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Sketch Hop (iPhone)

That Rev Chap — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:33:00 +0000

So, on Friday night I rescued my wife from Cambridge at half one in the morning. Blame Tori Amos for that one. Still, I earned several million husband points and it wasn’t a bad drive at that time of night, so I was happy enough. Put on some music, zoom up the M11, job done.

Anyway, on Saturday I was knackered, but had my appointment at the Apple Store in Bluewater. Drove up there, thinking it would take ages, but the there wasn’t much traffic and I found a parking space easily enough, ended up in Bluewater over an hour early.

So I walked round it four times. Twice on the bottom level, twice on the top. There aren’t too many shops for me there. There are sixteen million pairs of shoes for sale, but not a single copy of The Guardian. Bah. Apple Store was incredibly busy, to the point of being unpleasant, but the staff still managed to be smiling and helpful, when you could get their attention. Not sure how they managed that, but top marks to them. Anyway, saw a very nice young lady who looked at my iPhone, saw me fail to run Sketch Hop and swapped my iPhone over for another one.

Got it home and the first thing I did was try out Sketch Hop on the new phone.

It worked!

It’s not much of a game, really, but it’s not meant to be. It’s just a playable tech demo and as such it does its job well. You touch the screen to bonus and try not to hit the floor. Simple, time-wasting stuff, but it’ll always have a special place in my heart now.

Sketch Hop (iPhone)

That Rev Chap — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:29:00 +0000

I’ve downloaded the game several times, both via my computer and direct to my iPhone. I’ve rebooted, done a hard reset, freed memory using the Activity Monitor app, I even did a Restore in iTunes. (I did then restore from an old backup, rather start over fresh. There’s only so far I’ll go!)

Still, the results are the same. I start Sketch Hop, I get this.

The music starts, stutters for a while, then seems to play okay. I even seem to get a few sound effects, but all I see are shifting blocks on the screen, often with a little bit of fancy shading over on the left of the screen. In case the developer comes back again and finds it useful, here are some of my stats from Activity Monitor.

I’m a bit worried that there’s something wrong with my iPhone hardware, but I’ve tried Blue Skies 3GS, my only 3GS-only app and games like Terminator Salvation and Real Racing and they all play fine.

Oh, and for the record, I have not “jailbroken” my iPhone. It’s running all official software and always has been.

Sketch Hop (iPhone)

That Rev Chap — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:52:00 +0000

Hmpf.

New free 3GS-only game showing off Mad Monkey’s new sketch shaders.

Except, when I try to play it, I just get screens that look like this.

That’s after rebooting, redownloading, even a hard reset.

Bother.