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The Android App Review Source's Developer Spotlight has featured us today for our Colossal Cave Adventure app.

Read the Developer Spotlight here.

In addition to the Text-to-Speech functionality recently released, Colossal Cave Adventure can now understand your spoken command. There are a few restrictions, of course. The magic words are not exactly easy to pronounce.

I don't know how useful this will be, but it does add a new fun dimension to the game.

Grab the update and enjoy!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Yesterday we released updates to two of our applications:

• Enigma 1.9.0
• Colossal Cave Adventure 1.2.0

The Enigma update was suggested by a user and involves freeing up some screen space, which is particularly important when the soft keyboard is displayed. Now the Quote Source is hidden by default and can be shown/hidden using the hints. While hidden, you gain a significant percentage of screen space.

With this release of Enigma, I have added the ability to identify duplicates. Thanks to a great user request, the application will now show duplicate letters (same letter entered for different codes) as italicized.

Grab the update and enjoy.

Enigma 1.6.0 has just been released.

From the release notes:

• Thanks to another great user suggestion, I have added another hint - "Unused Letters". This hint will show you a list of the letters that you have not yet used in the puzzle solution.
• Also in response to several users requests, I have modified the program so that it keeps track of all of the puzzles that you've played. It won't repeat any of them until you have finished them all. Then it will start over again.

In response to a user request (technically a potential user), I have uploaded a trial version of the Sudoku 10,000 application to the Google Market.

This is a fully functional application that is only limited to two puzzles per level.

If you enjoy this application, please consider purchasing the full version.

I've updated the Enigma application for Android.

In this update, I've added the capability to long-press a character in the cryptogram to bring up the soft keyboard as long as the physical keyboard is either hidden or not present on the device.

Pick up the update and enjoy!

Currently in the middle of some interesting discussions on the Android developer forums. At this point, it would seem that the HTC Hero is not capable of catching the long-press menu, which is the default means of bringing up the soft keyboard sans entry fields. Whether the Hero was consciously designed this way or if it is a bug introduced in their version of the Android OS, I don't know.

So....

• For those with an HTC Hero - I recommend that you contact your provider and ask about this feature. Maybe there will be a patch for this if enough people ask.

Truly Random was updated today to include a nice new feature - RPG Dice Notation.

This was added in response to a user request to add multipliers. I decided to take it a little further and allow you to enter equations that can include multiple dice combinations, multiplication, addition, and subtraction.

In fact, I've added a new tab page (RPG+ with cool skull graphic) which will allow you to enter dice equations using RPG Dice Notation, or at least a subset of it.

I've been busy today. I updated the Sudoku 10,000 application to account for some issues it had on Android 1.5.

Updates:

• Corrected a drawing problem when this is played on Android 1.5. The background of the game screen wasn't painting and this allowed the main screen text to be imposed over the game grid.
• Corrected a drawing problem with the help text when this is displayed on Android 1.5.