Building Jumper - out now!

jonmulcahy

So I came up with this idea for the first gamejam back in November, a simple one touch game about a guy who jumps over buildings. I spent the past few weeks working on it during my limited free time, and it's finally ready.

To play you touch the screen (or click the mouse) to adjust your power and jump angle. When you release your guy will soar through the sky. If you land on the target, you move onto the next building. If you fail, you have to start over at the beginning.

There is also an easy mode which lets you keep going after each failure.

You can play the incredibly simple gamejam version here:
http://arcade.gamesalad.com/games/125886

Here is a youtube trailer:

jamie_c

Looks cool, with the limited color palette it seems like it would be fun to see a big red splat when you miss... or maybe that is just sadistic of me?!

Braydon_SFX

Awesome Jon! Love it!

BigDave

@jonmulcahy‌
looks good, but would the text overlapping your logo in the beginning I would change
(if this is the same in the actual game)
@jamie_c‌
agree

jorkos

looks good nice job but i agree on adding a little color on impact....

-Timo-

looks very cool!

jonmulcahy

@jorkos said:
looks good nice job but i agree on adding a little color on impact....

@jamie_c said:
Looks cool, with the limited color palette it seems like it would be fun to see a big red splat when you miss... or maybe that is just sadistic of me?!

yea i thought of that, but I want to make this 4+ in the app store, if I add blood that immediately goes to like 13+

iamcartez

Looks good, I love these type of game and graphics..

Maybe you can add a little light blue or a off white/clear color for tears or sweat.

jamie_c

@jonmulcahy, makes sense for the rating...

jonmulcahy

we are getting nearer and nearer to finally submitting this for review. For a game mechanic that I put together in a few hours, it took a long time to polish up, but the holidays did not help.

I spent a good part of last night reading up on the app video preview requirements for apple. They seem overly complicated for me. I'm using iMovie 10, which does not support 4:3 formats anymore, and yet they require a 4:3 format for iPad preview videos. They have an app preview share option, but it will only output an iPad formatted video if you import a screen recording from an iPad. So that won't work. It seems to me they made things overly complicated in the name of simplification.

The preview video is very similar to the trailer I posted earlier, just shorter and with actual game music. I still have to make some screenshots, and let's be honest, how many different ways can I show someone that you jump over a building . Finally I need to type up the description and figure out the bane of my development existence, keywords! So things are moving towards a submission this week. Then I can move back to working on my main focus Ten Years Left

Lovejoy

@jonmulcahy‌ Oh i remember playing this back when you submit it to the game jam, i remember saying something like "What have you created!". Im happy you added graphics and I'm looking forward to the release! Great job.

Socks

Love it !

jonmulcahy

iPad preview video has been made. What a pain that was. The video came out of iMovie in 1920x1080, with huge black bars on either side. I used MPEG Streamclip to drop the edges, which resulted in a 1440x1080 video. Finally I re-encoded it back down to 1200x900 for app store purposes.

Trying to upload it now over a very shaky connection.

quantumsheep

Awesome!

Ed_Perkin

Nice look looks nice and polished something i struggle with aha

beefy_clyro

Nice work Jon

neoman

Fun game and clever idea ... Good job!

jonmulcahy

thanks guys, it was a quick and dirty game that ending up being neither quick or dirty. It was a nice break from my other game, the logic in that was getting a little intense, so working on something significantly simpler was a good mental break.

evert

Looks amazingly fun! I hope it will come out soon!

jonmulcahy

thanks everyone.
Last night i created the screenshots, typed up the description and put in some keywords. Today I am doing some final testing of the game, going over the keywords again and possibly submitting it if everything goes well.

Dues

Looks fun!

imGua

When I was young I had dreams where I could jump like that.

jonmulcahy

Thanks everyone!

I was hoping to submit it last night but found a bug in my gamecenter code, so i fixed that today.

Fixing the bug resulted in my having to increase my version number to upload it to itunes connect, so it was a great time to see how my update available code was going to fire. I'm happy to report that when everything is updated properly in the app, it will show an update available button as soon as I switch the 'current version' information on my server.

Finger's crossed I'm submitting today, baring any other unseen errors.

jonmulcahy

submitted!

Braydon_SFX

@jonmulcahy said:
submitted!

Wohoo!

quantumsheep

@jonmulcahy said:
submitted!

\o/

jonmulcahy

Building Jumper has entered review!

BigDave

@jonmulcahy‌
good luck! (with the reviewer :P)

jonmulcahy

Building Jumper is out!!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/building-jumper/id940165043?ls=1&mt=8

go download it, it's freeeee

scottharrrules43

Just curious, what level does it go to?

jonmulcahy

@scottharrrules43 said:
Just curious, what level does it go to?

there are 100 levels. in normal mode if you miss a jump you start back at level 1.

in easy mode you have keep going until you pass the level.

my record is 7 on normal mode