Hey there people. In retrospect I see poeple have been longing for a iPhone port of Fruitz. So here you are, the latest version of Fruitz on your iPhone. With the latest scoring board addition.

I still plan to make Fruitz a standalone application for the iPhone / iTouch – but development will not start before the official SDK comes out from Apple. I hope to have it soon, as it’s promised mid February.

I hope you like it, and suggestions for improvements go in the forums as usual. I am looking forward to hearing from you

Oh by the way; remember to digg it so we can let people know

Cheers,
Kevin

As Fruitz was programmed using Javascript, css, and HTML – porting it as a web app is pretty easy. So they did so; but without me knowing at all. Not even a email.
What had been done to Fruitz is simple. Any references to me, Fruitz, or my website had been removed.

I really don’t care if someone would have asked me if it would be ok to make a stripped down web app iPhone version from the original code; actually I’ve been asking around earlier for someone who would do that. But just taking my work and publishing it under your name, and making money out of it with adds, that’s just plain wrong in my book.

Give me your thoughts about this

Update: Jirbo.com has apologized and removed the altered version from their website.

Muhahaha! I am finally back with another release. This should be the last beta before the next final release of Fruitz 2.0. I am really looking forward to hearing from you. Tell me how you like the new features, and let me know if you find any bugs.

New features

User login in the widget
Now you are able to login directly in the widget. This should solve some login issues. Backend wise, there will be no check on the IP address any more, which was a problem by people who have dynamic IP addresses.

Reset score button
You can now choose to reset your score. Instead of resetting all your settings, the reset score button will only reset your score to the initial score of 250 points.

Count up / down optimization (score dependent)
If you’re a high roller, and your score is more than 10 million, the score will add up instantly instead of counting up. Else the score will count up / down on higher intervals for quicker execution of the counter.

Selective submission of score
You decide how much you want to submit. A small input field is added, so now you can choose to submit whatever score you want. If you have the points for it of course

Optimized information windows, and content dependent sizes
The information windows will now have different sizes, depending on how much content there is in the windows.
Score text size optimized
High rollers can now see the full billion they worked so hard to get

Filesize optimization
The complete widget filesize is now less than 1/6 of the last beta.

Bug fixes

Roll button position fix (ragged edges)
Joker fix
Special orange fix
Special orange text fix (double score is now displayed in the right way)

Help me out you big programming god

Aye, the thing is – I would love some talented Objective C programmer to help me out porting Fruitz to the iPhone and iPod touch, so if your’re one of them – please send me a mail, or make a post on the forum

More beta?

I am planning on making a mini beta update this weekend, so keep yourself tuned in here on the blog.

Yay, Kevin is back and kicking

I have a bit of work to do today, but I think I will have a bit of time left for some Fruitz updates later today. Thank you all for your input in the Fruitz forums. Talking about the forum, we now got a new moderator in the Fruitz forum, as I would love to have more time for programming and updating Fruitz. All say hello to John Ramsey, better known as shanghaimac.

Fruitz update talk

As I was a bit worried about people becoming frustrated, and then mail storming me after the next version, because they lost their scores; I now tried to implement a fix for that in this beta release of Fruitz. I am not 100% sure it will work, but I tested it quite a lot, and it seems to work fine. What I need is someone which hasn’t switched to a beta version yet, to test if the scores will remain after the update. So, you brave beta tester, please let me know how it goes.

Spotting a cheater

So, I think this is really lame. There is at least one user which has “cracked” the score system, which makes me a bit sad. It is in no way secure, and pretty easy to see through if you have a bit of programming skills. In my oppinion it is just a shame. Does this really mean I have to spend hours and hours on programming secure transfers, just because we have a cheater or two among us? Well, I would love to make Fruitz itself better, and spending my time on that instead of wasting my time on the few who can’t play this thing fair.

What are your thoughts on this issue?

The problem occured because there was a problem with space on the server harddrive. Heh, just to give you an idea of what is going on, the log file (which is nothing but a text file with log information about data access time) for yesterday is around 600mb. The server is now upgraded with a bigger drive, and we should not experience this thing any more.

Hello again my dear Fruitz friend. I just added a new feature to the Fruitz website. You, and others, will now be able to see if you had a daily highscore at any point if you have submitted your highscore to the Fruitz server.

I also added new icons for the specific highscore pages under the highscore main page, for easier navigation through the scores.

If you like the additions feel free to post a comment in the Fruitz forum.

Any apple people peaking in?

Cupertino, California – that’s where you’re hiding right I’ve had quite some traffic from that area, so it would be fun to know if any apple insiders are checking in on the blog, and on the Fruitz development.

I was thinking about porting Fruitz to iPhone after the next final release. What do you, all you great users, think of that idea? Give me a hint in he Fruitz forum.

On a small sidenote. I just tested Fruitz on a iPod touch. It’s cool

I know, loads of new versions this weekend, but it’s weekend and I have polished a lot of ridgy edges. So, what is happening in this new beta? Well I just implemented a brand new feature, time control.

Back to the future

In this beta version you can keep track of how much time you spend playing Fruitz, nifty aye? Now that Leopard comes with time machine, I wanted to make this thing work on Leopard too. I’ve been hunting bugs like crazy, and I think I found the problem. So, if this works in your version of Leopard, please let me know on the Fruitz forum.

Give me more control

I have also added the possibility to control your betting by hockeys instead of the button. Arrow key up and down will now trigger an increment or decrement of your bet by 10. If you are a high spinner, you can hold down the Shift key while pressing the arrow keys to add 50 points. The limit is still 500 points.

Let me know your thoughts on the update, on the Fruitz forum.

Additions:
Link to fruitz home on backside
Mini fruitz on wins
Mini gold added for wins / losses
Personal scores on Fruitz.kevinandersson.dk

Corrections:
Max text to scroll decresed
Text corrections
Moved score up to fit submit button
Joker fix – if joker the fruit will be stated instead of the joker (at 3 of a kind)
Response: “I challange you to a dual” corrected to “I challange you to a duel”

Bugs:
Lemon win (double variable use). Fixed
Win text on two strawberries (“two grapes”) corrected
Three Bars result in 200 points on a 20 point bet instead of 50x the bet. Fixed
No win on Lime. Fixed
Joker and 2 fruitz of same type only register as lucky joker.This is regardless of where the joker is positioned. Fixed
Special orange does not result in a win. Fixed

Bug reporting

Please let me know of the bugs you find in this thread in the Fruitz forum.