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Hi everyone, we're proud to present our third cocos2d game: Mighty Fin. It's a one-touch sine-wave action scroller (not sure what you'd actually call the genre?) in the spirit of SFCave, Helicopter Game and Tiny Wings.
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Huge thanks go to Riq and the whole cocos2d community — it's been a joy to make this game.
It looks very nice!
"Sine wave" games have been around since years before TW, so rip-off seems a bit harsh no? ^^
Used to play this game in my highschool days, oh the memories:
http://4funnygames.com/play-6546-Blokkokopter.html
No, harsh would be if I called my girlfriend an ugly bitch.
For the past 20 weeks, and the 20 weeks to come, every game featuring "one touch sinusidodial game implementation", will be inspired by TW. Anyone claiming otherwise, have been living under a rock.
I have no problem with that. In fact I was only joking because OP mentioned TW and the genre.
If you ask me, I can even see the "inspiration" from TW in the gritty artwork of MF. Especially in the stills.
EDIT:
And I haven't even started on the pun that lies in Mighty wings versus Tiny fins ... or was that the other way around?
Hehe, nice discussion! I lean more towards @Zhenmuron's opinion that the genre has been around for a while now; I can't speak for Tristan and James, but I think I drew most inspiration from SFCave, myself. That's not to say we don't like Tiny Wings, but I think we've each played it only about three times apiece. So if we'd been trying to clone it, we'd have been going about it the wrong way! ;^)
We have been quite unapologetic in trying to create something that will be popular, though, basically to help us get to make Scarlett Episode 2. :^D I wrote a couple of blog posts back in March on the issue (and also on how we picked what became Mighty Fin from amongst our prototypes):
A change of schedule
The Face-Off
@Ricardo1980 and @ddeaco: We needed to store our alpha-less spritesheets as JPEGs in order to fit under 20Mb, but JPEGs are very slow to decompress (especially on iOS 4.0, what with issue 886 and the further conversion to png). I hacked up a class which dumps the generated texture bytes into a disk cache, and when the JPEG is asked for a second time, the raw bytes are loaded instead. The unpacking screen just requests all the JPEGs in the game, then discards the ones it doesn't need immediately.
We've just released a major update that adds Universal iPad support and doubles the size of the game. :^)
Big thanks to @malphigian, @zaaroth and @jandujar, who helped me shoehorn, er, refit iPad support into the app. (In this discussion.)
Here's a trailer showing off the eight new levels and other new features.
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Liked it as well. How do you do the horizontal scrolling effect ;-)
@lerkan Thanks! It was (mostly) heaps of fun making this update.
@Tickle Bits A few good old cocos update: methods do the trick. :^)
@cocos2dbeginner At this stage we need pretty much all of the 50 for websites and magazines, but if there are any left over I might post a few here.
@pfg2009 We hope so too! We're delighted that it's Game of the Week in Australia and New Zealand at the moment (New Zealand is our home territory), and most people seem to really like it. :^)
@Birkemose Thanks! I know you're quite sparing with compliments, so it means a lot coming from you! ;^)
@Zero07 Thanks for writing a nice review!
@Codemattic Thanks for the compliments! Nah, no zombies for us. We thought pirates and ninjas were enough. :^)
Cheers @Codemattic! We're beginning to suspect that Sal has some sort of dark power. Maybe something to explore in a future update? ;^)
Codemattic
Moderator
The new levels are really terrific. So friggen pretty. I made fun of the ninja level before I played it, but it is actually really lovely and funny. You guys have outdone yourselves.
If I could have anything in MF - it would be more death animations. I know this probably is difficult to do and also have the different outfits. But when I get eaten by a shark - I want to see that happen. When I crash in to the spikes - I kinda want to see MF impaled on them. When I smash in to a rock - I kinda want to see him smushed flat. Its a lot to ask for my ninety-nine cents! But if you were working on a new version and wondering what to put in it, Im voting for death animations!
I hope this is doing well in the app store.
@Codemattic Hehe, glad the ninja level won you over. We have some cool ideas for further updates, too.
I think James would probably die of work overload if we tried to make him come up with multiple unique death animations, multiplied by 70-ish for all the costumes. (Lots of the costumes are just overlays, of course, but we need to make sure the overlays animate along with Fin if necessary.) But I'll put it to him all the same. And then duck his wild flailing fists. :^p
@Codemattic Oh, forgot to say: it's doing not bad on the app store, but as of the present time hasn't lived up to our expectations. (Getting Game of the Week in Australia and New Zealand was great, but they're small markets compared to the US or UK.) Still, we're determined to make the Fin fans happy, and we hope that sales will eventually reach some sort of critical mass in the process.
Olmeister
Member
I recently bought Might Fin, can't stop playing it.
Its currently my most played, and most addictive game I have.
Congratulations on creating such a vibrant, beautiful and well balanced game.
I have some more technical questions if you wouldn't mind;
I notice the fps drops somewhat on the 4G on various levels, am I imagining this?
What physics engine did you use?
What polygon creating techniques did you use?
Did you use a level creation tool with a parsing class, or did you do it all by code?
Once again well done, its great! ;)
great game, sweet update :)
(shame to miss you guys at the NZiDev weekend recently - next year eh?)
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