KENDAMA DICE 3.0 - PRESS KIT
Send It Apps LLC - assembled 2026-08-25

App Store:  https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kendama-dice/id1384971400
Press page: https://senditapps.com/press/
Contact:    Ted Bendixson, tedbendixson@me.com

THE FACTS
  App          Kendama Dice (app id 1384971400), iPhone and iPad
  Subtitle     Roll a trick. Land it. Repeat.
  Version      3.0, released 2026-08-16
  Price        Free. One unlock, $4.99, once. No subscription, no ads, no account.
  Free tier    The Easy ladder, single player, and the written entry for any
               trick you roll.
  Unlock adds  Combo Mode, Game of K.E.N., and the Medium and Hard ladders.
  Trick count  82 tricks, every one explained in writing.
  History      Shipped in 2018 as Dama Dice. Kendama USA covered it that year.
               Rewritten from scratch and renamed for 2026.

TWO THINGS THAT ARE EASY TO GET WRONG
  There is no browsable trick index in the free tier. A free player reads the
  entry for whatever they actually roll, and cannot change difficulty.

  Kendama USA wrote about the app in 2018. That is coverage, not a current
  endorsement, and it should not be written as one.

FILES
  press_release.md            ~280 words, ready to quote or paste
  founder_bio.md              ~75 words on the developer
  kendama_app_icon_1024.png   source icon, 1024x1024
  kendama_app_icon_512.png    downsampled
  kendama_app_icon_256.png    downsampled
  iphone65_1_dice_roll.png    iPhone 6.5" store screenshots, 1242x2688
  iphone65_2_combo_mode.png
  iphone65_3_game_of_ken.png
  iphone65_4_tricktionary.png
  ipad129_1_dice_roll.png     iPad 12.9" store screenshots, 2048x2732
  ipad129_2_combo_mode.png
  ipad129_3_game_of_ken.png
  ipad129_4_tricktionary.png
  kendama_combo_lines.txt     50 generated Combo Mode lines, with grip links
  kendama_tricks_easy.txt     every branch of the Easy ladder
  kendama_tricks_medium.txt   every branch of the Medium ladder
  kendama_tricks_hard.txt     every branch of the Hard ladder

ABOUT THE TEXT DUMPS - PLEASE READ THIS IF YOU PLAY KENDAMA
  Combo Mode chains three tricks by grip: each trick starts from where the last
  one left the tama, so a rolled line is one you could actually attempt. That is
  the one claim in this app a kendama player can rule right or wrong on sight,
  and it is not visible in any screenshot, because the mode shows one trick per
  page.

  So it travels as text instead. kendama_combo_lines.txt is 50 generated lines
  with the grip each trick was drawn from and the grips it can be followed from.
  You can mark it up in ten minutes without installing anything, and a "no, that
  does not link" is worth more to us than a compliment.

  Generated 2026-08-25 from the test harness: 20,000 combo lines, 0 broken
  links, all six grips reached. If you find one the harness did not, please tell
  us: tedbendixson@me.com

  Two things we genuinely do not know and you might: are small-cup / big-cup
  trades real tricks, or something we invented? And is a Pro difficulty worth
  building - what would be in it?

The screenshots are unframed device captures, taken off the same build that was
submitted to the App Store. Use them as-is or crop them; there is no marketing
overlay to work around.
