[Game] AbstractWar 2.0 is now available + promo codes

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[Game] AbstractWar 2.0 is now available + promo codes

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Started 1 year ago by manucorporat
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manucorporat
Member

Hi to all cocos2d community.
AbstractWar 2.0 is now available in App Store. Thank you very much to the developers who discussed their views on the "AbstractWar 2.0 preview" topic (http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/forum/topic/3969).

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***** APP DESCRIPTION *****

There is a place where trigonometric ratios are perfect and the traditional laws of physics have no place. In this place, you will do battle where there isn’t a distinction between good and evil, and you who have to fight in the weakest side. Good luck!
 Your mission won’t be easy, you must beat 10 types of different enemies.
You can play alone or in cooperative mode with two or more friends with bluetooth connectivity.

4 GAME MODES:
- Normal Dual: Destroy the largest number of enemies with a multi-directional spaceship.
- Normal Mono: Destroy all your enemies but this time with a unidirectional spaceship.
- Cruces: The enemies attack vertically and horizontally.
- Pacific: You don’t have armament. You will have to dodge your enemies and detonate explosives stay alive.

ARMAMENT:
- Normal bullets: Various calibres.
- Boing bullets: Bounce off the walls.
- Rockets: They lock on the enemies and destroy them.
- Missiles: On impact they destroy all enemies in range.
- Guided Missiles: Similar effect of normal missiles, but lock onto enemies.
- Nitro Bomb: They destroy all enemies on the screen.
- Atomic Bomb: They destroy all enemies on the screen and those who arrive in within five seconds.
- DeadWave: A wave of a hundred of small remote controlled bullets which kill everything in their path.

Powerups: Multiple types which give you special upgrades for a period of time. 

MAIN FEATURES:
- 4 game modes.
- 24 level campaign mode.
- Co-op, Cooperative Multiplayer.(Bluetooth)
- High Performance (500 particles, 40 enemies and more than 15 effects in screen at the same time smoothly 40FPS).
- Use your own iPod music as the soundtrack for the game.
- Configurable control and cameras.
- Great variety of enemies, weapons, and ships.
- OpenFeint integration.
o 12 achievements
o 4 leaderboards
- From very easy to very hard gameplay.

Probably the best space-shooter for iPhone.

Trailer:

ITUNES LINK: http://itunes.apple.com/app/abstractwar-2-0/id356167684

PROMO CODES:

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MORE INFO IN: http://manucorporat.wordpress.com/

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I would love to get your feedback on my game.

Posted 1 year ago #
mobilebros
Moderator

Impressive! I theived KKYMMTYRMFXR, will leave a review shortly, thanks!

Posted 1 year ago #
Techy
Member

Very nice! I love it!

Posted 1 year ago #
Techy
Member

I hope this game gets big, because then I get people to play against =P

Posted 1 year ago #
Toolism
Member

Grabbed YW7X6RLN33YJ. I'll definetly leave you a review.

Posted 1 year ago #
David994A
Member

I took KYFNLTFX4P7T. My initial impressions are very good. It is very professional! I will leave you more feedback as i use it over the next few days.

Posted 1 year ago #
pfg2009
Member

This game reminds me of Geometry Wars on Xbox Arcade. Looks very polished!

Posted 1 year ago #
MikeSz
Member

wow, it looks awesome !

I played in 3D mode and noticed that the particles fly in a curve sometimes, how did you do that ?

what really amazes me is how you managed to put so many effects into the game and yet it is absolutely fluid without a GS device... impressive

Posted 1 year ago #
Codemattic
Moderator

"There is a place where trigonometric ratios are perfect and the traditional laws of physics have no place. In this place..."

You wrote "place" too many times. IMHO this is better:

"There is a place where trigonometric ratios are perfect and the traditional laws of physics dont apply.  Here you will do battle..."

I also left a review ;)

Posted 1 year ago #
CJ
Moderator

Looks super cool!
Any tips for the rest of us on getting such fast, smooth experience with so many pretty effects going?

Posted 1 year ago #
manucorporat
Member

thanks to all by the reviews.

@MikeSz
Between a black hole and: ships, enemies, and particles, I use the Newton's law of universal gravitation to modify the travel vector.
But when you use the 3D view, the curve is caused probably by the perspective.

@Codemattic. thanks you. I modified the description with your advice. I'm very bad with the English.

@CJ I am preparing the Developer notes, I am going to post it in this topic today.

Posted 1 year ago #
riq
Key Master

Hi manu,

The game is very polished. And I like it very much. The "3d view" is awesome!. I tried the Campaing mode, as so far I reached level "Contrast".

Since the game is very well polished, I'll only give you me feedback on the few thing that I didn't feel comfortable with:
- Music: I created a playlist, and it plays OK. But what I didn't like is when the playlist changes the song. It will display a banner with the name of the song, and sometimes it slows down (or speeds up) the game, making me lost a life. My suggestions would be, in case it is possible, to remove that banner. This happens to me a lot with OpenFeint games too when OpenFeint displays an achievement.

- I think I played the "Hell" level more than 25 times in order to complete it (IMO it is more difficult than the "Ocean" level).
So, when you play a level so many times, you just want to skip the "Game Over" screen and restart the game as soon as possible.
In order to skip it I was doing: Pause -> restart, but it doesn't work when you are on the "Game Over" screen :(

Good luck with the sales!

Posted 1 year ago #
manucorporat
Member

thanks @riq by your advices.
- Music: currently the banner is rendered using UIKit, but in the 2.2 version, it will be rendered using OpenGL.
- I am a expert in AW 2.0 and for me it's easy. hehehe, but a lot people say me the same issue that you comment. It will be improved in 2.2 version.
- I had not noticed the problem when you restart the game with the GameOver screen. It also will be fixed in 2.2 version.

By the way: "cocos2d 0.99-final" works great with AW 2.0

Posted 1 year ago #
David994A
Member

@manucorporat - this game is great! It is probably the best geometry wars type game that I have played yet! I love the 3D mode.

If I had one complaint, it would be that in "2D Edge" and "classic" views, sometimes my ship is covered by my left thumb over the D-Pad.

Your graphics are beautiful- You make fantastic use of the particle system. Also, your menus are very cool too. I'll post more as I play it more.

Edit: Have you thought about adding any of your own music to the game - I don't keep music on my iPhone (I guess I could add a few tracks though)

Posted 1 year ago #
manucorporat
Member

Yes, I need help with the background music. I tried to add a background music, but it cause a great performance loss. I used .mp3 format.
What do you think?

Posted 1 year ago #
manucorporat
Member
DEVELOPER NOTES
- 15400 lines of code.(only the game)
- AW 2.0 uses cocos2d 0.99-final

- I have modified a little the engine for gain performance.
- I use my own particles system.
- I use kTexture2DPixelFormat_A8 intensively.
- For multiplayer I have developed a "Multiplayer manager", it managed the interaccion with all clients and server, calculate the latency. processed the packets. It's based in GameKit.framework
- Use very few "actions", instead of this, use a code like this:
```
- (void) update:(ccTime)delta{
//IA

//Collision with  the wall and other enemy

//Update position
	position_.x+=vector.x*delta;
	position_.y+=vector.y*delta;

//Rotation
	rotation_ += delta*300.0f; //300 degrees per second
	rotation_ = rotation_>=360 ? rotation_-360.0f : rotation_;

//Set dirty manually
	isTransformDirty_ = isInverseDirty_ = dirty_ = YES;

}
```
Posted 1 year ago #
manucorporat
Member

I am new in App Store. Is there some method for view all client reviews written in all "App Stores"?

Posted 1 year ago #
jd
Member

I was using App Store Mobile. It's a free project on github that you can run in the simulator. It pulls all your reviews and sales numbers from every country. It's really nice for something free. Search for appsalesmobile in google.

Posted 1 year ago #
manucorporat
Member

@jd thank you. It's a application very nice and useful.

Posted 1 year ago #
Steve Oldmeadow
Administrator

Yes, I need help with the background music. I tried to add a background music, but it cause a great performance loss. I used .mp3 format.
What do you think?

If you can play music on the iPod with no performance loss then you should be able to play music within the game with no performance loss. The thing you have to watch out for on OS 3.x is that you don't end up using software rendering for compressed audio, this will happen if you try to play compressed audio when another process (e.g the iPod) is using the hardware decoder or your process tries to play 2 or more compressed audio files simultaneously.

Posted 1 year ago #
randomtruth
Member

I like the game in general. But on the 3gs the accelerometer controls are worthless. The ship moves way to slow. It makes certain levels virtually impossible, because your enemies move twice as fast as your max speed. If you can fix this bug it will be perfect. It's exceedingly irritating because you can only shoot the direction your traveling. My suggestion would be to either make the accelerometer more sensitive or to give another means of aiming in accelerometer mode.

Posted 1 year ago #
CJ
Moderator

@manucorporat
Excellent tips. I really like the idea of using A8 format textures.
And unfortunately for cocos2d, at the moment using actions incur a substantial performance penalty, so updating things in a step function will perform better.

Posted 1 year ago #
manucorporat
Member

Hi again. I have read your comments and these are the changes in 2.2 version.
- Fixed some rendering problems.
- Options menu easier.
- You can hide the radar(mini map).
- Tilt control with more sensibility.
- Fixed the problem when you restart a match and the "game over" screen is showed.
- Fixed some grammar mistakes. (campaign and lifes) LOL
- Fixed issue enemies outside the game zone.
- Improved position of the virtual sticks.
- Part 1. Improve the control: When the version 2.2 is released, you could write your opinion about the control. Probably will have more than one part.

What do you think?

Thank you to all users for the feedback!

Posted 1 year ago #
manucorporat
Member

AbstractWar 2.0 now cost $0.99.
Maybe in itunes show $1.99, because it takes some hours to update.

Posted 1 year ago #
David994A
Member

@manucorporat have you sent promos to the various app review sites like appcraver and toucharcade, etc... If not, you should send them each a promocode and a link to your video.

Posted 1 year ago #
abitofcode
Moderator
Awesome game, mega polish! Just downloaded it, not to save $1, just been a bit busy this week ;)

Have you considered sticking the OpenFeint notifications at the top of the screen so they don't get under your thumbs?
```
[NSNumber numberWithBool:YES], OpenFeintSettingInvertNotifications
```
Posted 1 year ago #
manucorporat
Member

sorry to @abitofcode and all user than bought my game when it cost 1.99$. but such is life. really, I sorry.

@abitofcode good idea, I didn't know that possibility.

@David994A I'm worried. Do you know how long need a iphone website to make a review? I don't have any review yet. it was released on 2 March. I sent a promo code to TA and more webs on 4 march

Posted 1 year ago #
abitofcode
Moderator

I got it for $0.99, I wasn't waiting for it to go cheap I just missed your game release earlier this week. Really impressive particle system, I'm guessing you're using some sort of particle pool allocating particles to wherever they're needed?

The OpenFeint popups were driving me mad, we've only got one control and they kept bringing up the dashboard (such and such is online etc ..... grrr). I believe they're working on this at the moment.

Posted 1 year ago #
hactar
Member

The OpenFeint popups were driving me mad, we've only got one control and they kept bringing up the dashboard (such and such is online etc ..... grrr). I believe they're working on this at the moment.

Yikes! Now thats a thing I haven't tested in my current project... I only have two openfeint friends. Every time someone logs in a notification pops up?

Posted 1 year ago #

manucorporat
Member

I like the openfeint notifications, but it causes the performance drop. I have 23 friends and sometimes it is very heavy.

@abitofcode
Yes, the particle system API like this:

//Creating
+ (id) systemWithParticles:(short)n size:(CGSize)sizes;
- (id) initWithParticles:(short)n size:(CGSize)sizes;

//Adding particles
- (void) addParticles:(unsigned char)n position:(CGPoint)position angle:(float)angle angleVar:(float)angleVar color:(ccColor3B)RGB;
- (void) addParticles:(unsigned char)n type:(particleAbsType)type position:(CGPoint)position color:(ccColor3B)RGB;

//Other methods
- (void) update:(ccTime)delta;
- (void) reset;

[Game] AbstractWar 2.0 is now available + promo codes

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