grandbrinus's Forum Posts

  • Hello everyone !

    I'm sorry, but i didn't search anything about this subject, but i'm in front this problem now, so i post it :

    Could we have icons on tabs for knowing which one is a Layout and the other one is an Event sheet please ?

    Personally, I call the both with the same name when the Event sheet is specific to a Layout, and sometimes it's hard to find the good one with one click, especially when I make interactive tutorials.

    I think it's not a big modification, for this small request

    Have a nice day !

  • You want everyone happy ? Let them choosing every key for every actions in a menu.

    So you will be compatible with every country, with every player's habits.

    Hint : use "KeyCode"

    You see, I always question me about "how to help the player to learn the game's mechanics if he doesn't read the instructions ?". It's why I have chosen contextual texts for interactions. You can see that in my last game Blinded. A game has to be intuitive and I think it's one of the best solutions. All in my game is not well done about this question, but I will do a sequel for correcting all that I don't like ^^

    Realistic lighting ? What a hard but interesting project !

  • You have to get infos about how much guys like you are paid in Brazil, and you have to imagine a ratio between your level and your notoriety. With that, you will have a price of how much cost your dev / hour.

    Multiply this by the time you have spend on your app, and it will give you the human cost of it.

  • It's a very good game !

    There is great animations !

    But there is some things that I don't understand.

    Why do the tutorial level is called "Training" ? I though it was for training my shooting skills, with different waves of enemies...

    And in your description, all commands are not shown (SHIFT for Walking, the Double Jump).

    Maybe you should do the tutorial in the first level.

    And IMO, Up for Jump, Double Jump and Interact is not a good choice. You should use an other key for Interact, shown over every object that you can use.

    After the technical points, we can talk about the game. I think it's cool, i enjoyed it (i've done the 2 first levels) , but I think it can be more intense. For now, I only kill enemies one by one. Make some waves, with 4-5 enemies of different types. I saw that you have already tried that, But there is no lock on theses waves, so if you stop running for exploring the level, the wave is broken.

    Nevertheless, the music is good, graphically it's good, the objective of making a retro game is done.

    Continue to work on your game !

  • It depend on a lot of things.

    First, count everything that you need to develop your app (SDK, employees, suppliers, the time you have spend etc...), using the specifications.

    It will give you an amout. After that you have to make a plan : how much apps do you expect to sell ? how much benefits do you want ?

    With theses answers, you can calculate the price of your app :

    Example : you found $ 750 at the first step. You expect to sell the app to 100 people, and you want $ 250 of benefits. So you need to win $ 1000 with this app, with 100 potential buyers : the price is 1000 / 100 = $ 10. Of course, if 110 people buy the app, it's better, and the question of how much people can buy your app is the most important.

    And if you have only one client, you can do the same calculation.

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  • THANKS !

    I'm the 5th winner of the C2 Game Jam 2014 !

    Thanks to Ashley and the Scirra team for making a great software

    Thanks to Newgrounds.com to be an awesome website.

    Thanks to YOU, reader, player, and other developers. Your votes and comments helped me to know what I have to manage for my next games.

    It's very important for me to always know what players think and want about my games. So Thanks a lot ! Continue like that

    I will work on a longer version of Blinded, so stay tuned (on NG and Facebook) !

    A special congratulation to Alisa who is a winner too ! Try her game Bunker Down 2030 !

  • I came for the name, I left for the game.

    There is no challenge, I think it's boring as hell.

    I tested the game on Firefox 30.

    -> there is no "Rainbow ball" but sometimes my timer and my points are changing magically. (or I don't understand what you mean with "Rainbow ball")

    -> there is no difficulty. you only have to click and see your score evolving.

    -> i don't understand why the music is off by default.

    -> when i make it on, after one try, it go off again.

    -> there is no "mute" button for stopping by myself the music during the game

    -> shadows are rotating with balls - for improving that, you should make one sprite with only the shadow, and pinning it on every ball with "Position only" parameter.

    IMO, there is a lack of challenge and stress. You can add some achivements :

    -> clicking only on ___ coloured ball XXX times without touching any other ball

    -> make a "rainbow serie" in clicking every color once

    -> click ____ color and ___ color successively XXX times

    etc...

    and if you don't want to use theses rules as achievements, you can use them for making score bonuses ! So best players are ones who are the best in making good series, like in a shmup game ! Because for now, player is randomly clicking everywhere without knowing what he is doing. And it's why I think your game is boring for now.

    Continue to update your game, i don't have a fixed opinion

  • In fact, you need to read the NG Forum topic about the jam.

    TomFulp gave indications about that (and i saw them 2 days ago)

    You can update your game as you want (if I understand well). There is not really a "deadline" for development. Maybe it's only here for late contestants, you can't add a game after this date for the jam, but that's all.

    And results are only based about the jury experience, not about votes. It was described on the NG topic too.

  • This game is good.

    I read some NG reviews and i'm not agree with the comments about difficulty. People don't want to try, they only want to win. This upsets me a lot.

    IMO, the difficulty is good, not too easy, not too hard.

    The controls are not well shown. OK they are on the title screen, but they shouldn't be in "green style" and at the bottom of the window. This place is for the button "About game", and the place of this box is for "grey style" boxes (as arrows), with the controls explanation in. When I played for the first time, i didn't found them so i thought it was an avoiding game ^^.

    Now, i think you should let the player to understand these controls, and for that, you shouldn't attack him at the first second he starts to play. Wait 3/4 seconds before the first wave. I'm not an expert in shmup but the weapon and powerup number didn't shock me.

    For finishing, i think anyone who chooses "spaceships" for his game about 2030 can't fits the theme. Nevertheless, this game is well made.

  • Hello everyone !

    It's the Jam end !

    Infokub Arcade for this game Frantic Dream is rated 27/31 !

    Ok, it's not the score we could expect of course. The game is weird (but it's what I wanted to do ^^) and some people didn't understand where was the link with the "dream" theme.

    But we are happy to have shared this game, and we will do better for the next jam !

    Thanks to everyone for your vote !

  • — : Maybe no. Time is over and judges are testing games. It's too late. But after the results, maybe you can

  • Oh dear ! i have played it !

    It was pretty fun !

    But you cheat !!! You have too much experience for this type of contest haha ! (yes i have seen your website too)

    And you have a strange reward, do you know what is it ?

    You are frontpaged on the classic portal for this too.

    Congrats to you too !

  • Ow. I didn't see that sorry !

  • The game is frontpaged on Newgrounds.com !

    Thanks to everyone !!!

  • Problem Description

    My Scirra profile don't load.

    Steps to Reproduce Bug

    • Check your profile from a game or a forum post
    • Watch the "Server Error in '/' Application." error

    Observed Result

    An internal server error

    Expected Result

    I wanted to see my profile.