Over the past 3+ months, we have been actively working on a new sports website called Coaches By The Numbers. The purpose of the website is to provide detailed statistical analysis of college football coaches. Additionally, the CBTN is now the only comprehensive source of coaching statistics on the internet. It is now live, and open to the public. We’ve had over 10,000 visitors in the first week. ChewSoft will continue this endeavor in addition to all of the mobile application commitments moving forward. Be sure to check it out and let us know what you think.

Here’s the link….pretty cool:

Kotaku Article

Symbolism 2.0 for the Android is out this morning! The major new feature is OpenFeint support. This is one of the first OpenFeint Android games released for the platform, and we are very happy to be part of the initial release. Full details can be found in numerous press releases:

Gizmodo

TechCrunch

CNET

PocketGamer

We’ve begun adding iOS 4  Capabilities to our existing games. This will allow for better multitasking and bring the true ‘fast app switching’ that iOS 4 provides.

The next wave of updates will be catering to the better resolution on the iPhone 4 hardware.

A couple people have asked about how our games are running on the iPad. After a lot of testing we can now say positively that all of our games run flawlessly on the iPad.

We will begin working on higher resolution or ‘HD’ versions of the games in the near future. Send us an email of your favorite game to get it moved up in our queue!!

Following up the Symbolism release over Christmas, Gabbing Mad is now available for the Android. This will be the last Android game while we resume work on a few other projects and updates that worked their way up the todo list.

All in all, ‘Droid’ development is quite enjoyable. The big challenge in Gabbing Mad was adding multiple orientation support (portrait and landscape). But other than that, it was far easier endeavor than Symbolism, which totaled over 25k LOC.

From a business perspective, the early results are showing what is clearly obvious in the market right now, and that is that Android games just aren’t that profitable for developers right now. Again, it is very early for the Android and only time will tell.

After 12 successful games on the iPhone platform, ChewSoft is venturing out to test Google’s Android platform.

The first game we are going to test is arguably our most succesful, Symbolism. We are very interested to see just how much potential there is in this platform, as well as expanding our audience to as many people as possible. Development is already underway. If there is a particular ChewSoft game that you’d like to see, drop us a line.

In a little over a year, we have developed 12 unique titles, and today, we’ve reached another milestone, 100k games sold. I’d like to thank each and every one of our customers for their support.

In other news, we are still feverishly making changes to our current lineup, with a potential addition only a few months away. Stay tuned for more on that front.

Over the last few weeks, things certainly have been busy. OpenFeint upgrades and the iPhone SDK 3.0 release has been a lot to keep up with. Apple has also recently changed the approval process to require that all applications be ‘certifiable’ on the 3.0 BETA SDK, so currently, it is a new hurdle that we are dealing with and hope to be passed by the end of this week. On the feature front, there is a bunch of new stuff coming down the pipe. Notably, an entire new mini-game inside of Symbolism, which I think is going to be great hit, as well as Feint support for Symbolism Lite. I have also begun work on more iCanSketchIt level packs, which a lot of people have asked for…and a bunch of patch releases for all of the card games as well. Look for all of this stuff over the next couple weeks. The review process at Apple seems to be pretty standardized these days at 7 days. As always, if there is something you guys want in any of the games, just give me a shout.