ZENTITY announced the availability of Teen Patti for iPhone on 2nd April 2010. The game debuted at #1 top selling card game.

Teen Patti (also known as Flash or 3-cards) is a card game similar to poker. The game is played worldwide and particularly popular in India and south-east Asia. Teen Patti recently featured in a movie of the same name.

Teen Patti can be played with a minimum of 2 players but it’s more fun with 4 or more players. Touch Teen Patti offers games of 4 or 6 players at the table. Touch Teen Patti brings the fun game with a great AI implementation and the best card game simulation.


This is the second in the series of Indian traditional games for ZENTITY having released the classic board game Touch Carrom. Touch Carrom became the number #1 selling game in it’s home market India and made it to top 10 and top 100 in many world markets.

Grab it in the App Store at itms://itunes.apple.com/us/app/touch-teen-patti/id353709014?mt=8

Teen Patti for iPhone

While the world debates whether iPad is revolutionary or just a big dumbed down iPhone. We have made sure that Touch Carrom will look and play great on the iPad.

Generally, our take on the iPad is that it’s a decent first gen device. A great applications and content consumption platform. As it matures with software upgrades, new applications and even hardware, it will be the platform to beat in the tablet segment. In all the hype and hoopla leading up to the launch and then the “disappointment” people often forget it’s still the best device in the tablet form factor till date.

For your viewing pleasure checkout Touch Carrom in the iPad simulator:

Touch Carrom just got reviewed on the Daily App Show. Having no background in the game, the presenter compares the game with pool/billiard and table shuffle. Which is actually a very good way to look at it

The presenter likes the game and gets addicted while playing even without having prior knowledge about the game. Check it out at http://dailyappshow.com/touch-carrom.

As always any comments/feedback welcome.

Checkout Touch Carrom 1.1.2. The best version yet featuring the new faster controller.

Other changes include:
- Improved board visual
- New font across all screens
- New instructions video

Download at: http://itunes.apple.com/app/touchcarrom/id337993724?mt=8

Please provide your feedback in the App Store or comments below.

Isn’t the new game screen gorgeous?

Gizmodo broke the story on the Nexus One (NO – the Google Phone) pricing earlier yesterday. There is nothing innovative about the price it’s fairly standard way in which the mobile phones are priced: locked version which is subsidized by the carrier and unlocked full priced version. There had been a couple of earlier posts about the features and the form factor. All in all, NO is shaping up to be a competitive device and will further the cause of Android phones. It would be interesting to see how it all pans out with so many device manufacturers, carriers and now Google getting into the game so directly. There is also an indirect VoIP story in the NO launch somewhere and carriers will be sensitive to that. In a lot of ways, iPhone is actually a better play for carriers then anything Google can ever offer because the Google business model is so directly dependent on cheap bandwidth, ads and control over content discovery and delivery.

So what do I think about Google NO? It’s no iPhone killer. It will further cement Android’s position as a distant #2 in the smartphone category and become a second platform of choice for App Developers.

Oh and everyone at ZENTITY wishes you a very happy and prosperous year 2010.

Checkout a new review of Touch Carrom on http://www.amitbhawani.com.

This is quite a common requirement to be able to add a custom checkbox control in an iPhone app. In the Interface builder -> Tools ->library there is no CheckBox control while other controls like Label and Text Field are there. Here is how I implemented it. I would be interested in hearing about how others went about doing it.

You can use the UIButton control to make a CheckBox.

In your project, in the resources folder add the images e.g. the ones attached with in this post “checkbox-selected.png” and “checkbox.png”.

Define the members as follows in “CheckBoxViewController.h”

@interface CheckBoxViewController : UIViewController
{
 BOOL checkboxSelected;
 UIButton *checkBox;
 UILabel *checkBoxLabel;
}

Uncomment the viewDidLoad in “CheckBoxViewController.m” and use the following code.

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
	[super viewDidLoad];
	checkBox = [[UIButton alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(60, 100, 16, 16)];
	checkBox.contentVerticalAlignment = UIControlContentVerticalAlignmentCenter;
	checkBox.contentHorizontalAlignment = UIControlContentHorizontalAlignmentCenter;
// Image for normal state
	UIImage *newNormalImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"checkbox.png"];
	[checkBox setBackgroundImage:newNormalImage forState:UIControlStateNormal];
// Image for highlighted state
	UIImage *newHighlightedImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"checkbox-selected.png"];
	[checkBox setBackgroundImage:newHighlightedImage forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];
// Image for selected state
	UIImage *newSelectedImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"checkbox-selected.png"];
	[checkBox setBackgroundImage:newSelectedImage forState:UIControlStateSelected];
	[checkBox addTarget:self action:@selector(checkBoxSelect:)forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
	checkBox.adjustsImageWhenHighlighted = YES;
	[checkBox setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
	[[self view] addSubview:checkBox];
	checkBoxLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(100, 90, 200, 40)];
	[checkBoxLabel setText:@"Check Box"];
	[checkBox setBackgroundColor:[[ self view] backgroundColor]];
	[[self view] addSubview:checkBoxLabel];
}

And add the following action method

-(void)checkBoxSelect:(id)sender
{
	if (checkboxSelected == 0)
	{
		[checkBox setSelected:YES];
		[checkBoxLabel setText:@"Check Box - Selected"];
		checkboxSelected = 1;
	}
	else
	{
		[checkBox setSelected:NO];
		[checkBoxLabel setText:@"Check Box"];
		checkboxSelected = 0;
	}
}

Build and Run the application, this will work as checkbox control.

In under two days Touch Carrom has added 99 fans as of now.

Announcing a new promo code give away: every 100th facebook fan will get a free promo code for the game. The codes are currently valid for the US store only.

Click here to become a fan!

The new version in the App Store rocks!

Well, this is no way to make a product announcement But I have to say that the version in the App Store for last 20 days sucked! There were some annoying bugs which we found in extended testing. Apple has finally approved our latest upgrade.

We have fixed those issues and then some. I can finally say we are closer to our vision of what a Carrom game should look and play like on the iPhone/iPod Touch or any touch control device for that matter.

There is still a lot to come very soon, but for now we are proud to announce this latest upgrade and hope you enjoy every moment spent with Touch Carrom.

Having said all of the above, we know there a long way to go before we perfect this game. Please help us improve by reviewing the game in the App Store and sending us your feedback (we love criticism)..

Here is a sneak peek of the latest version:

There is a lot of noise about AppRejections.com. I think it’s generally a good idea. Mostly it’s being used to highlight how ridiculous are some of the rejections, but I think there is an opportunity to use the site to learn what not to do to get rejected.

App Store is still a relatively new entity, and we are still learning the rules of the game. AppRejections.com can play an important role here.