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Aqua Rush submitted!

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Started 2 years ago by pabloruiz55
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pabloruiz55
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Hi people! Last weekend i submitted my first game ever, Aqua Rush! I hope everything goes OK and it gets released soon.

I did everything of it, except for the backgrounds/characters graphics and sounds.
It uses cocos2d 0.8 and chipmunk. It took me 3 months to make in my free hours between work and university.

Here are some screens:

http://beta-games.net/blog/?page_id=31

Thank you so much to everyone that helped me along the way! Obviously it wouldn't have been possible without cocos2d ;)

I will let you know when it is released (hope it is soon) and post some promo codes.

Posted 2 years ago #
PhilM
Member

Hey pablo,

Congrats, looks sweet! Love the graphics, especially the evil looking fish ; )

Will definitely be checking it out once its released!

Posted 2 years ago #
penguins
Member

Congrats as well.
That evil looking fish is amazing. I will get just for the graphics :p
wow, nice, it’s a great idea to have a rightly and a lefty controls.

Posted 2 years ago #
pabloruiz55
Member

Thanks guys!

Having played games all my life the most logical way to do it was placing the move controls to the left, but for my friends this didn't feel right, they had problems moving... sooo... i decided to have this as an option. ;)

regarding the graphics, 95% of them were made by a friend of mine since i don't have the necessary skills :P. It would take me ages to produce something like that!
I am glad you like them!

Posted 2 years ago #
pabloruiz55
Member

Hi again!

Aqua Rush has been released today after 14 days of waiting :)
Here is the iTunes link:

iTunes Link

You can check highscores here:

Highscores

Some promo codes:

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FRP9AMWP6E6K
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MWXPYFFX7LHP
9PA39YKRFTHH
ELFN4TE9KRNA
6AE4Y737AATJ

If you have any critics or comments feel free to let me know ;)
I hope you enjoy it.

Pablo

Posted 2 years ago #
hanstar17
Member

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Thanks. I took this. Good game. I love the graphic design and smooth gamplay and music. But I feel touch control should be improved or changed. It got hard to play as my finger gets wet a bit. But still simple and cute game : ) Thanks.

Posted 2 years ago #
ob1
Member

Do you use any 3.0 features ? Because it's compiled for 3.0 and I can't run it on my 2.2.1 :-(

Posted 2 years ago #
pabloruiz55
Member

@hanstar17: Thanks! Yes, i am working in an update to fix this or at least let you choose another way to move. I will try touching a point and have the player move to that position.

@ob1: No, i don't. After submitting i realised i had to build it for 2.2.1. I had no idea and thought it was something i could choose from when submitting.
In a couple of weeks i am planning to release an update to address this and some new elements (like controls mentioned above).:)

Posted 2 years ago #
jstart
Member

This game is awesome! Keep up the great work!
Did use any physics engine with this (chipmunk/box2d)?

Posted 2 years ago #
pabloruiz55
Member

Thanks jstart!
Yes i used chipmunk for this. I am considering switching to box2d to see if there is any improvement but right now i am busy updating some gameplay elements :)

Posted 2 years ago #
jd
Member

My son Ethan just got the top global score after playing for 20 minutes. He's 6 :)

Posted 2 years ago #
pabloruiz55
Member

@jd: Contratulations! :D I hope he liked it :P
Did he find any problems for controlling it? In the next update you will be able to choose from the dpad control or just touching the screen moves blinky to that spot.

Posted 2 years ago #
jd
Member

Controls are great. I found it worked very well and movement is really responsive. The only issue I had was when he goes under my thumb I can't see him. Maybe make control a little smaller and to the bottom corner more if you can. Possibly make that area off limits to fish. Put a rock there or something that they bounce off. Or you can leave it. It's part of the difficulty of the game. Either way, nice game.

Posted 2 years ago #
n8tr
Member

I just bought it. Looks great and clever concept. In a future update, I'd love to see the evil fish chomp or swallow me when I get hit. Good work.

Posted 2 years ago #
jstart
Member

Are you planning on trying any other game control methods? THe simulated joystick works surprisingly well, but I feel like maybe a touch to move or draw a movement path control scheme might improve on the playability (just a suggestion of course). Let me know if you find box2d to work better. My current game uses chipmunk, but, the more I look at box2d, the more I am convinced it is more feature heavy.

Posted 2 years ago #
pabloruiz55
Member

@jstart: For next update i have added besides the current controls, a new one where you touch where you want the fish to move to. I has it disadvantages too, but at least you can choose whichever method suits you ;)

Regarding Box2d i like it better, but implementing chipmunk is easier, right now i don't have any complicate physics going on, just some impulses applied and some joints for grabbing the fishes. I am busy changig a lot of stuff so i think the change to box2d will have to wait for now :(...

Posted 2 years ago #
jstart
Member

sounds cool! giving people options is always smart

That sounds smart. Box2d seems more useful if you are doing heavy physics and joint stuff. For my current projects it is easier to just use chipmunk because i'm better acquainted with chipmunk.

Posted 2 years ago #
marcotronic
Member

Hi,
I´ve just bought your game. Really great fun! :o) The background music (loop) get boring very quickly, though ;o) I think the loop is too short - it gets quite monotonous after some seconds. Nevertheless: Cool game. Good luck with it.

Marco

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