r2 Studios: News

Introducing Teeny Tinies Toddler game for Phone and Tablet

Fri, 03 May 2013 06:48:37 PDT

I'd like to introduce Teeny Tinies. In between working on my r2 Studios software, I've also been writing a video game for iOS and Android Phones and Tablets with my fiancé Katie.

Teeny Tinies is a game for Toddlers (2-4 years old) and features bright colours and fun sounds on a simplistic interface. No in-game purchases and no disruptions to play.

Teeny Tinies is made to challenge toddlers in a fun environment so they don’t get frustrated. This game is fully interactive and everything makes a noise when tapped.

The game environment is made up of Music, Numbers and Costume areas where toddlers learn musical notes, alphabet, counting, colours, creativity and how to spot the difference.

Katie has done an awesone job on all the art and design in the game and I'm really happy with how the game turned out. It was just the two of us teaming up together in our spare time for about 6 months to create the game and if you have toddlers or know someone who has toddlers, we hope you can buy a copy (It's only $0.99!) and let them enjoy the game!

You can view now on the App Store or on Google Play by using the buttons below or by searching for Teeny Tinies on your device.

For further information, please visit the r2 Studios sister site Appelli

Xion Audio Player version 1.5 build 154 released

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 05:51:54 PDT

Xion 1.5 (Build 154) has been released to fix some issues encountered in build 150 and also includes some tweaks to the knob objects.

You can grab the build from the Product page or use the Check Now button in the Configure Window of Xion.

Changes in this build:

Added Device information to the Output tab
Fixed the Pitch control by moving it to the bass_fx plugin
Fixed save_state using transparency as well as visiblity for the visible state, instead of just visibility
Added hiding of the cursor while dragging the knob
Modified the cursor stay in the same position so that after dragging the knob, your cursor is back to where it started
Modified the cursor so that it's not limited to the size of the screen
Revised the shutdown and save procedure
Fixed message argument type being wrong for XT_GETALBUMARTHBITMAP

Xion Audio Player version 1.5 build 150 released

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 04:38:22 PDT

It's been a long time coming and now finally Xion has a new build!

Xion 1.5 (Build 150) has a brand new skin designed by the amazing Lance Thackeray as well as a large number of fixes and optimization, tons of new features for skinners including a new tint control and knobs for volume and balance and even new file icons. Make sure you check out the changelist for a full list.

You can grab the build from the Product page or use the Check Now button in the Configure Window of Xion.

Changes in this build:

Added new filetype icons for several formats, including a common format
Added support for mono/center vumeter, anim type and trans object, based on max left/right value
Improved the way that the vumeters and other level meters cache data so its only done once per update
Added support for the 28 spectrum bands, including peaks to the skin system
Improved the resizing operation performed on Album art so that the final result is of better quality
Added indicator for album art
Added support for a skinnable Equalizer window
Added support for an EQ Reset button 'eqreset'
Added Default program registration for Vista/7
Enabled Vista/7 file default registration when associating file types
Updated the File association behaviour to work on Windows 7 and Windows 8
Added a playback frequency slider 'playbackfrequency'
Added support for tint slider
Merged all Default plugins into the main executable
Enabled support for Remote image and Remote url open
Many Fixes and Optimizations
Added 'default' keyword to tint slider to allow setting of start value
Added save_state support to tint slider to remember last setting
Added new valuefrom/valfrom keyword for sliders to copy their values from another slider. Use is valuefrom(x) where x is the id of the slider to copy from
Made the xfer keyword work with all sliders
Added full support for playback frequency range of 0.0x - 2.0x
Made the Playback frequency save between loads
Fixed rare button _over and _down states activating after a button has already been hidden
Made Space pause/play when a skinned window is focused
Added the ability to move all snapped windows together, instead of just those attached to the main window
Fixed Library writing duplicate entries
Added 'Reset to Default' menu item to EQ, Playback speed and Balance sliders
Added support for Opus file format
Added double click to reset sliders
Added support for assigning an id to a group and then having that group assign that id to any direct child layers who don't already have an id themselves
Fixed vumeters and specbands from cancelling during mute
Fixed crossfading overriding muting when using next/play/prev
Added support for grouped save state assignment
Made aclaswch save state when flagged with save_state
Added new GUIKnob with support for volume and balance

Startup Delayer version 3.0 build 331 released

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:13:51 PST

Build 331 of Startup Delayer is a re-release of build 330 which had some issues due to the changeover to a new Content Delivery Network.

You can grab the build from the Product page or use the Update button in the Options Window of Startup Delayer.

Changes in this build:

Fixed pause button on notifier not working
Updated Languages: Italian, German and Czech

Startup Delayer version 3.0 build 330 released

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 04:52:56 PST

Build 330 of Startup Delayer has a fix for the Pause button and Language updates for Italian, German and Czech. There are some new features coming in build 331 but I decided to push this release out as they'll take a little while longer yet.

You can grab the build from the Product page or use the Update button in the Options Window of Startup Delayer.

Changes in this build:

Fixed pause button on notifier not working
Updated Languages: Italian, German and Czech