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I'm really happy to announce the release of our first iOS game, 'House of Mice'
Of course, It was created using the amazing framework cocos2d & box2d.
Thank you @riq, @steve and all other cocos2d friends !!!
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AppStore Link
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/house-of-mice/id434863492?mt=8
Website
http://www.houseofmice.com/
Screenshots
Thank you Birkemose.
In fact, I've learned a lot through your articles in the forum.
I'm really happy to get your nice evaluation.
No, this game is not amazing.
This game is fucking freaking über super out of this world AMAZING!
Bye bye stupid birds. Say hello to my little mouse! <- add heavy italian accent
Well, actually the game crashed on me first time I tried it. Click extra+credits on a 3G, and the screen goes black.
But that is a GOOD crash, because then I get to start the game again, and watch the mice shadows run around. That is not cool. That is über cool.
Actually.
Everything in this game is so damn spot on, that it is almost scary. From the animations to the old school cartoon theme. And honestly. If you have ever learned just the slightest thing from my rantings inhere, I am truly honored.
I have at this point only played the first 8 levels, but that does not matter. Tiny wings got number one with less gameplay, and less style, and that game had A LOT of style.
If there is any justice in this world, House of Mice will make iTunes an offer they can not refuse.
@cocoBavan You're not alone. Actually I don't really understand @Birkemose when it's not about technical questions. ;)
I like the game itself too. Very nice polished graphics, easy to understand gameplay. However you cannot refuse that parts of the whole "game scene" weren't inspired by Cut The Rope. ;)
Thank you all for compliment.
@Birkemose : I'm really happy to hear nice words from you for my game. really thank you.
and I also like 'God Father' :-)
@cocoBavan : I agree with you. Maybe he is a well-informed man with broad vision, I think.
@bazcocos : Yes! I need your iTunes review! BTW, today somebody rated my game as one star twice
without any descriptions on U.S App Store.
Maybe he don't like me or my game... :-(
@m13 : Yes! you right! My the hardest trouble is English. As you can see I'm not good at English.
If you correct the iTunes description for me, really really appreciated. ^^;
After studying English harder, someday I hope to be a man who helpful one at the forum like you. :)
Thank you again.
I read the thread on toucharcade ( awful forum ;), and I really dont see the connection to Cut the rope.
I even fired up CTR just to check. That is also a brilliant game BTW.
They could just as well claim you ripped of Tom & Jerry.
And while it is puzzling what makes people tick, those 2 one-star reviews will not ruin your day. My bet is you have major feature within the week.
*phone rings*
- Hi, it's Steve.
- Good evening Mr. Jobs. How are you and your family?
- Hello Mr. Birkemose. We are fine, thank you.
- Mr Jobs. Do you remember when you came to me for help, to start that company of yours. What was it? Peach?
- Apple Mr. Birkemose. Yes I remember.
- Do you remember I said, that one day I might need you to return the favor?
- I certainly do Mr. Birkemose.
- Well Mr. Jobs. That day has come ...
This is a really good game, I like it!
(almost done with the kitchen)
I'm certain it will do extremely well in the app store.
I noticed that in the credits there is a credit for 3D modeling,
is the rolling mouse-ball a cell-shaded 3d model exported to the a sprite-sheet? (the tail looks like it)
Also, I noticed that the game doesn't give you any bonus points when completing a level with just 2 mice & 3 cheeses.. or at least not a noticeable bonus.
Great work!
All the best.
hahaha~
You are so funny & kind man Birkemose :)
Especially, when you said 'Peach', we are cracked up.
Your replies are really inspiring us.
(Now we can forget the today's sales gross. lol )
If I could speak English well, I'd like to talk with you more things...
Anyway, when you say your favor to Jobs, please comment our game too. ^_^
letmeknow
Member
From last post:
- Mr Jobs. Do you remember when you came to me for help, to start that company of yours. What was it? Peach?
- Apple Mr. Birkemose. Yes I remember.
- Do you remember I said, that one day I might need you to return the favor?
- I certainly do Mr. Birkemose.
- Well Mr. Jobs. That day has come ...
The story continue...
- Ok Mr Birkemose I'll send you 3 pounds of green apples tomorrow.
- ....
- You don't like green apples, do you? How about Fuji apples, 3 pounds, ok?
- ....
- Hello, Mr Birkemose, are you there? say something, I don't have all day....
@sndwav Yes, you right.
What a sharp-eye you have!
We used Cell-shading plugin.
Most of in-game objects are rendered using 3D Max and
re-touched with Photoshop.
after that (as you know) exported to sprite-sheet.
Regarding bonus point...
we have discussed about it so much during last step.
But, since most of levels are designed to use 3 mice,
we removed the bonus point for the remain mice just before release.
We thought that it confuse players and makes them to try to find the best path doesn't exists.
really appreciate your reply!
@alexasha : sorry... we are broken.
Already sent most of promo codes to reviewers here and there.
The rest of them is used for event. (still alive)
Please visit here...
http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=94311
But, as you know we don't have enough codes, it seems the ratio of the competition is high....
Thank you!
liquidfire
Member
There have only been two times when I have been legitimately blown away by a game. The first time was with the Three Little Pigs iPad book, and the other time with this one. This truly deserves to be number one in the app store.
Just out of curiosity, who was your artist? Do you have someone that works in-studio with you, or did you hire someone to do contract work?
Thank you for the feedbacks.
@bryce : oh god! really? I didn't know it yet.
Since iPad2 released recently in our country I couldn't test on it.
(It sold out before noon all over the cities.)
I'll check it out and fix the bug ASAP.
Thank you!
@liquidfire : Thank you liquidfire :)
As you can see in the credits roll we have 2 in-studio artists.
not a part-time or contract work.
we did it only for level design.
Please don't try to hire them! ^^;
Enjoy!
cocoBavan
Member
The rank is somewhere around 800, which means they dint do any hard core marketing. However, I don't see a reason for this game not being able to make in to even top 100 by now. :-o. Is it because NO GC?
Anyway,Only 2 days nah? may be, we could wait for some more days.
Thank you all for the feedbacks
@Paul : Really sorry about the delay!
I'm a big fan of Angry Birds & CTR, too.
I agree that they had inspired me.
But, I can assure.
They are totally different game from the view of gameplay :)
@ddeaco : I should have... but I didn't...
@cocoBavan : iTunes rank is getting worse as time goes by... too bad...
I just finished preparing update to support
the facebook sharing & GameCenter leaderboard.
I'm hoping that It would work.
@Zhenmuron : thank you! I need your review & rating. :-)
Since I don't like interrupting the flow when I play a game,
I tried to remove it as I could.
@jd : thank you jd.
You are also one of the cocos2d teachers who I've learned so many things from !
Now, I'm stumbling around in a swamp of the marketing.
If you have any advice, I hope to hear it. :)
@m13 : Thank you again!
I'm not good at English.
Since that, m13 has helped polishing my game's iTunes description !
@Par : Really Thank you!
I didn't know it yet.
I'll correct it right away.
Marketing and promoting is harder than I expected.
I couldn't find yet how to stand out my game effectively.
I couldn't get even any response or review from iOS game news sites yet.
(of course, I've sent so many review requests to them before approval
with Ad-hoc build version)
Cheers !
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