One of our goals for 2011 is to make the perfect iPad and iPhone Sudoku game.  A challenge we are continuing to work on over the next month or two, and it’s all leading up to the release of Big Bad Sudoku Book version 3.  As part of this quest, I’m asking this question to all sudoku game players, from the hard core players to the casual gamers.. What elements make the Perfect Sudoku Game?

I’ve published my personal email address (michael @ badweaselgames.com) so that people can get direct support and help on all of our games.  If you have an answer to the question or a feature that you’d like to see, email it to me there or mention it in the support forum.  I’ve created a special forum topic for it.

But there are some inherent challenges in making a perfect sudoku game.  The biggest challenge is that different people play at different levels and this means they expect different things out of the game.  In the current version of Big Bad Sudoku Book we’ve tried to address this with game options, but I fear that users aren’t finding these options easily enough and just assume that the game can’t do what they want it to do.  Chances are the option is there if you know where to find it.  Making the game so that it’s easier to navigate the options is on the list for version 3.

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To welcome all of those new Verizon iPhone users, we’re giving away Big Bad Sudoku Book for 2 days.  The FREE ‘sale’ is Thursday Feb 10th and Friday Feb 11th only.  Then it will return to the normal price.  So download it now!

Snow Day Sudoku gets Holiday Game Feature

Bad Weasel Game’s newest game has just been featured in the Holiday Games section right next to Angry Bird’s Seasons.  Snow Day Sudoku is part of the Sudoku Book family of products and is a deep winter / Christmas themed version of our popular game with calming falling snow effects and much holiday cheer.

This year Bad Weasel Games is sponsoring The Water Project, which is a US-based non-profit committed to providing clean, safe drinking water to those who suffer needlessly without it.  Bad Weasel hopes to finance several clean water solutions this season and has decided to donate $1 for each copy of Snow Day Sudoku sold between now and December 31, 2010.  We will post updates here as to our progress, and show photos of our completed water projects later in 2011.  The great thing is that Snow Day Sudoku is staying the same low price of $1.99 – so it’s a win-win.  Get a great game at a great price and feel good about it at the same time.

Snow Day Sudoku  - Version 1.0.1 – $1.99 US

Big Bad Sudoku Book 2.1.1 has been submitted and will be going live this week.  It mostly fixes several different crashing and hanging bugs:

• Fixed crashing under iOS 3.1.3.
• Fixed hanging/crashing about 10 seconds in (facebook check).
• Fixed crash when reporting 50th campaign score to game center.
• Fixed a few other problems that could cause occasional hanging.

Also the Game Center Leaderboard sort order is now fixed.  So all of your high scores should be now posting…

This fix is live now and does not require the update.  All you have to do to get all of your scores updated is complete any game and allow it to report the score to Game Center.  All of your accumulated points will post.

Bad Weasel Games has been a busy place since we released Big Bad Sudoku Book v2.0.  Sudoku Book 2.0 added support for all iOS devices in one universal app, high resolution graphics for the Retina display on the iPhone 4 and new iPod Touch, and many more new features.  We’ve been hard at work on two new games.  But first we are prepping a new update that supports Apple’s new Game Center and also fixes a few of the minor issues with 2.0.

The new version allows players to use Game Center features (only on the iPhone and iPod Touch) to see how they compare with their friends via a Leaderboard, and introduces Achievements.  Of course, all the version 2.0 social gaming features are still there.  You can still sends puzzle to friends for competitive play over facebook, email, or even via a text message (if both devices support text messaging).  When you update to version 2.1 all your previous progress will be saved and apply towards your achievements.

Version 2.1 also fixes a couple of minor issues that people reported:

• Campaign Mode puzzled played across multiple load sessions now correctly unlock the next puzzle.
• The timer no longer sticks.
• Auto import of puzzles from Facebook friends – now ignores puzzles that had previously been imported.
  • If you want to import a puzzle a second time just use the facebook app to find it and click on the link.
• Improved the readability of some of the numbers in the status font.
• Added a Help button to take you to the help section on our website.

The update is live NOW!

If you have any questions or comments please Email Support.

Highlights in Big Bad Sudoku Book are a revolutionary way to see and solve sudoku puzzles. With highlights you can softly highlight cells, rows, or columns with the swipe of a finger. They help focus your attention and narrow down possibilities. You can use highlights to temporarily mark positives or negatives, but more often they can be used to keep track of where an answer can’t go.

Here’s an example from actual game play. In each of these following screen shots the red drawing is not part of the game but has been added to explain how the Big Bad Sudoku Book works. Click on the pictures to see them bigger: Read… »

During the weekend of April 24th we made BBSB free for 3 days.  During the promotion it jumped in the rankings becoming the #1 most downloaded app over the weekend.  Thanks to everyone who downloaded it during the free weekend sale!