Nice! If you want, count me in. BTW if a new build is coming .... I can only install it today or friday. In between I am in Germany ... after I am off to Tokyo for two week! And if Apple does not release 4.2 before friday I have no way to install a new build(because my ipad is sync with my desktop not laptop). Or are there ways ....
Of course I want to, you're so in! It will take a few weeks to come up with this amount of prototypes, since we will do the jam once in 2 weeks (we invite people to work with us on these), but we are very excited about trying to work in this manner, getting into beta a lot faster than usual. I really believe this can be amazing if it works. As to installing a new build, it will be on Friday since we have tons of things this week (a full 2 day conference where I'm giving a talk about "save toshi" dev and beta story. I didnt really understand whats the connection between 4.2 and you not being able to sync with your desktop?
Ahah! In 4.2 you can install directlyon a device. In 3.x you need iTunes. Ready for the conference? Btwi have a different question, as I am going to play around eith making games like in my old glory days Is there a specific reason topic unity over other engines apart from 3D?
think I found a bug in level 2-13. I had a hard time getting thrre stars in this level and after trying several times, suddenly I beat the level with only three balls used. I quickly threw three balls at the brick the girl was on then she got over the dance floor, did what looked like a backflip and suddenly she was on the dance floor and the level was beaten. I think this was a bug. I did in no way touch the second and empty stone. But all in all Save Toshi is an amazingly well done game with great graphics! I'm currently at level 2-14 and have got three stars on all levels (three and a plus on a few) and have used no hints. I'm telling you this to let you know about the diffeculity then it's up to you if this is the difficulity you are looking for But the game is great and have the addiction that drives players of Angry Birds and I really like the japanese/chinese theme of the game. Bug: When I got 100 stars I got both Pop Stars (collect 100 stars) and Rising Stars (collect 200 stars) I believe that 3-7 is a little high set on available balls for three stars. I just beat it with 7 stars and that was on my first try. You have set it to 11 and I believe it should be set at 7; 8 tops.
Oh, didn't know that, thanks! So will you be able to do that on friday? That's great news! First Unity is an awesome company with a great community and thast a big plus. I wouldnt reccomend it if you intend to only release 2d games although its possible and we did it with Rasta Monkey. Unity is awesome for 3d work, you don't need to know x-code, and you can port your game pretty easily to Android, web, PC, Mac, Wii (extra pay), and soon XBLA (extra pay too). If you have a hit in 1 console, porting makes sense, and you better have it easy to do. The best part is that the basic pack (with some stuff like real time shadows ommited) is free to use for pc and the iPhone version only costs about $300, which is close to nothing. Pretty much ready for the conference, thanks. Working on the last few slides, a little excited about it
Thanks! Ill add that to the bug list! Sounds good, This is exactly how we want it How much time did it take to get there? [/QUOTE] Addictive is awesome This bug has been added too. Keep playing man, can't wait for some more feedback.
I will stick to 2D. It easier for graphics for me. But I played with unity and it looks impressive!I am now asking few devs I test for before making up my mind. Friday will be great. Then I can play it all over again on my looong flight to tokyo.
For 2d I would check more alternatives, but Unity is impressive and they also listen to user feedback and improve, so they will get even better. They are the reason I heard of uservoice.com and decided it is something I want to check in the massive beta...
Thanks, An hour is great considering where you are at and your skill at playing (good!). I'm guessing you have 2 and a half more hours to complete the whole thing, so let me know if I'm right BTW, didnt hear anyone saying anything about the new leaderboards. Just remember that if you use hints, you will lose stars and hence you will move down on the leaderboards. Also try to also score as many 3+ as you can since they increase your total star count and improve your place on these boards.
The leaderboards are great. I can't say anything about the hints, as I'm trying not to use them. Haha, trying to get maximum stars
That's exactly why we created the star system and leaderboards! - To make it annoying for skilled players like you to use the hints, while still letting people use them if they cant solve it.
Leaderboards does only sort on amount of stars. Maybe you could sort by amount of stars compared to the time spent on playing the game? I mean, it might be funny and maybe make it possible to see how many hints people have used. If a person is on a third place on the leaderboards, we don't know if he or she is there because he have been using a lot of hints or simply have not beate that many levels.
If he is on the 3rd place, it means he didnt use too many hints (unless he started the game from the start again!) but doing a leaderboard for the amount of hints is a really interesting idea, let me think about it!
Couple things after playing more... There was a problem with loading 1-13. I stopped at 1-12, quit, then when I wanted to play again the game crashed to the springboard loading 1-13. I loaded 1-12 no problem, replayed it and went to 1-13 without any difficulty at all. Now the game is ok again. Maybe that was a one time occurence? I tried using the hints just to see what they are like. I noticed that the arrow for the hint just appears no matter what orientation you are in. So say you are looking at it top down, the arrow appears but you should be facing the left for it to make any sense. Now you wasted the hint, don't have a clue where it should be facing. SO is there anyway when activating the hint to auto rotate the screen to the correct orientation so that the hint makes sense? Also in terms of the hints - there was a level I knew what to do right away but I wanted to see what the hint was. I used the hint for 1 star but then I solved the puzzle perfectly for 3 stars - net gain on that level 2 stars. I KNOW I had stars added to the total because I watched carefully. Is this supposed to happen? It seems like a cheat for more stars if so. Again, that could have been a bug (I can go back and check what level that was for) but if it isn't a bug, can you earn the 3 star rating for the level, but not gain any for use for hints?
That's exactly why we created the total star score system and the new leaderboards! - To make it annoying for skilled players to use the hints (they lose points on the leaderboards after all...) , while still letting less skilled players use them pretty easily if they really need them.
I am looking at cocos2d now. I will do some experiments after my business in Japan and get a primitive idea on my game in it. I am just not good enough of an artist for 3D ... plus I like retro games! F.
Guidelines: The guidelines for checking this versions are: 1.General impression with this version - let us know what do you like about it compared to the previous one Still the same as before love the game everything is looking great. 2. What are your 2 Major objections with the game after playing this build? The plus for completing the level with least amount of balls.I guess its only for some levels not all.But what do they do whats the incentive to get a + on a level. The hint system since I beat the levels previously when I play them again the hints tells me previous hint. I think you should buy the hint again and start from the beginning if your replaying a level. 3. New beta testers - tell us what you think about the levels (which one you love/hate) N/A 4. Check the new features - we need you to tell us what you think of them (especially the new scoring system) I really like the scoring system now I think this one is it. The screen with the description tapping doesnt shoot any balls. 5. bugs killer - you know, bugs! No bugs to squash that I know of
Cool. cocos2d seems to be the choice of a lot of 2d game developers. I love retro games too I will be happy to test your game if you ever need me to. Great! the game is finalizing itself The plus gives you an extra star, how would you like us to hand this information? As to the hint system, we want people who are having a hard time to easily buy hints, even if they do it quite a lot. So the penalty for more skilled and challenge loving players, would be that the hints cause them to drop down on the leaderboard. let me know what you think. It seems like so far everybody like the new golf inspired scoring system that FPE suggested
I loved the new stars system. I got some 3+ now. ^_^ I think if we used hints, we cannot score more than 3. It is penalty. Maybe 1 passed 1-13 before, so I cannot meet that bug. Do we need to remove the app and install it again to clean the record first?
