[Game] Cogitate - a truly challenging puzzle game. Promo codes included!

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[Game] Cogitate - a truly challenging puzzle game. Promo codes included!

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Started 2 years ago by momocat
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momocat
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Hey all,
I'm a bit late getting around to this, but here goes:

Cogitate, my hardcore puzzle game was released on the AppStore last Friday.

I designed it to be challenging, but have also provided four different difficulty levels to suit different players. It exercises your brain's amazing powers of pattern recognition and logic. I hope it will grow to become the next must-have hardcore puzzle game for the iPhone!

Each level presents you with a different pattern which is then scrambled. You must rearrange the original pattern by shifting rows and columns, both as quickly as possible and using as few moves as you can in order to earn bonus points and extra time. While this sounds easy, it soon gets very tricky. Each pattern however, has certain characteristics which make them easier to solve using certain technique(s).

Cogitate is OpenFeint enabled and has leaderboards as well as 800+ achievement points to unlock. It is currently available at a limited, introductory price of US$0.99

AppStore link: http://itunes.apple.com/app/cogitate/id335686162?mt=8
Homepage: http://www.momocatstudios.com/cogitate/
YouTube trailer:

Get the Flash Video

The game uses cocos2d-iphone 0.8.2, CocosDenshion as well as OpenFeint for leaderboards and achievements.

I want to say a big thank you to both Ricardo as well as the entire cocos2d-iphone community. Only some months ago, I was new to Objective-C, iPhone SDK and cocos2d. There is no doubt that without the invaluable information, discussions and cocos2d itself that I would not be making this post today. This is a wonderful community where everyone is very keen to share and help newbies. I've so far never needed to post a question, because I've always found the answers here!

I am a ruby/java developer working for The Man, and writing iPhone games is a hobby I hope to one day turn into a full time job.

Thank you for your time,
Sam Coward == Momocat Studios

Promo Codes, as promised. First come first served!
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Posted 2 years ago #
Thomvis
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It looks great but you might think about the color blind. I'm only mildly color blind (as is 5% of the male population) and I can't distinguish the colors in half of the patterns you show in your movie.

Posted 2 years ago #
zombie
Member

Great idea. But I am too impatient for something like this. Never solved the Rubick Cube...

- zombie

Posted 2 years ago #
momocat
Member

Hi folks, thanks for your feedback.

@Thomvis
I'm planning to have configurable themes and definitely include a high contrast colour theme in my next version.

@zombie
You know, so many people have compared this game to a Rubiks Cube. I wish I could sell it with such a tagline, if I wasn't so sure I'd get sued :(

.. I wonder how else I could reach all those speed cubing fans with iPhones?

Posted 2 years ago #
zombie
Member

You should try to get some reviews on bigger sites. They will bring up Rubik for sure. And I think your game is the perfekt transition of the 3D cube to the 2D iPhone screen.

Posted 2 years ago #
momocat
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Let's hope I get one. I sent out review requests and media packs last Friday. Not sure how long most sites take to respond, but I'm sure they get a ton of requests. *fingers crossed*

Posted 2 years ago #
vutronic
Member

"You should try to get some reviews on bigger sites. They will bring up Rubik for sure. And I think your game is the perfekt transition of the 3D cube to the 2D iPhone screen. "

Don't forget to open a new thread for your game at Touch Arcade. You can get some really good feedback from the users there.

Posted 2 years ago #
Osiris
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I'm kinda jaded on the whole independent review process. I sent really nice requests with movies, screenshots and promocodes to over 20 review sites. Only 3 of them even bothered to review our game and the one I counted on the most gave it it shitty review and I really don't even think he played it.

There is nothing like letting teenagers rip you apart unmercilessly for the silliest reasons when you intended to make a career out of game development.

Posted 2 years ago #
momocat
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@vutronic
Yes, there has been a little interest in the post I put up at Touch Arcade, but the thread sank after a few hours. It sure is daunting when you see the ngmoco Eliminate thread though, over 200k views.

@Osiris
So far I had a pretty average preview done by one site before the game was released. But as far as review requests go, I've been turned down by 1 site, and haven't heard a response from about 25 sites. The problem is I don't know if they are just really busy or if I'm being ignored. At least if I knew I was being ignored I could perhaps investigate hiring some PR company to break the ice.

Posted 2 years ago #
Osiris
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I think it has come to them wanting money for reviews. Almost all of the review sites hit me up for advertising or "pay for priority treatment". Since I didn't pay, almost no one reviewed. I can only imagine that had I paid the one site that gave us such a bad review, the results of that review would have been very different.

Posted 2 years ago #
momocat
Member

Wow. That's pretty bad journalistic integrity. The site that turned down my review request did try and sell me advertising, but not under the pretense of doing a review for me in exchange.

Posted 2 years ago #
badawe
Member

@momocat this is the way by now! And figure how many crap games this guys recive by day to get review!? Whenever you release the game, is good if you can spend some money to review, U$1k, just for the bigger review sites.

Posted 2 years ago #
AkumaStreak
Member

Super-sexy presentation! Nice.

Posted 2 years ago #
momocat
Member

@AkumaStreak thanks, I'm not really a very design oriented person (more of a coder), so that means a lot to me :)

Regarding the review front, I have had some responses finally saying things like "It's in a queue", "We look forward to reviewing it very soon" etc... So I guess they were just really really busy, and hopefully I'll see some more wheels turning soon!

Posted 2 years ago #
jptsetung
Member

@momocat, that is a very clever game. How many levels are there ? Did you consider making a lite version ?

Posted 2 years ago #
QcMat
Member

I really like how smooth your game is. The sliding is really well done.

Good luck and congrats. I Left a 5 star review.

Posted 2 years ago #
momocat
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@jptsetung Thanks! The levels go on and on until you lose. There's about 30 different patterns, but I plan to add more in future updates. So far nobody has gotten past 16 :) The LITE version is still waiting for approval from Apple.

@QcMat Thanks for your support! I deliberately ensured the movement was as fluid as possible. It'd be frustrating for players if the interface got in the way of solving levels well.

Posted 2 years ago #

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