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  • Enabled iPad, landscape iPhone, and iOS 9 devices.
  • Fixed some screens not handling safe area insets (i.e iPhone X) properly.
  • Enabled rewarded ads for skipping campaign levels on iOS.
  • Improved layout on tablet and landscape phone screen sizes.
  • Improved campaign skip dialog.
  • Hide the add remote player button when not in a network game.
Sunday, February 10, 2019 Sun, Feb 10, 2019 10 Feb '19
Release notes
Game results on iOS in 0.16

I am happy to announce the beta version of Tic-tac-toe Collection is now available on iOS via TestFlight.

The game was always intended to be multi-platform, and the iOS version has been mostly functional the whole time. My recent work has been polishing things up and adding some platform specific features.

Platform specific features sounds more exciting than it really is - I was actually fixing analytics, crash reporting and adding ads. For the time being, I have not added in-app-purchase support so that means no Prime just yet.

Additionally, the app is limited to iPhones (no iPads) in portrait mode (you can still install on an iPad like any other iPhone app). The Android version does technically support tablets and landscape, but it has been a little half-hearted, so I decided to wait until I had improved it before enabling it for iOS.

But apart from that, all existing features are supported, including cross-platform multiplayer.

Monday, January 14, 2019 Mon, Jan 14, 2019 14 Jan '19
Announcements
  • Fixed an issue that could break progression in campaign mode.
  • Updated “Show AI thinking” to support panning and zooming.
  • Preparation work for the launch of iOS.
Monday, January 14, 2019 Mon, Jan 14, 2019 14 Jan '19
Release notes
  • Fixed an issue that would prevent multiplayer games being browsable.
  • Fixed an issue with the new modify game flow not loading settings correctly.
Saturday, January 5, 2019 Sat, Jan 5, 2019 05 Jan '19
Release notes
About page in 0.15.1
  • Fixed multiplayer games not being launchable without existing settings.
  • Changed the About page to use bottom tabs.
Thursday, January 3, 2019 Thu, Jan 3, 2019 03 Jan '19
Release notes
Modify campaign game in 0.15

0.15 brings a new flow for starting or loading a game based on other games.

It is currently accessible from the load game page, as well as relevant items on the main page, and provides a number of options depending on the source.

  • First is quickplay, which is always available. This lets you start a new game with all human players, or one human player and AI of a specified difficulty.

  • Setting up a new game (with the normal setup options) is also always available.

  • If it is a campaign game, you can continue the campaign. You can also load the game as a normal game (this won’t affect campaign progress).

  • If the game has existing game data (i.e. you are loading a game) then you can load the game but edit the players. This could be useful if you were playing against a human and want to continue with the AI for instance.

  • Finally, all these options can be used for local games and network games. This was a big part of the motivation since network games can normally only be continued with the exact same devices. If you need to continue with a different device, you can load and host the game and then change the players.

This is all part of a wider effort of general quality-of-life improvements. The next thing will be a revamped game selection screen which will make significant use of the new game buttons.

Wednesday, January 2, 2019 Wed, Jan 2, 2019 02 Jan '19
Game design
Modify game in 0.15
  • Added a new game launch flow that allows you to modify a game, or quickly launch a new game with the same settings.
  • Fixed a bug that would prevent game simulation results from displaying.
  • Fix release notes not showing a loading indicator.
Wednesday, January 2, 2019 Wed, Jan 2, 2019 02 Jan '19
Release notes
Saturday, December 22, 2018 Sat, Dec 22, 2018 22 Dec '18
Release notes

Sadly, this has been bound to happen for a while now.

Some time in the near future, the minimum required Android version for Tic-tac-toe Collection will be changed to KitKat - 4.4. That means devices running 4.3 or lower will no longer receive updates. Existing installations will not be affected.

The broad reason for this is simply that Android 4.3 is old (4.4 was released in September 2013). Finding devices to test on is not straight forward and running an emulator below 4.4 is a pain. The more specific reason is that Xamarin Forms (a library Tic-tac-toe Collection depends on) is changing its minimum Android version to 4.4.

For reference, according to my information there have been a total of 18 devices install Tic-tac-toe Collection on Android 4.3 or lower.

Saturday, December 22, 2018 Sat, Dec 22, 2018 22 Dec '18
Announcements
  • Fixed a crash that could happen because of the new pan and zoom code.
  • Fixed some other minor issues that could make panning or zooming fail.
Friday, December 14, 2018 Fri, Dec 14, 2018 14 Dec '18
Release notes