Making Jewel Next #2 – Jewelry Box

Jewelry Box is the biggest feature in Jewel Next. Players can keep hard-earned jewels in their own Jewelry Box. Let’s take a look:

THIS is the heart of Jewel Next. Players match, create, collect, and put jewels in there. However, it didn’t exist in earlier builds—not even in design documents. But you know, not all hope is lost. Its dinosaur ancestor was there—in a Game Over screen:

Can you spot the Jewels section, a little below the middle, where the unlocked jewels and a question mark are displayed? That is the dinosaur of Jewelry Box. We polished it, and it became prettier:

It definitely looks prettier, but it is still not a jewelry box. Then around February 2012, when I was reading a book titled “Steve Jobs” using iBooks, I realized that a shelf would perfectly fit in Jewel Next. This is how a shelf looks like in iBooks:

With the help of Steve Jobs, Jewelry Box finally came into existence:

This is how Jewelry Box came into the game—the very first in its genre! Oh, by the way, the box also has a cover.