This week I’ve been doing some fine-tuning work to make it possible for the first picklet, The 3 Baddest Bandits of the Wild, Wild West, to get out the door and find an audience. It’s been a slow, frustrating week of development but rather than not talk about it, here’s a summary of what went [...]

I’ve spent most of the last two weeks on editor bug fixes and usability improvements based on user feedback. This has greatly improved the editor user experience. Here are some of those new features;

Making content look good on iPhone 4

The iPhone 4 screen has a significantly higher pixel density than the previous iPhone. Four times as many pixels on a screen of the same physical dimensions. The result is crisp and clear images with no pixel artifacts visible to the naked eye.

That is only true if [...]

Since the last post I’ve added full-resolution images to the export script, picklet builder and in the Picklets app. I’ll write about that soon, but in the last couple of days I’ve written a Flash-based picklet player. I want to briefly discuss why, and then describe how it works.

The Flash plugin is now [...]