TOKYO (MacHouse) – Making an iOS game is definitely not easy especially if you have to do everything by yourself. We introduced our last software title one month ago. Finally… We submitted a new software release to App Store about an hour ago. It’s an iOS game for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. This game is called Lost in Apartment.

In this game, your task is to return lost items to rightful owners. There are 36 tenants in this apartment complex. By knocking on the door, you can talk to a tenant. But they won’t give you a clue as to what item they’ve lost until you let them talk. Every tenant has a personal story to tell. Some of them are exchange students from overseas. One or two of them are unemployed. If you let them talk, they will eventually ask a question. Only if you answer their question, they will tell you what they have lost. Many questions are quite specific and tough to answer. You must be versatile at different subjects such as world history, economics, classical music, world geography, cooking, art history.
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TOKYO (MacHouse) – It’s been quite a while since we had the last software release. It happens when one switches from one software development to another. Anyway, we submitted our verry first iOS game ever to Apple’s App Store more than an hour ago. This game is called Zombievaders.

Some of us still remember a famous arcade video game called Space Invaders from the 1970s and 1980s. Space invaders move right and left and also forward. Playing Zombievaders, you will probably be reminded of this classic game. In Zombievaders, you have to stop zombies from entering the town. If they reach the road block, the game will be over. In order to win the game, you have to find a pair of zombies having the same fruit. If you find a pair of zombies having the same fruit, they’ll vanish. Stopping them won’t be easy as you advance. Initially, you will have a few dozen zombies. Eventually, if you advance to the last level, this number can increase to more than 300. In order to survive, you have to use your special skills wisely. At the end of each level, you will earn experience points, which you can use to upgrade your special kills.
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TOKYO (MacHouse) – A few minutes ago, we released FontsView Portable. We are releasing a pair again. And the freeware title we introduce at the same time is FontsView Portable Lite.

FontsView Portable Lite is designed such that users can compare different styles of text with a color and a size of your selection. When you have several dozen fonts, it won’t be easy to pick the best choice for a particular text string. So the idea is that you enter a string of text and then select this font and that font so that you can make the best choice visually.   Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – We thought we were going to end the month of April with Presenta and Presenta Lite. I guess we were wrong. We just released another pair of iPad applications some 10 minutes. The first iOS application to introduce today is FontsView Portable.

We initially developed FontsView for Mac OS X. It’s also available for Windows. Now, it’s available for iPad.

FontsView Portable (hereafter, FontsView) is designed such that users can compare different styles of text with a color and a size of your selection. When you have several dozen fonts, it won’t be easy to pick the best choice for a particular text string. So the idea is that you enter a string of text and then select this font and that font so that you can make the best choice visually. Furthermore, using Compare, you can compare different styles of text side by side in a list.   Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Minutes ago, we released Presenta. Released at the same time is its freeware version. It’s called… Right, it’s Presenta Lite.   Continue reading →