So I skipped the October update post – my bad. I figured you guys couldn’t take another “the update will be out soon” post. But there’s good news now, the update is released – for Android, iOS coming soon!

See this video before reading on:

Sounds for Pro users!

Yep, it’s finally here. The hands-down most-requested feature has finally arrived – sound effects.

I’ve been working on this update since mid-July – MID-JULY. Let that sink in a little. It’s been nearly four-months in the making and boy, was it a headache to get this working.

I know some of you are already at your keyboard ready to tear me a new one calling me greedy and asking for sounds in the Free version, but hear me out.

This was the biggest update to Stick Nodes since its release over a year ago. Like I said, it took me four months to develop – in fact there were quite a few times I was ready to give up due to it seeming impossible. Asking for $2 as a solo developer for all of this work isn’t greedy, right? That’s less than half the price of a typical morning coffee. Plus, from a technical standpoint, only Pro users can export MP4 videos – it wouldn’t make sense for Free users to use sounds since they can’t export them (GIFs obviously don’t have audio).

I hope you guys understand that. And don’t get me wrong, I completely understand that some of the younger users are just simply unable to buy any app, whether it be due to your parents or lack of money – trust me, I was in your shoes at one point. To you I can only recommend asking your parents really, really, really nicely and hoping for the best 🙂

This update also comes with 40 sounds to get you started. You can of course use your own MP3 files as sounds, but with the app comes numerous DBZ sound effects, punches, weapons, swishes, and many other miscellaneous sounds for use in any animation!

Please feel free to let me know of any other specific sounds you’d like to see included with Stick Nodes!

Changelog

Besides sounds, there are also a few other changes, here they are:

• (Pro only) SOUNDS have been added! You can now add sounds to your animations and exported MP4 files!
• Exporting GIFs/MP4s no longer locks up your device.
• Users can now permanently delete projects/stickfigures from their device.
• Import/open list is now always alphabetized.
• Fix for crashes when saving large projects/stickfigures.
• Fix for bug where sometimes saving a stickfigure didn’t save it correctly.
• Tons of other tweaks and fixes!

And that’s about it for now. Tomorrow I begin work on attempting to port this over to iOS. I can’t give a release date yet, this port can either go smoothly or be very, very difficult – we’ll see.