[GAME]Snowball Run - Paid Software Announcement and Discussion

I am happy to release my first 3d game, and also my first paid game. It has been in development for a little bit now and I am hoping to get some feedback on the game. Let me know what you think.
Description:
How far can you make it in "Snowball Run", the winter themed endless running game. Dodge and jump over countless crates to make it as far as possible and beat your previous scores.
Link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gregfroning.snowballroll
Any feedback would be great!
Thanks

bobhoil said:
Description:
How far can you make it in "Snowball Run", the winter themed endless running game. Dodge and jump over countless crates to make it as far as possible and beat your previous scores.
Any feedback would be great!
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Hay!
I'm gonna say you something you'll not like)
It will be really great to see free version to try out physics and to know how it feels.
Screenshots are OK, but there is no video or other way to find out how it works.
Sorry man, I know you was expecting something different, but this is the best thing I can tell you.

I think you need to let more people play your game instead get some paid at your first try..

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That's what she said app

So this is an app a buddy of mine requested. I in no shape or form own rights to The Office or any of its characters. This is strictly a "for the heck of it" application. I took pictures of the characters and attached their own versions of "That's what she said." from a few clips from the show.
I didn't go through the little details yet. It is my first "real" app for windows mobile. I always used palm os devices. Let me know what you think. There is a vga and qvga version. I've tested both the vga and qvga in the appropriate emulators, but only tested the vga on the touch pro. Please check the qvga version if any of you have the matching device. Thanks everyone, and enjoy!
http://rapidshare.com/files/202204656/officesaid_cabs.rar
As always, I am not responsible for your phone spontaneously lighting on fire or any other random software and hardware failures.
Haha not sure if this app really serves any useful purpose but I love it.
I find myself saying that's what she said at least once a day anymore.
OMG, cool app man. That's what she said!
thank you so much this is the app i never new i always wanted
tryin it out now
one of my professors says thats what she said daily and loves the office so im gonna try to score some points tomorrow
Thanks everyone for giving it a try. I'm going to leave it posted. Tell your friends to stop by and give it a try. Especially if they have a qvga device. I don't have one, so I can't test it on hardware, only the emulator. Thank you again.
could you make it so michael says more than one? i know he has like 50 or somethin
i especially like the one where he gets roasted and he pulls a thats what HE said on oscar
lbhocky19 said:
could you make it so michael says more than one? i know he has like 50 or somethin
i especially like the one where he gets roasted and he pulls a thats what HE said on oscar
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+1
It would be awesome if there were more for each character and it played them randomly.
Anyways, soundboards are always awesome... thanks for taking the time to make and post.
Yeah, thats how the iphone app works, it switches up the TWSS!
Ok, by request, I will be putting it in where each character has numerous at random That's what she said(twss). I have the rest of the week off, maybe I will set it up so it's a tick box option or something like that. Thanks for the suggestion and the interest.
Sorry everyone. I got food poisoning Thursday morning. I have been out of commission since then. It was crazy, hospital visit and IV and such. Anyways, I will be working on the suggestions over the weekend. Thanks for all the support.
jjwoznia said:
Sorry everyone. I got food poisoning Thursday morning. I have been out of commission since then. It was crazy, hospital visit and IV and such. Anyways, I will be working on the suggestions over the weekend. Thanks for all the support.
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Yowsers that sucks, hope ya feel better, happy coding
make sure your well mate ,that more inportant than the code but awesome program its always being used by me and my mates

Want Words With Friends on Android? Try WordFeud!

I just saw this game on another site and decided to give it a try since it's free. I've been want Words With Friends or a decent clone for awhile. Wordwise Pro just doesn't fit the bill. So far WordFeud is great given it's really new.
http://wordfeud.com/
PS: I'm not getting paid to promote this. It's just really fun and I'd though I'd share.
Add me if you want to play. My ID is Snapshotx
Awesome! I have been looking for something like this. Thanks so much. Just started playing you, username is Foobu.
Thanks for the recommendation! I have been missing "Words with Friends"
Anyone can add me for a game as well. My ID is dweebs0r.
wioooow this is the most exciting day I have ever had work my captivate, please people just uninstall word wize loool, that's is it,this is actually better than words with friends, all it needs is sounds, and an option to pay for a add free version, if they make this a cross platform words with friends is going to be yesterdays news
The reason I want words with friends is so that I can play with my fiancee on her iPhone.
tell get to get a android then you can be reunited with word feud again lol
Having alot of problems staying connected
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
its been working flawless for me and all my friends maybe its your network or something
my mistake, yes it isn't working at all now, even there website is down, seams like words with friends bought them out lol
Back up and working
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
Been playing it with my coworker since this morning, lol... Btw, is there a way to resign even if it's not your turn yet?
yes, this is MUCH better than WordWize - almost exactly like WWF.... if anyone is up for a game, feel free to invite me: Aftashok is the name.
man I used to LOVE words with friends on my iPhone. Thanks so much for sharing this!!!
If anyone wants to play just add: smeltn
i wish the game would incorporate a ratings system and win/loss records..... the competitive me wishes for such things.
Wish there was at least a paid version to get rid of ads, hopefully that will come cause i dont mind paying a dollar to support the developer on this, pretty good so far and the people over at WWF probably wont release anything for a while. Thought that games that were won/lost didnt go away but apparently they do after 2 days, needs to be sooner than that or user removable.
Name: hollaholla
Sweet!
Mine is TexUS.
It'd be nice if WWF would show up on here though so I can play with iPhone people.
This game uses a lot of data, like 1MB in 1 Minute.
Is there anyway to stop it from using data when you're not in a WiFi area?
thanks for the heads up...
awesome game...
PS: not to thread-jack, but has anyone found a good boggle clone out there... with randomly oriented letters like the real game?
pietro_spina said:
thanks for the heads up...
awesome game...
PS: not to thread-jack, but has anyone found a good boggle clone out there... with randomly oriented letters like the real game?
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check out wordup. it's a "boggle-like" game.
on topic, word feud is fun. checking out how much batt. it takes with the push notification and multiple games. add me for games: funthony.
I gave this a try a few weeks ago, after using WordWise for 2 months...and I wasn't a big fan. The lack of a paid version, updates, and stat tracking was kind of a deal breaker.
WordWise was admittedly spartan when it first came out...but the developer updates the app fairly regularly, so I think I'mma stick with that one...until it gets abandoned or WordFeud updates. Heh.

[Q] Simple but very addictive games (thoughts)

Okay xda, need your help here. Situation is this. For an IT assignment, we are required to develop a game that is simple but addictive. No thanks to my sad imagination, I have no clue as to what to make. This is where you come in. Just post up what you think is a simple but addictive game. Here's the catch, it needs to be simple enough to complete in roughly 4-5 weeks worth of lessons, relatively trouble free to code in Pascal (sad I know, not my language of choice), and it has to be something that suits males and females aged 14-15. To aid in what I'm looking for, the simplicity of maybe Space Invader, Brick Breaker or maybe even something like Doodle Jump. Just post up what you think might be a fun game to play that's addictive. Love to see what people think.
formula one game where u can switch lanes and the others commin rite at ya ... maybe too simple but u can always spice it up with powerups , score and fuel consumption
souljaboy said:
formula one game where u can switch lanes and the others commin rite at ya ... maybe too simple but u can always spice it up with powerups , score and fuel consumption
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WOW quick reply! Ok that's going on a list of possibilities. Much better than what I though of! lol
ouch, pascal!
not having done serious coding in it (only when at college we had maybe 1 hour on it - go figure)
racing idea is a good one, not sure how easy it would be, but with the option to have different vehicles/colours could be an option (just to expand on souljaboy)
but in my opinion - can never go wrong with tower defence!
As its for 14-15 yr olds, do it with STIs and condoms as the towers
yeah maybe a doodle jump like game or there this game i realy like where theres a round track and you click (touch screen) and it will go left slightly and the car is constantly getting faster and faster and you have to see how far you can get without touching the sides or a fly the copter like game
how about something like this (look at the gameplay)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0FOe3I7ZbE&feature=related
sheennick123456 said:
how about something like this (look at the gameplay)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0FOe3I7ZbE&feature=related
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Thats a great game
sheennick123456 said:
how about something like this (look at the gameplay)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0FOe3I7ZbE&feature=related
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i think that would need a physics engine
or maybe a online racing game!!
ayilm1 said:
Okay xda, need your help here. Situation is this. For an IT assignment, we are required to develop a game that is simple but addictive. No thanks to my sad imagination, I have no clue as to what to make. This is where you come in. Just post up what you think is a simple but addictive game. Here's the catch, it needs to be simple enough to complete in roughly 4-5 weeks worth of lessons, relatively trouble free to code in Pascal (sad I know, not my language of choice), and it has to be something that suits males and females aged 14-15. To aid in what I'm looking for, the simplicity of maybe Space Invader, Brick Breaker or maybe even something like Doodle Jump. Just post up what you think might be a fun game to play that's addictive. Love to see what people think.
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Building bricks like legos?
Zd0s said:
or maybe a online racing game!!
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that would need an internet procotol and all ... im fairly sure it would be a pita in pascal if even possible
Thanks for all the replies. There are some really good ideas coming through here. I just need to keep in mind that this has to be quite simple so physics engines are probably out of the question. Let alone not having access to them. If it helps, I'm looking for something that you would play in class when you are extremely bored and will quickly catch a trend. There are some really good suggestions. Thanks a lot.
I just thought of one that might be okay. What do you guys think about the world's most addictive game on the iphone? The one that has the red cube in the middle and you have to dodge the blue cubes that bounce off the walls.
haha that is Hard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb67ADh4VBA&feature=related
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb67ADh4VBA&feature=related
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Problem is that one is 3D. Delphi can't work with 3D because of how crappy it is. haha. I think I may do that box one I was talking about earlier.
something like this?

Great new Android game!

There's a great new Android game in the market called Hungry MonstR. It's a very well put together game with a lot of replayablity and it has a level of polish similar to Angry Birds.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.blowfishstudios.games.hungrymonstr
looks fun, but it also looks like it is better played on a tablet.
Hi there. I'm one of the developers of Hungry MonstR.
Just wanted to let you know the game has been modified to work best with both phones and tablets. The Monsters are scaled up for the smaller devices so they are easier to grab.
Most game testing was done on Nexus One and iPhone 3GS and we think the game is enjoyable on all capable devices. It's easiest to play with 2 thumbs on the phone compared to the tablet.
Hope you enjoy the game!
Cheers,
Blowfish Studios.
THanks for the heads up, I'll download it later today before work.
Now um I'm just wondering if I can meet Nichole
This thread may be deleted because it's not a free app
Just a heads up.
running_the_dream said:
This thread may be deleted because it's not a free app
Just a heads up.
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Not sure why it would, this isn't a "free apps" only section.
I'll be purchasing it later to try it out, thanks dev.
running_the_dream said:
This thread may be deleted because it's not a free app
Just a heads up.
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Whoa there, no pirating is going on here.
It's a topic on an app for android, with a valid market link, and a simple discussion.
It's even posted in the right section.
Edit: lol
Lol... I don't see anything wrong with this thread...
Anyways, I will definitly check into it pretty soon. Is there a lite/ad version for phones or do we just gotta like what we see in the video? Either way, I love games with polish that run nice and smoothly, and it looks good... so I'm sure I'll be trying it.
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This thread may be deleted because it's not a free app
Just a heads up.
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I thought I read that on here. My bad.
Looks like some of us at Blowfish Studios might be in LA this year for E3 Expo
No plans at the moment for a lite/ad version as we feel its very cheap as it is. Plus we have had very limited success with ads on the iOS platform. Still we understand that the Android platform may be different and we will keep our eyes on the market.
One thing we will do is release a free app that determines if a persons device is capable of running our games. At the moment we are using hardware filtering, but I believe that is cutting out some devices which could actually work with the games.
Cheers

[game] Armed! - Starcraft style

I do not know if this has been posted before, but Armed has been released about a week ago. I've been playing it like crazy ever since. Has multiplayer, turn based, etc. CPU AI is pretty hard too.
Check it out here.
http://www.armedgame.com/
wow
looks very nice, im gonna test it out. thank you!
xontec
it's imazing
A lot of reviews say it crashes on startup!
be sure to trial it, if possible, before you waste $4.00USD lol.
erebusares said:
A lot of reviews say it crashes on startup!
be sure to trial it, if possible, before you waste $4.00USD lol.
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It still has a few bugs which may result in crashes every now and then. But it's very stable most of the time. At least for me. Its developers are working hard on some updates that address the bugs/crashes and add new features and maps. I for one don't regret spending 4 bucks for this - in my opinion - awesome game.
I haven't played/test it. I mostly just did some research of reviews. Seeing a good many people say it crashes during start up. They can't play the game. So, just a friendly advisory!
Try powering off your phone. It also has issues for region not being in English/US. So if that happens change your region I think. Otherwise, just wait for the fix.
I love the game, and $4 is nothing for this.
Hi guys.
I'm one of the developers of ARMED!
We're first time smartphone developers... we did a little Java phone development in like 2004, but most of our experience is in PC and console games. Try as we might we had some crash bugs... most of them related to non-US regions.
We spent alot of time before release testing the stability of gameplay... we ran thru hundreds of thousands of automated games driven by special stress test AI, but we made some rookie mistakes in other areas... like not testing the game in different locales.
It also doesn't help that it wasn't till yesterday that we got our first stack traces from Microsoft.... that was almost 2 weeks since our game was up on the marketplace. That's way too slow for the pace of moblie development IMO... we've learned our lesson there are have integrated Bugsense (google it... forum won't let me post links) for the next release.
Anyway the 1.1 release just appeared in the marketplace and it addresses all the bugs we knew of as of a week ago. I'm sure we'll find more, but at least the locale and a couple of dumb crash bugs were squashed and should make it playable for everyone.
Thanks for trying ARMED!
i like the graphics and control. Keep up the godo work.
Are the price depends on our country that we are residing or it's in standard USD.I mean for all the apps in the markrtplace.
Question to the developer:
I am an indie developer with Full-time job, and have my own game on Marketplace as well. How do you promote your game, and do you earn something for all hard work you put into the game ? As I see it right now, it would be really hard to make a living from it.
My game is free (with ads) and recently I added non-ads version of the game for people to donate something, or to disable ads.
What I found out is that from ads you earn ~0
Btw. As I said before your game is really an Eye candy
@Ttblondey
The developer has control over pricing in each region individually if they want to set them.
In our case we set the price for the US region and let it automatically set the equivalent price in all other regions.
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dk5055 said:
As I see it right now, it would be really hard to make a living from it.
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I sort of agree... it depends on your app/game. Most of what i see on the marketplace are things one could build in a couple of hours or clones of other apps/games. It is hard to rally users behind you if you don't have a unique and high quality product.
At the current sales/ad rate we could not support our entire company (6 people) with ARMED! sales on WP7 alone. We could support one employee... but not 6.
To me this is a victory and shows the potential of WP7 in the future considering that its only 1%-2% of the smartphone market. With the push MS plans to make over the next few months i expect our revenue to at least double if we can keep the attention of the audience with updates and improvements.
That all said... we are looking at ports to other platforms to maximize revenue from the ARMED! brand and core tech. We're not ready to disclose what platforms those are yet... but it won't be Android.
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What I found out is that from ads you earn ~0
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We're struggling with our ads as well. It is all new territory for us, so i'm giving it some time before i pass judgement.
Our 1.0 release was missing ID_CAP_WEBBROWSERCOMPONENT which seems caused the ad network to not show near as many ads as it could. Still even after fixing this in 1.1 on my personal phone i still don't see ads at times which is really confusing to me. Still i see ad revenue improving, but its barely enough to by coffee for the office.
There is money to be made with ads... people are doing it now. Also WP7 often has a higher revenue on the same amount of impressions... but you have to get impressions.
If your game/app is not attracting users then you won't make money with ads. You need to be seeing 50K to 100K impressions per-day to really support yourself with ads alone. Most developers do this by shipping several high quality apps... not just a single one.
Looks very nice!
better then most of the xbox live games. you, sir, are a hero!
Great game, amazing graphics
I already posted a short review of the game to support you guys:
http://pockethacks.com/armed-a-sci-fi-turn-based-multiplayer-strategy-game-for-windows-phone-7/
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better then most of the xbox live games. you, sir, are a hero!
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Thanks xhirschix.
We're trying hard here to build ARMED! into a fantastic game. It really does help our motivation when people praise and especially buy the game.
Win_XP said:
Great game, amazing graphics
I already posted a short review of the game to support you guys:
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We can use all the promotion we can get! Thanks Win_XP!
its nice and amazing
V1.1 work great , wish more and more item will join feture version.
I did the try on this I like this gamethat said I didn't have any issues with it at all. and when I do a try to use if I like it I'll buy it if not I remove it this game has been bought! I had a ball playing this. and didn't get bored at all with it. though It drove me nuts at times...you know when you don't play it well... over all the game is nice and nice work done on it by the Dev team....it's well worth the money....
Looks really sweet. You should consider porting it to tablet enabled Windows 8 computers seeing as the beta goes live in Feb. Then you would be the first indie to have head to head between phone and tablet

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