Kitty Code, LLC

Cat Calls 2.0 Released

Kitty Code — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:00:34 +0000

Cat Calls by Kitty Code

Cat Calls has been updated in the App Store! The cute kitties have finally been brought into the present with a great update which includes adding the much requested Retina display support as well as iPad and iPhone 5 native support! These cute kitties are clearer than ever, and you’re sure to love them!

Thank you for spending 4 years playing with our kitties!

Hurricane and Traveler’s Quest Nominated -AGAIN- in Best App Ever Awards!

Kitty Code — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 02:23:26 +0000

Once again Hurricane and Traveler’s Quest have been nominated in the Best App Ever Awards! As you know, this is a people’s choice award and we couldn’t have been nominated with out your help!

Now that the nominations have been finalized, it’s time to vote for the best in each category. Hurricane has been nominated in the Weather category, and Traveler’s Quest has been nominated in the Best Location-Based App, Best Travel App and Most Addictive Game category.

We are competing with some really tough games and weather apps, and we can’t do it without your help! Can we take home one of these categories? You hold the key to success!

Please take a moment to vote for not only our apps, but also for the other apps competing for each category. There are lots of great apps that deserve recognition for the hard work they’ve put into their apps, so make sure you share the love!

Good luck to all of the apps, and thank you for helping Hurricane and Traveler’s Quest be the success that it is – without you, the apps would not be what they are so THANK YOU!

The Kitty Code Team

Ready for iOS 6

Kitty Code — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:18:45 +0000

Tomorrow is the big day when everyone will update from iOS 5 to the next generation iOS 6. With this new update, you may have questions about how well our apps will work with this new operating system. In short, iOS 6 works very well with our suite of Hurricane Tracking Apps, as well as Traveler’s Quest and Cat Calls. Each app has been extensively tested over the last few months and we believe you will be happy with the results. While we know the new Maps interface will a big change from the current Google Maps in iOS 5, we believe that our apps continue to look spectacular with the new base maps. Some areas will need to be zoomed in farther than you are used to to get the detail you may be looking for.

As always, if you would like to speak to us about our apps, please use our Support Form and we will help you as quickly as we can.

Thank you for using our suite of Apps, created just for you!

Getting the Most Out of Hurricane

Kitty Code — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:43:07 +0000

Hurricane and Hurricane Express have a great feature which allows you to refresh the storm data for all storms at any time. Just go to the storm names page, and pull the menu down with your finger. When you do, you will see something like the image here and when you let go it will refresh and update the last refresh time. The NHC is updating on 3 hour intervals right now, 10am, 1pm, 4pm, 7pm, 10pm, 1am and 4am CDT. They will continue with 3 hour intervals while there are watches and/or warnings posted.

Tracking Isaac…

Kitty Code — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 02:53:32 +0000

Hurricane and Hurricane HD are tracking Hurricane Isaac in the Caribbean as he moves toward the Keys and into the Gulf of Mexico. Get the latest information, with the intuitive mapping experience so many other people have come to know and trust over the last 5 years. As a Top Paid 100 App in the iTunes App Store each time a storm approaches, you know you can trust Hurricane to get the information you need to you, when you need it most.

Pick up Hurricane and Hurricane HD in the iTunes App Store, and start tracking with us today!

Follow Friday and Emergency Managers

Kitty Code — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:26:33 +0000

Being a part of the community that needs to get important information out to every day people is a huge responsibility. Trying to get that information out in the most direct way possible is always a large undertaking as well, but there are ways for us to take a moment to share important resources with one another.

When a crisis is happening @CraigatFEMA does a lot of retweeting of important information. What if the sources of that information were shared each Friday as a #FF tweet? It would take a few minutes, and would create a web of accounts for people to follow. If the accounts are descriptive enough, it will be very easy to decipher who belongs where… An example would be:

#FF Central FL #SMEM @NWSTampaBay @PinellasEM @NWSMelbourne @BrevardEOC @OrangeCountyEOC

By adding the surrounding emergency management accounts, and those accounts adding their surrounding accounts, it enables everyone to not only connect, but share the information you’re trying to get out.

I tried to start this today, but hope that if not today, then next Friday we can start this ball rolling and really get connected with our communities.

Please take a moment to share this information with other emergency managers that you know so that we can ensure that everyone knows how to get the official information for their areas.

Sun Sentinel Speaks with Founder Ilene Jones About Niche Hurricane Apps

Kitty Code — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 16:43:06 +0000

The Sun Sentinel spoke with our co-founder Ilene Jones about Hurricane apps in the App Store on Wednesday about hurricane apps and the Red Cross.

Read the article.

Traveler’s Quest 4.0: Getting Your Sea Legs

Kitty Code — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:47:45 +0000

The main point of Sea Legs was to help with players who have other players near by, whom they don’t want to see maps for. This is usually husband/wife/significant others/family members who are playing with one another, but don’t want to pillage one another. You cannot see the other crew member’s treasures, but you can still trade through the store as you could before. It is still an insecure way to trade, which means there is a chance that another player may nab your goodies before the trade is complete.

Since this team play is to assist you in NOT pillaging friends/family, you are more than welcome to pillage pirates on other ships. If you want to have a war/battle between ships, that is completely your (or your captain’s) call.

The ships are designed around team play, but you can disband a ship at any time, your captain can make their crew walk the plank, or crew members can go ashore any time. It is completely your call. Once you leave a crew, you must be approved by the captain to regain admittance back into that ship’s crew.

Any player can become captain of their own ship, and invite crew members aboard. However, you cannot be added to two ships as captain or crew. In other words, you can only belong to one ship at a time. You must leave your current ship to join another ship.

Each ship can have a total of 5 crew members.

A bonus of being on a ship is that you now have the ability to get onto the Ships leaderboards. These leader boards are the same as the individual leader boards, however the scores are the accumulated totals of the crew for each area. So for the Accuracy leader board, the total for your ship is the total accuracy of all of your crew members. The same holds true for all of the other leader boards.

There are specific achievements that you can gain by being a captain, or part of a crew. Some are easy to get, others are harder. The hardest will be the top of the leader boards, as the totals will only go up over time, especially as the players with higher scores gain ships and crews. Those players have the ability to help out other players who would otherwise not see their name on the in-game leader board for a very long time!

Traveler’s Quest celebrates 500,000 Treasures

Kitty Code — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:47:45 +0000

Here at Kitty Code, like most companies, we like to celebrate great achievements. This week’s great achievement was our landmark delivery of the 500,000th treasure in Traveler’s Quest, our GPS driven virtual treasure hunting game. We celebrated the achievement with a long running “guess the date” contest on Facebook, run by “Late Red” one of our most active social players in the UK. In addition we also ran a spur of the moment time contest which awarded doubloons to our 4 closest times left in the comments in the 24 hours prior to the actual drop time. Of course the receiver of our 500,000th treasure needed something to remember the event by, so we got together with our treasure gnomes and asked them to create something extra special! After much discussion, we decided a “Traveler’s Cake” would be the perfect item since it is the rarest of our Anniversary collection, which only dropped in November 2010 to celebrate our 1st anniversary as a game.

The official time for treasure 500,000 was July 6, 2012 at 07:00:37 am EDT – Miami, FL US

The winners of our Facebook Contests:

Winner of our 500,000 competition

‎@JamietervTQ

Receiver of our “Traveler’s Cake”

@PatrickPTK

Winners of our guess the time contest:

Chris Griffin: 7:37am EDT
Pilot TQ 8:00am
Gretchen Schulte 7:52 am
Tortie TQ: 6:00am EDT

Congratulations to all of our winners, and a great big THANK YOU! to all of our players who helped make this happen over the last 3.5 years. It has been an amazing ride, and couldn’t have happened without you!

How to refresh storm data!

Kitty Code — Mon, 28 May 2012 02:16:39 +0000

Did you know that all you need to do is pull down on the storm menu, just like refreshing timelines on Facebook and Twitter.