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Hi,
I have just released my second game.
Chopper Rescue.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chopper-rescue/id479192377?ls=1&mt=8
I have since added Leadership High Scores, and pause functionality.
Please download and let me know what you think.
How can I improve this game?
Thanks
Shane
criter88
Member
It ran great on my phone I have an iPhone 4g running 5.0. I think it would be good to add something that changes the gameplay up a little. I could just go up to the very top of the screen and tilt the device so that the plane flys fast and then pick up the players and go back. Maybe you could add in like missiles that follow you or something. I add a review. I hope it's ok :)
I just downloaded and tried it. The gameplay is fun. It crashed on me a bunch of times on my iPhone 4 iOS 5.0.1. I had to close all active apps to get it not to crash.
A few other notes:
1. Since you have the controls and score, etc. segmented down at the bottom, you basically lost 1/3 of your screen real estate for gameplay. How about using your controls over the gameplay? (Yes, having a virtual joystick over gameplay can be problematic but if you never allow your chopper to go down to the level of the joystick you should be fine).
2. I accidentally hit the ad while I was playing. Perhaps only show this during the menus. No one is going to want to click on an ad while they are playing the game.
3. Sometimes your enemy bullets dissappear mid-flight. You should have them go all the way off the screen before recycling them.
You guys may want to check out my latest game iStroids launched today also.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/istroids/id475919261?ls=1&mt=8
I also have another two submitted. Just waiting for Review. Sometimes takes forever :(
@ David and Criter.
I made all the changes, that you suggested, except removing the Google ad from the game layer. Still working that out.
Added trail to the rockets.
Speeded up the rockets a little.
Added more tanks.
Put tanks on two different y positions now, so looks more 3d.
Removed the panel from the bottom.
Joystick and fire button are now see through.
The game is much harder now and I am sure the players will enjoy it more.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Will be released in version 1.2.
ver 1.1 is in review.
It is such a shame that when you reject a binary, you go back to the start off the queue.
Cheers
Shane
I just looked in the App store for the Matryx apps and all of them basically look the same.
They may have slightly different gameplay, but essentially look the same.
You would of been better off taking the ideas from all these separate games and put them into one game. That way you may have actually come up with something interesting & unique.
Did you not think to get your 15 year old graphic designer to work on the graphics before releasing these? It may have influenced more folk to download them.
I took one look and decided not to. Looks very (very) basic.
Release today.
Sorry but version 1.1 took three weeks.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chopper-rescue/id479192377?ls=1&mt=8
And version 1.2 which will be released tomorrow which took another one and a half weeks.
So 4.5 weeks total.
So no I am not releasing an app a day. Wish I was.
Cheers
Shane
Here is a short video I put together today.
https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150439337269184
The video was made from capturing the simulator. Actually looks much better on a device.
It also runs very fast on the simulator, so is very hard to capture.
I also had to auto fire the bombs and bullets, as you can only either fire one at a time, and you have to steer with the mouse.
@nninio did you download it? Where were the ads positioned? between the joystick and the fire button, or covering the Joystick? And what version of the IOS are you using. I think 4.3 or earlier displays the ad in a different location than later versions.
Yes the ad will be going soon in the paid version.
Just working on more levels before that happens.
Anyway getting there. Still learning.
Cheers
Shane
Mate as if I would do that.
http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/forum/topic/24966
Just turn off you internet if you want to play it.
Cheers
Shane
Well you rich people that own the best devices I guess so, as the itunes simulator is shit and they released it.
Thanks for the graphics. That is due to the 15 year old designer I am working with. :)
Sorry about the ads over the joystick. Definitely not intentional..
The Simulator is fine for what it's intended for. It's not an iOS or hardware emulator and it's not intended for testing release versions of your apps. Apple has been saying that since it came out and plenty of us have been repeating it--I know I mentioned it to you myself. It's useful for quick testing, but not for release testing or device-level debugging.
If you don't have a good spread of devices and iOS versions, then you need a test group that does. Relying on the Simulator is silly. It's not an i-device and it's not even running iOS.
Not to be mean, but this is a symptom of quickly releasing code without adequate testing.
No actually I think it is my fault not the test group.
They told me that 3 weeks ago, but I put it down to the way TestFlight delivered the software.
So I always turned ads off for the testers. Very few ever gave much feedback anyway.
No I like my release mechanism. Another release tomorrow.
Hope someone with a phone running less than 5.0.1 comes to the party and tells me what he see on the screen.
Two man show and it will go on and on.
Cheers
Shane
zaaroth
Member
That is a bad way of attracting more testers. I have seen several people provide feedback already, and some were good feedbacks.
Anyway, the rule of thumb is that testers outside of your organization are *not* supposed to perform quality assurance. They exist to assess the quality you placed on your app instead. Quality assurance is too critical to let others do it. If they are willing to you may ask for one thing or another, but that's it.
Here's another piece of (hopefully, not shit) advice: Less parties and beer (as you usually comment on that) would spare resources to grab more devices if you are willing to make good software :-)
EDIT: Oh crap, this answer is for the previous post before edition. This wont make sense if you havent read that.
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