Game of the Month: March Submissions Thread
Hey everyone!
Time for the next Game of the Month contest! We have a winner for February and will be posting shortly!
We are super excited to see this month's entries and are ready for being impressed; we're always amazed at the fantastic games and applications our community creates!
The panelists for this month will be @Braydon_SFX, @Lost_Oasis_Games, @ForumNinja and @Hopscotch! If your game is not free, we ask that you please send each of the panelists a promo code so they can download and play your game.
We will be rotating panelists each month, so if you're interested in judging, please contact @ForumNinja.
The new revised rules for the GotM are below, there are some important changes (I've bolded some of the most critical), so make sure you read them thoroughly! Good luck to everyone!
Reminders about how the Game of the Month contest works:
Submissions are open for approximately 15 days and will close around 10 p.m. Pacific Time Zone. Make sure you get your submission in before then!
This mid-month closure allows us to play all of the submissions, evaluate and post the winner and blog post by the beginning of the following month, just as the next contest gets opened for submissions. We will announce a shortlist of 5 games roughly one week after submissions close to keep the tension high. After making the final decision, we will contact the winner via email shortly after the thread is closed. Each winner will be asked to complete a Developer Questionnaire and we will use this information to create a blog post that promotes your awesomeness! Additionally, we will feature the Game of the Month in dedicated Forum, Facebook, Twitter, and GameSalad.com blog posts!
The panel may also award honorable mentions to games other than the winner. These can be awarded for beautiful graphics, superb gameplay, an innovative concept etc. Not all categories of honorable mentions have to be awarded every month -- this will be entirely up to the panel to decide, and the game to be awarded an honorable mention need not be selected from the shortlist only. The purpose of the honorable mentions will be to draw attention to exceptional apps, even if they might not be perfect in every single way (and thus not cut to be the GotM winner).
If all that wasn't enough, the GameSalad Team has generously offered to provide a $25 Amazon gift card or free month of Pro to the winner!
Submission Rules:
- Your game must be complete and published to the AppStore or GameSalad Arcade! (We have to be able to play it to know if it is worthy of winning!)
- Just to be clear, this is not a post to simply "announce" an upcoming game.
- Please limit your entries to 1 app per person.
- Apps must be posted within this sticky thread in order for it to be considered for GotM.
- You can resubmit your app if you submitted it last month and it got shortlisted, but this can only be done once; you cannot submit it three months in a row. (You can also resubmit an app that's been entered in more than one GotM so long as it has had a significant update. The panel will decide whether the changes are substantial enough, and will disqualify and delete entries that have just had a minor tweak to get around this rule.)
- If possible, please include a Youtube gameplay/trailer video that shows the awesomeness of your game!
- If your submission is a paid app, we ask that you send a promo code to each of the panelists listed above.
- Although we are aware that there are hundreds of awesome games out there, we prefer that the game you submit was published in the last 6 months.
Contacting the Winner:
In order to be featured, winners will have one week to submit answers to a questionnaire (for us to create a sweet blog post about you).
Best of luck!
Braydon
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Hello fellow GS developers,
This is my first game ever! First time published. My trade is carpentry but I've always been an artist at heart and an avid gamer.A year ago, I was actually looking to learn how to write blog articles and i just happened to come across an ad for easy game development. Hmmm... I thought. I started reading into Gamesalad and all it had to offer and downloaded the creator. Soon I began to realize, that as much as i love playing video
games, I now am loving creating them even more. I feel like my passions are combined here and my limits are only my imagination. I am now a virtual builder
It took way longer to bring all to completion due to my learning curve(zero software dev. know-how). But this stuff is easier when you learn it and apply, apply, apply. My first submission to apple took a month to finally understand and successfully submit. Now... no exageration... I can submit to apple in under 15min. taking my sweet time. I hope my story can inspire those who are frustrated. Hang in there. Perseverance and patience can equal progress and prosperity.
I want to say special thanks to Alexandra from the GS Team. She was always there to answer all my questions in an always timely and reliable fashion. Thanks to Dave the Guru and T-Shirt Booth for all your videos on mechanics. Thanks to Thunderchild for his awesome how-to-video for prep. and submitting to apple. Thanks to Ryan Joy for his videos on submitting to Windows. And thanks to Braydon for all of your game mechanics and Windows submission videos. Can't say thanks enough guys
So, check out my new game The Bucket Brigade for iOS, Windows and in the GS Arcade. Let me know what you think. What could be improved. As lots of weekly updates are coming!!
Windows website: https://sites.google.com/site/greywolfxgames
Buy Bucket Brigade Game Stuff: zazzle.com/bbgamestuff
Hey!
Unfortunately my app was accepted one day too late for entry in the Game of the Month last month, but now I am so excited to enter it this month. I like to think of it as competitive candy crush because you are racing against the clock to power up and beat your opponent. It is called iNstaStars!
Check it out here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instastars/id1018611357?mt=8
I don't have footage for the gameplay, but here is a teaser trailer! I hope you enjoy!!!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instastars/id1018611357?mt=8
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/8berg/id1090324598?mt=8
Bleh. I know I won't win, Braydon. but it's worth a bloody try. http://arcade.gamesalad.com/games/135914
There, I chose my worst game.
Hey Guys,
I didn't know about the Game of the Month last month, so I am submitting for March.
My game is called Zombie-Squad, It's a simple, challenging tapping game.
Check it out here:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zombie-squad/id1072252306?ls=1&mt=8
Check out the trailer on our FaceBook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/ZombieSquadGG/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel
My first game O.submarine. It's very simple.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ubgame1710.taungam&hl=en
http://arcade.gamesalad.com/games/136134
Nice little game. Love your light rays.
Since Running Blade Free, the free version of Running Blade, is finally available at the App Store, I'm putting it up for this month's GOTM.
Katz the Samurai is running across the city rooftops, trying to catch her enemies! Guide her through the endless rows of skyscrapers avoiding falls, planted bombs and flying saws!
Instructions:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/running-blade-free/id1084187786?mt=8
There's also a paid version, but I guess the free version works just fine for GOTM submission purposes. Toodles!
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Hi everyone,
Introducing Crazy Comets, our first game release with GameSalad.
Crazy Comets is an endless arcade smash’em up that uses the device’s accelerometer and physics to move and bash comets around the screen….to humorous effect.
The aim is to set the highest score. The player can score points by smashing baddies into the sides and collecting bonus items. The player’s comet must avoid the sides or Game Over. The tilt control system provides the challenge that will separate the rookies from the champions. It will take all the player's skill to keep their comet under control while trying to score points.
Presented in lovely homemade pixel art, Electric Cafe rounds off the package with a superb chip tune soundtrack.
Crazy Comets (Free) is available now at the iTunes Store (http://tinyurl.com/gtw8fzv) and Google Play Store (http://tinyurl.com/z26b5x3) and you can read more about it here (http://tinyurl.com/jhhvqq5).
Here is a video of Crazy Comets in action:
You can find more screenshots here (http://tinyurl.com/hzqedba).
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the app. My contact details follow.
Mark Day
Email: markday1979@gmail.com
Skype ID: markday_electriccafe
Twitter: @7mcday
Introducing: Bubble Dive!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bubble-dive/id1063049959?ls=1&mt=8
This is my first of many apps in my app developing career as a 15 year old!
Thanks and enjoy!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bubble-dive/id1063049959?ls=1&mt=8
Paper Totem: Game APP made from Paper Models
Trailer:
papertotem.weebly.com/
iOS:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/paper-totem/id1071716486?ls=1&mt=8
Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lonetoken.papertotem
Hey everyone,
Here is the shortlist (see point #5 in the submissions rule above) for last month's GotM. If you see your game name below you may resubmit for this month's competition even though you did not win last month. Again, please see point #5 above for some restrictions on shortlist submissions. If you do not see your game below and you did not win the GotM, we ask that you not resubmit your game but rather work on creating your next game for our consideration!
This shortlist contains the games that were thoroughly considered for GotM but didn't quite make the cut.
Only a few more days to submit! The panelists for this month will be announced shortly!
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Good Morning, I would like to throw my hat into the ring and enter the "Game Of The Month Contest" The game is called SCOAL!. A simple matching game with a little twist and sports theme. It has been in the iTunes App Store since March 12.
So many people to thank. My 2 Buddies Keith Pvirre for helping with the audio, Tom Weddleton for the use of his old laptop, @Hopscotch for help with code, @uptimistik for help with all the non fun stuff of app development, The Guru @Lost_Oasis_Games with help with a bug and of course GameSalad. Thanks for taking the time to answer questions and sharing your knowledge.I hope some day that I can return the favor.
Looks like I entered the contest in the wrong month with all these great games and stiff competition! Good luck to all!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id1078996107
forgot to mention @Thunder_Child for all the great tutorials.
Mingui Surf
Mingui Surf is a fun action packed game for the whole family, where you get to play as Mingui. Who's Mingui? Well, Mingui is a crazy ant that loves surfing. Avoid all kind of obstacles while you guide Mingui to get as many beach balls for points, and don't forget those pesky waves, and try to jump them. So what are you waiting for? Surf's Up Dude!!!!!!!!!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id1041856048
http://www.amazon.com/WebMaster-Creations-Inc-Mingui-Surf/dp/B01AGND9Q2/ref=sr_1_1?s=mobile-apps&ie=UTF8&qid=1456459490&sr=1-1&keywords=mingui surf
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.webmastercreationsinc.minguisurf
https://www.facebook.com/webmastercreationsinc
Thanks and God Bless....
Sincerely,
Sunday
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Hi everyone,
I made an app/game to share my own experience about Ménière disease.
In this app you can find some info and links about Ménière disease, and you can experience some symptoms like; Tinnitus and Vertigo.
It’s just a very small app with a brief explanation of how I experience it. To make the app a little fun and to let people experience what it’s like to have Ménière's there’s also a little game within it. A very simple quiz game, you can or may put your headphones on (because the noise, gets louder the further you progress). Also, you must ensure that your character won’t fall over (Vertigo). All other elements rotate and meanwhile you have to answer some questions.
The idea of the app is to make it easier for me to explain Ménière’s. I can tell people to just download the app and they know something about how I deal with Ménière’s. And it’s just fun to play a game as well.
The app is available in Dutch and in English. Of course, the app is free and without ads. I do this as a hobby and who knows, maybe I also help someone else with it.
iPhone:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-menieres/id1039690351?l=nl&ls=1&mt=8
iPad:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mijn-meniere-hd/id1079430886?l=nl&ls=1&mt=8
Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.patateend.meniere
Video:
@Thunder_Child Thanks, bud!
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Please include my application in the March contest. This is an interactive story for kids.
iPAD
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ugly-duckling-interactive/id1082243581?ls=1&mt=8
iPhone
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ugly-duckling-interactive/id1084951958?ls=1&mt=8
Here is a video available in youtube to have a glimpse of the app:
Thanks in advance.
Alright, going to close the submissions for this month. Keep an eye out for the winner in April!
The panelists for this month will be @Braydon_SFX, @Lost_Oasis_Games, @ForumNinja and @Hopscotch! If your game is not free, we ask that you please send each of the panelists a promo code so they can download and play your game.
My GameSalad Academy Courses! ◦ Check out my quality templates! ◦ Add me on Skype: braydon_sfx