Rubies Of Mars now on the AppStore

Dhondon · July 2011

My second game now available:

And to celebrate the release, Saucer 44 will be free for 5 days:

clike · July 2011

Nice graphics!. Good luck.

Dhondon · July 2011

Sales has been super low so far (beginning to think that I'm cursed) . Can anyone give me some honest feedback on the game?

Promos:
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sdsmith64 · July 2011

i took X7JRN3RKJNRK

MrAndersen · July 2011

I took 3PWH44ERRKJA - will try it out later

Looks really good, btw - done any marketing at all?

quantumsheep · July 2011

I bought it!

Now, for some honest feedback, as requested!

*I really liked the graphics and sound - some fantastic presentation!

*I think the game is frustrating

Tilt has never been my favourite control method, and this game hasn't changed my view on that!

*Consider perhaps introducing a 'rotate left/right' set of buttons - and a button for 'thrust' maybe?

*Also consider giving the player shields - 1 hit deaths are just frustrating in my book - I believe the player needs to feel that if they make a mistake, they can recover and still complete the level - right now, it feels laborious to have to collect all those rubies again after restarting the level.

*No GameCenter support - you have a pro licence it seems - timing each level and making a leaderboard based on how quickly levels were completed is one idea. Giving an overall time (divided by the number of levels played) would be another.

*A very subjective point I know, but I don't really like the name - Caverns of Mars would have been so much better - you even use the phrase in your description!

I hope you take all that as intended btw - I got a little too frustrated with it and stopped playing after level 2

Cheers,

QS

Dhondon · July 2011

@ MrAndersen No, I've only posted info on TA. And released the previous game for free (5 day with info on the new release). Guess that didn't work:)

@Q-sheep THANKS for buying it and for the valuable info!!
This is pure gold. I've suspected 2 of the points, but the rest is really valuable insight (for me).
I'll put it on the to-do list for 1.1

quantumsheep · July 2011

dhondon said:
@Q-sheep THANKS for buying it and for the valuable info!!
This is pure gold. I've suspected 2 of the points, but the rest is really valuable insight (for me).
I'll put it on the to-do list for 1.1

Coolies! I try and help where I can!

You might also find this interesting maybe:

(I mention one-hit deaths towards the end!)

Good luck!

QS

Dhondon · July 2011

Sums up a lot of good points in that cookbook answer.Thanks:) Should be made a sticky post.

Rubies Of Mars now on the AppStore

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