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[GAME] The HIVE

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Started 1 year ago by Receptor
Latest reply from klicktock

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Receptor
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Hi to everyone!

This has been a long and exciting adventure and we're proud to announce that our first game "HIVE" has been finally released on the App Store!

I want to thank riq for his spectacular 2D engine and the whole community for its support and help!

HIVE stands for Holographic Integrated Virtual Environment.

The game will bring you into a cyberpunk future, in a world that is not what it looks like. The Internet evolved (or devolved?) into something that connects everything and everyone. This something is called HIVE.

Who controls the HIVE, controls the information. Who controls the information controls everything (ok I took this one from Dune, I admit).

You're a hacker, a noob actually. Trying to make some money stealing credit cards, hacking bank accounts, breaking into government computers. You know, the usual stuff. You don't really care, you just think about the money. Until you discover something...

Gameplay is divided in two phases: one where you try to capture data packets coming from the firewall you're trying to break into; the second one where you have to decrypt data to find its password. All without being detected.

* 20 challenging missions
* a cyberpunk world
* an evil government that wants to get rid of you
* addictive story that will make you wish we would make a book out of it
* you got to be a hacker
* you got to save the world

The gameplay is very different and it might not please everyone, but we didn't want to create a clone of a clone of a clone of some successful game. So we decided to keep it original even if this would mean little commercial success.
We've learned many many things during these 6 months of development (only in our spare time) and we're ready for the next adventure :)

iTunes page: http://itunes.apple.com/app/the-hive/id374258993?mt=8
Our website: http://www.neuralactivitystudios.com/
On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Neural-Activity-Studios/111119498932150?ref=ts

Here is the official video:

Get the Video Player

And some screenshot:

Phase 1 of the gameplay:

Phase 2 of the gameplay:

Main menu:

And the credits to Cocos2d of course :)

More info on our website!

And finally 10 promocodes for the community:
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67E93E7M4LH4
XJYEFRX4JE74
WL4WYPF99M3K
6FWT49ERYTLJ
WT7JX39EPYFT
RJY7TJ43KX66
HEMEYRRMLPNP
KWE6F36A9AJK
46TKMF4K93WE

Please let me know which one you grabbed!

Thanks again,
Marco Bancale (receptor / Neural Activity Studios)

Posted 1 year ago #
cybergreg
Member

I used KWE6F36A9AJK and will leave a review after I play it a bit more. Initial reaction is it seems very polished and solid game play. I went through the tutorial and then the first mission.

Congratulations and good luck in the app store.

Posted 1 year ago #
Receptor
Member

Thank you cybergreg! :)

Posted 1 year ago #
okayra
Member

I have just downloaded so I will give you a review once I go back home. Okayra

Posted 1 year ago #
Receptor
Member

Oh, remember that the promocodes only work in the US store!

Posted 1 year ago #
Tim
Member

I snagged 46TKMF4K93WE, will do the same and look to provide feedback.

Posted 1 year ago #
Receptor
Member

I forgot to tell you something interesting about the App Store and their review procedure.
When we started working on HIVE and we were trying to find a good name for it, we were constantly checking on the store if there was already a game with that name.
We did the same when we came up with "HIVE" and there was no app called like that.
So we decided for it and, mistake mistake, we forgot about the whole problem of name clashing.
Two weeks ago, when we were going to submit the game for review, I just got this feeling of checking again the store to be sure the name "HIVE" was still available.
And of course... it wasn't!
We panicked. There was a GAME out there, released in February called "Hive". We already had all the graphics, the marketing materials (video, screenshots, website), the game's content and other things based on the name HIVE. We couldn't change it, it was too late.
Well, we could changed it, but that would take a loooong time. The problem is that the game storyline is based on this word: HIVE.
So we decided for a risky shortcut. When I looked for "hive" on the app store I got many results: hive, hive05, hivemind... so maybe we could just add some punctuation like H.I.V.E., but the app store guidelines were suggesting not to do that. So we went for the simplest thing: "the HIVE". This way we didn't have to change anything. That small word "the" didn't really matter.
The really interesting part is that I was 70% sure that Apple would reject it because of its name. But they didn't, apparently :) Of course, they can remove the game from the store anytime... Maybe they saw it's a completely different game and we were not trying to copy them. I don't know. I'm still wondering.

Conclusion: after you decided the name of your game, check periodically on the store if it's still available!

Posted 1 year ago #
rolando
Moderator

@Receptor: that's why you can create a new app and upload the binary later.

Posted 1 year ago #
cybergreg
Member

"Conclusion: after you decided the name of your game, check periodically on the store if it's still available!"

Actually - once you decide on a name, you should "Create a new application" in iTunes Connect to reserve your name. All you need is a 512 icon, one screenshot and that's it. You obviously check upload binary later option.

:-]

Edit: damn you rolando! ;-P

Posted 1 year ago #
Receptor
Member

Ok now I'm embarassed :)

Posted 1 year ago #
Tim
Member

yes, just as the other guys iterated...you should look to secure the name first and foremost. The easiest way to do it is not enter any other text other than the name and you'll get a warning message about all of the other missing items, and it will tell you if you need to select another name. This has been a documented issue where it is believed that many people are squattin quality names.

Posted 1 year ago #
Codemattic
Moderator

How many names can you hold this way? And how long can you hold them? Like @Tim said I bet there are devs who just register tons of names just in case.

Posted 1 year ago #
klicktock
Member

About 6 months ago I was working on a game called "Dungeon Solitaire". I had reserved the name in the iPhone dev center, but not in iTunes Connect. Sure enough, another game popped up! GRR!.

Gives me opportunity to reskin the game and make it a bit more "casual friendly" anyway :)

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