+++ One Touch Platformer Template $15 +++

jb15

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Hey y'all.

Here is a great little platformer template for sale, priced at only $15 (for 48 hours).

--Plays just like ChocoRun (for example, to jump off a wall you must already be in the air)
--Most behaviors have edited titles, so that it's easy to understand what's going on
--Runs at 60 fps on my 2nd gen iTouch
--Art included (.PNGs and .SVG files)

Please send $15 to my paypal: jb15games@gmail.com

RedlerTech

Let me just say. I have never seen a template organized in such a way! Not only is everything grouped & named, but he wrote up a full guide on how all the attributes are used! Some great logic in there too!

Good luck with sales!

Matt

(PS - More Lefty Updates Please )

jb15

Thanks nextgen! Glad you like it!

jb15

All emails have been sent!

jb15

A few more hours, then it jumps to $20. If you want it, get it now!

TeamLava8

Hey!
I sent you a lil somethin. 15 somethins to be exact.

TeamLava8

I played ths game and had to check it out! Just to see how close this is to the actual game. It looks like I am going to be impressed!

jb15

All emails sent. Price is now $20.

dunkelgeist

Wow...

So incredible seeing that! Our game got so big people are making templates of it??? WOW!

Thank you for that! it's nice to see things like this coming from GS, where I was before the switch to Corona, wich brought some awesome new abilities!

Oh, the next time, asking for using the game's name or the graphics will be appreciated :-P

If you really like the game, stay tuned, by the end of this month we will be releasing something so HUGE you are going to blame us for offering it for free, the biggest update ever made to a game! Graphics, Controls, Gameplay, Obstacles... everything improved! That's what my holidays were reserved for Hahaha!

A sneak peek:

butterbean

We look forward to your update on Choco Run, and so happy that Corona made this all happen for you. It's a great game!

dunkelgeist

Thank you! I'm sure it's not new coming from a developer but I totally love my game, and I'm trying to improve it every single day, so I hope the results will come to light soon for you all.

PS I prefer to try on my own and have people teaching me from time to time. A machine just doesn't explain things (yet) But if you think it's so bad I'll try, it can't hurt.

butterbean

My apologies for the spell check thing, I hear English isn't your 1st language, so I do apologize for my faux pas. Good luck to you and your game.

dunkelgeist

Me again, just wanted to ask, what is this GameSalad community?

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/awesome-super-boy-hd/id454976690?mt=8#

Are you going to allow it like nothing? I'm not, that's for sure.

tenrdrmer

Well Not sure why this was closed since theres really nothing wrong with it and who ever did close it didn't explain So Im gonna reopen an heres why.

This a a template. The purpose of a template is to learn and have a starting point for some which this does. Yes we all no its wrong that some will most definitely not change any art or style or add any mechanics but the developer seems to have done a great job creating a template that shows how a Non-GameSalad game can be made in GameSalad. This definitely is a benefit to the community by displaying what can be done with some time and effort.

So if anyone feels this developer should not be allowed to sell a good template besides the fact that Shady no ethics customers will simply publish it with little changes please post your reasoning the next time around.

@dunkelgeist - You should be honored that someone thought your game was good enough to create a template to show how it could be done in this SDK. But its not this developers fault that some will use it for the wrong purpose.

butterbean

I don't know why this was closed either, but if threads are closed, there should be an explanation for it underneath.

Templates are a love/hate thing for me. They are so helpful to those in the community in need of some tutorials, or how to's on games, but they're also damaging when other's abuse the system, and ruin it for everyone.

There should be measures against this, and one thing is not including the art for the template. I think that template publishers need to take some responsibility in preventing this type of thing from happening, especially since it's a common occurrence.

I notice Corona has a template called "Samurai Fruit" which could easily be mistaken for "Fruit Ninja", and I'm sure that has been very helpful to the Corona community, in addition to other templates they offer.

Bottom line is, it's not the creator's of templates direct *fault* per se, but when you include the art in the template, you're giving an accessible way for unethical devs to publish templates as is.

Something needs to be done about this...

jb15

@dunkelgeist Wow. Seems a lot of Corona users are GS-to-Corona converts. Anyway--this isn't the exact artwork---I did make it look very much like yours, however, (that's obvious). In future templates, I won't include the artwork. Any future purchases of this template, BTW, will NOT include the artwork. I'm glad you consider it a compliment that someone made a template of this--and, may I add--the reason I wanted to make it was twofold--1. I saw the game, downloaded the lite version, and was like "this is the best game ever" and 2. I was like "How did he do that?" oh, and one more 3. I was like "that should've been made in GS (or at least it could've been...I think). So, I set out to prove it--for myself, and made a little $ on the side (which is always nice).

Oh, this link:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/awesome-super-boy-hd/id454976690?mt=8#

Goes to a app on the store--althought it's been removed from my (USA) store--so I assume it's since been removed from the app store. I also assume that it's my template, published, unchanged. I'm surprised Apple even approved it (when it's so similar to ChocoRun). Anway--I can't really stop that, but the best I can do is not include the legal rights to the artwork--(which, again, I'm now not doing).

This is my first thread that's been closed--and reopened--but as far as I can tell there are mostly good feelings all around (except to those people that submit templates as games right to the store). If anyone disagrees, let me know--I'll do what I can to keep this a happy community.

jb15

tenrdrmer said:
...Im gonna reopen...

... the developer seems to have done a great job creating a template that shows how a Non-GameSalad game can be made in GameSalad. This definitely is a benefit to the community by displaying what can be done with some time and effort.

@dunkelgeist - You should be honored that someone thought your game was good enough to create a template to show how it could be done in this SDK. But its not this developers fault that some will use it for the wrong purpose.

Thanks tenrdrmer! I just realized what a long comment I just added, so I thought I'd summarize:

1. Artwork is no longer included* in this game. (Or in any of my future templates)
2. ChocoRun is awesome (My highest compliments to you, dunkelgeist)
3. If anyone still has a problem, please let me know. I'll do what I can to keep this community happy. If you don't want your problems public, email me at jb15games@gmail.com
4. I, as a template buyer and seller, really dislike it when someone submits an unchanged template to apple. The only way I think I can prevent this is to not include artwork (#1).

*One question for the community, however: When tshirtbooth says artwork isn't included, he sends it in the .zip, so I assume the definition of "not including" the artwork is to not include the legal rights to it--however, the .pngs are included. If this isn't the "right" definition, please tell me the real one.

tenrdrmer

Generally TSB artwork has some sort of water mark on it in the final distribution. I believe.

jb15

tenrdrmer said:
Generally TSB artwork has some sort of water mark on it in the final distribution. I believe.

Good idea. I'll definitely do that.

dunkelgeist

jb15, For all the trouble I think the fair thing would be to definitively close this thread and the template sale, maybe rebuild it with another character (not just a watermark) and then put it back on if you want, but without using the name 'ChocoRun'.

Thanks for your kind words about the game, but this is too dangerous and we already ran into trouble. Please understand our situation.

jb15

Fine. It's no longer for sale until further notice (when I have time to change the art). As far as the name goes--I can no longer edit the first post--is it possible for an admin to change "ChocoRun" to "One touch?"

butterbean

@JB15: Changed it for ya, is this okay?

Yodapollo

I'm going to go ahead and close this thread down. As I understand it, the template is no longer for sale, pending significant art changes. When that occurs, we can explore reopening this thread or creating a new one.

@dunkelgeist

Thank you for contacting us and we agree this artwork, regardless of its origin, is a little too close for our comfort. We fully support users creating templates for others, but there should be safeguards to prevent turnaround publishing as we recently witnessed.

@jb15

Thank you for understanding and for making the changes to artwork and title. From what I've seen, you seem to have made a high quality template, and once you make the appropriate changes, I think you'll see a great deal of success with it from this community.

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