CosmicPatrol



Enjoy the new age the good old pan and paper game Battleship, now in color! Play against the computer or duel your friends making your career to the space admiral!


Battleship Sci-Fi battle screen


Features:
* Multiplayer over WiFi (in LAN)
* Multiplayer over Bluetooth (FULL version)
* Two board types (with square and new: hexagonal cells)
* Nice Sci-Fi theme and sounds
* Continue interrupted games
* Career mode (scores and ranks) with individual profile management
* Normal and simple modes (4er and 5er ship-squadrons)
* Switchable help makers, showing inactive area around destroyed squadrons.
* Localized to English, German, Russian (simplified and traditional Chinese are outdated now -- needs to be revisited).
Note: some of the features are available to the full version exclusively!


Worth knowing:



  • The game will automatically copy your profile from the lite version to the full version, if you use one of the "upgrade to the full version" dialogues inside the game. Alternatively You can backup your lite profile in the profile management screen and restore it in the full version.

  • If you want to see the game in your native language and can translate the used strings, just contact me!

  • There are a lot of different Android devices with mixed OS/Hardware setups. It is just impossible to test the game on each device. Therefore if you hit an issue on your device, please help to fix it following these instructions.

  • You can help to improve the game: rate the game in the market, write your suggestions for improvements.

Thank you!


Visit the Android Market to buy the full game or try the lite version.

Don't forget to rate the game, especially if you like it!

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Battleship naming conflict

Today I have got an email from Google. They say, that they have to remove the Battleship Sci-Fi games from the Google Play market (as all other games, which have the word Battleship in their name) because of the trademark infringement. Looks like the Hasbro company has a registered trademark for the word "Battleship".

I hope Google will be able to re enable the game in short, since the internal name of the game was always "CosmicPatrol" (as can be recognized on each logbook screenshot). So I plan to name the game back to the original version. The game has been once renamed to be found more easily on the market for people who search for the good old pen&paper game "Battleship" (wiki-link).

To be continued...

So, a new version (1.9.11) of the game has been uploaded to the Google Play market. The only change is the name of the game, which is now again 'CosmicPatrol' as the very first versions published on the market

2013-01-13

Unfortunately Google is really SLOW at republishing of the removed game (now with changed name). It takes nearly one month for  a single mail response. That is also the service I pay 30% of my income for...

Enjoy the game!

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Battleship Sci-Fi 1.9.10

The version 1.9.9 has fixed the start-up crash bug for tablet devices. But unfortunately on Nexus-7 the graphics were displayed incorrectly. So the version 1.9.10, which fixes that issue, has been released just a few days later...

Further the version 1.9.10 adds the ACRA library, which shall help to collect crash information and send those in case of an error to the developer (The user has to confirm the sending).
The initial package for 1.9.10 version has been extended with the preference READ_LOGS, which allows to read the system logs. Unfortunately there is no way to make a finer difference: That my application wants to read only own log lines. And of course there are users, which immediately put 1-star ratings, cause of the READ_LOGS preference -- don't blame me for the possibility of seeing sensible data in the log: Blame Google for not making a finer access control and the developers of other applications, who put sensible data into the common log!
But since I cannot change the current situation, I have just rebuild the package with READ_LOGS preference removed. So I hope all people are now happy (besides of me, in case I have to catch some mystic bugs on specific devices, but who cares...)

Enjoy the game!

Monday, September 17, 2012

Battleship-SciFi 1.9.4


This version adds new workaround paths for the buggy Bluetooth stacks (FULL version only). Further internal design have been changed to fix some issues caused by low-resource environment.
Enjoy the game!

Feel free to put your comments regarding this version to this blog entry. Especially, if you want my feedback or support!

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Battleship Sci-Fi 1.9.3




This version brings a new feature to you: the squadrons are now allowed to be placed next to each other (no safety zone). And as usual small fixes have been made.
Enjoy the game!

Feel free to put your comments regarding this version to this blog entry.
Especially, if you want my feedback or support!

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Battleship Sci-Fi 1.9.2


This version adds support for the Google backup service allowing to take your profile to the new device.

Feel free to put your comments regarding this version to this blog entry.
Especially, if you want my feedback or support!

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Battleship Sci-Fi 1.9.0


This is a feature-test release.

Introducing the new dynamic game mode for the FULL version! In this mode your safe squadrons can jump while the battle is going on. Further the shoot marker will disappear after a while freeing the occupied cells.
I hope the new dynamic will make your duel games more exciting!

Note: this new feature is currently under testing (beta). Thus please report related bugs and send the log file (e.g. using the CatLog app).

Feel free to put your comments regarding this version to this blog entry.
Especially, if you want my feedback or support!

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Battleship Sci-Fi 1.8.3


This is a bugfix release.
  • Bugfix: crash while submitting scores to Scoreloop.
  • Optimize: add watchdog for pending multiplayer connection result.
  • Optimize: less strict rotate detector for placing screen.


I hope you will enjoy the game!

Feel free to put your comments regarding this version to this blog entry.
Especially, if you want my feedback or support!

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Battleship Sci-Fi v1.8.2


This is a bugfix release.
  • Bugfix: animate target marker in indirect shoot mode after game restart.
  • Bugfix: correct drag tracking on hex field while placing squadrons (full version only).
  • Feature: show disturbing elements while placing ships.
  • Feature: add score impact for Hex/Square field type  (full version only).
  • Feature: test new ad-network for full screen ads. NOTE: the game is not free, it is Ad-Supported! You can buy the ad-free version!
  • Improve: a bit more consequent AI.
  • Update: the Scoreloop library to v3. 


Note: User have reported some issues:
  • 2012-03-28:  Submitting scores to Scoreloop crashes.
    State: Confirmed (Fixed for 1.8.3).
  • 2012-03-29: Crash while multiplayer battle. Unfortunately the user has reported this as a comment and did not left any detailed information.
    State: The problem exists only while trying to connect from 1.8.2 to an older version. There was a incompatible change in data exchange formats. Just update the second device!
  • 2012-03-29: Cannot get ships rotated by tapping on them.
    State: The rotation detector is too sensitive (Relaxed for 1.8.3).

I hope you will enjoy the game!

Feel free to put your comments regarding this version to this blog entry.
Especially, if you want my feedback or support!

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Battleship Sci-Fi v1.8.1

This version introduces a new board type with hexagonal cells for the full version.



In addition the rendering on 720p displays was improved to use the whole space.

And for the users of the lite version, there also good news: the lite version has got the HD graphic of the full version with fine rendering on all display types up to 720p.

I hope you will enjoy the improvements!

Feel free to put your comments regarding this version to this blog entry.
Especially, if you want my feedback or support!

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Battleship Sci-Fi v1.7.2

This is a bugfix release, which repairs the battle view layout on devices with 720p screens.
This bugfix affects only the full version (the lite version is limited to autoscaling of 320x480 graphic).
This fix does not include a true adaption for the full screen size, the view is still limited to 800x480 points. The adaption to the 720p screens will follow in the next update.
And even more interesting changes are on the way...

Feel free to put your comments regarding this version to this blog entry.
Especially, if you want my feedback or support!