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Started 2 years ago by jd
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ob1
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I like the game. Great idea. I love those zombie flash games. A few comments though:

It would be nice if the player had some little animation like the monsters. It would also be nice if the monsters had dying animations, they just disappear.

Shooting the Wacraft grunt hmm... Frankenstein :-D in the legs doesn't work. Bullets go right through. Same for the skeletton. The collision rectangle for the Cerberus could also be enlarged (Try shooting just the top of its back).

Is there a "heat effect" on the Uzi, because after shooting for some time, the rate of fire slows down dramatically?

Would be nice to have an indicator when you have enough money for an upgrade.

I had trouble clicking on some menu buttons too. They definitely don't work if you don't click right in the middle.

I didn't find there was a tilt option until I read about it here and checked the options (minor problem, but some of my customers seem to be real idiots about stuff like that). Tilt feels inverted for me so I would like the option to reverse it.

The sound loop is a bit short, got on my nerves quickly (but I turned it off).

Overall very nice game, with lots of replay value. (I maybe biased, I used to play "the last stand" all the time at work :-D ).

I hope you take all this as constructive criticism. I left a good review on the Swiss store.

PS: Oh, and a zombie shooting game without a shotgun is lame :-D

Posted 2 years ago #
jd
Member

Here's some codes. Please rate and review if you get a chance.

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Posted 2 years ago #
PhilM
Member

That was a quick turn around after your re-submission!

Just used RH7NR3HRENXR, thanks. I'll have a play shortly and leave a review on the US store, and any feedback here.

Good luck on the store!

Posted 2 years ago #
natanavra
Member

Wooohooo!!
350 and rising (Easy mode), I'm the master!

Posted 2 years ago #
jd
Member

j2sighte (A Doodle Flight) is dominating Hard - 492!!

Posted 2 years ago #
natanavra
Member

Dominating! God LIKE! UNSTOPABLE!!! 803 KILLS!!

EDIT: Scratch That lol,

OMGGG!! some dude reached 1004.

(After 500 kills it mostly depends on your FPS)

BTW, James you use chipmunk for collision detection only, right? and... do you pre-alloc? or create monsters at runtime?

Posted 2 years ago #
Joao Caxaria
Member

Just bought the game and it's very good :) Great work!

Posted 2 years ago #
neobamboom
Member

Can someone post a video of it on Youtube?
Great exposure. Well some...

Posted 2 years ago #
Codemattic
Moderator

How many people using slide? How many people using tilt?

Im using tilt. Thinking of switching to slide.

I agree with ob1 on shotgun.

Posted 2 years ago #
natanavra
Member

@Codemattic, tilt was perfect at first! But once I understood how the slide + fire button = domination!

You should first press the fire button and only then start sliding, otherwise the slide touch will get canceled.

I think I can post a short review to the store, if you'd want me to - Jd...

Posted 2 years ago #
jd
Member

I didn't realize how crazy the app store is until I released my own game. I listed the game under Games->Action, Games->Arcade and Entertainment. If I sort by release date, I see my game in Action and Arcade. It doesn't even show up under Games or Entertainment. I sent them an email about not being in Entertainment but I'm sure they get tons of emails so they may or may not check it out. I'm trying to avoid being instantly buried. It seems a Sunday release during football season doesn't help much either :)

Posted 2 years ago #
natanavra
Member

@jd you'd get buried anyway... It's pretty much hopeless, I mean, there are 50-150 apps released daily in every category (about 1-2k of apps overall) and it's really hard to stay up there visible, because most people (devs...) would just name their apps "A something" and it's ******* annoying!

Btw, how are sales? I understand you didn't get too lucky?

Posted 2 years ago #
jd
Member

Sales are less than expected but I want to see how it does today - sales stats are a day behind. I'm just amazed that apple didn't put my game into the categories I specified - the MAIN categories. Nothing I can do to make them.

Posted 2 years ago #
zombie
Member

I like the style of your graphics. I hope you get the attention you deserve. Will head over to the app store and get it.

Posted 2 years ago #
jd
Member

@zombie Thank you. I was sort of worried about your game coming out near mine because both are monster fighting games and ... well yours looks really sweet. I'll be picking it up day 1. When is day 1?

Posted 2 years ago #
jd
Member

Reduced the price to $1. Monday wasn't so hot.

Posted 2 years ago #
natanavra
Member

@jd I think that the $1 price drop could possibly give your game a certain sales boost on one hand, on the other hand it might drop off the radar of most people, considering it like: "Mehh, another $1 game..."

GOOD LUCK!!

~ Natanavra.

Posted 2 years ago #
jd
Member

I agree. Unfortunately the app store and itunes refresh info using some random algorithm so when you search it shows 1.99 but when you go to purchase it shows .99. If microsoft did this...

Posted 2 years ago #
Codemattic
Moderator

All games will eventually go to 0.99, its just a question of how fast. A game like DMD with all its art assets and animations and powerups, seems like a 2.99 game to me - and its distressing (depressing?) that it cant find an audience in todays appstore. Hopefully though the 0.99 will give it a boost. Maybe the lesson is always start at 0.99, bc you are going to go down to there anyway, and people just wont buy on impulse above that?

Posted 2 years ago #
zombie
Member

@jd Day 1 is already several weeks in the past :(
We are working on too much small improvements and gimmiks properly nobody will recognize :)
I think we are around 3 weeks from beta testing.

Now back to your game.

I would suggest to fix the oriantation of the screenshots on your app store page.

Posted 2 years ago #
zombie
Member

Great, you fixed the screenshots.

I would love to see some dying animations. Also the normal animations could be a bit smoother. Last critic: Try to improve the performance. It could be better on my 3G.

Beside that: great game.

I just left you a review.

- zombie

Posted 2 years ago #
PhilM
Member

I just bought a copy & left a good review on the uk store. I really like the game, its far more addictive than I was expecting!

How have sales been since your drop to $1? I think its easily worth more than that, although perhaps more so once you get a few more monsters and end bosses in place to give it a bit more variety.

Once I'd sussed holding down the fire before using the slider I seem to be doing ok (mid 300's on average, so not great, but enough to enjoy it). Apart from the visual tweaks and extra effects other have mentioned, I'd personally find it more compelling to replay if you get to retry a level if you die, rather than start from scratch each time, or maybe a fast fwd button to get through the early rounds quicker.

Perhaps its just me, but it'd take me ages to get to the faster/later levels, and when it gets all frantic, I perhaps loose my finger placement, and by the time I get the slider to work again, I'm dead.

Otherwise, perhaps when a monster gets to you, they jump back after every 'attack', giving you a small chance to recover? Although it might just be me being crap, others seem to be getting some good scores!

My fav weapon is the uzi so far, a shot gun would be very cool, like ob1 mentions.

Can't wait to see some of the new characters, I do find the dogs/wolves pretty freaky!

Posted 2 years ago #
jd
Member

Thanks PhilM. You can SAVE your game directly after beating a boss. That's why it automatically goes to the Pause/Upgrade Menu. The SAVE button is dimmed the entire game and is only available to save at that point. You won't have to start over. You can click Resume Saved Game in the Main Menu to continue from your last saved point.

The game starts off slow so you can figure out where to shoot each monster and to give you time to choose your upgrades. The cool thing is every person I talk to has a different favorite weapon - except maybe the chainsaw. That's why I have Achievements for each weapon - so you get a chance to experience each one.

I'm submitting a lite version and an updated paid version this week. The paid version will only have minor updates - like indicators for what level each weapon is at and how much it will cost for the next upgrade. I will release another set of more significant updates before Halloween.

I appreciate the feedback. I know there are plenty of updates I could make, but it's always best to get end user feedback instead of me guessing.

Posted 2 years ago #
PhilM
Member

Ahhhh, I presumed it was just a resume after exit feature, not a custom save one. Thats sweet. Should make it much easier to keep going now, and makes my comments on the earlier levels or fast forward irrelevant. Good luck with the game!

Posted 2 years ago #
jd
Member

A better Help Menu is what I'm trying to cram in before submission:)

Do you feel that starting the controls off on Tilt instead of Slider is a good move? I'm contemplating this.

Posted 2 years ago #
PhilM
Member

I haven't tried the tilt controls yet myself, as I read the comments here first. But a lot of people seem to prefer tilt controls on games for the novelty factor.

Perhaps the very first time you load the game you give the user the choice as a full screen menu? (similar to how some games ask if you want to enable sound before going to the main menu) After that, they can toggle it on the options section? Just a suggestion.

Posted 2 years ago #
ob1
Member

I think that PhilM idea is very good.

Posted 2 years ago #
jd
Member

I have some extra promo codes if anyone wants one. I submitted updated version and a lite version. I named the lite version "A DMD Quest" lol.

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Posted 2 years ago #
ob1
Member

Should have names it like : "A DMD Quest - Monster fighting". :-D

Good luck with your update.

Posted 2 years ago #
jd
Member

Version 1.1 is available. Took 13 days for approval. Somehow Peter und Vlad got approved today too. I thought they originally released 10/6. The lite version has not been approved yet despite being submitted same day as update.

Also not sure why it does not show up under any categories yet when I order by release date. The categories have not changed since version 1.0 and I updated the release date minutes after being notified it was approved. The app page shows proper date.

What's new
Two new Achievements
- 500 Club (defeat 500 monsters in one game)
- 1k Club (defeat 1000 monsters in one game)
Weapon Price Indictors on Weapon Icons
Weapon Level Indicators on Weapon Icons
New Improved Help Screen

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