Firstly, there’s a brand new chapter, Printer Paper, with 15 new challenging levels. We listened to your comments on the previous Blueprint update and hope we’ve done an even better job on this latest release. Printer paper introduces a new Stapler enemy, and also a new kind of dot, but we’ll let you find out about them yourself!

We’ve  added a new Bonus Level pack, this time for Loose Leaf and there’s a new character to be unlocked, Ralph the Cat Pencil! What’s more we’ve taken your  suggestions on board and reduced many of the store prices including Bonus Packs and level skips/completes and we’ve added an option in Chapter Select for you to follow us on Twitter and earn yourself 500 additional Blue Dots, for free!

Finally, there’s a few minor bug fixes, most notably the one many of you experienced regarding collision detection in Square Paper Bonus Level 5.

We hope you all like the update and as always, please get in touch with us here, on Facebook or on Twitter and let us know your feedback.

We’re exceptionally proud to announce that Save The Pencil has now been played over half a billion times. That’s right, there have been over 500,000,000 level attempts by our 3.4 million users! So we think it’s about time we gave something back, and we’ve come up with a pretty cool idea.

We want to produce an awesome video for Save The Pencil. Not a video of gameplay, but a video of YOU guys, your parents, your children, your friends, your grandparents, maybe even you’re exceptionally talented pets actually playing the game. We’ve received some really funny clips over the past few months, and would welcome a bunch more so we can put together a great little trailer. The reactions of people playing Save The Pencil make fantastic viewing, so if you get super happy, super mad, or somewhere in-between, we’d love to hear from you.

We’ll do our best to use every single video we receive, and of course, there’s prizes to be won for the best entries! The winner will receive a $50 iTunes Gift certificate, with selected runners up receiving smaller denominations. In order to enter, please email video clips to video@perfectdimension.com. If it’s easier you can mail us a youtube link to the video instead.

Not able to take a video? Well, we may be able to use some still images too, so feel free to send us pictures of you playing Save The Pencil, or anything else that is Save The Pencil inspired!

We would also like to take this opportunity to let everyone know that work has begun on Save The Pencil 2, which we hope to release later in the year. We’ve learnt a lot from the original Save The Pencil and can promise you all that the second version will be better in every way! We take all your Facebook / Twitter comments and your emails on board, so please keep them coming.

Also, no need to worry, development and updates on the current Save The Pencil will continue.

Really sorry about this and are pleased to let you all know this has now been rectified. In v1.31 you should be able to read help until your heart’s content.

Thanks for your patience and apologies again.

If you have any unit requests, remember, you can get in touch and we’ll add them for you.

Since the Blueprint update we’ve had a number of users get in touch or leave negative reviews in the App Store claiming the touch detection in Blueprint is poor and the game does not work properly. This is actually incorrect, but we can understand why they feel this way. In Blueprint, we introduced Scissors. Playing against Scissors is like playing a game of Chess. You move, they move, you move, they move. You CANNOT move whilst the scissors are cutting, and it is for this reason users incorrectly feel the dots have become unresponsive. They are trying to move before the Scissors have finished. And if they are playing with the sound off, there is no way for them to know their touch has been detected.

So what have we done to resolve this issue? Several things. Firstly, we’ve increased the speed with which the scissors move to their next cutting point. Secondly, we’ve increased the speed with which the scissors move having completed a cut. And finally (and perhaps most importantly), we have added a visual warning message which appears if you try to move whilst the Scissors are still cutting. We hope this helps everyone out, and we’re sorry we were unable to communicate the way the Scissors worked in a clearer fashion.

Now onto the good stuff…

Lots of users have gotten in touch and asked if we could add not just new enemies, but also new pencils you could play with. So we have…v1.3 features two new characters, Miss H, a pink pencil with a pink lead, and Professor Prop, a propelling pencil with a green lead. We’ll be adding a new character in each update. To access the character select screen, simply go to Options and tap the Characters button.

Finally, we have lots of requests for new levels already, and we are, as always, working on new levels. As Blueprint was just released however, the next chapter won’t be out several weeks.

Just to give you a feel for what this means we’ve prepared the image below. On the left, you can see a zoomed in view of HB at 200%. On the right you can see the exact same view as it would appear on a retina display. As you can see there is absolutely no blurring and the image looks as sharp as ever.

We can’t wait for you all to see how amazing Save The Pencil looks on the new iPad! Make sure it’s high on your download list!

This version adds a bunch of new functionality and features, which we’re going to briefly run through now.

Firstly, Chapter 5 (Blueprint) is now live, with 15 brand new levels of pencil saving goodness. Chapter 5 introduces Teleport dots, which add a whole new dimension to the puzzles and are sure to test your grey matter! A new enemy is also introduced, this time, it’s scissors! We won’t spoil the surprise, but expect to get even more annoyed with these guys than you did with the paperclips and rulers!!!

We also added a few new items to the store. Firstly, you’ll see there’s a new wallpaper, which is not only pretty frickin’ awesome, but is also free! One condition, you have to have liked us on Facebook first. A small price to pay! We’ve also added bonus level packs. Bonus level packs each feature 10 brand new levels (including a new boss level) for existing chapters. Version 1.2 adds bonus packs for Lined Paper and Square Paper, so 20 new levels in total. Even if we say so ourselves, these levels are some of the best yet and we’re sure you won’t be disappointed if you choose to spend your hard earned Blue Dots on them.

The other major change is Game Center, where there are 8 new achievements. We hear your feedback and we’re going to be adding lots more exciting achievements in future updates, but for now, we hope what we have added will keep you content until then.

We’ve also fixed a few of the bugs you guys had told us about, the main one being using the green skip button within a level end sometimes caused a crash when you chose your option from the resulting pop-up. That’s now totally gone, so feel free to tap away.

Finally, there’s a new Game Center Syncing (G\Center Sync) option to the options page. All this does is run through all your achievements stored on the device and makes sure they’ve also been awarded on Game Center. We had a few issues with users not seeing all their achievements as complete due to connection issues with their devices whilst playing etc, so this gives you a way manually make sure it gets updated when you are sure you have a live connection to the net.

And that pretty much wraps it up. We hope you like the update and welcome any feedback. Now it’s back to the drawing board for Chapter 6! Who knows what it may be!

So back to v1.1, what are the changes? Well, the most significant change is the addition of a store. As you play the game you will earn Blue Dots. Each Blue Dot you visit will be added to your Blue Dot account, and these Blue Dots can be spent on various items such as level skips, level completions and other items such as wallpapers, unlockables, etc. If you don’t have enough time to collect Blue Dots, you can also purchase Blue Dots in the store.

To skip a level, press the new green skip button during play. This will ask you whether you want to skip or complete the level. A skip simple unlocks the next level. A complete not only unlocks the next level, but also awards you three stars on the current level. Even if you have already unlocked the next level, a complete can still be used to give you three stars!

We’ve given everyone 400 Blue Dots to start with for free! Oh, and if you go to the Store and click the like us on Facebook button, you’ll get 250 additional free dots! (Don’t worry if you have already liked us, you can still click the button and it will detect that you have liked us and give you the free dots too!).

Also in the update, a news ticker has been added to the Main Menu screen. Please keep an eye out for this, as we will regularly be changing the text, letting you know exciting updates and the latest news.

Other than that there are few minor bug fixes and menu changes.

If you have any issues or questions with the update, or bugs to report, please get in touch. You can find Perfect Dimension on Twitter or Save The Pencil on Twitter, or alternatively you can get in touch through the Save The Pencil support form at the bottom of the page.

Thanks!

In addition, we also update Convertizo to version 3.0. The main difference is an improved UI for iPhone, but there’s also a few other changes too…

-Improved iPhone UI.
-Tweaked iPad UI.
-Updated info page.
-Added Perches and Roods to Area category.
-Added Chains and Links to length category.

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