Tongits

Tongits now runs on the official Adobe® AIR™ 1.0 release. This update also includes minor security fixes.

Download Tongits 1.0.6

Jennifer the Casual Gamer Chick wrote a nice review of Tongits plus a brief and clear overview of the rules. To be featured in such a high profile blog that caters to casual gamers is great news for my little game which badly needs some exposure. I hope more people will be encouraged to try out Tongits, the most addictive card game of all!

After much deliberation and feedback from potential customers, Tongits is now back to $5 from the original $10 price, permanently. I hope this will increase the sales figures. A major update or revision (perhaps a version 2) might be priced a bit higher though in the future.

Register Tongits now!

Tongits.net comes up #1 with Yahoo’s search using the keyword tongits while it doesn’t even appear in page 1 with Google (although most of the top results still point to www.tongits.net so I don’t really mind). Yahoo must be doing something right with their own search engine algorithms.

Update on Feb 20, 2008:

Just found out that www.tongits.net is now #2 on Google on search keyword tongits. Thanks Google! The #1 result is my free tongits game so still aok.

I just launched Game.dev.ph. It’s a frequently updated portal to all the best game development blogs out there. It’s a one stop shop to all your game development news needs.

Visit  Game.dev.ph.

My credit card was hit with 2 very expensive domain purchases this week. Gamer.ph and Dev.ph, each costing $70.00 or P2,870 with the current exchange rate. A total of P5,740! This is just for a 2 year registration period, you can have a .com for 5 to 7 years with that amount.

I didn’t even know what to do with these domains when I purchased them. It was a instinctive compulsive decision. I just thought they look good and have potential to become a good online brand. So I could probably consider my move as “investing” on a domain. I’m sure I’ll be able to think of something to do with them before they expire. Maybe even register these domains for a lifetime if they show some success.

For now, I turned gamer.ph into an aggregate site listing game related blogs maintained by Filipinos. These blogs were personally handpicked by me. I wanted regularly updated blogs with interesting and relevant content that even I would be willing to read. The site also somehow serves as my publicly viewable personal rss reader.

My recent purchase is dev.ph. I still don’t know exactly what to do with it but I’m sure it will have something to do with “dev” or development. I’m already thinking of reviving the old pinoyforum.net community of aspiring Filipino game developers by setting up game.dev.ph, cool huh?

I can see why .ph domains are expensive, it’s all about branding. But inevitably the price will go down as the number of available good domains shrink.

I would also like to commend dotPH’s very fast processing of orders although their site seems a bit slow at times.

Fellow Phlashers member, Erik Yap of Leapfrog Ventures and Leapfrog Studio doesn’t eat, drink nor sleep. During the last 2 weeks he was busy beating the crap out of 2 strong AI Tongits players. And now he has reached a major milestone, 1000 rounds of Tongits conquered!

This is definitely great news and I feel very honored knowing that someone enthusiastically appreciates one of my creations. So thank you very much Erik and please keep on playing and enjoying the game!

This minor update includes the following:

• volume control
• old paper look for the cards
• improved card back design
• exit game button in the main menu
• button for sorting your hand

Download Tongits 1.0.4

I decided to make Tongits more affordable by slashing the price from $15 down to $10. I’m also giving away 50% discount coupon codes for a limited time (few weeks maybe) making the game just $5. Just send me an email with the subject “50% discount coupon code” and I’ll send you the code.

So what are you waiting for? Register Tongits Now!

Update:

Just added Paypal payment support with $5 as default since I can’t find an option for discount coupon codes. I will switch it back to the regular $10 when the promo ends.

Update 2:

Removed Kagi payment option in favor of PayPal. PayPal has just so many advantages for the merchant including being able to instantly use the funds to pay for other products. And PayPal offers a much simpler admin interface for small sellers like me. I’m sticking with PayPal for now and maybe add 2Checkout in the future when the sales figures start to increase.

Tongits has been featured in the Philippines’ premier technology blog, PinoyTechBlog.com. Tongits is really getting popular!

Thanks to Karla Redor for writing the article.