When you tap on a troll or rat it's got a green ring around it. In gang$tar the ring goes red when it's nearly dead. I hope you do something like that.
thats a cool idea - rather than having a health bar floating above him... probably really easy to do too! I also like the idea of auto-targeting if something attacks you - so you don't have to swipe around so quickly. I know Russ is making the swipe controls even more sensative. I like mine on about 3/4
A lot of games take the targeting ring one step furthur. You can also use it forthe old school /con (consider opponent) which let's you know how hard it would be. Green for trivial, white for even, yellow for hard, red for death wish. The ring itself could be the HP indicator and just degrade into a semi circle and such as the HP drops.
Ideas for update: - Make monster level and health visible when you tap on it, instead of double-tapping to bring up a window showing the stats, it's very disruptive, and sometimes it's hard to tap on an enemy again if it's fast-moving - Visible stats on equipment, and attack/defense of character... why were these left out? How do we know which gear to equip if there's no way to tell which one's better? How do we know how much damage we're inflicting without refreshing enemy stats page every second?
So does that mean you purchased it? I know I was bugging Russ about the comment for ages - we ran out of time and money - had to get it out otherwise face bankruptcy. We're still cutting it close now as we're not getting paid until February! Just getting more credit cards to pay off the bills until then...
Josh you talk about money above, could you tell us how much you actually got on the first day? Or wait - does chillingo get ALL the money and they payed you for the game?
we did best the first day, not as good the second day - but I know why - the first day had all of the hype, and that made it move up the charts. Now its sitting there, moved up a little, should do a little better tomorrow. I'd say we've done well - and I'm very proud of everyone involved to get us to this point. We don't know how long its going to last so I'm always thinking worst case scenario, every day. I don't think we're going to be rich - but I do think we'll be able to pay our bills and continue doing what we love.
I sincerely hope you make more than enough to make the project worthwhile... Won't you just love it when it gets pirated?
I don't think we could be truly rich unless it does make it to #1 or #2... and it stayed there for 2 weeks! LOL between #1 and #16 top grossing is HUGE difference apparently. I think #1 is literally 16x more sales than #16 (wow - that obvious?) This is all from what I've "heard" about the #1 spot - and knowing whats happening in the #16 spot. Still then - I don't know how the big ones like EA survive if they have teams of 20 or more people working on a title - knowing that Madden may only gross $700,000 in the current App store situation. (Madden is below us now!)
Loving the game so far, and you seem commited to it which is great, I'm sure we'll see some cool updates in the future. I hope it does get higher in the charts and hopefully to no.1! It will give the much needed funds to do all the addons everyone has requested! I've been shouting about it to everyone I know with an iPhone, and I've rated it 5 stars in the app store with a review. Being realistic, for the sooner small update I like the idea of the target around an enemy turning red when they get weaker, and the map to show what direction you are facing. Also when you equip items in the menu can the text of the item change colour so you know at a glance what your equipped with? These are only small tweaks I'm sure. Thanks for a great game
I say more weapons. One bow? c'mon that aint right. And only two types of arrows? I like range and if u want to be a good ranger in ravensword then u need to pay like 30 gold for one arrow. There should be diffrent classes of weapons like Zenonia. Deffinetley more magic. Ugh... maybe more defense items instead of shoulder pads and a helmet. Plate bodies and armour for legs. More enemies, and more ways to earn $.
Yeah I just want more different types of armors/weapons and stuff to equip. And maybe add rare drops and stuff.
1 arrow is only $1. Blast Arrows however - highly valuable! Good ideas - and I want to add Poison Arrows - I'll see how Russ feels about that one.
