Each colorful upper case alphabet letter from A to F smoothly morphs into its lowercase counterpart, creating a strong visual association for a child learning the alphabet.

Alphabet Morpher Lite is the free “trial” version of our popular Alphabet Morpher app.  The “lite” version also features Autoplay and a gives a good preview of the teaching and entertainment capabilities of the full version.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Alphabet Morpher, a new Education / Entertainment App from BluMtnWerx, Now Available on Apple’s App Store

Alphabet Morpher, an innovative tool for teaching the alphabet to preschoolers, is available for immediate download on Apple’s App Store.

Los Altos, CA — July 24, 2010 — BluMtnWerx, a developer of leading edge applications for mobile devices is pleased to announce that Alphabet Morpher, its first education/entertainment app, is now available for download from the App Store.

Alphabet Morpher is an innovative and extremely engaging iPhone™ / iPod touch™ app that teaches the alphabet while entertaining the preschool set.  Each colorful upper case alphabet letter from “A” to “Z” smoothly morphs into its lowercase counterpart, creating a strong visual association for a child learning the alphabet.  Familiarity with the letters is reinforced by an accompanying song and memorable image for each character.

“While we’d never want one of our apps to be characterized as ‘cute,’ Alphabet Morpher comes pretty close,” says Dean Stevens, founder of BluMtnWerx.  Mr. Stevens continues, “Autoplay mode allows you to entertain little learners for hours with minimal interaction, while the interactive mode really helps develop letter recognition and familiarity.  This is a powerful teaching tool targeted directly at those impressionable young minds.  It’s fun, it’s engaging, and it might even be (at least a tiny bit) good for the little folks.”

Alphabet Morpher is available on Apple’s iTunes App Store at:
        http://itunes.com/app/alphabetmorpher

The Alphabet Morpher web page is:
        http://www.blumtnwerx.com/AlphaMorph.html

About BluMtnWerx:

We believe that the nexus of interaction with computing is moving to the very edge of the network.  With this in mind, we assembled an elite team of engineers to develop applications at the edge.  We build software to bring the universe to you, wherever you are and whenever you want to connect.

We currently have a number of applications available on the Apple App Store, and several more in the pipeline.

For further information on BluMtnWerx, please visit our website. For direct inquires, please contact:

Dean Stevens, Founder
BluMtnWerx
408-461-9913

dean (at) blumtnwerx.com
http://www.blumtnwerx.com
http://www.blumtnwerx.com/blog

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Each colorful upper case alphabet letter from A to Z smoothly morphs into its lowercase counterpart, creating a strong visual association for a child learning the alphabet.

While we’d never want one of our apps to be characterized as “cute,” Alphabet Morpher comes pretty close.  Autoplay mode allows you to entertain little learners for hours with minimal interaction, while the interactive mode really helps develop letter recognition and familiarity.  This is a powerful teaching tool targeted directly at those impressionable young minds.  It’s fun, it’s engaging, and it might even be (at least a tiny bit) good for the little folks.

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I didn’t see any activity from China when I checked yesterday’s daily sales reports on iTunes Connect.  If I assume that the reports use GMT-7 (PDT) for the cutoff, we might have had a few hours of selling in China between the launch and the time the reports were generated.  I guess that today’s report will really give the first indication.  Is anybody seeing an increase in app sales coincident with the launch in China?

Image Credit:  Geek.com:  iPhone Deal with China Unicom

As a result of our continuing efforts to enhance the experience, v1.0.1 now has its own Scoreloop leaderboard.  This app highlights the unique user interaction model of the iPhone™ / iPod touch™ platform — the accelerometer is your only control.  Tilting the device moves your ball so that you can guard your net, while trying to knock the other ball past the smart defender and into the opponent’s net.  The more you tilt, the faster your ball will move.  You have to be quick to score the highest possible number of points in thirty seconds, but now you’ll only be playing against others with the same time limitation.  TiltBallLite is more physically challenging than some of our other apps, but that’s part of the fun!

TiltBallLite fully supports the Scoreloop game network.  This means that you can play as part of a global community!  The competition and sense of community fostered by Scoreloop truly enhances the TiltBallLite experience.  Being able to compare scores, challenge other players and participate in the Scoreloop community make playing TiltBallLite even more compelling.  It’s hard to overstate the additional challenge and excitement that Scoreloop brings to our game.  When I’m trying to win a challenge, or get to the top of the high scores list, it really takes me to a whole new level!

Let’s see how many goals you can score with TiltBallLite v1.0.1!  As of this morning, “lawa” had scored 9 goals — very impressive!

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With v1.1, iPuckLite fully supports the Scoreloop game network.  This means that you can play as part of a global community!  You can compare your scores with other gamers worldwide and even challenge them directly.  You can challenge just about anyone, including your contacts and buddies on Facebook.  Tapping on a name in the high score list initiates a challenge against an existing player.  You can also create and accept anonymous challenges.  Scoreloop will ensure that you play against opponents with reasonably equivalent skill levels.

Scoreloop brings intense competition and a sense of community to iPuckLite.  Being able to compare scores, challenge other players and participate in the Scoreloop community make the game even more compelling.  See if you don’t get a little sweaty when you’re trying to smash a challenger, or finally work your way up to the top of the high scores list.

Changes in iPuckLite v1.1 include:

• iPuckLite now plays for 30 seconds, instead of playing to 7.  The side with the most points when the game timer expires is the winner.  Hopefully, this will encourage more aggressive play.  With iPuckLitev1.1, players are free to score as many points as they can before the clock runs out.
• The player’s actual score is reported to Scoreloop.  Players are no longer penalized for goals scored by the defender.  Run it up!

With this update, iPuckLite is even more of a kick.  We’ve opened the door to some really high scores.  Let’s see what you can do.

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Of course, iPuck v1.3 fully supports the Scoreloop game network.  This means that you can play as part of a global community!  You can compare your scores with other gamers worldwide and even challenge them directly.  You can challenge just about anyone, including your contacts and buddies on Facebook.  Tapping on a name in the high score list initiates a challenge against an existing player.  You can also create and accept anonymous challenges.  Scoreloop will ensure that you play against opponents with reasonably equivalent skill levels.

Scoreloop brings intense competition and a sense of community to iPuck.  Being able to compare scores, challenge other players and participate in the Scoreloop community make the game even more compelling.  When I know that I’m trying to win a challenge, or get to the top of the high scores list, it really raises the experience to a whole new level!

Changes in iPuck v1.3 include:

• iPuck now plays for 2 minutes and 30 seconds, instead of playing to 21.  The side with the most points when the game timer expires is the winner.  We made this change at player request to encourage more aggressive play.  With iPuckv1.3, players are free to score as many points as possible, within the allotted time.
• The player’s actual score is reported to Scoreloop.  Players are no longer penalized for goals scored by the defender.  Just win, baby!

With this update, iPuck becomes even more challenging.  We’re looking forward to seeing a bunch of new high scores posted!  For what it’s worth, my highest score during testing was 37.

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TiltBallLite is more physically challenging than some of our other apps, but that’s part of the fun!

TiltBallLite fully supports the Scoreloop game network.  This means that you can play as part of a global community!  The competition and sense of community fostered by Scoreloop truly enhances the TiltBallLite experience.  Being able to compare scores, challenge other players and participate in the Scoreloop community make playing TiltBallLite even more compelling.  It’s hard to overstate the additional challenge and excitement that Scoreloop brings to our game.  When I know that I’m trying to win a challenge, or get to the top of the high scores list, it really takes me to a whole new level!

As has been the case for the first releases of our recent “lite” applications, TiltBallLite seemed to take an inordinately long time to win approval (40 days).  Fortunately, that is now behind us and the app is on the App Store.  If you have quick twitch hands, you’ll enjoy TiltBallLite.

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Like its sibling, iPuckLite is a fast paced casual arcade game that’s simple to play and extremely engaging.  The objective is the same, to score points by getting the puck in the defender’s net, while guarding your own goal.  With the 1.1 version, the app’s welcome screen presents brief gameplay instructions.

iPuckLite is a fully functional version of iPuck, that simply plays to a lower final score.  Otherwise, all of the functionality and features of the original are also in iPuckLite.  The app provides a great way to try iPuck’s gameplay to reassure yourself that you’ll enjoy it.

 
Why not take a shot?

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RingDanceLite provides a soothing audiovisual encounter with your iPhone™ or iPod touch™.  The colored rings dance randomly about your screen.  When they touch, they exchange colors and make a gentle sound.  The calming melodies produced by the dancing rings create a relaxing environment that enables you to either focus your thoughts, or completely surrender to the otherworldly music.

The music produced by the dancing rings may be almost hypnotic, in spite of the distraction presented by the crass commercial imagery.  We hope that the truly evolved will be able to look beyond the logo and use the app as a tool for meditation and concentration.  Of course, we’d be just pleased as punch if these folks went ahead and bought the paid version of the app.  That way, they could avoid all exposure to the logo.  To be honest, though, I created the logo, and I’m not really sure why they’re so offended by it.  I guess that therein lies the difference between the engineer and the artist…

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