F is for Falling is listed under Hot New Games!

firemaplegames

Just noticed it tonight! On the iPhone, under Featured, under Hot New Games at the top of the New section!
Congratulations, mulcahy!!!
Best of luck in the App Store!

Joe

beefy_clyro

Well thats a couple now for him, congrats dude, keep up the good work

jonmulcahy

Cool didn't Even notice that. Must be because of the huge update I put out last week.

jonmulcahy

Never mind, I read this as v is or vortex . ThiS is new. Very cool. Now if they would only approve the update that's been waiting for review since Friday

Wurdindustries

Congratulations! I saw that this morning!

Eastbound

Congrats man! That's really cool to have it once, much less a repeat!

And yeah, I've had an update in review since I wanna say Thursday? The review periods took a plunge again.

rebump

Percentages, precentages! What's the boost?

butterbean

Great job Mulcahy! You're on a roll, and with getting featured!

I think this is one of your best icons yet, I love it

JoshKahane

Thats great Mulcahy! You seem to be proving yourself as a popular developer to Apple. They put you there for a reason. If the apps get chosen randomly then its beside the point, your are doing great still. Keep it up.

jonmulcahy

Yea I have no idea why they end up in his section. I'm not complaining though. Maybe it's my art style

sales do see an increase, nothing major, not enough to quit my day job. But I've easily made back my investment a few times,

butterbean

Let us know how your sales do with being featured

jonmulcahy

Looks like I'm also featured under the 'What's Hot' section in iTunes itself (not on the iPhone). I think those two sections are linked.

We'll see where sales head, it's always a mystery how these things work.

I just want my 4 updates 'waiting for review' since friday to get picked up! I don't want to go back to the 14 day wait time.

butterbean

I know! I can't believe the wait times for updates, we were spoiled for a short period but now it's back to reality again!!

You're featured on the iphone too! Go under featured, new games, and there's an icon on the top right that says hot new games, click on that and you should see your game there too!

Eastbound

I think it might have to do with the iTablet announcement or whatever tomorrow. Seems like to big of a slowdown to not be something intentional.

jonmulcahy

Just saw that F is for Falling is number 86 in the us paid arcade games section, number 99 in Canada!

jonmulcahy

And number 617 paid app overall!

stanimation

Thats awesome!! Congratulations! How do you do it?! How does this affect your sales? If you dont mind me asking?

JoshKahane

This is really brilliant Mulcahy! Well done yet again!

Just on an other note, out of interest as your game is a high score based falling game. Have you just made a very very very long scene. So it has a huge width and manually put item in all the way along it? Or is there some kind of way of automating this or making it random? You must have gone through a lot of effort if manually (an any other way of course).

Of course at some point, if someone is incredible at this game they are eventually going to reach the end of the scene and go of screen. How did you go about avoiding this? Just make it ultra long or another method?

Appreciate any info, thanks.

jonmulcahy

Just doing more looking, it's 297 or so in games overall in the us

sales have been good, well see what happens over time.

It's a small scene, everything is randomly generated. If someone ever did fall far enough, thy would hit ground. But it's next to impossible

JoshKahane

Wow, 297, and only an hour ago you were 617th! That fantastic, I hope you do really well, things are looking good for you thus far.

About the random generation thats interesting, if you could give a small insight into it I would be really interested. Or if anyone for that mater knows how it would work, I would be fascinated as I did begin work on a similar project about 2 months ago, but stopped as making a drastically huge scene wasn't really practical.

jonmulcahy

297 and 617 are to different rankings I wish it increased that quick. 297 is games only, 617 was apps overall

I just had the hazards spawn randomly across the bottom an move automatically. The clouds just loop around, when they hit a certain point the graphic moves back to the becoming. It took some work, but it's pretty seemless.

JoshKahane

Ok thanks Mulcahy thats really interesting, I shall give it a shot. Good luck with sales, haha, if only that was the same figure, I thought that was a pretty quick rise for one hour!

StormyStudio

Congrats Mulcahy, sounds like it could be the next Doodle Jump.... :-)

Just bought it and gonna take a look, like the sound of the challenge that potentially now matter how hard you could actually hit the ground...

well done....I so need to start working more on my second app...

StormyStudio

588 feet is my record. Damn tricky game. Very cool though, look forward to trying it when the bug fixes mentioned get implemented. Is there a way to make it so it gets harder the further you fall as currently it is sometimes impossible to survive as objects cover the whole width of the screen, which makes it tricky no matter how awesome i might be at sky diving.

Very cool though and another keeper for my page of gamesalad made apps on my phone.

jonmulcahy

Version 1.1 was just approved, you should see updates tonight. For 1.2 I am working on scaling difficulty, and only having 1 big hazard at once

the current leader fell over 2000 feet!

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jonmulcahy

1.2 is going to have touch controls as well, you can touch the left or right side to move your guy.

urhungry

ok, great. that should help sales, as i am reluctant to buy accelerometer games.

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