After writing down many ideas and after programed my first simple 2D game engine I met a
company from Singapur and decided to choose one idea compatible for children as target. Its maybe have synergy effects working or releasing in
cooperation with this company I thought, and I maybe not have to take care
about everything, for example the publishing part. But this sweet game I called
EXTRA FLUFFY getting bigger and bigger and shows potential to make it
interesting for advanced gamers too, and after the other company gets lost in
space I decided to complete this project myself. Anyway the time comes I want
to do everything my own, so why not already start like that. It runs on iPad and support iPad4 with retina display.
The first level - screenshot
The basic idea
This game
was planed like a old slot machine, filled with a lot of sweet and fluffy pets.
They floating around and you have to push them into a slot shown as sparkling
sun. The main feature is not just the sweet creatures and the design, its more
about the various game elements gets used building up the levels. For
example some creatures have spikes and destroy others by colliding them,
some are very heavy, some are light like a feather and moves very quick if
pushed, there are week units disappears if clicked to close etc. And there´s a
lot of different environmental game elements, and different kind of gameplay modes including VS battle in split screen and so on.
Development progress
It runs
stable, have no known bugs, the engine is complete and 45 of 72 levels are finished
and playable. Demos are available via Testflight App. So please just write me
and become a game tester if you like to play something absolutely new. Just
mail at prometheus@freakwave.de. The other Levels can be added in
between 5-45 minutes each, depending on how much new game elements have to be
designed for them. The biggest parts in development staying out are only a bigger testing
phase, and the verification and release process with apple. Only about this
last point I have no experience and don’t know how quick and plain it works.
About the new levels I already have many ideas, so I going to add more 2 player
maps, more ambitious levels where you can spend some more time to find out how
to solve it and finally I want to persiflage some old retro game elements. Oh and by the way, at some sound variations i have to work too ^^
Simple instructions
Thers no
complex instruction you have to read, you just start and sometimes like at the
beginning you get a small tip shown direct inside the level. For example how to
push a creature. The rest you find out 90% just during playing it and 10% shown
in form of some small tips written in English. Just take a look, I add a video
right here, from the startup, choosing the level too the first rounds.
Thoughts about the right price
First I
thought about releasing it for free, as a lite version, than later bring the
full version to the market. But I want to show more and more of the potential
already in the first version, and this getting so complex it makes no big sense
to follow my first plan. Now I already add most cool stuff and another 36 levels
after the first 36 tutorial levels. My plan is to offer it for free
for the first maybe around 1000 pieces as special advertisement offer and then
setup the price to a fair value. So if you want to remember one thing, you
should try to get this game as soon after its in the appstore as possible, and you get it for nothing.
Anyway you
can already play it for free if you register via mail at Prometheus@freakwave.de as test player. Or you stay informed by subscribe this Blog. http://freakwave-games.blogspot.de
Do you like
the video? I rubberneck for some feedback :-)
Cheers,
Rayjunx
