A fast, easy to use, free, and community supported 2D game engine
Congrats on getting it approved.
Since you had this already on iPhone, did you replace the existing app with a universal one? or did you release it as a different app?
Does that affect whether you show in the front of the new list in the category?
Does it make your iPhone only users download a new (larger) binary?
Yeah, it's an universal app. It's probably a terrible business decision because it bumps it past the 20mb limit. I had some really good loyal players from the beginning and I didn't want to make them buy it again if they have an iPad. I'm toying with bumping up the price to $2 b/c I think it's a fairer price.
It does not appear in the new release list. However, if you type "sniper" in iTunes, you see that the game comes up both in the iPhone section and the iPad section. I don't have data, but I'm not sure if it would've shown up if I had submitted it as a new iPad app.
The increase in binary size went from 18.4mb to 22.5mb as shown in iTunes. I only added about a dozen or so 1024x768 PNG files. I will see in the next few days if that dramatically lowers the purchases.
It doesn't look like the increase in binary size has affected sales so far, but it's only been 1/2 a day.
I didn't really try to chop 2.5mb from the binary. To make it under the 20mb limit originally, I already had to cut short some sound fx, so I didn't really think I'd be able to trim it some more.
Most of my sales also seem to come from abroad so maybe 3G isn't as ubiquitous there or people's buying habits are different.
Joethemonkey101
On probation
nice job!!
Just added GameCenter support via OpenFeint 2.7i.
Just waiting for the rest of the higher res artwork for another 15 achievements to be done now before I can release the update.
OpenFeint Documentation took me a little while to find b/c the OFGameCenter.plist wasn't included in the sample code. After I inputted all the achievements and leaderboards into iTunesConnect, I only needed to change 1 line in my code and add a couple of frameworks.
The thing that took the longest was figuring out how to log into the sandbox version of Game Center to test. I've been using wild card app ids since the beginning so I needed create a new app id in the provisioning portal. Then once that was enabled, I have to sign the development binary with the profile. Even then, logging into the sandbox was intermittent, but I can't sure if it's a problem with my internet connection here or not. I ended up creating 3 new apple ids until I finally got one that worked.
And the final gotcha was that even though I signed with the new provision in xcode, it didn't actually take properly on the device until I manually deleted the old install from the device. Then it finally logged me into the sandbox.
Now that I think I've figured out how to integrate Game Center and test properly, it should be really quick for me to update all my games to use OF 2.7i along with Game Center support.
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re: 20mb 3G d/l limit
So I finally whittled it down to 19.7mb on iTunes and I want to say that sales seem to have gone up slightly, but I can't be sure it's because of the binary size. I found that having somewhat high quality JPG instead of PNG files saved me a ton of space with no visible artifacts. Because the app is universal, I included background images in PNG in 1024x768 which can sometimes take up to 1mb where as JPG files are less than 200kb.
Just for fun:
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Just pure mirroring to the TV via HDMI out. Using the iPhone 4S as a controller is pretty nice except I can't find the shoot button half the time. I think I need to redesign the UI on the phone when used as a controller like this.
[edit] changed iPhone 4 to iPhone 4S
zaaroth
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That looks freaking fun. I didnt know the HDMI out cable would work on iPhone 4 (I know mirroring does not work, I am talking about the cable itself).
Wifi mirroring through Apple TV should make it even better. The feeling should be the same as when you move from PS2 to PS3.
Oops, sorry! I used iPhone 4S in my video. I think for iPhone 4, you have to explicitly opt-in to display on the TV.
Yeah, I just tried it again to make sure. For Desktop Army where I specifically made it work for AirPlay/TVOut/2nd display, it works for the iPhone 4. But for mirroring, it doesn't work for iPhone 4. But writing the code to do it wouldn't be so hard. After I submit the update tonight, I'm going to start working on getting Sniper Strike working for AirPlay/HDMI out.
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