First come first served!
Make sure you follow us on Twitter @vbpod so that you don’t miss out our bi-weekly promo giveaways!

Please note that all promo codes are for the same app, so use only one and keep the rest for the next comers!

The year 2009 was a fabulous year for Vanilla Breeze. We’ve grown from a group of 3 to 15. We’ve created several dozens of mobile apps that are sold in 90 countries around the world. A number of our apps have been top-rated in many countries, and we’ve won a handful of awards and recognitions from press. All these would have never been possible without your continuing support. We want to thank you all.

The year 2010 is going to be even more fascinating than ever! We’ve got exciting plans for new app ideas, as well as updates of existing apps. So keep coming back to our blog and share your thoughts with us! We try our best to provide answers (though not in very timely manner) to your questions and suggestions, but we wanted to let you know that we do read every single email.

Once again, thank you all.
Happy new year and happy shooting!

First come first served!
Make sure you follow us on Twitter @vbpod so that you don’t miss out our weekly promo giveaways!

696LJHKALFR4

Please note that all promo codes are for the same app, so use only one and keep the rest for the next comers!

The long-awaited i-Gun update has been declined multiple times in a row for very minute reasons.

1. Apple told us the images from the shooting range mode are objectionable.

Well, we can name out at least a dozen games that are now on the Top 100 Action Game ranking that are associated with direct targeting and shooting of human figures, some even with expression of gore and blood. If FPS games like Doom, Modern Combat, or several sniper games are in the App Store, it’s difficult to imagine why we can’t use human targets. Apple, please let us expect some consistency in your review process.

2. Apple thinks i-Gun cash pop-up looks much like In-App Purchase, thus leading to user confusion.

Are they seriously thinking that people will buy the silencer for $1000 Cash? (We can’t be happier if they did.) In any case, we’ve decided to change the symbol for the currency. So, from the next version, you’ll see 1,000G (as in gold), not $1,000. Also, we have made a custom-designed pop-up window to minimize potential user confusion (if there had been any).

3. and some technical stuff…

A line of code which has never been any problem in the past couple updates was detected, and Apple said no-no, even though it only affects those with illegal cracked copies of i-Gun by shutting down the application (no calling home, so don’t worry).

We can’t emphasize enough that we’re very much disappointed with Apple’s continued disapproval of i-Gun update.

In the meanwhile, we have two more updates already being developed for the near future, so stay tuned, and happy shooting!

First come first served!
Make sure you follow us on Twitter @vbpod so that you don’t miss out our weekly promo giveaways!

JR96XHAEAEYT

ENXFLPMWARFF

P9YYNHYNW493

9JTRAPL799P4

EX339FM6EAFN

A new casual game coming soon to iTunes AppStore near you!

Save chicks and be a hero! (Yes, we can do cute stuff too!)

ETA: Late June, 2009 ->  Now Released!

Price: $0.99

The Maneki Neko(???), aka Welcoming Cat, Money Cat or Fortune Cat, is a popular Japanese sculpture, which is believed to bring good fortune.

Well, we gave a little twist to the regular hand motion as you can see from the picture here. (which you can change back to normal from the options menu)

A number of background skins and Japanese style music have been added.

We believe this is rather funny, not offensive as it may seem.

Want to see it for yourself?

Apple has now approved the application. Check it out from the AppStore!

Crack LCD, a fun little app that mimics a broken screen when touched, has been rejected by AppStore again.

It was initially submitted early January, and after a week of waiting, we received the first response from Apple.

Dear Vanilla Breeze,

Your application Crack LCD is requiring unexpected additional time for review.   We apologize for the delay, and will update you with further status as soon as we are able.

Thank you for your patience.

Regards,

iPhone Developer Program

Apple usually approves (or denies) our apps in about a week’s time, but we waited and waited.

Then, after exactly one month, we received this.

Dear Vanilla Breeze,

Thank you for submitting your application to Apple’s App Store. Unfortunately, your application, Crack LCD, cannot be added to the App Store because it uses standard iPhone screen images in a non-standard way, potentially resulting in user confusion. Changing the behavior of standard iPhone graphics, actions, and images, or simulating failures of those graphics, actions, or images is a violation of the iPhone Developer Program agreement which requires applications to abide by the Human Interface Guidelines.

If you would like to share this app with friends and family, we recommend you review the Ad Hoc method on the Distribution tab of the iPhone Developer Portal for details. This will allow you to distribute your application to a small group of people of your choosing.

Regards,

iPhone Developer Program

Come on, Apple!

You’ve approved hundreds of fart apps (yes, there are more than one hundred of these at the AppStore), pull-my-finger joke apps, annoying sound generators, and such. Why not a broken screen prank? People who purposefully purchasing a broken screen app cannot be frustrated by “potentially resulting in user confusion,” which is the very point of buying this app.

All people who have been shown and victimized by Crack LCD told us that it was fun and they had a good time cracking more.

We believe little fun apps like this should be recommended, not banned.