We have released a 60 minute time-limited trial for Wezzle. This version features everything, including achievements and full screen mode.

If you haven't tried it out yet, please give it a go

Hi DzzD,

The reason we're using OpenGL is due to a design decision early on.  Basically it's much easier to write a 2D game engine when you use a 3D card because it has a high fill rate (i.e. you can just redraw the whole screen each time).  Unfortunately, this decision requires us to load native libraries with the applet and thus the security pop-up.

In hindsight, we should've used something like Pulpcore, but we didn't know that it existed at the time and we were too far into the development by the time we did.

On the bright side, if we port to Android and iPhone, we'll have all these lessons to learn from.

How far'd you get in the demo?

Regards,
Cameron

Hello again JGO,

About a week ago we posted an applet demo of our game Wezzle for you to see.  As it turned out, we didn't really give people much to see so we've expanded the demo to show all 4 items and 5 more levels.  That's double the content!  For free!

Without further ado, here's a link to our expanded demo: http://couchware.ca/www/wezzle/web



Feedback, comments, and criticism are always welcome.

Cameron

Just a heads up to everyone that after some soul-searching we dropped the price of Wezzle to $4.99 from $14.99:
http://couchware.ca/www/blog/2010/03/27/wezzle-price-drops-to-just-4-99/

Thanks for the feedback, jojoh.  I've posted by replies below.


Thank you


Could you elaborate on that?  There's also a click sound played when you use a piece - maybe that's the source of the clicking?


We're using FSAA so it should automatically be anti-aliased.  Maybe your video driver doesn't allow software to turn on FSAA?  There's also an issue on Mac where we're not able to enable FSAA.

That log message is OK.  It's just saying it can't find some resources that are in the full version.

I'm one half of an indie developer called Couchware Inc.  We just released a demo of our first game Wezzle, a match-3 puzzle game.  Try it out and let us know what you think!

http://couchware.ca/www/wezzle/web/

The product page is located: http://couchware.ca/www/wezzle/

Here's a screenshot: