iPhone 4 testers wanted
Do you have a brand new iPhone 4? I’m looking for a couple of people to help testing Jewels for iPhone on the actual iPhone 4 device. I have been working on to make sure that Jewels works also in the iPhone 4 resolution (and yes, I have crisp, pixel perfect high resolution graphics included, as well! 
) and while I can test in the simulator just fine, I’m interested in how the game performs on the real device. I think it should run about 50-60 fps (hopefully the max), but it is possible that the high res graphics bring it down, which means more optimizing work for myself.. 
Unfortunately, I think the testers will need to be in the iPhone Developer Program to be able to install the game on their devices. (Correct me if I’m wrong!) But it doesn’t hurt to ask, right? So, any iPhone devs willing to test it for me? Drop me a comment if you’re interested. If not, I could try to find people on some dev forums. I do have my own iPhone 4 ordered as well, but I’m unsure if I get it before the game is finished.. 
UPDATE: I did get my own phone, so there is no need for this anymore. It worked quite well, I had to optimize text rendering though. Now it works pretty much 60 fps all the time. The optimizations also benefit older devices (except 3GS, which was running at 60 fps already) so it was time well spent.
Hello, my sister showed me your Jewel game but she has a different phone and service than I do.(I have the original Iphone with ATT&T) She has the new phone that has 4G, The Android HTC/EVO. I cannot get your game Jewel on my phone. SOooo when will Jewel be ready for MY phone? I love your game! I have taken over my sister’s phone whenever she doesn’t need it during my visit to your state.
I hope it is ready soon, but can you keep me posted one way or the other?
Thank You! Rosanne
For the original iPhone, if you have the latest iPhone OS 3.1.3 installed, it should work, but I have not been able to test that as I don’t have the device. It works fine on iPhone 3G, but it might just work on the original as well.
I will be updating the blog as soon as the game is available at the App Store. It is almost ready to submit now.
I have a Motorola Droid. I downloaded your game Jewels because it the most like
the gem game on IPhone. My has an IPhone is all the time telling me how much fun
the game is. I must say your game is great I love it. Well I loved it till recently. It has started force closing and telling me there are no more moves when there are and it closes. This is the only place I could find to email you and ask if you could tell me why this happens. If it is my phone please let me know also. I have had the phone for a year but I am still learning things about it. I don’t mean to sound dumb but the whole game thing is new to me. I really want to keep your Jewels on my phone I love playing it. Thank you for any help you can give me. Pam McClure
You could try uninstalling and reinstalling the game. Although it it has worked fine before, it might not make a difference. There is probably some other app on your phone that causes the issues. Or not, it’s really hard to tell..
I have the new iPhone 4, downloaded the free version of ijewels and worked fine.
just downloaded the new version (1.1 ??) and now the sound does not work unless the headphones are plugged in.
Interesting. I haven’t heard about this one before. Probably something related to the CocosDension audio library, which I updated for the v1.1 to resolve the iPod issue. I will mark this on my TODO list to investigate further, at some point.