AppChogie games lineup for 2010 & Ticket Exchange info

AppChogie

Hi guys,

I have the following games coming out very soon as they are currently in review.

Sketch Soldiers (iPhone) soon to iPad - concept seen @ UK GameSalad London meet
Angry Phone (iPhone) - Just uploaded a new video @ www.appchogie.co.uk
Angry Phone HD (iPad) - fully scaled and upgraded graphics for the 768x1024 res.

All games now feature AppChogie Ticket Exchange a new game reward system that rewards you arcade style tickets depending on your score, when you have enough tickets for a purchase visit the AppChoige Ticket Exchange (in game) and exchange them for a iTunes redeem code for a REAL app download.

I hope that you enjoy the video and I will be posting codes when accepted for all three games. I have Undead Fred and Danger Mouse goes under due for release July 26.

The store is in Beta stage so please read terms and conditions at www.appchogie.co.uk

BarkBarkCo

Is the ticket exchange made in GS?

AppChogie

@barkbark00

Yes it is.

StormyStudio

cool, look forward to playing sketch soldiers after seeming the preview at the London meet.

Good luck, also very intrigued by the AppChogie ticket exchange...

JCFord

maybe you should make an iPhone version of your site as I can't view it on the move but look coward to seeing your finished sketch soldiers

quantumsheep

JCFord said:
maybe you should make an iPhone version of your site as I can't view it on the move but look coward to seeing your finished sketch soldiers

I think you meant 'RUN, coward' :P

@Appchogie - Sketch Soldiers did look nice at the meet. I'm really interested in how the ticket system will actually 'work' though. It makes my brain hurt when I try and figure it out for myself!

Cheers,

QS

AppChogie

@qs - Thanks for the message

The Ticket Exchange is score related depending on the game I decide what score deserves what tickets like 100points is 10 tickets etc.. for easy maths :-P

After each game you achieve your score which is converted to tickets, the ticket machine spits them out on screen (well a few for effect) but the total won tickets for that game is displayed above it. At any time the player can enter and browse the store however if he/she try to exchange tickets for a app with a balance lower then required it pops up a message saying "you don't have enough" etc.

If however you do have enough then it confirms you want to exchange if yes it deducts the exchange amount and displays the balance seconds after a Ticket Exchange redeem card is displayed for the user to download that app from iTunes. The player can either write the number down or take a screenshot for future reference.

Its a beta store at present but it works! Apple sent me a message and they seem to like the concept and giving me some good ideas of how to progress it for developer advertising. I hope you like it.

chosenonestudios

I assume your using promo codes? and you have to have them built in game, it picks them randomly.... hmmm I don't understand how that works.... even if i understood how that worked, where are you getting all the promo codes form if you can only have 50 per update...

Im confused haha

quantumsheep

That's certainly ingenious, sir! Good on ya, and good luck with it!

QS

quantumsheep

chosenonestudios said:
I assume your using promo codes? and you have to have them built in game, it picks them randomly.... hmmm I don't understand how that works.... even if i understood how that worked, where are you getting all the promo codes form if you can only have 50 per update...

Im confused haha

And yes, this is where I get confused too!

But if Apple like it...

Nope, still confused, but sounds like a good idea!

QS

chosenonestudios

Yeah great idea, me no comprehende haha

If you could clarify that would be great!

AppChogie

Hey guys,

@Chosen you are right the game has 50 codes for each app that it randomly displays within a voucher when the player has exchanged their tickets for it. If the redeem code has been used then they email a screenshot of the voucher to a email address i set up for a new code.

Now thats as far as I took it but the man reviewing my game (Angry Phone) called me to find out how I intended to do it. I explained that the beta would be limited to 50 codes per app and that I have reserved the right via a update to remove or close the store once all codes have been used.

Well he said that if I was not charging for a paid app and giving it away for free as a prize then it MAY!!! come under the free app licence agreement and they would not take 30% for it and issue me many more codes. but if someone bought the same app on the appstore then they would pay and apple would deduct the 30%.

Now if you haven't worked out already these are my apps and people that I have managed to join the Ticket Exchange to promote there apps by giving them away as prizes, hence why its a beta.

quantumsheep

Sounds good mate, but without beer bottles I can't visualise it!



QS

chosenonestudios

Great idea! Sounds good! Hope this goes full scale live!