The final post about Jewels (no promises!)…
A few weeks ago I finished the biggest update for Jewels yet (and most probably the final big update), with some often requested features. The most important of them is of course the Global High Scores (or leaderboards), courtesy of the Scoreloop service. This has been well received among the players, and there are some insanely good scores on the boards already — in fact it didn’t take but a few days for the first killer scores to appear. 
I’m proud to say that my own top score for the Normal playmode is currently on the quite respectable ranking of 70141.. 
I did a bit better in the Timed game, ranking at 8167 at the moment. 
So yeah, there are some good scores about. On the Finland list I’m at rankings 41 and 11 respectively, yay!
I also completely redid the old and ugly Android-menus for something that works (and looks) a bit better, plus made some long overdue fixes here and there, but I guess I should’ve blogged about the release earlier; these other changes are not that interesting.. 
Also, this seems like a good opportunity to announce that there probably won’t be any bigger updates for Jewels later, I will do some bug fixes and like but nothing major, I think. I need to focus on other things, and due to a rather big personal event (of which I’ll post about a bit later) I need to priorize my time better. Nevertheless, I want to thank all the players, especially those numerous people that play the game regularly and keep it prospering on the Android Market! So thank you!
congratulations on getting your game to be featured in the htc wilfdire promotion (both website and video)!
Oh, thanks for the link Markus! Cool, although weird at the same time: they have not used the actual game footage, but instead animated something eeriely similar!
The background is different, as well as the fonts and the bonus bar. Even the effects and falling of the jewels is different. Cool nevertheless! 
I absolutely love this game, but in the last few weeks, I had to uninstall and then reinstall it almost every day because it keeps freezing! This usually occurs right after I finish one game, then choose “new game”, and then tap “timed mode”. It just freezes right there, and the only thing left for me to do is to uninstall it. Any solutions or suggestions?
(I’m using HTC Legend.)
Thanks!
Hard to say, perhaps try updating the game unless you’ve already got the latest version.
Hi Mika,
First, I have to say that I love Jewels, probably the best game I’ve played for Android!
I detected a minor bug that I would like to see fixed because is rather annoying, when I receive a call and return to Jewels, it’s a game over for sure! Jewels is not pausing when receiving a phone call and I’ve lost some good scores because of that
I hope you can release a small bug fix as soon as you can, please?
And lastly, congrats on being a dad! I bet you’ll be coding for some nights now, it will be the baby calling you for work! xD hehehe
Best Regards!
Oh, beside the previous bug I also have the same problem/issue/bug as Tea, Jewels freezes after I start a new Timed Mode game after losing 2 or 3 in row and try to start a 3rd or 4th game, meaning that starting a 3th or 4th Timed Mode game in a row it freezes Jewels and I have to kill it with the Advanced Task Killer
I have an HTC Desire.
Thank you for your comments!
I cannot reproduce those issues, and believe me I have tried, so it is difficult to fix them. The game has always worked perfectly for me on HTC Hero (it correctly saves the game state upon phone call, and restores it later), as well as other phones. But yet there is many people with problems similar to what you’ve experienced. The Android phone market is so diverse, so it is hard to keep things working on every device.. 
Love Jewels! I am not a serious gamer, but have had a game going for quite some time now. I am currently at 4,250,000+ points and can’t seem to lose. I would love to upgrade to your new release of Jewels, but am afraid I’ll lose my game. Do you have any idea what the high scores on your previous release were?
So I love Jewels. how do I download it to my samsung seek. I want to download it so I may also enjoy playing it. thanks.