Tongits

I asked Lavern of Pinoytek.net if he would like to do a short review of Tongits. He has this to say about the game:

When i received notice from Rico about Tong-its, i started to play it many times - many many times. I can’t remember the last time i played Tong-its, but when Rico’s own version came out, i feel i am bringing back the memories again. It’s really addicting!

My final say, Rico’s version of Filipino’s favorite game Tong-its is something that Filipinos should be proud of.

Thanks Lavern for the nice review! You can read the entire article here.

I am now releasing as freeware the J2ME Tongits mobile game I released back in 2006. I am also going to release the source code as soon as I find it among the pile of backup CDs I have. This game was sold for a brief period and sold a few copies. I had to discontinue it for lack of time to provide support for it and update it to the latest technology. The game will run best on phones with a 176×208 screen resolution. Your phone must have J2ME MIDP version 1.0. Most phones these days support this.

Note that I will not be able to provide any kind of support for this game. I also cannot guarantee that bugs will be fixed and features will be added in the future although I do have some plans for another mobile version of Tongits which will use Flash Lite but there is still no definite time table for this.

Download Mobile Tongits

To install the game, copy the .jar and .jad files to the “Games” folder of your phone and run the “Install Applications” program of your phone. Installation process may vary for each phone model but this is generally the most common way of performing it.

Robert Rozum, an avid Tongits player from Phoenix, Arizona sent me a picture of his truck’s new license plate featuring what else but the game itself! This is something really exciting, how many games out there do you know have a license plate named after them? Not many! I was so elated when Robert told me about this. Thanks Robert!

Tongits was recently featured on Tambayan.ph. Ryman has this to say about the game:

I would have posted this earlier today, but I got hooked playing the game for three hours. And I’m already loosing against both the computer, with current wins 30, 25, 23 (I have the 23 wins). I’m still playing (alt+tabbing) as I’m writing this article.

Thanks Ryman for the feature!

Tongits is the first to be featured on AdobeAirGames.com, a brand new blog focusing on games built on Adobe® AIR™. I’m sure more games will be coming out soon now that the official 1.0 of AIR has been released.

I have decided to use some of the revenue to buy ad space from popular Filipino blogs. The first of which is PinoyBlogero.com. I do not expect to convert much of the incoming traffic into sales, I only hope that this move helps increase awareness about the existence of the game and eventually lead to more traffic through word of mouth. I’m also looking into AdWords and similar services but it’s too expensive and premature for me right now to utilize it.