from GS to OpenFeint Game of the Day

Rob2Rob2 Member Posts: 2,402
edited November -1 in Working with GS (Mac)
Doodle dash was a great little GS game but it has been taken up a notch using Corona....

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/doodle-dash/id382456881?mt=8

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  • UtopianGamesUtopianGames Member Posts: 5,692
    Wow that's great!

    I will have to look into Corona it seems to have a lot of options.

    How much is it?

    Darren.
  • UtopianGamesUtopianGames Member Posts: 5,692
    double post, stupid internet :P
  • Hurricane09Hurricane09 Member Posts: 40
    Nice. Have you seen your sales increase? Were you already a coder?
  • Rob2Rob2 Member Posts: 2,402
    Doodle Dash was made by Jonbeebe.... he has a good site http://beebegames.tumblr.com/
    and has just done a very interesting interview http://tiny.cc/viop6
  • Hurricane09Hurricane09 Member Posts: 40
    Whoops, sorry. Thanks for the info!
  • expired_012expired_012 Member Posts: 1,802
    "First was performance: GameSalad games tend to run slow/choppy, and mine was no exception. I did manage to make the game playable after doing countless performance tweaks, but the end-product definitely wasn’t at the level I wanted it to be (not even close).

    Then, there was the lack of social features and web connectivity. The social nature of iPhone games (posting scores to Facebook/OpenFeint, etc) is what drew me into iPhone gaming in the first place, so it — for lack of a better word — sucked that the games we were producing couldn’t do that, not even in the simplest way. You could see your own high score in the game, that’s about as far as GameSalad would allow you to go with that.

    Also, there was the issue GameSalad splash screen. Unless I paid $2,000 to have it removed (out of the question), the games we made featured a big “Made with GameSalad” splash screen that showed up for anywhere from 3-5 seconds when you first opened the app. So, not only were there performance issues (not just in-game performance, but loading times were extremely high as well), and an absence of even basic social/web features, but there was also this big fat “Made with GameSalad” that came up every time someone played the game which, in my opinion, severely wore on the credibility of the new Beebe Games brand that we were trying hard to build."
  • Rob2Rob2 Member Posts: 2,402
    its still free :) and well worth a look if you want an idea of what a few days with Corona can achieve
  • AfterBurnettAfterBurnett Member Posts: 3,474
    Or months, if you have my technical skills :P

    I did download Corona... I should try and learn it but there is bugger all documentation around.
  • expired_012expired_012 Member Posts: 1,802
    this is top 27 overall free in the US
  • Rob2Rob2 Member Posts: 2,402
    it is a great little game... something about it makes you keep coming back for more
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