Toyspring News

Arcade Reality for iPhone

Arcade Reality News — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:20:00 +0000

Arcade Reality is now available in the AppStore
Unlike the Palm version, it uses compass and accelerometer for detecting motion (because iPhone applications are not allowed to read live video from camera). This means you need the new iPhone 3GS to play the game.
See it on YouTube!

5 Years on Bike!

News — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:58:12 +0000

It is hard to believe it has been 5 years already!

Here is the last year's ranking chart, showing all good players who managed to reach top 50. Congratulations!

Past charts: year 1 year 2 year 3 year 4

Introducing "Introduction" + updates

News — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:43:46 +0000

The new Introduction levelpack becomes the starting pack in new BoD releases - easy and nice levels demonstrating basic gameplay features should help new players learn basic biking skills.

By the way, the following enhancements have been added:

"Need help? Click here!" hints how to complete a level and offers to replay the tutor ride (instead of starting the replay immediately)

Ghost bike uses the tutorial recording if a given levels was not yet completed

(Palm only) "rescue" can now handle multiple players' recordings

(Palm only) new "Go To Hall of Fame" menu option opens the Hall of Fame listing for the currently played level (or its Levelpack Explorer page if the level is not in HoF). I forgot to include this in the iPhone update, will be added in the next one.

Palm:
download Bike or Die 2.1b

iPhone:
Bike or Die in AppStore (the above changes are added in version 2.1.3, will appear in the store soon)
Bike or Die - Lite Edition (recently released free version)

New in Hall of Fame: Winter Pack and One Wheel Fun!

News — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:30:26 +0000

The 14th Hall of Fame levelpack is Winter Pack, containing 14 amazing levels created by the best Bike or Die players!

If you downloaded the Winter Pack before, please delete it and download the current version, otherwise your scores won't be accepted into the Hall of Fame!
Players using the old Bike or Die v1.6, should upgrade to the most recent version 1.6b, earlier versions contained a bug that affected the radial gravity levels, which was not an issue until now - as the Winter Pack is the first Hall of Fame pack using radial gravity (see Planet Time Trial).

Do you prefer freestyle over time trial racing? The new competition has just started:
One Wheel Fun - "Save rubber, ride on one wheel!"
Is it possible to complete a level using just one wheel? Probably not, but can you go farther than anyone else?

More about Freestyle

Bike or Die! 2.1

News — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:40:31 +0000

I thought the iPhone version will appear first (it has been sent to AppStore few days ago) but the delay is longer than expected. I managed to compile the new Palm version in the meantime

And here it is:
Download Bike or Die! 2.1a for Palm

- introducing "Save & Resume", as shown in the previously published video
This means the game will be easier and less frustrating for new players - you don't need to play the level from the very beginning each time you die. However, you still have to complete the level in one go in order to submit your score to the Hall of Fame.
The new "automatic Save & Resume" feature is ON by default, which means you will experience it just by playing the game as usual. This might be not what you want if you are the experienced player struggling to get the best Hall of Fame score - read the Hints below to learn how to tame Save & Resume.

Hints:

Note the "R" icon in the bottom right corner. It reminds you the current game has been resumed (so you won't be surprised you can not submit it later)

Restart the game twice in a row to get back to the beginning (making the game HoF-able again)

You can disable the automatic saving completely (see Control Options)

Even when auto saving is disabled, you can still save manually, anytime you want (press and hold Pause, or define a button in Control Options/Function)

Notes:

The "R" icon is also displayed in level selector if a given level was only completed by resuming.

As a "side effect", the game is now also saved on quit (and resumed on the next start). Such feature was requested long time ago - after all, this is the standard Palm application behavior.

Palm only: Manual camera movement is now more usable - it stays in place after releasing the pen so you can look around more comfortably while playing. Wait a few seconds to shift back to normal. (iPhone version worked that way since 2.0)

Bug fixed in 2.1a (Palm)

levels completed by resuming did not unlock further levels