Our newest game is now available, an update to our classic Farm Sounds. This isn’t just a small update though.
- We’re bringing two new animals to the party; the Llama and the baby Chick
- There’s two new games to play; Which Animal? and Make Me An Animal!
- We’ve also added a version for the iPad and beautiful graphics for the retina display
It’s a free update for anyone who has purchased the original Farm Sounds and just $.99 if you want to buy it now. Here’s a link to purchase: http://TantrumApps.com/buy/farmSounds
It’s been over a year since the last update to Farm Sounds, one of our original and most popular apps. The wait is almost over. Farm Sounds 2 is in review with apple with an expected release early next week.
If you haven’t been following along, Farm Sounds 2 includes the same new games introduced with Zoo Sounds 2: Which Animal? and Make Me an Animal! We’re also adding two new animals: the Llama and the Chick. Finally, full support for the iPad and the retina display in the iPhone 4 and new iPod Touch.
Oh yeah, and it’s a free upgrade for anyone who’s purchased Farm Sounds, ever!
We’ll let you know when it’s ready for purchase, or you can pick up a copy of Farm Sounds 1 now and get the upgrade automatically when it’s released.
We’re just putting the finishing touches on an update to Farm Sounds. Like Zoo Sounds, this is a universal app supporting iPhone, iPad and retina display. It has all the new features of Zoo Sounds as well as two new animals, the Llama and the Chick!
Here’s a screenshot of the two new animals on an iPad:
Farm Sounds should be submitted to Apple this week and available in the App Store in a week or so. If you have the original Farm Sounds, it’s a free upgrade!
Last week we shared with you the early drawings of Timmy facing straight ahead. But much of the game spent with Timmy walking, side to side. This meant drawing a profile image of Timmy and animating him walking, something we’ve never done before.
As luck would have it, our artist had a brand new baby boy a month before we started work on timmy, so time was extremely limited. We got a rough sketch from him and spent a week refining a drawing until the profile looked perfect.
Then came time to start animating Timmy walking. We use 6 different images of Timmy, switching between them 5 times a second to make it look like he’s walking. It took a lot of work and tweaking to get the timing right, but we’re pretty happy with the way it came out.
When we started working on Timmy, we knew the character would be a big part of the game. He had to be a kid that the player could associate with, but follow in the same style as our Tantrum baby. Naturally we turned to my friend Sean Zimmerman, who did the original baby drawings from the Zoo Sounds games.
Sean provided some hand drawn concepts, which we scanned in and converted to digital. The first traces were really rough, but you could see the promise. Then after hours of tweaks and redraws, we ended up with Timmy.
Here’s the transformation from the early drawings:
The animation of Timmy took much longer. We’ll share that with you next week.
We got a review on iTunes suggesting we add a way to skip the mini games and go straight to the school. Wouldn’t you know, there’s a little easter egg in all versions of Timmy which does just that. Simply tap on Timmy’s window 3 times and you’ll be magically teleported to the School.
We’ve got an update in review with Apple for both the free and full versions of Timmy’s Preschool Adventure. This update fixes a few annoying bugs which you’ve reported and add a new coloring sheet to the Monday’s coloring school activity.
We’ve also added a new level to the free version, the first level of the Color by Shape game. You can see a preview of that game in action here:
View on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_WpD5s12wc
The update is free for anyone who has already downloaded Timmy and will be available as soon as Apple approves it, hopefully by this weekend.
Get Timmy’s Preschool Adventure on the App Store: http://bit.ly/fl1L8Q
The original Zoo Sounds comes with 12 animals for your child to learn. We’ve added two new animals to Zoo Sounds 2, with more to come in future updates! The new animals are the Chimpanzee and the Warthog, and I know your child is going to love them.
Here’s a preview of the two new animals on an iPad:
Zoo Sounds 2 is just about finished and should be submitted to Apple next week.
As of February 3rd, 50,000 people have downloaded Timmy’s Preschool Adventure Lite. That’s an average of 1100 downloads a day. Timmy has spent most of the time in the Top 10 Educational iPad games and the Top 20 Kids iPad games, peaking at 2nd Top Educational and 14th Top Kids.
To celebrate, we’re cutting the price for Timmy’s Preschool Adventure to $.99 for a limited time. If you haven’t picked it up yet, now’s your chance!
We’ve just finished the iPad version of Zoo Sounds 2 and have started working on the iPhone version. If you already have Zoo Sounds, the new version is a free upgrade! Better yet, if you have an iPad, you get that version too.
We’re adding a few enhancements to the existing Zoo Sounds, and throwing in two new games. Zoo Sounds 2 features swiping to advance between animals, a new card theme and new animals to enjoy. ‘Make Me an Animal’ lets you take a picture and record your child’s voice imitating their favorite animal. ‘Which Animal’ is a guessing game where the animal makes a sound, and you need to choose which animal made it.
Here’s a quick preview of some gameplay from the iPhone version:
Our newest game is now available, an update to our classic Farm Sounds. This isn’t just a small update though.
