Yeah, I dont know what the problem was. I guess at last this hread limited itself to sceenshot presenting instead of talking about the actual content of the game. The Developers seem to be pretty ambicious about what they want to implement, but sometimes I cant shake of the feeling they took to much on their shoulders. Anyway the significant updates take as long as nearly no other other update process in the appstore, except apple remote . I hope that fargoal is very very near to submission....
Well for one, there is only one developer working on 2.0, doing it all! So he's been working 12-14 hr days, 7 days a week on it for weeks and making great progress. There's not a lot to update you on unless you want all the new things to be spoiled. And other than that, its just all boring code monkey stuff that you'd not want to hear about anyway, trust me, I know! Also, Madgarden tests his progress for the day every night, which takes time, to make sure that no bugs pop up that will break the gameplay. So, every little thing adds up and takes time. Please be patient. We haven't forgotten you! He's working his nads off for you! I understand you're all anxious because you love the game, so I guess just trust that it may take a bit longer than expected because he has to get the game to a certain point to make it all worth while. You can't rush a good thing. Cause if you do, it ends up not being a good thing.
Thank you for the update Mrs. Madgarden! I hope that you still have some time for yourselves! Doing this alone must be highly difficult and painful. I understand that it is taking longer than expected... You should consider the option of making it DLC for reward to Madgarden's efforts... Would you happen to have any clue on when we could expect the update to be submitted to Apple?
It's good to know there's something on the way. Really appreciate the hard work Madgarden puts into this game.
Oh yes I am working. The last thing I worked on was throwing axes. Sound fun? The September date was ambitious. We're now targeting a more realistic Dec. 1st, which makes it a year since 1.0. Also, there will be 2 versions now... the current 1.7 version will become "Legends" based on the iPad version, and it will be universal. The iPhone version will be the 2.0 version, also universal. So if you bought both iPhone and iPad versions, you get it all.
From what I understand, with the iPhone Fargoal version, you are going to get the 2.0 version universal. And if you have the iPad version, you get the 1.7 universal version, without update? Thanks for the updates!!!
That's the plan, Stan. We want to keep the original version alive since it's going to be a fair bit different than 2.0. So rather than submit a whole new app, we're giving the best upgrade possible to all of our players.
Let me see if i understand this correctly as my brain is refusing to compute today. Not sure I understand what is different about each version. In the future with the 1.7 legends mode update universal. This means that this version is the game as it is today. This fork would be updated to make sure it still works but wont get all the new characters/items/play modes/balancing tweaks of the 2.0 update? In the future with the 2.0 app universal you get all the new stuff which you could argue changes the game enough that some might want the option of the 1.7 version to play old school? Did i get that basically right?
Basically, yep! And both versions will still be updated, but the focus on new features and new directions will happen in 2.x. There are way more iPhone customers, so it makes sense that the iPhone version gets the 2.x upgrade. We will also drop the price for 1.x.
Thank you very much for your greatness. I'm a little bit confused about two fargoal versions in the appstore, if basically on version is the half of the other one, but I guess that I will understand what your intention is, when I hold it in my palms. I'm looking forward to the in-app-purchases, not nessesarily because I need new skins or something, but because I feel I've stolen you a lot of value for my few bucks for a long time now. Keep pushing, I can nearly feel already how awesome fargoal 2.0 will be. I also hope that someday SoF will take the same destiny as GoodReader: a long time not really equivalently towards it superiority appreachiated app, that finally becomes standard on each iDevice. nuff'said
So basically, I shouldn't have bought the iPad version, because now it's going to be universal. So I have an outdated universal version and an up-to-date universal version. That sure makes my purchase feel disappointing.
You just need to buy the iPhone version to have both. I'm going to buy the iPad version (universal then) when the 2.0 version comes out.
