The nice thing is that all the existing Galcon Desktop users get to have the same user/password here.

Enjoy!
-Phil

P.S. My apologies to the 3 people who signed up on the “new forums” .. If there was a post you made that you’d really like to see on the “new old forums” just tell me and I’ll try to paste it over for you.

P.S.S. If you want to join the newsletter, just sign up for a forum account. Then you’ll get Galcon and other game updates that I make.

Hey, I’m trying to get Galcon-iphone to work for the color-blind population

Here’s the colors I’m thinking about using.  If you are color-blind can you tell me if you can discern between the colors?  If not, please tell me which numbered colors you are having difficulty with.

Thanks!
-Phil

(Grabbed from the InstantAction.com Blog …)

Galcon is now available to the public through InstantAction and as extremely addictive as ever. “Galcon is an awesome high-paced multi-player galactic action-strategy game. You send swarms of ships from planet to planet to take over the galaxy.”

You’ve got the choice on how dedicated you want to become. Firstly, you can drop a measly 10 tokens to play the game, it’s like an arcade payment system. Secondly, once you get hooked you can rent the game for a month or a year at 500 ActionTokens and 1400 ActionTokens respectively.

With more game modes coming soon, it’s gonna be awesome. Get in there so you can destroy me in multiplayer.

-Dr Wiley

So what are you waiting for??!  Head on over to InstantAction.com and check it out!

Hey, I’ve got some new Forums set up for discussion of “all things Galcon”!  I’ve also got a link to my newsletter sign up so you can get exciting news about Galcon (and other swell upcoming games) sent right to your e-mail-box!

Enjoy!
-Phil