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quantumpanda -> iOS FAP requests (8/19/2012 6:20:06 AM)
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Two requests regarding the iOS Fill-a-Pix app:
1) Please make more Advanced Logic Puzzle Packs. I finish the Basic Puzzles far too quickly. I enjoy them, but those puzzle packs just don't last me very long. The current ratio (not counting the iPad-only packs) is five Basic Puzzle Packs to two Advanced. (If you include the iPad-only packs, it's even worse, nine Basic to three Advanced.) I estimate it takes me roughly ten times as long to complete an Advanced Logic Puzzle Pack as it does a Basic Logic Pack, so an Advanced Logic Pack provides ten times the entertainment value for me. I'd like to see the ratio come closer to that on the website, which is almost perfectly half Basic, half Advanced. I'd even be willing to pay a bit more for the Advanced Packs than I already do, given their significantly greater value to me.
2) Please allow iPhone/iTouch users to access and play the Extra Large Puzzles that are currently set as iPad-only. I understand some potential reasons why those puzzles are marked as iPad-only, but it was dismaying to discover that I could not even purchase those packs on my iPhone to see for myself if working them on the smaller screen was suitable for me. Yes, they are significantly larger than the puzzles in the other packs, but about half of the puzzles in each of the regular packs are too small on the iPhone screen to work comfortably without using the pinch-zoom anyway—what makes this situation significantly different for the larger puzzles? Add in the unique offset method you have devised for moving the focus cursor in the grid, and the issues of the larger grid on a small screen seem, to me, to be non-issues.
Sure, some people would likely not enjoy the experience of working those puzzles on the small screen, but if you set up the app so that when a user tries to purchase one of those packs on an iPhone, they get a warning regarding the size and its potential unsuitability on that screen, and they are required to unambiguously acknowledge that they understand this issue and would like to try them anyway, knowing that they cannot get a refund if they don't find them suitable, you would deter the bulk of people who might make complaints and demand refunds from spending the money, while still allowing those of us who genuinely want to take our chances with the larger puzzles to purchase and try them. You might even provide a single free sample puzzle in the largest size that iPhone users could download to determine whether they would find the large puzzles workable on the small screen.
I have games from other vendors, games that are, like your puzzles, visual/spatial logic puzzles on a grid, though with different objectives and gameplay methods, that also have in-app purchasable puzzle packs designated as meant for the iPad only. Those games do not prevent iPhone users from purchasing those puzzle packs, nor do they even give any warnings like I suggested above. They also have neither a zoom feature nor offset cursor control. And yet those puzzles they recommend for iPad only are, for the most part, just perfectly playable for me on the iPhone (I occasionally have cursor-control issues on the largest grids, but I can usually overcome that by working more slowly and carefully, or switching from my fat fingertip to a narrower stylus). With zoom and offset cursor, I expect that I would find the Extra Large Puzzles at least equally as workable, if not more so, as the large grids in those other games.
If there is some other overriding technical reason for blocking those Puzzle Packs on the iPhone, please explain it. Thanks.
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