Update: v1.8

v1.8 is out! Only one thing was changed in this update: the UI. We did our best to make this into a much more user-friendly app, and hopefully we succeeded. In this latest update, we added in two bars, one on top of the screen, and one below.

On the top, most of the options that used to reside in the options menu are now in the forms of buttons above. The buttons in order are: Eraser(toggle), Play/Pause(toggle), Save, Load, Load Demo, and Exit. The first two buttons are labelled toggle because they alternate between two states. In the case of the Eraser button, it starts of deselected, but when you press it, it gets highlighted in red, and the current element is switched to an eraser. When you press it again, it goes back to deselected and your previous element becomes the current one again. The Play/Pause button toggles between being in Play mode and Pause mode, with the button showing what mode it will go to when you click it. The other buttons are pretty straight-forward.

On the bottom, there is one button and a slider next to it. The button has a palette symbol and functions as the new element picker. The slider is the new brush size picker, allowing you to easily change the size without having to go into the menu every time you wanted to make a slight change.

Even though most of the options were taken out of the options menu, a few were left, namely: Clear Screen, Toggle Size, and Preferences. The one change we made to this part was that for each of these that were left, we added in icons to just make it look nice!

Hopefully you will enjoy these new features! If you have any comments, suggestions, complaints, or just praise, send us an email: idkjava@gmail.com

4 Stars!

We've reached four stars! Thanks for all the good ratings everyone! At this rate we'll be at 4.5 stars in only a few months! Here's an image taken from the AndroLib site showing our ratings spread:



This is all thanks to you!
As always, any feedback is appreciated.

1.6 Release

A new update has just been released to the android market: Element Works Beta, version 1.6. This update contained:

New Elements:
-Magma
-Stone

Features:
-Preference Screen, background can now be changed to either white or black

Bug Fix:
-Screen can now be flipped in preferences. This will make the game draw on many 2.0 ROMs for the G1 that had issues before, and may fix drawing for the HTC Tattoo as well (EDIT: confirmed).

v1.5.5 is out!!

Our most recent update, v1.5.5, was published last night! In this version we:
-Made Oil lighter so that it is easier to see against the background
-Made toggling size not clear the screen
-Made pressing Home and then going back into the app not clear the screen

Because this update did not include much, we felt that it did not deserve a whole version to itself, so we named it 1.5.5, because we plan on making a full update next week (v1.6) with added elements with many new functions! We just wanted to get out what we had so far after making our breakthrough with solving the clearing screen issue (that one took us a while). Hope y'all enjoy it!

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1.5 Released

Last Sunday, we released the 1.5 update to the Android Market and forgot to update the blog. The update contained oil, made ice a stationary element, and changed the movement of liquids. Various minor bug fixes were also included. Tomorrow we hope to update with a fix for the reset issue when switching to another application and coming back.

-IDKJava Team

1.4 Released

Alpha 2, Version 1.4 has been released on both the android market and the SlideME market.

Changes:

-Ice freezes water slower
-Fire has longer lifetime
-Fixed reset on screen blackout
-Added one slot save/load
-Added exit button
-Increased generation of particles by generator element
-Fixed landscape mode on high resolution screens (Droid,Nexus One)

Planned features for next update:

-New element: Oil
-Possibly change ice to stationary instead of falling
-More save game slots

Update: v1.3 is out!

Our New Year's Resolution was to work more on programming and get more updates out, and we have succeeded so far! This is the second update of the new year, we hope you enjoy it!

New in this update:
-Added Generator

Generator:
Our new element is called Generator. It is very similar to the element "Clone" in the Powder Game. Basically, when a particle collides with it, it is "set" to that particle. Then it will randomly produce that particle in nearby empty spaces. It also sets all the Generators around it, so a line of Generators will usually all be set to the same element, unless two elements were set at different points on the line at roughly the same time. We hope Generator will exponentially increase the complexity and enjoyment of our game!

As always, enjoy and send us feedback via email!!