TanZen, from Little White Bear Studios, is a very popular application on the iPhone. It’s a game in which you have to arrange several blocks in the correct way to make figure. The developers have announced they are developing an iPad version of the game. The experience of the iPhone game will return in the iPad version, but with better graphics and great new features. Below is the entire list of features:
New Features:
- Entirely new graphics!
Everything is new, and built from scratch. You want HD? You got it! TanZen for the iPhone clocked in at about 4.5MB. TanZen for iPad looks like it’s going to easily hit 50MB before we’re finished.
- Dramatically increased sandbox for solving puzzles!
No more cramped space. Enjoy a vast sandy background, where there’s room to explore all your puzzle solving ideas.
- Multiple sand backgrounds
In addition to the traditional TanZen background, you’ll also get a number of subtly textured backgrounds to choose from, to add a little spice to your Zen playground.
- New achievement system!
As always, all puzzles are unlocked from the start. But for every page of puzzles you finish, something fun will be unlocked!
- All the puzzles from the iPhone version, plus more!
Puzzles have been reshuffled, so you’ll get a mix of new and old puzzles throughout.
- New puzzle picker layout, showing many more puzzles per page
Easier progress tracking, with much less scrolling.
- Multiple save slots for family play
Sharing your iPad with the family? All possible options and progress are now saved per player.
- Streamlined interface for all menus and options, with everything accessible from the main screen
All options can be accessed via a single button from the puzzle or the picker screen. Everything is done through custom popups, so you will never leave your main screen. Change options, and watch the changes happen live.
- Support for left and right landscape orientations
Want your headphone jack on a particular side? You got it!
- In game iPod music picker
Enjoy the standard TanZen music, or pick your own, from inside the game.
- Hints on top
Every double tap will reveal a hint above everything else on the screen, which means no more hints hiding behind other pieces.
- Last puzzle played button
The button that returns you to the puzzle picker screen now acts as a “last puzzle” button when you’re in the puzzle picker. No matter what page you scroll to in the picker, pressing this button will open the last puzzle you had been working on.
- Optimized rotation ring
The ring has been resized to better fit the new piece sizes, and allow for easier selection of pieces that are near each other.
- Improved Masters Mode layout
The thumbnail image has been moved to top center, allowing for easier viewing, and a return to the traditional TanZen placement of the default pieces.
- Volume controls for sound effects
Full range volume control for the sounds, instead of just on/off.
- Custom, themed, popups
No more blue popup system messages. Now when you’re in TanZen, you’re really IN TanZen.
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