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Started 1 year ago by Mochibits
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Mochibits
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Hey everyone! My new game is out! Thanks for being a great forum!

Game is pretty simple. You kill orbs with swipe and tap gestures. =)

Website:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/SwipeTapTap/203511569659752
http://www.swipetaptap.com

Description:
Push your reaction time, coordination, memory, and focus with this innovative and highly addictive game!

SwipeTapTap (or STT) is a visual Simon Says game that offers 9 distinct simple gestures. If you like Bop It, you'll love STT!

STT offers 4 different game modes:

✓ Classic
✓ Memory
✓ Speed
✓ Endurance

CLASSIC allows you to race against the moving flow of orbs. Kill the orbs before they reach the other end of your screen. Progress your way through the levels as the speed and number of gestures increase.

MEMORY is our version of the classic Simon Says memory game. But instead of colors and buttons, you must use your brain and remember each of the nine distinct moves in random order.

SPEED is where you can challenge yourself to race against the clock. Get as many correct moves in as time allows. The harder the difficulty, the more moves you will have to master.

ENDURANCE is the mother of all modes! It starts off slow to get you in the groove, but as time progresses, it gets faster and faster and you start adding more moves into the mix. The speed never stops increasing! Oh yeah, don't let the orbs overflow your screen. Game over.

You can play STT for a few minutes or a few hours!

Have fun.

-MochiBits

Screenshots:

iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/swipetaptap/id413854807?mt=8

Promo Codes:
ATPEEXHXMPWJ
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RK6J4WAX6KRN
TPPWT9JYFFT3
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Posted 1 year ago #
Mochibits
Member

Wow, didn't think it would get cracked that fast. Suspect it was from the free promos. Anyways... no matter how you got the game, please give some feedback.

Thanks.

Posted 1 year ago #
Birkemose
Moderator

How do you find out if a game is cracked?

Posted 1 year ago #
alexasha
Member

Installous!

Posted 1 year ago #
Birkemose
Moderator

^^OMG, I feel like a real hacker now.

Posted 1 year ago #
ruben301
Member

Or apptrackr in your browser.

Anyway great game! I've played it and it's really fun. I will post a more in depth "review" later.

Posted 1 year ago #
Birkemose
Moderator

Not only do I suck in app store. I also suck in app tracker.
Bummer!

Posted 1 year ago #
cocoBavan
Member

Birkemose: I am going to award you the most hilarious Cocosnut in the world. :D ..

Anyway, You said you have a jailbroken device... provided that how come you are not aware of this site?

In my country, this tiny wings is nowhere to be found in the appstore rank, however everybody is playing it and discussing about it. There are about 200,000 iphone users are in my country. see :D .

All are apptrackrs.. :D

Posted 1 year ago #
Mochibits
Member

733t!

I just googled the app name and 3 of the first page links that came up were from crack sites. That was 1 day after approval. I don't think it's that popular that people will notice it so it's either this site or iphonedevsdk. It really doesn't bother me. I actually think it's kinda cool that someone liked it enough to crack hahaha.

@ruben301 thanks!

Posted 1 year ago #
Benihana
Member

The promo codes are 100% public, since you do not have to login to view them. It's pretty well established that there are leechers and such, watching these forums for free games. As long as you don't mind... /shrug

Also, my understanding is that often hackers will buy the game very soon after it is approved, and crack it for their sites. I'm assuming they are supported by advertising, so the first one to the finish line will get the ad hits. Nothing you can do about that, so... take it for what it's worth I guess (0.99? ;d ).

Posted 1 year ago #
Birkemose
Moderator

@cocoBavan
I said that I DONT have a jailbroken phone :)

Posted 1 year ago #
Mochibits
Member

Exciting news!

SwipeTapTap just got featured on the main New and Noteworthy list on the app store.

=)

Posted 1 year ago #
toadkick
Member

Congrats MochiBits! Cow Trouble was featured too! In fact, our apps are neighbors :D

Posted 1 year ago #
Mochibits
Member

Awww yeah!!! Congrats man!

Posted 1 year ago #
Tone
Member

Congrats on getting featured. Can you (@Mochibits and @toadkick) mention what you did in regards to promotion?

Thanks!

Posted 1 year ago #
toadkick
Member

Honestly we probably did the same thing most other people do..we sent out press kits with promo codes to all of the sites we could think of that feature reviews on iOS games. Mostly it was a wash, but IndieGames.com and GamePro.com took a shine to the game and wrote features on us. We're still crossing our fingers that some of the more prominent iOS reviewers will pick up on the game and write features too.

I suppose one advantage we might have had was that we sort of name dropped some projects we worked on professionally in our press kit. There is a naive part of me also that wants to believe that our experience and hard work coming through in the game are the reasons we were noticed, but I'm sure a lot of it was just pure luck.

I have a friend who develops iOS games that asked me the same question a couple of days ago. He related to me that a company he worked for hired a PR firm to get the word out about their iOS projects...and that we got more press than they were able to. This sort of justifies my belief that for small developers it is a waste of money to deal with publishers like Chillingo and others, who take half of your cut.

Posted 1 year ago #
toadkick
Member

I'd also like to add that I think it is wise to be careful with your promo codes...treat them like gold! I've required on the forums that people ask me for promo codes if they want them, rather than dumping out a mass of them. I think that by doing this you end up giving them to people who are likely already interested in your game, and it gives you a chance to appeal to them directly to leave feedback. These people also are likely the ones who will help provide the most organic and inexpensive form of marketing there is: word of mouth. I've noticed that when codes are just posted in the forums, they tend to get scavenged by people who are not likely to help promote your game. Also it seems to be a likely vector for putting your game into the hands of pirates (even though it is pretty much inevitable that your game will be pirated, it seems that requiring them to actually purchase your game buys you a little time initially).

Posted 1 year ago #
Birkemose
Moderator

Man, I forgot to namedrop ...

*slaps self*

Posted 1 year ago #
toadkick
Member

@Birkemose: LOL!

Posted 1 year ago #
Tone
Member

@toadkick I purchased your game and I have to say I really like it. I love pixel art!

Thanks for the feedback and again congrats on the feature.

Posted 1 year ago #
Mochibits
Member

Honestly, we didn't submit our app to any blogs or review site. We were planning on doing that after v1.1 came out, because we added some cool bronze, silver, and gold stars upon level completion.

I think the combination of a nifty idea, clean graphics, and a nice icon and screenshots helped a lot in getting us on the N&N list... or it could be sheer luck and opinion of someone inside apple.

One blogger asked if she could review our game, and I was wondering how she even knew about our game. That same day, I was shocked to see our sales go from single to triple digits. After looking online, I saw that we were on the list.

I agree with toadkick, I put some codes on here and iphonedevsdk just because these sites helped me a lot. Only give codes to people that want them. Even my friends are too cheap to buy the game.

I even personally emailed people codes to thank them for input, knowledge, and posts on different forums. Only person I got a thanks from was Riq!

That said, I plan to email the big review blogs with some codes after our next release, to see if we can get some nice reviews. Will see how that works.

Posted 1 year ago #
Mochibits
Member

Great news! Version 1.1 is out!

The final list of sweetness...

✓ Retina Graphics enabled for iPhone/iTouch
✓ Fun Facts and High Scores look sweeter
✓ Memory gameplay tweaked
✓ New "pressure" beeps in Speed... 5,4,3,2,1!
✓ Restart button available in all modes
✓ Bronze,silver,gold completion stars for Classic and Speed
✓ PERFECT star is available for zero errors and a gold star on Classic
✓ Review popup updated
✓ BUG FIX: Double finger gestures occasionally cause false error
✓ BUG FIX: Single tap sometimes freezes gesture input

Posted 1 year ago #
MisterX
Member

All the talk of "cracked" Apple iOS games makes me remember my high school days in the early and mid 80s.. The Apple II Plus and IIE were the "in" computers to have and the number of cracked games for them floating around was tremendous!

Cracked by teenagers mostly, with handles like: Mr. Xerox, Apple Bandit & The Burglar (The Midwest Pirates Guild), The Freeze & Dr. Micro, Mr. Krac-Man, Disk Jockey, Krakowitz, Chief Surgeon (Black Bag), etc.

I didn't realize IOS games were "copy-protected" in any way. Seems like all they have to do today is have one kid purchase the game on a jailbroken device, then get it off that device and put it up on a pirate software site (for jailbroken devices). In the Apple II days the kids had to have the knowledge to actually defeat nibble/bit counting schemes and other protection schemes implemented into the game software itself. This meant being well versed in mechanics of assembly language, machine code and Apple's DOS.

I remember a then new scheme, called "Spira-Disk", where the programmer proudly proclaimed in hex text on the disk, "you'll never crack it".. The first game to use it was broken within a week or two of its official release lol.

My game that I am working on doesn't have any "copy protection", I don't even know how you can implement such a thing these days for iOS stuff. I'm sure even if you can it will be no more effective than it was almost 30 years ago.

Posted 1 year ago #
Mochibits
Member

SwipeTapTap Lite now available in the app store!

http://itunes.apple.com/app/id418286770

Posted 1 year ago #
Mochibits
Member

SwipeTapTap v1.2.07 is now out. Win a free copy!

New Features:
✓ INSANE Classic level
✓ Play using your own iPod music

To win a free copy, go to our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/SwipeTapTap and leave a comment telling us why you need/want STT. We'll choose one winner every day until Easter based on the best, funniest, awesomest comment.

Thanks.

Posted 1 year ago #
Mochibits
Member

Day1 - Winning comment by Piet!

Thanks!

Posted 1 year ago #
leftygames
Member

Downloaded and enjoyed the game. One suggestion - add lives or stars or soemthing similar to the levels so that you have a chance on the mid/hard levels.

This is a cool unique concept nicely done!

Jeff

Posted 1 year ago #
Mochibits
Member

Thanks Jeff. Could you expound on the stars/lives idea?

We were actually thinking of adding an IAP for some "Super Moves"
1. Super-Tap -- kills everything on the screen
2. Slow-Mo -- Slows the speed down to a crawl, then gradually increases.

Giveaway Update: Day2 - Congrats to Kat for being the only one who posted! hahaha. Thanks!

Posted 1 year ago #
Mochibits
Member

Day3 winning comment by BungleBeezley!

Still a lot of days left til Easter to get a free promo code.

Posted 1 year ago #
Mochibits
Member

Day 4 winning comment by Marcio.

Posted 1 year ago #

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