We’ve known since before we even submitted the initial release of Gravity Sling that we wanted to do more. We’ve been slowly working on many of these new features, and then yesterday we all got together and pretty much wrapped up development on Gravity Sling 1.1. So what’s new?

• Movable Planets! We wanted to do these from the start, but didn’t have time to get them in. We assumed they would be fun, but already we’ve seen what a huge impact it has on gameplay. Levels become much more interesting and challenging, as this adds a totally new dynamic to it.
• Pickups One challenge that we had was trying to make levels with an easy solution but that also allowed for much more complicated and longer “good” solutions. The problem was that a lot of users didn’t realize how to overachieve like this and ended up beating many of the levels very quickly and easily. With v1.1 we’ve added in pickups that help direct you on places to try to get the astronaut to go.
• More Levels We’re hoping to be able to add 65 more levels to this update. While we’re not quite there yet, there will definitely be another 30, and hopefully a lot more. Or to put this another way, v1.1 will more than double the amount of gameplay available.
• UI Improvements The #1 issue that people have had with Gravity Sling is an unresponsive and occasionally buggy UI. We think we’ve fixed up nearly all of these problems, so it should be much less frustrating to use.

We still have to finish up a few more things, but are planning to submit this over the weekend or early next week.