We’re really excited about this, and we’d like to thank the OpenFeint team for such a great job on their excellent framework. Without it, Word Monkey would be half a game!

It’s been a long time coming, but our new game Word Monkey for iPhone & iPod touch has been submitted to Apple and should be available soon!

In Word Monkey, your goal as Dr. Schmachter’s lab assistant is to use your device to train a cute little lab monkey by programming words directly into its brain! You have to quickly spell words from the rising jumble of letters before they hit the top of the screen, or it’s game over.

Head over to the Word Monkey game page to find out more information about the game. There you’ll find screenshots of the game, and we’ll be posting some video of the game over the next few days.

We’ll post again when the game has been approved and is up on the App Store!

Check out this gameplay video for Super Smoothie:

Super Smoothie is available NOW in the App Store here.

You can access the new support community from the Support link at the top of each page. For the moment, we’ve removed our forums. We’re considering bringing them back, but with a different forum software. Let us know if you have any opinions on this matter.

As always this update is free to you if you’ve already purchased the game. If not, you can always grab the game from the App Store here.

I’d like to reiterate my apology to all of the OS 2.x users out there. The transition to OS 3.0 has been bumpy at best, and with all of the exciting new features of Sheepstacker 1.2, we let this very serious bug sneak past us. We hope that you’ll find it was worth the wait though. Thank you for your patience. Happy stacking!

While we’re not quite ready to announce a firm release date yet, we are ready to announce our beta program! We’re going to let a few extreme Sheepstackers at our three desktop beta versions to help us squash bugs and find compatibility issues.

If you’d like to be considered for our beta test program, simply register on our site! That’s it! While we won’t be able to let everyone who registers into the program, we’re going to be adding as many people as we can handle. If we select you for the beta test program, we’ll send you an e-mail confirmation that includes instructions on how to access the beta software.

And on an unrelated note, this isn’t the only project we’ve been spending our time on…..

For the few of you that have iPhone OS 3.0 Beta installed, we’re aware of the graphical issues with Sheepstacker. Unfortunately, this boils down to the Unity engine being incompatible with the OS 3.0 Beta at this time. We are working with the Unity guys to resolve the issues, but be advised that since iPhone OS 3.0 is Beta, we cannot guarantee that these issues will be resolved before iPhone OS 3.0 is officially released by Apple.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

If you’ve been on the fence about the game, here’s your chance to give it a try for free! The Lite version is naturally restricted in some ways, but it should be just enough to get you hooked. When you decide you want all of the sheep stacking madness, you can buy the full game directly from the Lite version. More information about the full version is available here.

Happy stacking!

As always, you can buy the game in the iTunes App Store.