Well, I am going to try them this afternoon! I had no idea you were involved in other projects. And I also do the same: I finish work and still keep doing other things related to it for fun :)

Now, who wants to buy me an iPad to play it?

I'd happily buy it... but I don't own any Apple products and don't see myself buying an iPhone or iPad any time soon.

Hey, I bought DeathSpank I & II!

By the way, what's "Mansion Mansion"?

Hey Ron. What are your thoughts on the Ouya console?

I hope they don't screw up the process of people being able to buy games. It's one of the things Apple got right and Android has struggled with.  I also hope they take players privacy very very seriously.  It's always a problem with open platforms (including the PC).  If the console becomes a malware and virus haven, they are dead.  That's something Android as also struggled with.

Gee... I want an iPad now...

Looks like a fun little game, but unfortunately supporting Apple plays into the hands of the corporate pigmonster. Solidarity, mi frater!

Free to play -- EVIL!!!  ( But I hope you guys make lots of dough from selling virtual coins. :) )
iOS -- MORE EVIL!!!
Apple -- PURE, UNADULTERATED EVIL OF THE WORST KIND!!!

This game has makes me sad. :(  I own an iPad for development and I've been registering with Apple as a developer since 2005.

I've been an Apple guy for decades and have always loved my Macs; but I don't know this new Apple. They're not the company I once knew, respected, defended, and sold so many of my friends and family on.  They're now a company I absolutely DESPISE on so many levels... I now view Microsoft as the good guys...

So sadly, I won't be downloading your new game to try out.  I have absolutely no care to access the iTunes Store for anything personal again.

But no worries, I owns a PC, so I'll be buying The Cave on day one!

AND, if you ever decide to look at Android in a positive light - - that's the platform I'll gladly download and try your FREE game on - - then buy some of your coins to give your ideas my financial support.

Take care Ron.

The game is more FREE than FREE-TO-PLAY.  Yes, there are virtual coins, but you don't need them to play 90% of the game.  I hate Zynga style FREE-TO-PLAY game as well.

I won't argue with you that Apple is evil.  I've been a using Macs since 1985 and I don't like the direction they are going any more than you do.  

But, I also hate Google.  I haven't posted on Google+ in months because I saw the way they were sharing personal information about me with other people they just "assumed" where my friends.  I hate the way they are tracking everything you do while logged in with a G+ account.

Of course, this didn't stop me from using the Google App Engine for the backend to The Big Big Castle!

Google and Apple are both evil companies, just in different ways.  What company isn't evil these days?  I'm about ready to quit Twitter due to them heading down the road to blocking 3rd party twitter apps because they interfere with their ability to make money.

I don't look at Android in a negative light.  It has just as many issues as iOS, just different issues.

Converting The Big Big Castle! to Android would be a lot of work since the whole thing is coded in objective-c.  I love objective-c, it's one of the best programming languages I've ever used and I'm having a lot of fun with it.  These projects are just fun things I do on the weekends, so I want to have fun making them and objective-c provides a lot of that fun.

I wish Google would spend a fraction of the billions they have in the bank and make an Android framework for xcode that allows Android devs to code in objective-c.  It would be a huge win for them.  I don't think they understand that.

I don't use any of UIKit (ok, 5 lines of code to create the opengl UIView) in my games, it's all pure opengl code.  I don't know a lot of iOS game devs that use UIKit, so all Google would need to do is support OpenStep and they'd get 90% of what I and most iOS game devs need to cross develop on Android.

If Google has already done this, I can't find it anywhere.  Maybe I should search with Bing.

Haven't looked into Objective-C, doesn't look like that much fun ;) I find the Haxe NME (http://www.haxenme.org/) approach currently more interesting. It let's you compile for different targets like Flash, iOS and Android. Also has libs for Box2D etc.

About the evil thing, I'm a bit torn on this. You have to create ecosystems and platforms with a certain level of Quality Control. But this means to sacrifice some user control or choice. I really hope OUYA can pull this off.

'Maybe I should search with Bing'  That last line made me laugh out loud on numerous levels :)

I'm not a big fan of any one company and avoid services like Google+. I'm not even on Facebook. If not for work that involves building Twitter feeds, I wouldn't be on it either.

I agree with your points.  It's just depressing to see how things are heading, as in less open.  I'm latching on to the lesser evils I guess.  Ironically, the guy that runs the local Android meet, hates Google.  Go figure.

I spent the day with a client and helped him pick out an Android tablet(ended up ordering a Nexus 7 online.) and also an iPad... Bleh. I'm hoping iOS slips down just enough, that Apple will have no choice but to be nice.

My first iOS gig was building the art in the UIKit/Interface Builder -- I'm an interactive designer, so if I'm not programm-eh-fying, I'm art-eh-fying and designing UIs; but for the undead corporate stuff.

BUT, having said the above, for my own personal projects, my first iPhone book was "iPhone 3D Programming," which taught me not to use UIKit for performance reasons.

Google needs to improve its interface builder, but I don't use it... And BING is of no use, it only returns Google's results... O_o

Anyways, I blame you.. I downloaded your game on my iPad and I had fun.  Now I feel dirty. :(

It was free and you guys did put in the time to offer something to share. So thanks!  I hope that soon, I'll have something up for free, that maybe you'll download and have fun with; I'm working on a game with a friend that lives two states away, so it's slow going.

Take care.

I had a blast playing the game today with my 5-year old nephew - awesome job and keep up the great work!

Boooooooooooooring!

Aaaaaaaaaashoooooooole.

I agreed with you about the game being boring until I got to level 9, then the game gets really fun and is a challenge. I am addicted to endless building right now. Give the game a chance. It grows on you.

Hi Ron, I just wanted to say that I have admired you for a long time. You are a very talented person who creates game that people love. Thank you so much. I hope you are doing well and hope you are having a wonderful day! I love you so much!