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[GAME] Minion Wars

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Started 1 year ago by DonomaGames
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DonomaGames
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Introduction:
Minion Wars is all about ... killing the other guy! (The other guy being the computer)

The game can be summed up with this short intro: "Minion Wars is a combination of Defense and RTS genres. You are a summoner that must defeat the powerful conjurer by calling forth fearsome elementals and legendary creatures to fight for you."

Why developers and gamers will find my game interesting:
What I'm trying to do here is hopefully add something new to the well known genre of castle vs castle side-scroller type of games. In addition to having a top/down view, I've added path selection to the units in an attempt to bring more tactical gameplay to the genre. I don't expect to have gotten it right the first time, but I intend to use this code to develop further in the coming year.

Here are some great screenshots of MYGAME:

More screenshots can be found at the Minion War's homepage.

Here are some great videos of Minion Wars:

Music:
The music in the video trailer as well as the 3 tracks within the game is by Christian Andersson. I found his site from the thread he made in the forums a little while back. Excellent composer and a pleasure to work with. I pick a few tracks from his portfolio that I thought would fit my game.

You can read more about Minion Wars:
http://bit.ly/MinionWarsVideo

You can download Minion Wars from iTunes:
http://bit.ly/MinionWarsAppStore

Posted 1 year ago #
Shogan
Member

Looks great Donoma! Awesome music. Had my 5.1's cranked up when I clicked the link and really got blown away :D I like the look of your graphics and the game play looks interesting.

Posted 1 year ago #
CJ
Moderator

Looks cool :) Congrats on the launch.

Posted 1 year ago #
DonomaGames
Member

Thanks guys. :)

So the game is just chugging along and then it spiked!

The spike is the exact point when the game hit a very well known pirate site. :(

Posted 1 year ago #
Shogan
Member

I have got a very similar spike from when my game got ripped. Picking up tons of sessions in Flurry that are definitely not relating to sales :(

Posted 1 year ago #
lano78
Member

But now you know who pirated the game, there aren't many to choose from. Wonder if it is possible to get device id info with some parameters added to the code and have them displayed on flurry?

If you compare your sales data with flurry data then you should see how many pirated copies there are out there, please post an update on that.

But from that graph, there are some people playing it at least could be worse if no one ever played it????

Posted 1 year ago #
letmeknow
Member

Not surprise.
There are over 70Million devices (state) sold by Apple but the top app got around 4-6M download (free + paid), where are the other 64M devices ?

There are 2 options for these devices: they are never downloaded an app or they are only downloaded pirated app.

Posted 1 year ago #
fpc
Member

^ Men seem to download many more apps than women -- at least that's what I see locally. So if you assume half of the iDevices are owned by women (not an unreasonable assumption) and many people own more than one iDevice (iPhone + iPad, say) then the market for many apps is much smaller than it appears based on the raw numbers.

Posted 1 year ago #
DonomaGames
Member

I don't collect UDID so I don't know who they are. Even if I did, it wouldn't matter too much anyway. I'm not too worried about it. Thought it'd be fun to post the graph. :P

I think the latest numbers are 125mm iOS devices now. Bloggers/Analysts are predicting another 100mm devices in 2011, but I don't think the app market will actually be 200mm users by end of 2011. Lots of people trading in older devices for new ones and etc.

Asymco has a lot of interesting financial analysis on Apple if anyone is interested.

Posted 1 year ago #
DonomaGames
Member

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Feedback is always welcome.

Next update will be submitted when ITC comes back up. It will support Retina Display and some other things.

Posted 1 year ago #
riq
Key Master

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Posted 1 year ago #
woodigloo
Member

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Posted 1 year ago #
Verisutha
Member

Took : A63YWAN69YHM

Looks pretty nifty. Thanks for sharing.

Posted 1 year ago #
Dima
Member

Thanks, took PHFMMJ7JHA7E

Posted 1 year ago #
Jarson
Member

All codes used

Posted 1 year ago #
DonomaGames
Member

Update v1.2 is out. Now supports Retina Display. There is a bug in this version where the main music track doesn't play, but v1.2.1 is already waiting for approval. More new stuff coming in the near future.

Some more fun stats:
I see 2000+ "new users" and almost 9,000 sessions within the last 24 hrs, but I only sold 11 copies yesterday and looks like I'm on pace to sell about the same today. Since so many people are enjoying the game for free already anyway, here's 10 more promo codes:

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Another factoid: It takes surprisingly few copies sold per day to make the top 200 US Games->RPG subcategory.

Posted 1 year ago #
DonomaGames
Member

Guys, this is FREE today. Grab your copy today! Costs you absolutely nothing. Just head to the store and grab a copy.

http://bit.ly/MinionWarsAppStore

I'm taking another shot with FAAD. It's my 3rd time with FAAD, but the price has gone up more than 5x since March of last year. Grab a copy today. It will probably never be free again.

Posted 1 year ago #
Shogan
Member

I installed it and have been pretty much addicted! Very cool game. I'll drop you a review on the store :)

Posted 1 year ago #
Birkemose
Moderator

I tried the game, and I have no idea what it is about.

I can clearly see the influence from WoW, but I have absolutely no idea what to do.
As I type this message, my iPhone is playing the game by itself. Apparently the game doesn't need me. Some red thingies attacks the character on the screen, but he seems to be okay without me doing anything. So far he earner 500+ gold.
That is cool.
For him!

EDIT:
The game has now earned well over 1500 gold by itself. I only shut it down because I had to call someone ...

Posted 1 year ago #
DonomaGames
Member

Thanks Shogan!

Thanks for the feedback Birkemose. That's something I'll have to improve in the next version. Need a tutorial for anyone playing for the first time so they know the game mechanics. Btw, you're suppose to tap the guy you want, then tap the spot you want him to spawn.

Posted 1 year ago #
everwind
Member

Unbelievable! Pure outright plaigairism. The graphics of the elementals are almost exactly the same as the elementals in World of Warcraft! Right down to the bracers they wear. You were not "influenced" by WoW.. You copied their artwork! It looks like you took screen shots and made minor modifications to the artwork. Heck you even bloody well copied the rock giant! What a douche bag you are! I mean did you not think anyone wouldn't notice? WoW has 11 million players! I played WoW for years and I can tell anyone who tries to dispute the fact that this knob copied Blizzard's artwork that he absolutely without a doubt did! I'm a digital artist myself and know when soneone tries to pass off someone elses artwork as their own.
If Blizzard finds out about this you're going to have a copywrite infringement case on your hands.

Think I'll fire them off an email and give them the heads up.

Posted 1 year ago #

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