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Re: Show HN: Monster Coloring Book, my first App just launched. What do you think?

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Post by liedra » Mon, Aug 01, 2011, 11:06 PM UTC

zarprey wrote: post #28

liedra wrote: post #19

Really fun! I quite enjoyed going back to my childhood and colouring in :D Only one small problem - the app regularly crashed after attempting to "buy" patterns. eta: it was patterns, not stickers.

Sorry for the crashes - any chance you could let me know what device you are using it on?

Oh, sorry for delay in response, but original iPad. It was the full version too.

Re: Show HN: Monster Coloring Book, my first App just launched. What do you think?

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Post by jshen » Tue, Aug 02, 2011, 2:21 PM UTC

I'm not sure who your intended audience is, but the UI is very hard to use for little kids. You have lots of text based UI elements, and they have to click to a page to change the brush, then click on 'color' to go back to their drawing, etc. You pop up text dialogs asking them if they want to save their drawing before they can change monsters, and there is some kind of 'balance' which I have figured out yet.

Maybe your intended audience isn't little kids, but if it is you should make the UI simpler and not require reading skills.

Re: Show HN: Monster Coloring Book, my first App just launched. What do you think?

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Post by crgt » Thu, Aug 04, 2011, 10:36 PM UTC

crgt wrote: post #43

ForrestN wrote: post #41

The site design at least is very beautiful, congratulations! I especially like all of the extra content you've added, the store, the "freebies", etc. My only idea to make it even better would be eventually writing some kind of subtle animation into the monster, or alternating the monster for different sections of the site. To pay HN back for all the feedback and buzz, consider writing up a blog post about the process…

Great idea!

This should end up as a good case study - we just got featured on the front page of the App Store. Thanks again to HN for the support. Will let you know how things go from here..