A fast, easy to use, free, and community supported 2D game engine
FYI. A DMD Quest - 500 is available as of yesterday. It's a free scaled down version of DieMonstersDie! for anybody that would like to check it out. I also submitted an update for the slider controls that fixes the touches being lost. It should be approved shortly.
If you like the game please leave a rating. You could leave a review too if you wish.
The current version has the adMob ads scaled by .8. The upcoming update scales it back to original size. They are fun to click on either way :)
I tried the game but felt it lacked polish in-game. I don't want to be too critical since you seem to be a very active and helpful community member. Please don't take offence, its not a rant just my thoughts on it. I hope to put something out into the wild soon so you can put the boot in then ;)
You've got the basics right, nice graphics, simple gameplay but it needs more polish as suggested by previous posts. A few quick changes would really add to the perceived quality of the game.
For example throw out a few bloody particles when a bullet hits. Make the monster sprite explode into sprite pieces so you don't need new graphics.
Have you had any feedback on the name? I know about your game from this forum but when I searched for it on the phone the fact that you had no spaces in the title of the full version meant I didn't find it at first, and now the lite versions is called DMD.
Good luck with this and future projects.
Thanks for the feedback. There are many things I could do to improve the game. Your suggestion on blood and dying animations are at the top of the list. None of the reviews or users complain about much, so I'm currently focusing on ways to get visibility to the app.
I'm not sure what you searched for but if I search for die monsters die or just monsters or just die in itunes, my app shows up at or near the top. I put those as keywords. There's a band called die monster die which I didn't realize until I got in the app store. I'm not sure if they would be upset if my name with spaces was too similar or not. DMD Quest is a lite version but I purposely chose a different name instead of putting lite. It's kind of a test.
I searched for it in the appstore on the iphone (its a 3GS and the game works without problems). I'm in the UK and the game is definitely titled "diemonstersdie!" no spaces.
The video in the post http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/forum/topic/2474 was very good. I thought the points he made about icon and title were spot on, so much so that I'm changing the title of my game.
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