Quantum Sheep presents 'Air Supply SOS (Save Our Sheep)' :)

quantumsheep

Hello all!

Well, the latest Sheepy game is out! I spent four years on and off to make this!

Unfortunately, Game Center isn’t working with it at the moment (I’m sure that’s my fault!) but I’ll be looking to fix that soon!

The game’s universal and will work on an iPhone 4 and up and an iPad one or better - I don’t think it’ll work on the older iPod Touches - sorry!

It’s $1.99 on the app store and you can find it here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/air-supply-sos-save-our-sheep/id794916361?mt=8

Air Supply - SOS (Save Our Sheep)

Here’s some blurb for you:

The Mothersheep needs your help!


The Time Travel Clothing Company is stealing wool from kidnapped Quantum Sheep! The Mothersheep is sending out an SOS to any hero willing to undertake the challenge - ’Save Our Sheep’!



Fly around with your jetpack rescuing sheep and putting them in your rocket! Aliens, UFOs, Bosses and a multitude of other hazards are out to stop you and don’t forget to keep an eye on your dwindling Air Supply! 



• 10 monochrome colours (red, white, blue etc) plus new ‘Living Colour’ mode.
• Over 20 awesome characters to unlock!

• 10 Planets to play through - 100 levels in total!

• 11 amazing retro music tracks - all made on actual ZX Spectrums

• 16 perks - choose two to take into battle, including rocket, shield and air supply enhancements!

• Rescue sheep to unlock special perks!

• Collect stars, air and kills to unlock characters, music and colours!

• Battle big UFOs and huge bosses!

• Over 40 different alien enemies!
• Bonus Space stages - fly your spaceship against UFOs and asteroids

• Multiple options to customise the look and feel of the game! Over 18 million combinations!

• Inspired by the classic retro game ‘Jetpac’ on the ZX Spectrum!

• Wonderfully bereft of IAP or adverts!

A couple of screenshots:

You can find youtube videos here:

And here:

I’ve got some pretty good press from the likes of TouchArcade and Appspy thus far which is just awesome - the latter thanks to a mention by @polygame - here’s a ‘hands on’ vid:

And here’s the first review!

http://arcadelife.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/air-supply-sos-review-ios-universal/

I wanted to thank @socks for the inspiration behind the space sections, @tatiang for some text scrolling help and a bunch of other people for encouragement and support - thank you!

Quite a few artists helped with the game too over its gestation. I’d like to thank them all, especially MisterFunkleberry, who I miss every day

I had some cool testers too - thanks for your input while I made the game. You helped make it better than it was! That’s a good thing!

Also, thanks to the GameSalad team - it can be pretty hard going sometimes, but you can make some fun stuff with this software!

Hope you like it!

QS =D

FallingBoxStudios

Looks awesome! will make sure to leave a review.

Braydon_SFX

We need a link, Sheepy!

quantumsheep

@Braydon_SFX said:
We need a link, Sheepy!

Oh bloody typical - I forgot the one thing I moan at others about! Thanks! Will edit

AfterBurnett

This game is awesomeballs. Finally got off level 8 My twitch gameplay skills had gotten a bit rusty in recent years, with all the casual stuff about. Haha.

Congrats on releasing, man! I know you've had some ups and downs but you stuck in there and made one HELL OF A GAME!

May it make you "One meeeeeellion dollars"

Braydon_SFX

I'll be purchasing tonight!!

RossmanBrothersGames

Looks great will pick it up later, any thoughts on doing a bundle with the other air supply games?

quantumsheep

@FallingBoxStudios said:
Looks awesome! will make sure to leave a review.

Many thanks! That's very kind!

@POLYGAMe said:
This game is awesomeballs. Finally got off level 8 My twitch gameplay skills had gotten a bit rusty in recent years, with all the casual stuff about. Haha.

Congrats on releasing, man! I know you've had some ups and downs but you stuck in there and made one HELL OF A GAME!

May it make you "One meeeeeellion dollars"

Dude. There are 100 levels!

Get a move on!

It's personally the most important thing I've ever made I think. The 'meeeellion' dollars would be lovely, but it's not as important as what this game means to me!

@Braydon_SFX said:
I'll be purchasing tonight!!
@RossmanBrothersGames said:
Looks great will pick it up later, any thoughts on doing a bundle with the other air supply games?

Thanks!
No bundle plans till I make a fourth one. Then I'll put them all into The Air Supply Trilogy bundle.

Just channelling some Douglas Adams there

Thanks for checking the game out everyone! Means a lot

QS =D

AfterBurnett

@quantumsheep said:
Dude. There are 100 levels!

Get a move on!

I know, I suck! But TBH, I don't want to get too far in... I'm waiting until I reactivate my iTunes account (stupid account always being out of money - lol), so I can buy it and play that version, rather than the test version I have So I might as well wait or I'll have to start over! Haha.

pHghost

@quantumsheep said:
Thanks! No bundle plans till I make a fourth one. Then I'll put them all into The Air Supply Trilogy bundle.

Fourth one? Trilogy? Am I missing something here, like a Sci-Fi reference?

AfterBurnett

@pHghost said:
Fourth one? Trilogy? Am I missing something here, like a Sci-Fi reference?

@quantumsheep said:
No bundle plans till I make a fourth one. Then I'll put them all into The Air Supply Trilogy bundle.

>

Just channelling some Douglas Adams there

quantumsheep

@polygame has the right idea

The first sentence of this wiki entry should help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Long,_and_Thanks_for_All_the_Fish

QS =D

pHghost

Aah! :agree:

LumpApps

Congratulations with the release. You have put a lot of work in it. I'm going to pick it up later (on my android now) and will try and get to level 100

jamie_c

Looks great, love the old school feel. Good luck with it!

marc_greiff

great work!

quantumsheep

Thanks all for the kind words!!

Talking of words, I got a mention from PocketGamer today too - which was really unexpected!

http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/Air+Supply+-+SOS+(Save+Our+Children)/news.asp?c=61739&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+PocketGamerLatestAdditions+(Pocket+Gamer+-+Latest+additions)

Yay!

"Praise be to the Mothersheep" indeed!

QS =D

iamcartez

Congratulations! The game looks amazing. I'll purchase tonight!

I really thought Apple would feature it though, maybe next week.

quantumsheep

@iamcartez said:
Congratulations! The game looks amazing. I'll purchase tonight!

I really thought Apple would feature it though, maybe next week.

Thankyou!

And who knows, eh?

In the meantime, another review:

http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/328/air-supply-sos-save-our-sheep-game-review

4.5/5 - I'll take that!

QS =D

-Timo-

For the first time in Quantum Sheep history this game actually contains sheep

haha, true

congrats! good luck with downloads

AfterBurnett

@iamcartez said:
Congratulations! The game looks amazing. I'll purchase tonight!

I really thought Apple would feature it though, maybe next week.

I believe they update the featured games on Tuesdays, so they should do.

beefy_clyro

Great stuff me ol' bean!

quantumsheep

@timolapre1998 said:
congrats! good luck with downloads

Thanks! You could actually play as a Quantum Sheep in Air Supply - Infinite

@POLYGAMe said:
I believe they update the featured games on Tuesdays, so they should do.

I think they change on Thursdays!

@beefy_clyro said:
Great stuff me ol' bean!

Thanks!

Apparently there might be a TA review next week, so that'll be fun.

I'd much rather talk about the gameplay/features though if anyone's played it

Cheers!

QS =D

AfterBurnett

@quantumsheep said:
I think they change on Thursdays!

OH YEAH? WANNA FIGHT ABOUT IT?!?!?!

:P

quantumsheep

@POLYGAMe said:
:P

No!

Ed_Perkin

Saw this game on the featured bit subcategorys , looking good !

RedRobo

Love the music

AfterBurnett

@quantumsheep said:
No!

Phew! I'm not very good at fighting.

AlchimiaStudios

Played a bit on my iPad, the controls are great, very responsive.

quantumsheep

@AlchimiaStudios said:
Played a bit on my iPad, the controls are great, very responsive.

Thanks - they were the first thing to get 'right' before moving on to the main course!

What do you think of the thrust/fire button being just one button? That was actually based off some feedback (about two years ago!) by @JGary321‌

There were originally 2 buttons - 1 for thrust, one for fire, which is kinda 'standard'.

But I changed it to one, and it's one of those innovations that as a designer you can be really proud of, but no-one notices!

Thanks for trying the game

QS =D

AlchimiaStudios

@quantumsheep said:
What do you think of the thrust/fire button being just one button? That was actually based off some feedback (about two years ago!) by @JGary321‌

I personally think it's great. It changes the strategy up a bit from the standard controls for sure, and even though it's less buttons, it doesn't make it easier necessarily. Just more streamlined.