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Enjoy the new age the good old pan and paper game Battleship, now in color! Play against the computer or duel your friends making your career to the space admiral!


Battleship Sci-Fi battle screen


Features:
* Multiplayer over WiFi (in LAN)
* Multiplayer over Bluetooth (FULL version)
* Two board types (with square and new: hexagonal cells)
* Nice Sci-Fi theme and sounds
* Continue interrupted games
* Career mode (scores and ranks) with individual profile management
* Normal and simple modes (4er and 5er ship-squadrons)
* Switchable help makers, showing inactive area around destroyed squadrons.
* Localized to English, German, Russian (simplified and traditional Chinese are outdated now -- needs to be revisited).
Note: some of the features are available to the full version exclusively!


Worth knowing:



  • The game will automatically copy your profile from the lite version to the full version, if you use one of the "upgrade to the full version" dialogues inside the game. Alternatively You can backup your lite profile in the profile management screen and restore it in the full version.

  • If you want to see the game in your native language and can translate the used strings, just contact me!

  • There are a lot of different Android devices with mixed OS/Hardware setups. It is just impossible to test the game on each device. Therefore if you hit an issue on your device, please help to fix it following these instructions.

  • You can help to improve the game: rate the game in the market, write your suggestions for improvements.

Thank you!


Visit the Android Market to buy the full game or try the lite version.

Don't forget to rate the game, especially if you like it!

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Known bug with hi-dpi displays

There is a known bug in drawing the battle board on hi-density displays (like Galaxy Nexus).
The fix is already under construction. Please be patient!


Saturday, November 12, 2011

Battleship Sci-Fi v1.7.1

This is mainly a bugfix release. Most important fix is the reactivation of destroyer insignia awarding, which went broken during the refactoring in previous version. Other nice change is the visualization of enemy ships after game end (especially, if you have lost the game). And additional minor fixes were done as well. I hope you enjoy the game.
More interesting changes are on the way...

Call for support:
* If you want to see the game in your language, feel free to contact me.
* In case of trouble, please contact me per email.
* Help me to improve the game and keep working on it: rate the game in the market even if you like it! (seems like people, who don't like it, put their ratings with more motivation)
Thank you!

Feel free to put your comments regarding this version to this blog entry. Especially, if you want my feedback or support!

Monday, October 31, 2011

Battleship Sci-Fi v1.7

The main feature is the stabilization of the network code and improved user interface.Unfortunately the Bluetooth multiplayer mode still can have connection troubles. But this is something I cannot change, because the Bluetooth stack is buggy on some devices.

Note: this version breaks the compatibility in multiplayer code with older versions. This is due to internal refactoring preparing upcoming features.


Call for support:
* In case of trouble, please contact me per email.
* Help me to improve the game and keep working on it: rate the game in the market even if you like it! (seems like people, who don't like it, put their ratings with more motivation)
Thank you!

Feel free to put your comments regarding this version to this blog entry. Especially, if you want my feedback or support!

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Bluetooth support status

My experiments and researches on the Internet show, that on many Android devices the Bluetooth stack is broken. Looks like the Bluetooth support will stay a kind of "optional", because various Bluetooth connection issues are still not solved for many devices by Google or device manufacturers.

On my test devices the Bluetooth multiplayer works for a while. And then, from one point, no connections can be established any more until the devices gets re-paired or even worser: rebooted. This is not specific to Battleship Sci-Fi, other Bluetooth enabled apps behave the same :(

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Battleship Sci-Fi 1.6



Battleship Sci-Fi v1.6 has been released.
The main feature is the multiplayer over Bluetooth. This feature is available exclusive for the FULL version (The LITE version will not let you duel over Bluetooth!). Further there are small fixes in code (stabilized network code) and updated Ads library (which does not require the LOCATION permission any more).


This blog gets reactivated in hope to get more feedback from the Battleship users and have an easy to use back channel. Please write to me first, if something goes wrong, I will try to explain or fix the issue!


Feel free to put your comment to this version to this blog entry, especially, if you want my feedback!