I am proud to announce that Parasite is now available on Steam :

http://store.steampowered.com/app/434270

Dear All,

I am delighted to announce Parasite has been Greenlit and will be available on the Steam Store in the near future (release date to be confirmed)

Thanks to all the followers for supporting this project !

Ah great, my thought exactly ! This blog post I hadn't seen seems to confirm my previous hunch Thanks for the contribution.

Bump -

Not that I really care for a fix, but I'm wondering if anyone had a chance to confirm what's actually going wrong with this

Hi all -

First time I'm experimenting with mobile apps, ads, etc. and I decided to make a small game for Android.

So far it went quite well, and I have been able to get the game deployed to my phone (Android 5+, Cordova with or without Crosswalk via XDK) ; I also got AdMob and Google Play identification working quickly.

But now I'm hitting a problem with the Googe Play leaderboard ; I am able to submit scores (the "on score submit success" trigger does fire) but the leaderboard remains empty (request hi-scores > GooglePlay.HiScoreTotalCount = 0).

I found a few related discussions (e.g. ) and tried a few things, like disabling the score tampering security, but nothing helped.

I think all my authorisations are correct, I can log into Google Play through my browser or phone, but still can't get the leaderboard to update Additionally it's a bit hard to submit a .capx for review, as this kind of feature only works if everything else is set up on the Google accounts...

At this stage I'm not too sure how to approach this... Surely I must be missing something ; any gut-feel or suggestion ?

Thanks !

"favour using a few long event sheets over lots of mini ones."

I don't think that's the conclusion, though - as it has already been said :

"the number of event sheets is irrelevant" [in terms of performance]

so organise your events as you see fit, and prefer maintainability wherever possible. I personally prefer to work with lots of event sheets, 1 per gameplay entity or system (OOP-style). It also means that "searching" is trivial, as you always know where each bit of logic is. My latest finished platformer as ~2500 events, without any logic duplication, all spread across ~75 event sheets

No solid tutorial ? It's pretty much exactly the same as before and as explained in the C2 documentations

In XDK, use HTML5+Cordova and add the Featured Plugin/AdMob CLI4 (com.cranberrygame.phonegap.plugin.ad.admob)

Done. Tested it myself this afternoon for the first time, 'worked immediately.

Parasite articles !

Short articles about Parasite have started to appear on various websites :

Indie Game Magazine

http://indiegamemag.com/parasite-seekin ... bit-genre/

Indie Retro News

http://www.indieretronews.com/2015/11/p ... tyled.html

Alpha Beta Gamer

http://www.alphabetagamer.com/parasite-alpha-demo/

Thanks for taking the time to try the demo !

Sorry you didn't like the music ; the full games features multiple sound tracks and switches between them every time the players completes one of the station modules, so every ~5-10mn depending on progress speed. You may like some of the other tracks better, though they're all in the same "theme".

As for the controller, some browsers require a button to be pressed before gamepad support & focus is fully enabled for the page ; menu navigation is supported with a gamepad.

Not a big news to C2 users, but just a little update to announce the game will be available on Linux and OSX as well.

Further validation is still required to guarantee everything behaves as expected on Linux and OSX, but preliminary tests are very encouraging. Therefore, I am adding these two release platforms, so that non-Windows users can enjoy being Parasites too !

Thank you very much for your feedback and for taking the time to try the demo !

Keyboard controls are always tricky, no default settings suit everybody :/ Hopefully the possibility to remap all the keys solves the problem easily

As for using health as a resource to morph shape, it is a core mechanics of the game ; very places require a specific morph, so most of the time changing shape is a risk management choice for the player : sacrifice health, and possibly avoid traps / make certain areas easier. It's also to make the routing a bit less trivial, for speedrun-oriented players. Therefore I believe it's quite important to teach that mechanic very early in the game, otherwise it would feel inconsistent.

First time I'm putting something out there for real, so... we'll see I can only hope it will go as smoothly as you say !