Tag: game

A Level Perspective

There are a lot of applications available for the iPhone, and thanks to the magic that makes orientation detection possible, some clever person produced an application that visually shows a level, bubble and all.

iPhone Level

Today I was witness to a young child asking to borrow an iPhone, and with much curiosity he opened this particular application.

Unfamiliar with a level, it’s function, or operation, he innocently asked, “What one was supposed to do?”

“You’re supposed to put the bubble between the two marks,” came the adult explanation.

The kid tilted the iPhone back and forth, watching the bubble slide to and fro, and leveled it holding the bubble between the two lines for a moment.

At that moment he blurted out excitedly, “Look, I’m winning!”

Unfortunately, his excitement caused the bubble to shoot to one end, just as I had time to click a picture of the event.

Aurora Feint: Recovered

For some unexplained reason, Aurora Feint would no longer start on my iPhone. Starting the game exited back to the main menu. Here’s how I restored the game and recovered my previous game play.

Aurora Feint won’t start.

I’ve been playing Aurora Feint on the iPhone, and all of the sudden, it quit working. The game, not the phone. I’d go to start it, and then get returned to the main menu. Seems other people were having a similar problem. Some were lucky to get the game working again, others lost data.

Here’s how I recovered mine, preserving game play. Your mileage may vary.

0. Back up your iPhones by syncing it with iTunes.
1. Hold down the Aurora Feint button until the icons jiggle.
2. Press the (X) delete button over the Aurora Feint icon.
3. Acknowledge that you’re deleting the game and that all game files may be lost.
4. Hold down the power button on the phone, slide to Power Off.
5. Power phone back on.
6. Immediately go into App Store, select Search, enter Aurora Feint, and Install.
7. Acknowledge dialog that you already purchased this item and want to install again.
8. Let the game download and install.
9. Again, hold down the power button on the phone, slide to Power Off.
10. Power phone back on. For me the phone went through a very long boot cycle with the Apple logo.
11. Press the Aurora Feint icon to start the game.
12. For me, the screen went blank and stayed there — tap the center of the screen, movie controls appeared.
13. Unpause movie intro and let play to completion.
14. After a moment, I was returned to the map.

I’ve found that I always have the best of luck restoring the game when I’m at the map. Exiting while at the character page or in the middle of a mining activity does work, but not always; this causes the game to be fussy and exit prematurely to the main screen after start (unless you can intercept with a tap in the upper right corner).

Good luck.