A fast, easy to use, free, and community supported 2D game engine
Now I'm pretty sure the game will be a success - why? Everything mentioned by @pfg2009 totally works for me as well. I would say it's a classic book case we can learn from!
I really like the visual style, looks like we should forget about stick/pencil/paper style of games for a while :)
Good luck!
Thanks to everyone for all the great comments and feedback! Looking forward to making it through the review process. I submitted it about 20 minutes into Saturday after starting the process late Friday so I guess I hit the dead zone.
Quick photo of the game on my iPod along with the model pig (couldn't get his ears up as my scalpel has gone walkabout). The cutout took me completely by surprise, my kids love it :)
@pfg2009 Doodle Blast! has now replaced Talking Carl as my app of choice when convincing people why they need an iPhone/iPod Touch (along with STAPig of course). I'll get a review on the app store within a day or two.
Super Turbo Action Pig is in the app store! (should be in the US store very soon)
I'll stick more details up in the morning (promos etc), running on pork fumes at the moment, in the meantime;
Game info/trailer and link: http://joystickgenerals.com/games/super-turbo-action-pig/
Direct link: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/super-turbo-action-pig/id360371122?mt=8
Android version: http://bit.ly/bp6doS
Until the next update we've put him out to rest;
OK, I bought it, but while downloading why does it say it's incompatible with OS 3.1.3?
No, no, I'm just kidding. S.T.ActionPig is on my device safe and sound. First impressions: the rocket-thruster movement thing is pretty hard; I'm left-handed so I wish I had the option to put the button on the other side; and the, uh, red sauce is kind of shocking at first! I've learned to modulate the thrust with very quick taps; otherwise the hysteresis keeps slamming me into things that I thought were far away.
Great production values. I'm sure my kids will dig it!
Steve Oldmeadow
Administrator
I bought it. It looks awesome and is fun, I keep wanting to have one more go. One suggestion I'd make is to have a damage system rather than one hit and your dead. Sometimes just an ear gets clipped but you still die.
What are golden sausages? Obviously I'm not good enough to have found out yet.
on my way to work via train I got my first golden sausage - http://twitpic.com/1821iu :)
My very first impressions:
-superb visual style
-just the right game play speed
-very easy to control, like the one touch idea - like SAP computers :)
-smooth animation effects
-not to many SF/X - just right
-like the ability to listen my own music at the same time
-it's not that easy, need a full concentration all the time - isn't that what we want from the game, right? :)
-didn't yet try openfeint integration - playing it on the train with no "wifi" connection
-like the ability to remember last game position after getting a call
Last but not least - I really got super frustrating moments when I failed to avoid obstacles and need to start from beginning :))))
What I don't like about the game: nothing on the plate right now.
More to come when my kids get it into their hands ...
Congrats again!
@abitofcode, great looking game, i'll download it now :)
However, I have a question regarding how you programed the game, does the Pig move sideways on the scene, or do the items move? I hope this makes sense?
Cheers,
AggroPanda
A big thanks to all of you who've left feedback and ratings on the app store, it's really appreciated.
@sowbug Thanks for that, brain engaged panic mode before I got to the second paragraph. Shot of adrenaline is just what I needed before breakfast. The quick tap method is the way! We tried to mimic our tests with a real pig strapped to a rocket pack (Rip Perky).
@Steve We're looking at some sort of staging mechanism for an update, maybe a campaign mode that would mean we could could keep the endurance one shot approach but have it in stepped increments. I've only ever managed 2 golden sausages I think we may introduce some further achievements to bridge the gap between the current ones.
@Knighty Cheers for the great review, though I did initially read ***** as an expletive ;)
@AntonG Thanks for the feedback (and the Retweets!) and congratulations on your first golden sausage!
@AggroPanda We've not touched the camera, I've set it up to scroll the background mountains and mines which are built out of 128x128 squares. The Pig currently moves in the Y.
We've also put our mini site live http://www.superturboactionpig.com/ We created this before the main Joystick Generals site with the game feature page, but it's only just gone live.
I have a few promo codes set aside for the cocos2d forum, PM me if you want one (Just want to make sure they go to people in the forum).
Dunc
Member
Loving your work sir! Congrats on actually getting something out there. You should totally stick FB connect integration on there, as this is exactly the sort of endurance game which would work really well on there (think Doodle Jump).
Please keep us updated on how well the game does on the app store, and any hints and tips on marketing strategies would be ace ;)
Good luck!
D.
@abitofcode Im curious about michael's websites... does he make them for a cms like wordpress, if so which one... Or is it all "hand coded"
Hi Techy, I believe some of them are wordpress based with custom code where necessary.
Wow, amazing ! I just bought it and played for a couple of minutes, and it rocks !
I'm really surprised cuz there's no reviews yet on the French Store, (I dunno how it works out there but i guess it works) I have the same strange results with my owns apps (very good reports in french store, but not in the other countries...the apps are localized, so).
Now let's talk about your app ^^ The design is very good, and I'm designer myself since 15 years now, so tell to your designer he did a pretty nice job :) (And it is so much important, particulary in this basical kind of game).
The only negative thing I would say is the difficulty level (I guess I'll need some time to get the right feeling, but the first shots were a little discouraging...)
I wish you a great success with this app who is in the same vein as Doodle Jump but who is so more nice & fun, and well implemented that it should become a classic on the iPhone very quickly ^^
Hey guys, I'm coming to Coco2D too !!!
(I can't code more apps with Core Animation limtations anymore )
CONGRATS :)))))))
Vico
@Dunc, Thank you very much! We've got facebook in there through OpenFeint but I've been coming around to the same conclusion. Doodle jump does this particularly nicely, they seem to have hit every nail on the head.
@iVico92 Merci beaucoup :) Mike checks the forum occasionally (ever since we convinced him that a new coconut logo for cocos2d might be nice) so consider the compliment passed. We have a number of ideas to address levels of difficulty that we plan to roll into future updates, can't really go into too much detail yet as they're all a bit floaty but feedback we're getting back from people is definitely helping to shape our direction.
Thanks to everyone that has left a review in the App store, they are an incredibly valuable tool in getting the game seen by more people. If you don't have time for a review please consider giving a star rating 5*, 4* at a pinch 3*'s pushing it ;)
Now I have finally enabled my openfeint account - renderplace, currently #7 on the easy level ( 174 pts ). It works perfectly, now I'm searching tips to integrate openfeint into my iSuperMe game.
@abitofcode I rate + wrote a review in the US App store ( aka Davorr )
Also I was monitoring your app with PositionApp, funny - the STAPig is now #158 in Slovenian store, wonder how many dls actually that means, since the store market here is ultra small, my assumption 5-10 dls max? :)
@AntonG Thanks for the review! I've downloaded PositionApp (free!) and am now glued to it even though it only currently shows STAPig in 3 countries. Well done with your score by the way, you're on your way to a second golden sausage.
I have 2 remaining free promo codes at the moment for STAPig just PM me and I'll pass them out. Its midnight here but I'll be up for another 4 hours or so, thanks to the day job :(
@jd I find the easy level harder, I've probably spent too much time on the medium level during testing. You may notice the spinning wheels of doom come into the screen area a little further on the hard level, though it's typically a rocket attack when I'm not paying attention that finishes me off.
I've just scored 169 on the hard level ;-)
@riq That's pretty close to my top score! I've not managed 2 golden sausages on the hardest level yet. Having said that I have no proof whatsoever as I used my OpenFeint test account which I reset last Thursday before submission :(
My scores under my usual account 'codemuppet' are pretty pitiful
I'm going to add the difficulty level into the twitter/facebook submission in the first update.
edit: Doh! I've been signing into my other games blindly with my test account.
@abitofcode Very cool game! Great graphics! Great music and sound! I only got up to 32 points so far but just wait for the weekend...
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