I think I found a bug.. The quest where you have to punch 15 torches, I have 12/15 and when i pause the game and check the status of it, it goes up, sometimes way past the 15, something like 17/15. When the game ends, the stats reset back to 12/15. Any thoughts?
This could a late contender for my game of the year. Although it looks like a typical endless runner there's so much more going on here that I'm still finding new depth after more than ten hours play. I'm extremely impressed. It's fun to play and getting better is its own reward, the perfect combination. Also this is the best implementation of freemium I've ever seen. I chucked a couple of quid at the IAP, not because I was running out of currency but because I wanted to give the developers my cash. The IAP genuinely feels optional. If I'm still obsessed this time next month I'll chuck a few more pennies their way. It's not a perfect system, my preference is still for the free game with content unlocked in discrete chunks by IAP but it's by far the kindest freemium approach I've seen. I've a few niggles with the presentation, I find the high score screen quite ugly, I'd prefer and old school top ten table with my last run highlighted for ease of comparison. I like that the game collects lots of data but I'd rather see a few key points such as distance and best combo with the rest accessible through another screen. I'm dyslexic and I find processing the densely displayed data quite challenging on the screen of my phone. Those small issues aside I've got nothing but good things to say about the game and I suspect Punch Quest will be one of the rare games I come back to time and time again.
Yes, it's an incorrect display of the data, will be fixed in update #2. hjdoom, thanks! We'll be cleaning up the highscore screen a bit for update #2 also.
i saw this game talked up on this site but didn't think much of it. For whatever reason this morning I opened up my FAAD app and saw that the game was featured there. I decided to d/l it and give it a try since it was free. Oh my I can't believe I didn't d/l this game sooner. This game reeks of AWESOMENESS
Flaming glowing lava rocks in the DINOPOCALYPSE, or unlock the ROCKFALL KEY and you'll open a new area in which to be pummeled by rocks.
Since I too would like to bury Madrocketgardencat in piles of money, but prefer to leave as many unlockables as possible (even visual customization) untouched by anything but natural game progress (the more I have to unlock, the greater my incentive to play), I kinda wish there was either a tip jar, or some charmingly silly cosmetic IAP-only items with no effect on gameplay that I could use to funnel money to the devs (with the additional secret motive on speeding up development of Mage Dungeon).
Just FYI, Madgarden is separate from Rocketcat in such that PQ isn't really impacting Mage Dungeon (much)... I don't work on Mage Dungeon anyway. It's just a big, complex game that is taking time regardless of what is going on with PUNCH QUEST. Also, there are the special hats that you can only buy with IAP... so if those didn't give you any PUNCHOS, you'd be more likely to buy them? That's kinda funny.
How come the store is unavailable? Every time I try to open the store it says "check your connection and account settings". I've tried on 3G and WIFI. Thanks!
Eoghann, try rebooting? Seems to be a problem with the first-time connection. The next update should take care of it.
Oh, of that I am well aware. I just assumed that IAP profits would go to BOTH developers. Did you just unintentionally reveal that Madgarden are planning to leech all the perennial profits? Yep, just so! The more unlockables available, the more I have to earn punchos on me own, the more incentive there is for me to play (though Punch Quest is, of course, fun enough to play without the grind in mind). Leaving all unlockables puncho-enabled and adding a tip jar would be ideal for my desire to throw money yer way, of course. On a completely unrelated subject, aimed at the Rocketcat portion of the devs behind Punch Quest, and a predictable follow-up to the discussion of Hook series cameos as new costumes, but I wouldn't mind some Mage Gauntlet luv as well. I'm sure Lexi could make up in attitude what she lacks in muscle when she replaces the punch dudette, and fellow punchers, while this is a costume we would not actually see that much in-game, could there be a more suitable replacement for the gnome than Whitebeard himself? That leaves the punch dude, you say. I say, the time has finally come for Chief Drudgor to redeem himself...
I agree with this. One of the first things I did was to purchase IAP, but was a little disappointed that I had to buy punchos since I didn't want to get ahead unnaturally. I ended up spending it all on hats as I figured that would be the least likely to affect gameplay.
Thanks! That definitely worked! Are there more hats that become available from the list I see when I first launch the game?
Okay, after playing this game more today, I can say this is one of the best games I ever played on IOS devices. It is super-smooth, has a great theme music, everything is right in this. Obviously GOTW and in my GOTY list for sure. I only wished there were more "transformations" ( so far I only found the gnome and the dinosaur in the eggs) . Also, how can you perform a super slam? Been stuck with that quest for a long time and never performed one.
There's a SPECIAL tab in customization that contains those IAP-only hats. They still give you punchos when you buy them, though. PUNCHOS. We can't even give them away. Maybe we need an IAP to take punchos off your hands. _syd, we will be adding more egg transformations soon, not to worry! And the POWER SLAM quest, you have to slam enemies into other enemies. It's a bit tricky. Have nerfed this down a bit for update #2.
I'm also having problems with gamecenter. Sometimes, well most of times the scores are saved in local and not under my GC name even tho I'm connected all the time. And today I was in the top 5% with 100k++ but then it went back down to 40kish again on the 'all time' scoreboard tonight. Is this a common problem or is it just me?
I think that it may take a day for the ALL TIME leaderboard to catch up to the TODAY leaderboard, because I have seen this for my scores as well.
