Lensflare Games LLC

09/13/2018

Dear Google Play representative,

We are stumped. As far as we can tell, nothing in our app OR its metadata is misleading, irrelevant, excessive, or inappropriate.

In the example you gave us, 拼字游戏 literally means “game of putting words together” in Chinese. It specifically refers to games (in general) where you form words from letters. It is not a Chinese translated name for Scrabble. It is not a copyright violation.
1. It is not misleading as Elexi is a game where you form words from letters.
2. It is not irrelevant as it describes our game exactly.
3. I really don’t think there is anything excessive about those four words.
4. I also don’t see how describing the game is inappropriate.

Because of this, we really don’t know where our app violates “We don’t allow apps with misleading, irrelevant, excessive, or inappropriate metadata, which include the app’s description, title, icon, screenshots, and promotional images.” Please help us to identify the exact issue so that we can address it.

Best regards,
Lensflare Games LLC

09/16/2017

64-bit version of TSC got approved by Apple today and should now be available. Let us know if you see any issues.

03/05/2017

Blog post on the new design.

So, some thoughts on design, inspired by a new logo and subsequent redesign of the Lensflare web page. Which, presumably, you're looking at right now (unless enough time has passed that either the logo or web page has changed again, of course).

11/30/2016

A review at Pocket Tactics.

Word games exist at a very important intersection between entertainment and education. They serve a great purpose–helping to develop ones vocabulary in the name of fun. I love word games and learned to play games like Scrabble and Boggle at a very young age.

11/29/2016

So the thing about Tactical Space Command (and TSC2) is that it lives and dies with line drawing — the game is supposed to have that classic vector Aegis Combat System Harpoon look, after all. The problem is... Unity isn't really interested in lines, not really. I'm not sure that any game engines re...

11/10/2016

Brief blog post on EM16 update:

And that means... Election Manager 2016 got updated. I actually pushed the update early his morning[1] and Apple was particularly quick on the approvals, so it's already out there. Last I checked, it didn't show the 1.2.0 version on the iOS App Store (it already did on the Mac App Store), but it wil...

11/10/2016

EM16 1.2 (updated with 2016 election data) is now released. Get it for Mac: goo.gl/4XPkrc or iOS: goo.gl/HmX0nb

Get Election Manager 2016 on the Mac App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.

11/09/2016

In lieu of sleeping, I updated EM16 so that the 2016 scenario matches the actual election results.

(Version 1.2.0 should be out in a few days, depends on how long Apple takes to review it.)

11/02/2016

Blog post!

It took longer than expected because, well, localization isn't exactly trivial, and there were also distractions in the form of visitors, family, and related travel. All of the latter pushed things back almost two months later than it could have been (localization wasn't ready until just after that…

11/01/2016

Our new word game Elexi is out today... Go check it out! Available for both iOS and Android.

Spelling words. Scoring points. A board full of tiles with letters on them. Seems pretty simple, right? But for every word spelled, there's a cost. A choice. A letter that has to be thrown away. And the choices get more and more difficult until the letters run out and there are no more choices left.

08/07/2016

EM16 updates coming (right now in review at Apple). More details here:

So, first, the "big" news: Election Manager 2016 has been updated and is currently awaiting approval for the App Store and Mac App Store. We'd been waiting for the conventions to release an update since we didn't know who all of the candidates would be until then (specifically, who the vice presiden...

04/01/2016

A small announcement for today.

Is polar research your thing? Have you always wanted to captain a government research vessel? Do you yearn to live a life of endless scientific adventure? Is fighting off ice pirates, very lost penguins, and polar bears with a taste for human flesh your idea of a good time? Have you always had the d…