Should it now be free?

The development of the game continues a pace and Beta tests are about to start and hence about time we had a blog. With all that is going on it was good to see some news relevant to us on TechCrunch today:

1. Apple have announced that they will allow in app purchases for free applications. This may cause us to the change our release and charging strategy.We were unsure about a lite version, but approving one app which can then turn into the fully fledged game through a (relatively) simple purchase is appealing. It will be interesting to see how this develops.
2. Eric Schmidt was telling the world how Android is about to explode. From the start we've tried to approach the business of writing games in a portable manner in order to take advantage of multiple markets, without a rewrite. It will be interesting to see if (a) we got it right development wise (b) whether it was worth it.