is this on? HELLO? HELLO?
yes it's on!
well

HI, long time no see, or better, read, i hadn't had time to do much PRring lately, but we've been all working for hedgewars behind the curtains non-stop

what i wanted to show you today was a shameless execuse to push the chipin donation drive a couple of very important images that happened in the past and that will happen in the future.

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the big Hedgewars demo

In the following two picturs you will see a rare photographic evidence of the fact that the developers are real people.

Here's koda demoing Hedgewars to a group of standing non-techie people that were passing by! We had to benchmark the computer (pictured) in some way and test how its dual gpu sli nvidia 9600 performed on the new core i7.
Yes, the organizers didn't really know how to spend more money

And here is a second pic (blurriness ftw):

The event was quite fun! I would have liked to show off hedgewars more but it became very popular and when i told my public that this was a free (and opensource) game they became excited! The game that was being replayed is the final match from the first tournament.

Hedgewars on Mobile

So as you know we want to expand hedgewars audience as much as possible, both with events like the above, and with a presence on as many platform as possible.

For the desktop version, everything is set up nicely, as we've got all (modern) operating systems supported, and starting from 0.9.13 also all powerpc and intel processor architectures! (omg spoilers!!!)

So our world dominantion plans lacks only of a portable version, for mobile device! We've been pretty busy in making one as it is not really easy to port a graphical intensive game such Hedgewars on low powered devices! However there has been advantages, as you can see here:

that's right, this is the first screenshot of the native iPad application of Hedgewars! We are moving our efforts to support that device too followed by the iPhone and every other mobile device that we can find (maemo, andoroid, pandora)

Many people donated to help us for the iPad version (we you guys), but many didn't
that's fine and accpetable, but most complained that they didn't like that we were supporting the iPad only

Well don't worry, we WILL port hedgewars on other devices as well!
Most of them have similar hardware characteristic and i'm pretty sure all of them use OpenGL ES as their graphic render... in other words, if you support the iPad version, you automatically support the mobile version of hedgewars for all the platforms!!!
and if you believe that donating for the ipad version stinks, think in this way: the sooner we complete the ipad version, the sooner we can port hedgewars on your device of choice
but on reality porting hedgewars from ipad/iphone to any other device is going to take much less time than porting hedgewars from desktop to mobile

SO my time is running out and i'll leave you with this message:
DONATE DONATE DONATE
remember that if you donate 5$ or more you'll get any custom hat designed exclusively for you, that only you will be able to wear for all 0.9.13! Plus i'll give you cookie