We’ve got lots of improvements and a few new features planned for an update, but we will go into more detail about that later on. For now, even though it’s still very early days, here are a few screen shots to give you an idea how it might end up looking in HD!

“Creepy Action Game Prisoner 84 Goes Universal In Update” – appadvice.com

“Creepy Action Game ‘Prisoner 84′ Updated with Universal Support and Retina Display Visuals” – toucharcade.com

“Survival Horror Game Prisoner 84 universal and retina updates” – ipadblogs.nl

Also a quick reminder that this weekend we are giving away a bunch of promo codes, so keep your eyes peeled on Twitter, our Facebook page, and over at the Touch Arcade forum!

To mark the release of this update we will be giving away a limited number of promo codes — so keep your eyes peeled on our Facebook page and Twitter account this weekend, and you could be in with a chance of landing yourself a free copy of the game!

Hopefully there is a quick turn around and you will see it in the Apple Store within the next few weeks.

We’ll keep everyone informed of its progress, and don’t forget to check back on our blog and twitter account for the chance to catch a promo code upon release.

Although it’s not as far reaching an update as we had planned (last time I checked there are still only two of us!), we have managed to get it looking a lot nicer on higher resolution screens.

The main areas we have concentrated on for this update are new weapon models, as well as new character models – for which I created new, higher poly models from scratch, together with larger texture maps.

We have also enhanced the UI for HD devices so that it’s not only nicer looking, but also hopefully more scalable.

Here are a few early screen shots showing off some of the bits we’ve given a spring clean (you can find more here)…

We will hopefully be submitting this update to apple very soon.

In the coming weeks we will be throwing a few tweaks around to make sure the physics are both challenging and fun. I will talk more about how the physics have been put together in the future once more media of the game has been released.

Recently I took a break from game code and decided to try and get Multisample anti-aliasing (MSAA) working on iOS. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be. Due to the default renderer on iOS rendering to a Framebuffer Object (FBO) all that was required was to create another FBO and a multi-sample render buffer and just get the draw loop to render to the new FBO and resolve and display into the normal FBO.

Here’s are the results…

Whether this effect makes it into the final game is unknown. We will need to do a profiling step to make sure we still have time to render the MSAA and process the rest of the models. At the moment it seems a little expensive especially with the amount of objects we have to render and process.

It’s an as yet untitled physics-based destruction game and the concept is to place and detonate bombs to cause damage to certain objects.

We’re currently working on a whole host of game modes, and we’re planning on including full Game Center support.

We will be releasing more information over the coming weeks.

Although it’s far from perfect, we have decided to make the tool (along with its source code) available to the public in the hope that, if you find it useful, you might also want to contribute to help improve it.

Click here for download links and more information.

The update hopefully addresses most of the main issues people were having with the game, including: a fix for the sound-related crash bug that some iPhone 4 users were experiencing during key card swipe and slider hold games; as well as including a few GUI tweaks and improvements, like a larger directional pad to hopefully make movement a lot easier.

Click here or on the image below to head over to the iTunes App Store to get the latest version.