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[GAME] Mummy Panic

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Started 1 year ago by christophersisk
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christophersisk
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Mummy Panic

Itunes Link:
itms://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mummy-panic/id377338029?mt=8
Website:
http://www.porblem.com
Gameplay Tutorial:

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This is the first game I'm releasing for the iphone, designed pretty much exclusively with cocos2d, which has been absolutely invaluable to me. First the game, and at the end of the post a few thoughts about using cocos2d in development.

Mummy Panic is a challenging puzzle game in which you must guide your mummies through tricky levels into open crates, avoiding the dastardly Explorers and deadly traps.

Set in an imaginary Egyptian Pyramid, the poor mummies have lost their Mommy to the thieving explorers, and must hitch a ride to the Royal Museum to get her back. But how to get there without being caught by the explorers? As luck would have it, the explorers have left a bunch of their crates full of loot open, so if the mummies can just sneak into the crates, they should be well on their way in their adventure..

FEATURES:

Completely original Artwork and Music in classic 16 bit style. Not just a ported Flash game, Mummy Panic is the product of 10 months of hard work specifically for the Iphone. Each Sprite is is the result of over 500 hours of animation.

Tricky Puzzles, but with class. This is no simplistic online diversion. Each level has been carefully crafted to present both character and style, as well as a brain teasing challenge. 50+ levels in the initial release.

Engaging Characters: For a puzzle game, Mummy Panic goes above and beyond the call of duty. With fresh and living characters, designed by award winning artist John Montgomery, you get some personality with your puzzles.

Thoughts on Developing for cocos2D
Originally I wasn't planning on using cocos2d for this game, but I'm glad I stumbled upon it. While I did end up writing custom classes for pretty much all the computation intensive movement or thinking code, the cocos2d classes did make it easier to build temporary classes as placeholders when working on various other areas of the code, and still be able to see the game run. Also some areas of code, where computation wasn't as intense, allowed for simple plug and play of various cocos2d actions or classes. I've also been impressed with the constant improvements of cocos2d's speed and stability, I can't think of a library I'd rather recommend to another developer as long as the current state of things continues.

I have a few custom classes I've developed that I think might come in handy for other developers, I'll see if I can clean them up and either upload them to the forums or add them to the main trunk, depending on just how horribly hacked they are :) All in all, thank you to all my fellow developers for making cocos2d such an amazing library, and I hope someone enjoys my game :)

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Thanks for reading, and good luck on all of your games!

Posted 1 year ago #
Omegas7
Member

It looks very good!

Posted 1 year ago #
Pearapps
Member

Woah neat

Posted 1 year ago #
Tone
Member

Looks awesome

Posted 1 year ago #
David994A
Member

Looks great!

Posted 1 year ago #
pfg2009
Member

Great job! It looks like a first class product for your first creation. Good luck with sales!

Posted 1 year ago #
christophersisk
Member

Thanks a lot guys! Kind of weird though, it seems like the link to this thread is linking to the top message in the forums instead... weird.

Also, what the heck I have a few promotions codes left and the cocos2d forums have helped me a lot with various issues (lurk lurk lurk), so here you go:

W9H3ALMH7KLR
TEYWT396FNKK
FJJ3ANLWJ94W
N63WF4YF6TJY
XATRMEAY6F9Y
4946MRWLH6RL

Posted 1 year ago #
krig
Member

Wow, looks absolutely stunning. :) nice work!

Would be cool to see more sketch work in the game, of the mummies etc. But then I'm a sucker for concept art / sketches in general.

Posted 1 year ago #
krig
Member

Oh, also.. I wanted to check your game out on my iPad, but since you've built for iOS4, I can't run it there. Unless you're depending on iOS4-features, you might want to build for a lower SDK version?

Posted 1 year ago #
christophersisk
Member

Not currently depending on iOS4 features, but since I'm designing multiplayer right now I'm doing it around gamecenter, which locks me at iOS4 :(

I really wish Apple would update the iPad to iOS4, wonder why they haven't taken the plunge yet.

Posted 1 year ago #
vanillasky65
Member

I'm seeing it being feature! Congrats!!

Posted 1 year ago #
riq
Key Master

Nice game!. Nice graphics, nice effects, nice intros, nice outros. The menu scene is great.

I've noticed that you can shake the iPhone to speed up the movement. If would have to add something I would add a "1x / 4x speed" toggle button.

Congratulations.

Posted 1 year ago #
David994A
Member

I can't try it until my iPhone 4 arrives next week. I'm keeping my iphone 3G at 3.1.3 due to the fact that iOS4 slows the 3G down to a crawl.

Posted 1 year ago #
Matt Rix
Member

Add me as another person who would buy the game, but I don't have any devices that support iOS4. Keep in mind that you're not just losing iPad buyers, you're also losing everyone that has first gen iPhones and iPod touches, as well as lot of 3G owners. iOS4 is pretty bad on the 3G, so a lot of 3G owners won't upgrade to it.

I'm 99% certain it's possible to have Game Center functionality while still supporting 3.*, just don't show the multiplayer menu option unless a user has iOS4. Should be pretty straight forward. Honestly, I'm gonna guess that you'll lose more buyers because you don't support 3.* than you'll gain by providing multiplayer. Just something to consider.

Posted 1 year ago #
robodude666
Member

FYI: 3G runs iOS4. I have iOS4 running on my 3G, and the phone is snappier than it ever was.

I'd get this game in a heartbeat for my 3G, except it's $2.99 which is a bit much in my opinion for a new game. There are more popular games for less.

Supporting only iOS4 gives you many benefits, like the ability to use all of the new features of the OS. You also have the ability to make sure only "modern" devices can run it ensuring high-frame rates (3G is the only "slow" device that can run iOS4, but still).

Sure there is no iPad support yet for iOS4.. but iPads should be getting a completely different version anyway. If chris decides to support the iPad, he'd want to create a different "HD" binary anyway which would be iOS 3.2 compatible.

I see nothing wrong with doing iOS4 only support. I'm almost certain that any apps I release will be iOS4+ only. There's no reason not to upgrade to the new OS, it's free for everyone.

Posted 1 year ago #
Matt Rix
Member

FYI: 3G runs iOS4. I have iOS4 running on my 3G, and the phone is snappier than it ever was.

A lot of people(myself included) have found that iOS4 runs really poorly on the 3G, here's an article about it: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/ios-4-performance-on-older-devices-updated/7262

I'd get this game in a heartbeat for my 3G, except it's $2.99 which is a bit much in my opinion for a new game. There are more popular games for less.

...but the more popular games have more users, so they can afford to have lower prices, no? I think $2.99 is a fair price for a game like this.

Supporting only iOS4 gives you many benefits, like the ability to use all of the new features of the OS. You also have the ability to make sure only "modern" devices can run it ensuring high-frame rates (3G is the only "slow" device that can run iOS4, but still).

You can still use iOS4 features, but just only use them for users who have iOS4, instead of 3.*. I'm of the opinion that targeting only the high powered devices makes people write sloppier code. Plenty of graphically intense games run great on the "slow" devices, and if your game runs great on them, it'll definitely run great on a newer device.

Sure there is no iPad support yet for iOS4.. but iPads should be getting a completely different version anyway. If chris decides to support the iPad, he'd want to create a different "HD" binary anyway which would be iOS 3.2 compatible.

Plenty of iPad users(myself included) play lots of iPhone games on our iPads. There really isn't that great of a selection of iPad games compared to iPhone games. Right now my iPad has 14 iPhone games on it.

I see nothing wrong with doing iOS4 only support. I'm almost certain that any apps I release will be iOS4+ only. There's no reason not to upgrade to the new OS, it's free for everyone.

It's free for everyone, except those with older devices, which are definitely still in use. There are also a lot of users that don't sync their phones very often(maybe every month or two), and wouldn't bother updating for a while. You're limiting your potential customer base. I see no reason you'd want to do that, when there's absolutely no reason not to include 3.* support. Again, you CAN use 4.* features in a build that has a 3.* deployment target. It's not hard to do. When big titles like Doodle Jump and Angry Birds require 4.*, that's when we should be switching over as well.

Posted 1 year ago #
christophersisk
Member

@riq You actually can speed it up by tilting your iphone forward, or just set a default speed in the options menu if you want. I am going to add a button too though, as an additional way of speeding it up to max, so thanks for the idea! Thanks for the positive words, also the parallaxnode code was invaluable when making the menu's, it would have been impossible without that, so thanks again!

@Matt Rix I'm curious about being able to add gamecenter functionality in 3.x, you wouldn't happen to have a link to a document outlining how to do that? I'm all about trying to allow for as many people as possible to play, so if I can I'd love to.

Also we just fell off the new and noteworthy list :(

..but they put us on the Hot list instead! For a small developer like me, with no real budget, that's incredible. Thanks again to cocos2d and all you guys on the forum for making it possible :)

Posted 1 year ago #
Questor
Member

christophersisk,

Game looks great, and the tutorial is very helpful and straightforward.

Best of luck in the AppStore!

Regards,
Q

Posted 1 year ago #
christophersisk
Member

Welp, have some extra codes that didn't get used, feel free to help yourself :)

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9K47AM7AETJJ
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If anyone feels like leaving a review it would be appreciated, otherwise just enjoy the game :)

Also, per your guys suggestions, I'm busy working on an Ipad version, and some other cool stuff, so thanks for the feedback!

Posted 1 year ago #
christophersisk
Member

Doot Doot New version :)

High res ended up being a pain in this lost like a week in development time when the cocos2d source introduced points, then just went back to the last version without points. I'll probably get back to a newer build at some point, but right now rewriting all the math and checking I have for a heavily TMX based game just isn't worth it. Still, cocos2d is treating me well, and I'll be starting work on my next game using box2d and cocos2d, which I'm really looking forward to :)

Added a ton of new content, and taken care of pretty much every suggestion and bug that's been mentioned so far, as well as adding some stuff to make the game easier to pick up and play. Completely 4.0 compatible, resuming, Gamecenter, all that Jazz, but can still run on iOS3.1 devices and up, INCLUDING the iPad. The game will automatically scale up for high res like the iPad or the iPhone4, and even if you don't have Gamecenter the game will still keep track of your achievements via an internal system.

Also price dropped to 99c doot doot

Quick break down of the new changes from the App store description:

What's New in this Version:
+iPad Support
+Retina Support
+Game Center Support
+Achievements
+40 New Levels
+New Graphics for Levels
+New Win Animations
+Facebook Connect
+Playhaven Support
+Dragable Arrows
+In Game Music
+Orientation Change Support
+Optimized: Game Runs Much Faster
+Support for iOS3.1 and up, including 1st Generation iOS devices
+New Fast Forward Code
+Hint System for Difficult Puzzles
+Added Support for Custom Font in supporting iOS versions
+New falling animations for Mummies and Explorers
+iOS4 Multitasking Compatible

-Removed Tilt to Speed up Game
-Removed Double Tap to Zoom

Final thoughts: Really jazzed about this update, this is the final polish I needed to have on this game before moving on to writing MP and Level editor and other fun stuff, so I'm feeling really good about this.

Image and stuff doot doot:

Also, post your favorite reusable code snippet for cocos2d and I'll send you a promo code :) I've got 10 reserved for you guys :)

Posted 1 year ago #
cocojoe
Member

Looks good, you have obviously put a lot of work in. iPad is a good call, most of our sales come from iPad, less competitive and 99c feels like more value for iPad vs being practically the default for any iPhone game.

Posted 1 year ago #
riq
Key Master

@christophersisk: Nice update. What problems did you have with points ?

regarding points, which cocos2d version did try ? v0.99.5-rc0 fixed a lot of bugs rbut there are still a few open bugs regarding this points.

Posted 1 year ago #
christophersisk
Member

@riq: Yeah actually while I was running on the last one with points I ended up submitting one pretty glaring bug that got fixed relatively quickly (Placing a TMX tile in game would move it over by a multiple of two), and I'll definitely get back to using the latest code build, I just needed it working correctly for release, and that meant I needed to get back to a version where it was stable.

While I'm sure the new version will be great to develop -new- games on, for Mummy Panic I'm essentially going to have to go in and rebuild the bones of the entire game. I'm doing all kinds of crazy stuff, calculating offsets off of TMX files for custom gestures and pinching, calculating a GL_ based lighting layer on the fly and all kinds of pain in the ass type calulations, and when you add in the points to that instead of just plain pixels, it's basically murder by kindness.

The absolutely best solution for me would be if there was a legacyPixel flag that I could switch in newer builds that just turned points off, but sparing that I'm probably going to spend a month or so just rewriting code to get back to where I am now. Not really something I'm looking forward too but that's life.

Posted 1 year ago #
MissLashes
Member

*eek* I don't know code. I only play games... Could I still try the game please? I promise a review!

Posted 1 year ago #

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