PowerMaze is out

PowerMaze is the advanced version of iMaze (my iphone app) that I have been working hard on for the past few weeks. It has been listed in AppStore today. PowerMaze is a multi-level maze game in which you navigate the ball by tilting the iPhone in different directions. As I got many complaints about iMaze that the ball is jerky, I took lot of effort to make it smooth for PowerMaze. For those interested, here are the levels in this game.

Level 1: Basic maze
Level 2: Timed play
Level 3: Racing with a robotic ball that tries hard to find a path to the destination.
Level 4: The robot moves at double the speed!
Level 5: Finding your way through a partially visible maze! Maze is divided into 4 sub-mazes and the only visible submaze is the one where the ball is located.
(Levels 6-10 are similar but on bigger mazes)

Here's a demo.



PowerMaze is listed for $0.99 (lowest possible price in AppStore!). Just wanted to share this news with you all and also add a post that serves as a discussion/support thread for PowerMaze users.

iMaze - My first iphone game

Update: TechCrunch mentions about iMaze! iMaze is now the 4th most popular free game for iPhone.

I had written about my love for iphone last year. When Apple announced the SDK for iphone application development in March, I signed up for developer program immediately. I got the approval soon after that but I couldn't do anything worthwhile due to my workload. Last month, I found that I had time to develop for iPhone. I wanted to make an application that makes good use of iPhone's features like accelerometer (motion sensor), multi-touch etc. After considering a few ideas, I zeroed in on a maze application in which one guides a ball around a maze by tilting the iphone in different directions.

It was a bit hard at first because I was totally new to Apple's Cocoa development environment and it involved a new language called Objective C. Slowly, I got the hang of it. It was fun to play with accelerometer and tweak it for this purpose. The end product was satisfying and I decided to submit it to Apple for approval. Today, I got the approval and iMaze will be available in App Store which will open tomorrow or day after. As you might know, the new iPhone 3G will also be released on Friday. If you have an iphone or planning to buy the iPhone 3G, please check out this demo of iMaze. You might like what you see!