Great game! I'd definitely buy it. Too bad it's not already on the mac app store, I was ready to pull the trigger. Maybe it can be a part of the next Humble Bundle.
Show HN: 6 months ago I quit my job to pursue indie dev. Here is our first game
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Re: Show HN: 6 months ago I quit my job to pursue indie dev. Here is our first game
#242Hey guys, thought I'd throw in my 2-cents as an Independent Games Festival judge, and as press. First of all, your presentation is terrific. Great art and sound. Top notch, feels like it came from a very talented team. With this game on your resume, you've got a great future ahead of yourselves. Now, the bad part: from a gameplay perspective, your game is not unique enough to win out on its own merits in any app stor…
This is sad.
Re: Show HN: 6 months ago I quit my job to pursue indie dev. Here is our first game
#243This is too fucking addictive.
pins app tab
I hope I get some work done today.
Re: Show HN: 6 months ago I quit my job to pursue indie dev. Here is our first game
#244Hey guys, thought I'd throw in my 2-cents as an Independent Games Festival judge, and as press. First of all, your presentation is terrific. Great art and sound. Top notch, feels like it came from a very talented team. With this game on your resume, you've got a great future ahead of yourselves. Now, the bad part: from a gameplay perspective, your game is not unique enough to win out on its own merits in any app stor…
Doing so well on HN will help massively with press. I'll enjoy writing about this on a decent sized app site tomorrow :-)
Re: Show HN: 6 months ago I quit my job to pursue indie dev. Here is our first game
#245Hey guys, thought I'd throw in my 2-cents as an Independent Games Festival judge, and as press. First of all, your presentation is terrific. Great art and sound. Top notch, feels like it came from a very talented team. With this game on your resume, you've got a great future ahead of yourselves. Now, the bad part: from a gameplay perspective, your game is not unique enough to win out on its own merits in any app stor…
Doing so well on HN will help massively with press. I'll enjoy writing about this on a decent sized app site tomorrow :-)
I was thinking this! I hope to god they are able to succeed without resorting to the awful things I suggested. It'd be awesome to see this succeed based on the HN community.
Re: Show HN: 6 months ago I quit my job to pursue indie dev. Here is our first game
#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just wanted to say I appreciate your perspective and advice here, we've been spending some time in the office talking about your post and the discussion that has emerged from it.
I also want to echo this sentiment. It's sad how many people here have responded with disgust and have wished bad things upon you. I come to HN to read discussions of a higher level, and instead of proposing level-headed solutions as to how to improve the app-store, you are treated with insults, and that's really sad. As a developer you are already at the total mercy of these app stores. That doesn't seem to be a pro…
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Re: Show HN: 6 months ago I quit my job to pursue indie dev. Here is our first game
#247Your website could use a tweak or two. I would change some of the text to reflect the fact that adrift is just a demo online and the iOS version is much longer.
+ the website javascript to load the next level or refresh the current level doesn't work on my computer(aurora firefox on osx)
+ the video doesn't work that well. (volume controls don't work, the play button doesn't work, got the video to play by clicking the video background)
overall it looks like a fun game but I am curious how you are going to make some money with this if it's free.
Re: Show HN: 6 months ago I quit my job to pursue indie dev. Here is our first game
#248Hey guys, thought I'd throw in my 2-cents as an Independent Games Festival judge, and as press. First of all, your presentation is terrific. Great art and sound. Top notch, feels like it came from a very talented team. With this game on your resume, you've got a great future ahead of yourselves. Now, the bad part: from a gameplay perspective, your game is not unique enough to win out on its own merits in any app stor…
Doing so well on HN will help massively with press. I'll enjoy writing about this on a decent sized app site tomorrow :-)
thank you, we appreciate any press we can get out of this, i imagine most blogs are buried in spam from the hundreds of apps that are released daily, so I'm not expecting much from the sites we've already emailed
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
A less sleazy way to do this is to offer players something ("unlock the secret panda level") in return for giving you a five star review. You can't verify that they actually do, but if you give them the item and then send them to the app store, some of them will. Then, set this up as a timed promotion along with a push notification so you can get a bunch of players to hopefully respond at the same day. It's not as ef…
I would assume that's against the iOS store TOS, you can ask them for a review but you can't ask for a five star review.
Maybe, but there's plenty of apps that flat out ask for that.
Here's a particularly shameless example: http://imgur.com/8UGRals
But yeah, you'd probably get better results if you're like "hey, here's this free thing, want it?" (tap YES) "Here you go!" ... "Please go rate us thanks it really helps" because of people's sense of reciprocity.
In any case, my point is to use your fans and your customers to boost your rank, rather than shady services and botnets.
Re: Show HN: 6 months ago I quit my job to pursue indie dev. Here is our first game
#250Hey guys, thought I'd throw in my 2-cents as an Independent Games Festival judge, and as press. First of all, your presentation is terrific. Great art and sound. Top notch, feels like it came from a very talented team. With this game on your resume, you've got a great future ahead of yourselves. Now, the bad part: from a gameplay perspective, your game is not unique enough to win out on its own merits in any app stor…
Reading this made me a little sad. My remedy was to immediately go give it an honest 5-star rating and real review. I need to go do this for a lot more apps I love.
Do this. It really means a lot to an app developer. I wish I could send a thank you email to everyone who writes a review for my apps. Even the bad ones. Though I'd rather they email me for support first in case it's something I can help with, at least a bad review points out a problem and I can do something about it and fix it in the next release.