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Dear Tiggers,

In 2 days I made balance this, a little accelerometer game with a twist:



You have to balance a ball, but under ridicolous restrictions like standing on one leg or jumping or holding the phone with your foot.

Get it for free on the Play Store and try it!

As you can see, everyone can suggest new challenges.
The game will automatically load new challenges from this file: Existing Challenges (.json)

I'm looking forward to your feedback and your challenge ideas!
(You will be credited with your Tigsource name, Twitter handle or whatever you want.)

[anselm_eickhoff]

v0.3 is now available: all bugs that I knew of are fixed.

I only tested the game on my Galaxy Nexus though,
so let me know how it works for you!

[anselm_eickhoff]

v0.4 is available

Phew that was a lot of work, but worth it.

As you might have noticed, the first versions were made with CocoonJS, basically a HTML5-to-Android wrapper and compiler. It seemed to be my dream come true, but had several problems:

• .apk file was almost ~5MB even though my app was ~300kb
• dissapointing performance
• old Android devices not supported
• required unneeded permissions (like GPS, wtf?)
• no AntiAliasing for drawing shapes

That is all fixed now, I reimplemented it completely with native Java/Android.
(can't say about performance for sure)

I also added the first special challenge: "...without looking!"
During that challenge, the game encodes the balls position and velocity with sound.
You can try to close your eyes and balance with the audio cues only.
(It is very hard, headphones for proper stereo recommended!)