Owls - Available Now!! - A matching game for kids. (jonmulcahy)

jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
edited July 2012 in Announce Your Game!
I'm finally ready to take the wraps off a matching game I've been working on for the past few mths. It's called Owls, and it's coming to the iPad, Kindle Fire and Nook, hopefully in the next week.
 
This game is built heavily on top of tables. Everything is in two scenes, the main menu, and the game itself. When playing the game, each level's background, owl types, and owl locations is pulled from tables. Thanks to some online random number generators, there are 999 levels, and each one is randomly designed, from the owl types to their destination. In any given level, there are 13 different owl pairs on the screen (out of 30), going to 26 different locations.
 
For each level I am tracking the completion time, and the number of stars gained, and again, it's all stored in tables. It would have taken thousands of attributes to do this before, and instead I have a single levelStatistics table.
 
Hopefully the game does well, my 15 mth old daughter loves the images, so that's something :)
 
Obligatory screenshots and youtube video below:

Product page: http://www.howihatethenight.com/app/owls

Available Now!
iTunes App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/owls/id523716549?ls=1&mt=8
Nook App Store: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/owls-jonathan-mulcahy/1112255840?ean=2940043913012
Amazon App Store: http://www.amazon.com/How-I-Hate-The-Night/dp/B008L1T17S/ref=sr_1_5?s=mobile-apps&ie=UTF8&qid=1342791571&sr=1-5


 

 
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Comments

  • simo103simo103 Member, PRO Posts: 1,331
    looks great Jon .. hope it does well for you!
  • thomasrichardgamesthomasrichardgames Member Posts: 263
    I think this game looks FANTASTIC! The graphics are FANTASTIC and the gameplay too. What software do you use to create the graphics. Congrats on the game ... hope it brings in a load of downloads. :)
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    @simo103 thanks! I spent over 50% of dev time polishing it up.
    @suzyann525 thanks! I actually bought all The graphics from a stock website, made it much easier that way.
  • Braydon_SFXBraydon_SFX Member, Sous Chef, Bowlboy Sidekick Posts: 9,273
    Awesome stuff, Jon! Looks very polished! I'll be picking it up when it's available!
  • DeadlySeriousMediaDeadlySeriousMedia ArizonaMember Posts: 838
    Well done! I love that icon!
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    @braydon_sfx thanks! i hope people like the polish I put on the game. Right before I wen to submit the game I went back and spent another week adding more polish to the game.

    @deadlyseriousmedia thank you. i went through a whole bunch of iterations before deciding on that one.
  • butterbeanbutterbean Member Posts: 4,315
    I LOVE Owls, this looks amazing Jon! Can't wait to play it, I'll defo be buying a copy for my iPad! :D
  • prajpraj Member Posts: 68
    the game looks brilliant. amazing graphics. just wondering how did u manage to make so much levels. it could have taken u a long time! gd lock with the sales! :D
  • beefy_clyrobeefy_clyro Member Posts: 5,394
    Best of luck Jon, looks very nice! I have no kids to play it with but good luck with sales :)
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    edited July 2012
    @butterbean thanks! it's been waiting for review for a week now, so hopefully it'll be out next week.

    @uptimisitk thank you! i spent a lot of time making sure everything was just about perfect from my eyes.

    @praj thanks! but i can't take credit for the graphics, i got them all mostly from various stock websites. The levels are all based in tables. Once I built one, the number of levels was really based on GS's limitation of 999 rows in a single table.

    @beefy_clyro thanks! my daughter loves the images, but she's still a bit too young to
    really get how to play, but maybe in a few more months.
  • UtopianGamesUtopianGames Member Posts: 5,692
    Looks great Jon, best of luck with sales when its released.

    Darren.
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    edited July 2012
    Thanks Darren!

    Just uploaded two gameplay videos to youtube, partly to just get more awareness of the game, but also to show performance / gameplay on the iPad3 & Kindle Fire:

    iPad3 Gameplay Video:


    Kindle Fire Gameplay Video:


  • Braydon_SFXBraydon_SFX Member, Sous Chef, Bowlboy Sidekick Posts: 9,273
    Cool stuff! Runs very smoothly, well done!
  • gyroscopegyroscope I am here.Member, Sous Chef, PRO Posts: 6,598

    @jonmulcahy

    Looking terrific, Jon, excellent stuff; really nicely done! Great for the kids; hope sales go well for you. :-)
  • SingleSparqSingleSparq Member Posts: 1,339
    Nice stuff Jon - owls are cool!
  • J_PANJ_PAN Member Posts: 140
    perfect game, awesome matching game :)
  • EatingMyHatEatingMyHat Member Posts: 1,246
    Looks great, I love the trailer.
  • expired_012expired_012 Member Posts: 1,802
    Kids will love this!!! Awesome job
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    thanks everyone, I worked very hard on it over the past 2 mths. I actually just got the good news that it was finally accepted for the Nook. I'm hoping I made it in time for their education promotion going on, but time will tell. I had to put a camera constrain to get around a hibernation issue.

    It's coming up on 8 business days since it's been submitted, so it should hopefully enter review on tues/wednesday for the iPad
  • goliathgoliath Member Posts: 1,440
    It looks outstanding. Good luck and please keep us updated on sales.
  • J_PANJ_PAN Member Posts: 140
    Kids will love this!!! Awesome job
    very likely :)
  • prajpraj Member Posts: 68
    link for ipad?
  • Fredrik BixoFredrik Bixo Member Posts: 239
    edited July 2012
    Hey there,
    I have a similar system as you where the season automaticly changes ( http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/46567/bumpy-gamesalad-only-press-release#latest ). In my version it changes due the season in real life using the clock feature. Is it the same in your game?

    Your looks cool and good luck with sales! :)

    Thanks,
    Fredrik
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    @gamearn that's something I want to do, and is planned for a future update. The game itself changes every 25 levels so the kids don't get bored looking at the same backgrounds over and over. Every 100 levels is a complete season. I do want to convert the menu system to reflect the current season, I have matching artwork for all seasons. That's for 1.1 though :)
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    @praj. It's not out yet, hopefully this week,
    @goliath thanks, I'll keep everyone posted.
    @pan_joshua. Thank you, I hope they do.
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    It's Out!!! Just gotta work out an issue with the Kindle so it get's approved on that as well.

    iTunes App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/owls/id523716549?ls=1&mt=8
    Nook App Store: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/owls-jonathan-mulcahy/1112255840?ean=2940043913012
    Amazon App Store: http://www.amazon.com/How-I-Hate-The-Night/dp/B008L1T17S/ref=sr_1_5?s=mobile-apps&ie=UTF8&qid=1342791571&sr=1-5
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    Ok, press release goes live in 1 minute. Review requests have been sent to all major review sites of children's apps, touch arcade post created, YouTube video saying available now with link is uploading.

    Did I miss anything? :)
  • Braydon_SFXBraydon_SFX Member, Sous Chef, Bowlboy Sidekick Posts: 9,273
    Nice one!

    Let us know how the sales are! Of course, I don't expect them to be bad!

    Good luck!
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