Word Ace and Card Ace updates bring in-app gift purchasing 4
Recently updated to version 1.1.0, Self Aware Games’ popular games Word Ace and Card Ace: Hold ‘Em now both come packaged with the ability to buy gifts for other players. In this first roll-out players can purchase drinks, ranging from a simple cup of coffee to the ridiculously extravagant diamond martini. Of course, those are all good for opponents that you like, but what of those you can’t stand? Seeing as these are Self Aware apps, the sense of humor remains intact with the option to send your sworn enemy a bottle of poison.
Word Ace and Card Ace have both also gained the ability to rate players with thumbs ups and thumbs downs. Clearly giving a thumb up is a good thing and will publicly reflect well on players, but a lot of thumbs down will garner the attention of the staff. And as developer Seppo Helava said, players that get their attention “won't like what happens.” [insert evil laughter here]
And that’s not all. Since the games were released both Card Aces and Word Ace have been free to use. While you can buy chips and now gifts in game, if you so desire you can show the love with an in-game donation.



























4 Comments
They use PayPal for checkouts, hmm! Pretty cool.
I'd like to see Palm provide a way for developers to route these purchases through one's Palm Profile, which would enable pay-to-unlock demos and universal credit info -- this is the holy grail. Not to mention your in-app purchases would persist between phones.
Software keys are just too risky for the developer, and entering your card into all of your different apps is a pain.
Interesting. I was wondering how they were to be paid. For the privacy benefits of paypal, maybe Palm could build out the Palm Profile to allow specification of a default Paypal account, maybe with the password in there, too... Then we'd have a choice of Paypal or credit card...and using Paypal would add in their claimed protection in not revealing your financial info to the payees.
I don't know what to think of this.
i love these games -- it was a shame one of the games wasn't nominated for 2009 game of the year.