[Game] Coming Soon: Cut Him Up! « cocos2d for iPhone

cocos2d for iPhone » cocos2d games

[Game] Coming Soon: Cut Him Up!

(22 posts) (10 voices)

Started 1 year ago by eiskanda
Latest reply from eiskanda

Tags:

eiskanda
Member

Submitted our new brawler 'Cut Him Up!' to the app store and just wanted to share the trailer for some impressions.

Get the Video Plugin

Itunes link : TBA
More links : http://www.iskandarinc.com

Worked together with an artist (high school friend) for about 2-3 months on this game. The obvious artistic inspiration for this is Sega's Madworld, but the gameplay is more like the old school beat'em ups double dragon, final fight, streets of rage except with a more modern day combo system. Its built on top of cocos 0.99.4, box2D for body explosions, and cocosdenshion as the sound engine.

As always, thanks to Riq,Steve and everyone who contributes to cocos2d.
I'll be sure to update the thread when its released for some promo codes.

What do you guys think about the trailer? Does it look cheap?- I used iSimulate and iMovie (newbie), but it looks very sluggish compared to actually playing it on the iphone4.

Posted 1 year ago #
Adam Allen
Member

Chainsaw is gnarly! Nice work.

Posted 1 year ago #
David994A
Member

Looks great @eiskanda! Your trailer looks fine to me.

Posted 1 year ago #
vanillasky65
Member

Wow.. good job, it looks great!

Might be a bit too much blood and text effect for my taste. :)

Posted 1 year ago #
eiskanda
Member

thanks for the positive comments guys.
@vanillasky65 Can see how that can get annoying yea. I am going to add the ability to togger blood and text in the options menu.

Posted 1 year ago #
hvilela
Member

Well done @eiskanda.
Did you get inspired by Comix Zone?

Get the Video Plugin

Posted 1 year ago #
eiskanda
Member

@hvilela ha wow - I haven't played that game at all (was more nintendo than sega :)).
It looks awesome tho - that game needs an iphone port!

Posted 1 year ago #
eiskanda
Member

Just got the sweet "Your Application is Ready for Sale" email!
Its set to release 7/29. Here are a couple of promo codes:

P3WE9MKWHJT6
EFL3T4ERTE3E
JNTMMKPFPEN7

Posted 1 year ago #
6th Mega
Member

The graphics and text effects have a really nice rawness to them!

Posted 1 year ago #
eiskanda
Member

@6th mega - yea I love them too. My buddy the artist did a really great job - couldn't be happier with the end result.

After a botched release last week (bad bug slipped into build) we are now approved again and ready to release tomorrow morning. But here are some promo codes for fellow cocos devs in case you want to check it out 1 day early:

J4A3X99JLM4K
AAJ7YFYFT3E6
FA7YY34AP3HW
KANA3337NLHW
6E9NYJ4Y3X7E
HYMHT4LWJHXL
6L4AM3MJRAYJ
6PM63LJH7F4R
PRLEPAEA4T7H
T3L777HTFR49
FTL6T7TAT6FR
6KMHNEKARELY

Please leave an itunes review and star rating when you get the chance. It is greatly appreciated - and please let me know if anyone has any feedback.

Posted 1 year ago #
asinesio
Member

I took AAJ7YFYFT3E6. Can't wait to try this game out! I'll be sure to leave a review..

Posted 1 year ago #
invulse
Member

took 6PM63LJH7F4R , working on a brawler myself so I'm always interested to see how others are approaching the genre. Will leave a review later today.

Posted 1 year ago #
asinesio
Member

A few comments on my first moments with the game.

1) Wow, this game is gorgeous. I love, love, LOVE the graphic style and concept. It feels like I am playing a comic book!
2) The game slowed down and froze my 3GS upon loading level 2, I wasn't able to get a crash report or I'd send it to you. It could be my phone, I am not sure...
3) One minor change that would be nice -- when running on OS 4, and I leave the game, it would be nice if it would automatically pause. The current behavior is that you are thrown right back into the fray when I return to the app, which is a bit jarring.
4) You misspelled "sergeant" at the end of level 1 (you have it as "seargeant".)

Overall though, I am having a blast. It's like Final Fight... but with style. And I love it.

About to leave a 5 star for ya on iTunes, too.

Posted 1 year ago #
eiskanda
Member

2) The game slowed down and froze my 3GS upon loading level 2, I wasn't able to get a crash report or I'd send it to you. It could be my phone, I am not sure...

that is weird, I have played through it on a 3gs and iphone4. Can you let me know if it happens again?

3) One minor change that would be nice -- when running on OS 4, and I leave the game, it would be nice if it would automatically pause. The current behavior is that you are thrown right back into the fray when I return to the app, which is a bit jarring

Absolutely - great tip. Thats low hanging fruit so will be in the next update for sure.

4) You misspelled "sergeant" at the end of level 1 (you have it as "seargeant".)

oops :) thanks for pointing out

Overall though, I am having a blast. It's like Final Fight... but with style. And I love it.
About to leave a 5 star for ya on iTunes, too.

thanks so much - I'm so glad you like it. I really do appreciate reviews! Just curious, are you able to leave a review for an unreleased game that you got through promo code?

Posted 1 year ago #
asinesio
Member

@eiskanda - I'll let you know for sure if the freeze happens again. It's been fine since, so I don't know what happened (maybe a memory issue?).

Also, no, I can't leave a review on iTunes yet. Rest assured I will try to do so tomorrow though.

Good luck to you -- I predict good sales for this one!

Posted 1 year ago #
AcesWild
Member

The game looks great.
Unfortunately, it is virtually unplayable on my 1st Gen iPod Touch. I know that my device at this point is underpowered.
From what I was able to play, it definitely seemed fun....very reminiscent of games from my childhood!

However, it frequently would suffer severe slowdown. To the point where the action would come to a *complete* halt for a few seconds, and then try to pick back up...freeze up for a few seconds...

oh well. Good job though, none the less!

Posted 1 year ago #
eiskanda
Member

@aceswild -
sorry bout that but I abandoned trying to support 1gst gen ipod and iphone. I did try early on for a couple days, but once you add the parallax scrolling, blood fx, text fx, large character sprites. Its just too much. If the game is successful - I may revisit, but at that time it was our best interest to move forward with the newer devices.

Posted 1 year ago #
invulse
Member

Played the first couple of levels and here are my thoughts.

The gameplay is pretty fun but I noticed some crippling issues:

1. The joystick works fine until you drag off of it then you immediately stop moving. The joystick should continue to work if you start on it then drag outside its bounds.

2. The cords or whatever they are in the foreground are super distracting. Its mostly because the game is almost all b/w and more b/w decor in front of the player just makes things kind of meld together, maybe if they were like 50% opaque they would be less distracting.

3. The way enemies knock you down so easily is really unfair sometimes. This is specifically the case at the end of level 2, when the 2 guards come out and knock you down the first time, sometimes I can get swarmed and am unable to stop being continually knocked down till I die.

Posted 1 year ago #
AcesWild
Member

It's all good.
Now I'm kind of sad that I took a promo code and can't really play the game...but not realy ;) :)

Posted 1 year ago #
riq
Key Master

Nice game! I like the idea of "black & white" graphics!

Posted 1 year ago #
David994A
Member

Very cool game! I dig the graphic novel graphic approach. Your games keep getting better and better!

Posted 1 year ago #
eiskanda
Member

1. The joystick works fine until you drag off of it then you immediately stop moving. The joystick should continue to work if you start on it then drag outside its bounds.

Fixed this.

2. The cords or whatever they are in the foreground are super distracting. Its mostly because the game is almost all b/w and more b/w decor in front of the player just makes things kind of meld together, maybe if they were like 50% opaque they would be less distracting.

I have lessened the occurences of the chords. Artisticly it doesn't look great opaque.

3. The way enemies knock you down so easily is really unfair sometimes. This is specifically the case at the end of level 2, when the 2 guards come out and knock you down the first time, sometimes I can get swarmed and am unable to stop being continually knocked down till I die.

Yes got a lot of complaints on this. I've added an invincibility time after knockdown. This was supposed to already be there but is not working properly.

thanks for you feedback invulse!

@riq/@david - thanks for the compliments.
@aceswild - I have a build with many performance improvements - would you be interested in trying it out on the 1st gen touch? PM me if you are. thanks!

Posted 1 year ago #

RSS feed for this topic

Reply

You must log in to post.