Sapus Tongue 3.0 has been released.

Highlights:

• NEW: Sapus Tongue works for Mac too
• NEW: Finished iPad version

Sapus Tongue 3.0 supports 4 different targets/configurations, all of them sharing the same the source code.
Supported targets/configurations:

• iPhone / iPod Touch (AppStore $0.99)
• iPhone / iPod Touch Lite: uses iAd ads (AppStore $Free)
• iPad version (AppStore $Free)
• Mac version (Sapus Tongue.dmg)

Changelog from v2.3:

• [NEW] Mac Version: Works on Mac. Differences between Mac and iOS:
  • Mac: Pause shows a modal window instead of an Alert
  • Mac: Only local scores are supported
  • Mac: InstructionsNode: Instructions Video is not shown
  • It reuses all the the cocos2d code.
  • The UIKit specific code, was rewritten using Cocoa specific code.
• [NEW] GameHUD: Splitted in 3 files: HUD, HUDPaused and HUDSaveScore. Easier to maintain.
• [FIX] GameNode: Accelerometer works correctly in any orientation
• [FIX] GameNode: Sprite is in the main loop, not a “draw” time.
• [FIX] InstructionsNode: it looks nice on iPad. Simplified code, easier to maintain.
• [FIX] RootViewController: Supports hi-res.
• [FIX] Xcode: SapusTongue-iPad renamed to SapusTongue HD
• [FIX] Xcode: objects separated in 4 groups: Scenes, GameHUD, Helper Nodes, Platform Nodes
• [3RD] cocosLive: fixed parsing error when posting scores
• [3RD] cocos2d: udpated to v0.99.5-beta2

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Highlights:

• Includes an alpha version for iPad

Changes:

• Admob: Uses libAdMobNoThumb3 instead of libAdMob
• Admob: Uses libAdMob3 2009-11-19
• AppDelegate: set window parameters before attaching the window into cocos2d [FIX]
• Chipmunk: uses Chipmunk v5.2
• cocos2d: uses cocos2d v0.99.1-pre (SVN r1847)
• GameNode: uses cpArbiterGetShapes() to obtain the shapes (new API in Chipmunk v5.2)
• Instructions: sounds effects work after playing the video [FIX]
• iPad: most of the code is resolution independent
• iPad: Added some iPad resources in Resources-iPad
• iPad: Added the Xcode “sapusTongue-iPad” target in Xcode
• MainMenu: Uses CCRadialTransition from Menu to SelectCharNode
• Resources: levels -> Resources/tileMap. Sounds -> Resources/Sounds. Images->Resources/Images
• Xcode: Default SDK is 3.0

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Changes:

• Buttons: buttons are loaded using CCSpriteFrameCache (faster loading times, consumes less memory)
• BuyNode & SelectCharNode: uses CCSpriteFrameCache & SpriteSheet (faster loading times, consumes less memory, faster rendering times)
• SapusIntroNode: reuses Default.png instead of loading a new image
• GameNode: using better hash values for Chipmunk
• Uses cocso2d v0.99.0-rc + blend fix (SVN r1761)
• Uses Chipmunk v5.1

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Changes:

• Uses cocos2d v0.9.0-beta
• Uses new CCCrossFadeTransition from Sapus Scene to Menu Scene
• Uses Chipmunk 5.0
• Updated code to use Chipmunk 5.0 (new joints and new collision detection callbacks)

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Changes:

• Uses cocos2d v0.8.2
• Uses Admob 2009-10-16. Includes libAdMob3 for SDK 3.0
• To prevent crashes, Admob is enabled only on SDK 2.2. It can be enabled on SDK 3.0 by adding the libAdMob3 library
• Uses the new cocos2d logo
• Uses DisplayLink director on SDK >= 3.1
• Uses COCOS2D_DEBUG=1 instead of DEBUG=1 on debug builds to make CCLOG() works

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Changes:

• Uses cocos2d v0.8.1 (final)
• Fixed leak in GameHUD#newTextField_Rounded method
• Fixed extra-release in GameHUD#saveCallback

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Sapus Tongue v1.8.1 source code released.

Changes:

• Uses cocos2d v0.8.0 (final)
• Added LoadingBarNode.m class
• It’s a simple but useful class that displays progress while the textures are being loaded
• Once the textures are loaded, a callback is called
• This class can be used like any other CocosNode object

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