Punk Pie is an independent computer game design company based in York in the United Kingdom. The team is dedicated to creating unique concepts that stand out from the ocean of predictable titles available, and they constantly strive to create revolutionary ideas, rebelling against industry normal practice.

They do this by observing trends, technologies and platforms, and mixing this with cutting-edge scientific knowledge, fearless technology development, a superb knowledge of broad-spectrum human behavior, and highly-diverse in-house skills. The end product is computer game art forms with mass appeal.

Aurifi is available now, but our other title is still in development and under wraps, but keep visiting this page – Punk Pie is a dynamic company with multiple titles due out in 2010.

Hello, and judging by the fact you’re here, you  must have bought Aurifi, so we thank you very much!

Jailbreaking

Aurifi pushes the possibilities of the iPhone. It uses pretty much all the available processor, and all the available memory. Those users who have Jailbroken their phones will find that the games crashes a lot – usually at the end of the tutorial. This is because Jailbreaking changes the way that memory is handled, and essentially reduces available memory. We can’t design to this modification of the phone as it is highly unpredictable, and where do we stop? We’re sorry about this, but there’s nothing we can do, it’s a users’ choice to jailbreak. As a note, it doesn’t help us one bit to give us 1-star reviews if your phone is jailbroken – it can only damage the chances that we can one day make a game that you appreciate.

Crashing

In all cases we have encountered so far on non-jailbroken phones, the crashing issue can be solved by restarting the phone – this is because Aurifi needs lots of memory to run, and sometimes some other apps can fragment memory. If you have tried this and continue to get crashes, please let us know right here on this site. For the record, to date, we have not one single crash report logged on the Apple crash report service. It’s possible that some configs are causing crashes, but with the million different possibilities of combinations of apps on the iPhone today, we cannot hope to predict them all, and rely on you out there to report them in a helpful manner please.

Lag (Latency)

The 3D engine was improved in ver 1.1 which has meant that we have now been able to minimise the lag present. It has been removed from all mini games.

Starting the Game

When the game loads, to resume a game, use the resume menu. This sounds obvious, but some users haven’t clocked this feature. Furthermore, the menu system is designed to be used EITHER by tilting or tapping the side of the screen you want, which makes menu navigation extremely quick. Sorry, it’s a fair crit that this isn’t clear.

The tilt-based games

On the tilt-based games, this takes a little time to get used to – it’s an unfamiliar control method. Just like graphical games, we purposely introduce a feature called ‘inertia’ that means that there is resistance to action – please don’t confuse this with lag – there isn’t any.

Tips?

What do users think of us publishing some tips for how to get beyond challenges? Is this something you want, or would you rather carry on with the challenge?

Thanks for purchasing Aurifi, and please please do communicate with us. If you leave a review on the App Store, we can;t contact you, and many of the problems raised can be solved with communication.

The Punk Pie Team