F is for Falling is listed under Hot New Games!

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• beefy_clyro Member Posts: 5,394

  January 2010

  Well thats a couple now for him, congrats dude, keep up the good work

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• jonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408

  January 2010

  Cool didn't Even notice that. Must be because of the huge update I put out last week.

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• jonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408

  January 2010

  Never mind, I read this as v is or vortex . ThiS is new. Very cool. Now if they would only approve the update that's been waiting for review since Friday

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• Wurdindustries Member Posts: 18

  January 2010

  Congratulations! I saw that this morning!
• Eastbound Member, BASIC Posts: 1,074

  January 2010

  Congrats man! That's really cool to have it once, much less a repeat!
  
  And yeah, I've had an update in review since I wanna say Thursday? The review periods took a plunge again.
• rebump Member Posts: 1,058

  January 2010

  Percentages, precentages! What's the boost?
• butterbean Member Posts: 4,315

  January 2010

  Great job Mulcahy! You're on a roll, and with getting featured!
  
  I think this is one of your best icons yet, I love it
• JoshKahane Member Posts: 470

  January 2010

  Thats great Mulcahy! You seem to be proving yourself as a popular developer to Apple. They put you there for a reason. If the apps get chosen randomly then its beside the point, your are doing great still. Keep it up.
• jonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408

  January 2010

  Yea I have no idea why they end up in his section. I'm not complaining though. Maybe it's my art style
  
  sales do see an increase, nothing major, not enough to quit my day job. But I've easily made back my investment a few times,

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• butterbean Member Posts: 4,315

  January 2010

  Let us know how your sales do with being featured
• jonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408

  January 2010

  Looks like I'm also featured under the 'What's Hot' section in iTunes itself (not on the iPhone). I think those two sections are linked.
  
  We'll see where sales head, it's always a mystery how these things work.
  
  I just want my 4 updates 'waiting for review' since friday to get picked up! I don't want to go back to the 14 day wait time.

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• butterbean Member Posts: 4,315

  January 2010

  I know! I can't believe the wait times for updates, we were spoiled for a short period but now it's back to reality again!!
  
  You're featured on the iphone too! Go under featured, new games, and there's an icon on the top right that says hot new games, click on that and you should see your game there too!
• Eastbound Member, BASIC Posts: 1,074

  January 2010

  I think it might have to do with the iTablet announcement or whatever tomorrow. Seems like to big of a slowdown to not be something intentional.
• jonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408

  January 2010

  Just saw that F is for Falling is number 86 in the us paid arcade games section, number 99 in Canada!

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• jonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408

  January 2010

  And number 617 paid app overall!

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• stanimation Member Posts: 406

  January 2010

  Thats awesome!! Congratulations! How do you do it?! How does this affect your sales? If you dont mind me asking?
• JoshKahane Member Posts: 470

  January 2010

  This is really brilliant Mulcahy! Well done yet again!
  
  Just on an other note, out of interest as your game is a high score based falling game. Have you just made a very very very long scene. So it has a huge width and manually put item in all the way along it? Or is there some kind of way of automating this or making it random? You must have gone through a lot of effort if manually (an any other way of course).
  
  Of course at some point, if someone is incredible at this game they are eventually going to reach the end of the scene and go of screen. How did you go about avoiding this? Just make it ultra long or another method?
  
  Appreciate any info, thanks.
• jonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408

  January 2010

  Just doing more looking, it's 297 or so in games overall in the us
  
  sales have been good, well see what happens over time.
  
  It's a small scene, everything is randomly generated. If someone ever did fall far enough, thy would hit ground. But it's next to impossible

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• JoshKahane Member Posts: 470

  January 2010

  Wow, 297, and only an hour ago you were 617th! That fantastic, I hope you do really well, things are looking good for you thus far.
  
  About the random generation thats interesting, if you could give a small insight into it I would be really interested. Or if anyone for that mater knows how it would work, I would be fascinated as I did begin work on a similar project about 2 months ago, but stopped as making a drastically huge scene wasn't really practical.
• jonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408

  January 2010

  297 and 617 are to different rankings I wish it increased that quick. 297 is games only, 617 was apps overall
  
  I just had the hazards spawn randomly across the bottom an move automatically. The clouds just loop around, when they hit a certain point the graphic moves back to the becoming. It took some work, but it's pretty seemless.

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• JoshKahane Member Posts: 470

  January 2010

  Ok thanks Mulcahy thats really interesting, I shall give it a shot. Good luck with sales, haha, if only that was the same figure, I thought that was a pretty quick rise for one hour!
• StormyStudio United KingdomMember Posts: 3,989

  January 2010

  Congrats Mulcahy, sounds like it could be the next Doodle Jump.... :-)
  
  Just bought it and gonna take a look, like the sound of the challenge that potentially now matter how hard you could actually hit the ground...
  
  well done....I so need to start working more on my second app...
• StormyStudio United KingdomMember Posts: 3,989

  January 2010

  588 feet is my record. Damn tricky game. Very cool though, look forward to trying it when the bug fixes mentioned get implemented. Is there a way to make it so it gets harder the further you fall as currently it is sometimes impossible to survive as objects cover the whole width of the screen, which makes it tricky no matter how awesome i might be at sky diving.
  
  Very cool though and another keeper for my page of gamesalad made apps on my phone.
• jonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408

  January 2010

  Version 1.1 was just approved, you should see updates tonight. For 1.2 I am working on scaling difficulty, and only having 1 big hazard at once
  
  the current leader fell over 2000 feet!

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• jonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408

  January 2010

  Hi everyone,
  
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  enjoy

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• urhungry Member Posts: 112

  January 2010

  i used ALE7799H7MRN. its really quite enjoyable, can i suggest that you add a slider option to move too? i find the accelerometer kind of hard to control.
• jonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408

  January 2010

  1.2 is going to have touch controls as well, you can touch the left or right side to move your guy.

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• urhungry Member Posts: 112

  January 2010

  ok, great. that should help sales, as i am reluctant to buy accelerometer games.
• butterbean Member Posts: 4,315

  January 2010

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  Thanks! I'm going to review it now!
• scitunes Member, Sous Chef Posts: 4,047

  January 2010

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  Thanks!