A fast, easy to use, free, and community supported 2D game engine
MotionInk is a natural media painting application with a unique and revolutionary control system that is only possible on the iPhone and iPod Touch.
MotionInk's paint system combines a dynamic ink flow model with a motion based position control that allows for in stroke control of ink spread via simulated brush pressure.
many thanks to Riq and the entire Cocos2d community.
App Store Link:
http://itunes.com/app/MotionInk
MotionInk info/support site
http://motionink.blogspot.com/
Just dl'd it. Great wet ink on paper effect. Very nice color selection layer. The app looks very professional and polished.
I have a few suggestions, though. Unless I'm missing something, I don't see any indication of what brush is active. I touch the pencil, pen or brush and nothing happens. Should the quill change shape? Also, when I touch the clock, nothing happens either.
Hope this helps.
Thanks for actually downloading. I got screwed by the apple release date vs submit date bug so I was afraid no one one pay me any attention.
The indicators are for some reason missing from my submitted version. I had 3 release candidates and picked the wrong one. The brush circles the point of ink flow based on finger offset from initial touch position.
The clock is functional but left out of the instructional sequence. Its purpose is to postpone ink "drying". The basic idea is that touch and hold it will allow you to emit ink with out it 'staining' the paper. You can as a result of this function control the size of the ink bead before drawing. This feature along with zoom needed some more fine tuning so they were slated for version 1B which is coming quite soon.
Thanks for the comments.
When I submitted the screenshot were all there. I decided to make some more screen shots after approval and submitted them. For some reason the new pictures took a whole 2 days to show up in the app store. I am still very confused about the submittal process. Rookie mistake I guess. As far as a video I am working on that as we speak. I am also in the process of getting an artist to do some more screenshots. A lot of the real artist I show it to are impressed but say the UI takes a bit of getting used to. I personally think that apps like Layers and Brushes have the touch based drawing category on lock so I will continue to refine my motion based drawing tool. A few really impressive features didn't make it into this initial version.
@all
Thanks again for the comments I really think this app could be used to create some interesting art. I want as many people as possible to experience it. I spend a lot of time trying to get everything feeling right (this is why zoom/pan didn't make this version). Any feedback good or bad is appreciated!!
Give MotionInk a try.
Has anyone else gotten any oddly low reviews on the app store from users who either didn't use your app or didn't read what the app was before purchasing. I am closing on submitting version 1B of MotionInk but am a bit disheartened by my only review being rather low and misleading. It makes me wonder whether to continue to add features or not. The 1B release will take care of fixing a few issues I think should be in the app for proper usage. I have other apps in the works that I am focusing a lot of time on. The fact that 1B wont move me back to the new listing is also a little discouraging. We should start a marketing and release topic to prepare others for the run up to release.
thesmileman
Member
Also you might try making it free for a week to get more people using it. I am sure if people use your app they will recommend it to others who will buy when you raise the price.
Also I believe that most people rating apps are not the most intelligent people. There are some intelligent people but think about it, who is going to get pissed off enough to grip about a purchase of something that costs $1.99? I mean seriously even if your app entertained someone for twenty minutes that is about the same as a soda that is going to last you the same amount of time. I don't however think the person giving you the one star review seems compitent but he does seem like an jerk for giving you one star when he seems to at least find it somewhat interesting. (I can't tell what the whole review says as when I do it says your app isn't on the US app store. This is the second app I have encountered which has this problem today so maybe it is something with Apple).
I think your application sounds interesting but I really think you might need to dumb down the description for most(read: virtually all) people. I am a software engineer who for the last five years has worked with image processing and I had to think about what you really meant by "natural media painting" and "dynamic ink flow model" and to be quite honest I am still not 100% sure what that means.
Hey, not that they are sometimes not too smart, but I think some are pretty stupid actually...
Look the comment I got for Alex the Fox on promodispenser, and for giving that person free promo code:
chronodiem 2009-11-14 18:55:03
Ugh. Good graphics? NOT. I hate this psuedogame. It has no redeeming value, and is poorly made.
Now, my game is not some "brain storming ultra mega turbo hit" but at least I am sure graphics is very nice and it's for sure not "poorly made". I got about 10 reviews on app store and all of them saying graphics and game play is very very good. At least that fu*king person didn't post his review on appstore... And on top of that he got that game for free...
Can you actual make an app free for a little time and go back to paid? I was under the assumption that once you go free you don't go back. I really worked hard to come up with something novel with as few UI artifacts as possible. I could have easily created another finger paint clone. MotionInk was about being able to draw and control the pressure of the brush and flow of the ink simultaneously. I have another even better ink flow/spreading model in the works.
I really thought this novel usage of the iPhone interface capabilities would be at least an interesting diversion for some iPhone users. I have never hated an app that I bought off of the App Store. I have never given below a 3 for any review.
On a side note I am using iSimulate to capture and usage video but for some reason the paint doesn't stick in the simulated version. It's like my fbo doesn't work in the simulator. Has anyone else had this problem?
thesmileman
Member
@UseCase, I wasn't trying to say you didn't create something nice and new. I think it is hard for people to see what you are talking about and I don't believe the description does a good job of quickly and simply stating what your app does. If your app is something new or different then you might have to have a lite version (or a lite version that is not called light) so that people can understand what the application does.
On the subject of having the app free for a while there are a fair number of applications that are free for some period of time as a promotion. I know there are some because I have got a lot of them. I check the app store all of the time for them. There is even an app that tells you about all of the apps that have been discount or free for a limited time. If you are getting less than 10 purchases a week it seems like it is worth a shot because it would be the same as $7 dollars in advertising.
As someone else said I really think you should get those artists you mentioned to do all of the screenshots. People buy apps because they look pretty not because they are technologically advanced.
I didn't mean for any of my comments to be negative. I was really trying to help with suggestions and advice.
No No I wasn't talking to anyone in particular. I was just venting a bit. Frankly was planning on go to 99 cents some time around christmas and then back to 2 sometime in the new year. I am doing better than 10 a week its just that no one is leaving reviews. Version 1B fixes some bugs and adds the selected button images missing from the original release. I am working on the art and the video it just takes a while because I have a day job. Thanks for your constructive criticism. I much prefer it to ranting.
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