Index Dice is live in the App Store

It's live!  I submitted the app Saturday night and Apple approved it last night.  Strangely, searching for "10000" isn't very effective, but searching for "farkle" or "index dice" is (well, of course on the last one).

I was planning to take some time off, and then slowly add some more features, but since there are about 6 other Farkle clones in the app store already, I've started working on the next feature set for release, to try and complete a little bit.

Next up: Scoring variations, since everyone plays different, I want to allow different rules depending on how each person likes to play.

After that: Horizontal viewing, showing detailed statistics, maybe other stuff... I haven't nailed it down completely yet.

We will pie you!

I'm not a big fan of fund raisers... not sure why, since I think they're for good causes.  I think it has to do with never getting anything fun out of them myself when I was younger.

Well, not so with Bryana.  In her first major fund raiser, in which we made her pitch her school's cause to various people around the office and family (instead of doing it for her), Bryana managed to set the record for the largest number of contributions.  As a result, she was one of five or six students that were honored with the chance to put a pie in the face of one of the school faculty.  In Bryana's case, the PE teacher.

So, to cheers of "We will, we will pie you!" (to the tune of "We will rock you")... Bryana delivered a pie to her PE teacher.

All in all, the school raised around $11,000 - which was just a touch shy of the $12,000 goal that they had.  So far, we've been impressed with the involvement of the PTA and the community at Tobias, the kids really seem to feed off the energy of the staff and I think that makes for a better learning environment.  We're happy to have Bryana there!

Birday!

Thursday night, we did a low key birthday party for Allison. Since she's only two, she really doesn't have any internal concept of "friends" and we are busy enough that doing something with just immediate family seemed like a good idea anyway.
When we got to the mall, I started to unbuckle her from the car seat and she looked at me and said "ma birday!" (at least, that's what I heard). I asked, "Is is your birthday?" and she replied, "Yeah!"

In the mall, we had a bag with some presents in it that we let her open. My goodness do kids like paper products...

iPhone programming: 10,000

For those of you who don't know, 10000 is a dice game that a few of us play in the family.  It's something that you can kind of count on us playing at a family gathering, since it only takes six dice and as many or as few players as you can stand.

My brother and I have been talking about what it would take to put the game on the iPhone and - of course - that was one of my excuses for getting an iPhone in the first place...  I really want to program something for the phone.  Consequently, I have finally done something about it and I'm about 1/2 way done with the programming with my brother doing some QA work for me.

I can't say for sure when I'll release it... but it seems to be coming along well, so I hope it'll be soon!