iPad and iPhone versions, side by side
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This week Yard of Ale HD has become available in the iTunes App Store. The game is an iPad specific version of the iPhone game of the same name, that I launched a few weeks back.

The iPad game, again written in C++ and DragonFireSDK, is essentially based on the same codebase as it's iPhone counterpart.

Conversion to iPad was straightforward,
and was largely achieved in just a few general steps, as follows:

• The graphics used in the game are those created for the iPhone 4 Retina Display

• Graphics needed to be repositioned to take advantage of the 1024 x 768 pixel screen size (the iPhone 4 Retina display measures 960 * 640 pixels)

• Fresh background graphics needed creating. I chose to change the app colours for this release.

• Version specific graphics needed changing, mainly pre rendered text images

The app became available for sale, appropriately, on St. Patricks Day, 17th March 2011.

Download the App at iTunes: (app no longer available)