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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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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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.
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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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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
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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
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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.
I didn't create this app, nor do I take credit for having anything to do with it. Just spreading the word about something FREE (and cheap for the full game, for what it is) and IMO pretty bad ass too. I will be maintaining this thread as a player list parallel with the one in the Evo forums, to try to get all us XDA Folks together! So if your just looking for ppl to play with, scroll down about halfway. If you never heard of the game though, read on:
A new game has been released into our lovely market in an open beta stage called "Pocket Legends" (Feel free to search for it on the market itll come up as "Pocket legends beta client 3d mmo") It is a free, fully 3d, Diablo/WoW style MMO that you can play even on 3g! With people all over the world. Included people on their Iphailz. I created an account and logged in and have been pretty addicted to it ever since. Good quality for a phone game, and the fact that its actually real-time multiplayer makes it even more delightful. First game like this for Android I have seen yet, and I figure as many of you are likely nerdy like myself, you will love it.
Game Features:
- Consignment Shoppe
- Play over Edge, 3g, or Wifi
- Avatar Customizations
- Trial Accounts
- Leaderboards
- Quests
- Open World
- Secure Trade
- PvP (Deathmatch and CTF)
- Gifting
- Stashing
- Vendors
- Conversations
- Friends
Should be able to find it with a simple market search, but if for some reason you can't here's a link to the apk:
http://anonym.to/?http://hotfile.com/dl/82197550/469fcad/pocketlegends1.5.apk.html
Another thread of the same idea is in the "Evo" Subforums.... view that here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=841717
USERS FROM THIS (EPIC XDA) FORUM TO ADD TO FRIENDS:
* xhydraulic (Myself)
* Ultimarrow (My Archer)
* xhyperion
* acezfun
* hotheadfight
* Limits
* JirafaBo
* BrutalBrutus
* Feoryss
* Bighuta
* Clockcycle
* Hootyhoo
* PokeAsheep
* Othar
* zxaranthium
Other XDA Friends (From Evo Thread above)
* Klockwork
* AceW/ wickerstick
* Clockcycle/ Neuromonger
* klyteris
* fastfed
* piepounder
* Xtasee
* DirtyShroomz
Add your username in the thread to be added to this OP! In game hit menu, go to the friends tab and add requests for everyone here if you'd like!
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Hey guys, just stopping by because I figured alot of people here would take some interest in it. I didn't create this app, nor do I take credit for having anything to do with it. Just spreading the word about something FREE and IMO pretty bad ass too.
A new game has been released into our lovely market in an open beta stage called "Pocket Legends" (Feel free to search for it on the market itll come up as "Pocket legends beta client 3d mmo") It is a free, fully 3d, Diablo/WoW style MMO that you can play even on 3g! With people all over the world. Included people on their Iphailz. I created an account and logged in and have been pretty addicted to it ever since. Good quality for a phone game, and the fact that its actually real-time multiplayer makes it even more delightful. First game like this for Android I have seen yet, and I figure as many of you are likely nerdy like myself, you will love it.
Anyone here that wants to add me my name in game is XHydraulic - let me know if any of you guys take the plunge add your username (not your acct, who knows what could happen) and we can meet up and play! Woot.
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my username is hotheadfight add me bro
I'm gonna have to try this out. I'm a wow addict
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I been lookin for a new game pocket empires got boring haha need more games like this
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seems nice!
ive been playing this since i saw your post add me =d names acezfun
newby still but i love mmos!
Yeah, just an update, after browsing around some more and finding more about it, it seems the only reason that it's free is because the later levels require you pay for the stages. Either way, still an excellent game even if you don't pay it will offer hours of fun. Also there is an item mall for acquiring certain powerful items easily. Most things seem very cheap though (compared to PC game item malls), and either way I will probably throw a few bucks into it later. I don't mind supporting such a promising project.
Regardless, it's extremely bad ass concept, an excellent multiplayer experience, and something unlike anything we've seen on android to date. I can guarantee everyone that.
Edit: Don't worry about being anoob, nows a great time to start playing, almost everyone on android (besides who participated in the closed beta) is a noob! Got alot of iphoners at a decent level, though! Again, my name is XHydraulic let's get on and have an all-epic experience (lol)
xhyperion is my warrior. Add me. I'm probably gonna spend in thus game once I get to a certain level. That ctf and pvp stuff looks interesting.
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xhyperion is my warrior. Add me. I'm probably gonna spend in thus game once I get to a certain level. That ctf and pvp stuff looks interesting.
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i dont know about you guys but the "add name" doesnt seem to function yet i typed in your and XHyraulic's and hit enter and the name disappears but thats all that happens!! am i doin something wrong or is it just a bug to be fixed please cofirm guys
Man i gotta agree this game is awesomely fun, and a GREAT battery tester
everyone should sign up and play, if gives me the feel of a cartoony flash game, but a decent flash game. and all the mindless fun of a mmo. but WoW it's not.
Yeah, it seems to have a nice concept, enough depth to keep it fun through some high level grinding (once more people are around as well), enough item stats to make things interesting, the first ACTUAL realtime combat MMO out... etc. I'm lvl 7 and still not bored with it yet.
BTW, I dont think the add friend feature was added until recently, but the last 2-3 days there have been like 3 updates. So check your downloads in the market. Add friend wasnt implemented for a good while, but Im pretty sure it does work now. Tonight after the wife goes to bed (About 2-3 hours from the time of this posting) I will get on and attempt to add all of you.
I, too, will spend the in game money once I get to the free level cap. I don't mind, for a game that seems to be worth it. Like I said its not that much anyways, compared to the PC MMos item malls/premium stuffs.
Xhydraulic lvl 7 warrior feel free to add me if adding friends works if not lets keep this thread for when you can!
Edit: Will edit OP Post to include all users interested in adding each other on this game. So if you post your name somewhere in this thread itll be added to OP for users to see right away.
Teknosis is my lv 5 warrior name, Paiebak is my lv 2 enchantress.
Edit: double post.
I dont play that often for now but I can squeeze some time every now and then.
Im switching to my mage. Her name is Limits. I play mostly late night around midnight eastern time. add me if you are looking for someone to run instances.
does agility increase crits with magic based weapons?
I'm an Archer.... JirafaBo
I didn't know you could add people with out bumping into them in the game... But I'm not usually an MMO player. So far having fun with this one though.
d2>all they should make a way to play it on android devices, that would be sweeeet, this game is ok
BrutalBrutus the Warrior! Look me up
I keep getting insufficient storage space error when I try to install... I have 256 mb free on sd card, so what gives?
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Othar and zxaranthium
Don't play much yet...just when I have some time.
I found this app in the market a couple days ago and am loving it.
My s/n is PokeAsheep
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Sorry guys for the double post, but the developer of the popular Bang bang Racing has asked that us members here at XDA help them by posting some positive, honest comments in the Android marketplace. Recently they have been receiving one-star ratings all due to the recent price drop, which to me is really not fair considering that all developers do this and these guys have really been working hard to fix the issues that we had with this game from the first release date. negative comments can really stop people from buying games, which in turn can hurt us as the developer wont focus on a platform that is not selling their games well enough. So in short, please take a minute or two to place some positive feedback as they deserve it. And look for more great games from the developer and updates soon Xoomers!!
Yea the game is great and if it was worth it for you when you first bought it then you shouldn't be mad enough to want to rate down a developer just cause the price dropped. People need to keep in mind that they are reviewing the game as it was when they picked it up and games of this caliber are few and far between; I feel like even if you don't personally love the game, if you can appreciate what the developer is doing then you should rate up and let other people decide if the price is worth it for them. But I'm one of the few people that think that there are mobile games worth MORE than what developers charge for them.
It sucks for peeps that bought the game early at full price (me included) and the controls sucked, now that the controls are fixed and bugs fixed, the price drops half price, I think it should be the other way around.
Just my thoughts.
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Yea the game is great and if it was worth it for you when you first bought it then you shouldn't be mad enough to want to rate down a developer just cause the price dropped. People need to keep in mind that they are reviewing the game as it was when they picked it up and games of this caliber are few and far between; I feel like even if you don't personally love the game, if you can appreciate what the developer is doing then you should rate up and let other people decide if the price is worth it for them. But I'm one of the few people that think that there are mobile games worth MORE than what developers charge for them.
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I agree with you!! We finally have some quality games for Android an people want to complain over price drops!! Name on developer that releases a perfect game n keeps the prices the same??
whoever complains are idiots and have so much time to waste, i bought it regular price and even though i didnt like it at first, it grew on me and i love it now, if only you can get us some controls like death rally that would be great.and yes, most developers drop prices after couple of weeks, for a limited time.
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whoever complains are idiots and have so much time to waste, i bought it regular price and even though i didnt like it at first, it grew on me and i love it now, if only you can get us some controls like death rally that would be great.and yes, most developers drop prices after couple of weeks, for a limited time.
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Good idea on the ccontrols, I will suggest that one. The tighter controls really make the game much more fun, I can now come in at first place most of the time.
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whoever complains are idiots and have so much time to waste, i bought it regular price and even though i didnt like it at first, it grew on me and i love it now, if only you can get us some controls like death rally that would be great.and yes, most developers drop prices after couple of weeks, for a limited time.
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Good idea on the ccontrols, I will suggest that one. The tighter controls really make the game much more fun, I can now come in at first place most of the time.
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It sucks for peeps that bought the game early at full price (me included) and the controls sucked, now that the controls are fixed and bugs fixed, the price drops half price, I think it should be the other way around.
Just my thoughts.
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I agree that it sucks; but decisions are made before the game comes out but the real world situation is constantly changing. They decided after a while to add control options and lower the price to entice new people to purchase the game and for this people who initially bought it are getting upset because they feel they were cheated? it's not like the developer tried to screw anybody and I don't think they deserve a bad rating because of this. If you really have issues then just contact the developer directly; but to rate the game down and therefore tell others who don't bother reading the reviews but just look at the stars the game isn't worth buying is silly. The devs are just lucky that overall the game has good reviews.
This is almost like getting upset that I can score a better deal on a new Xoom right now then those who bought it on day one, and mine would come with HC 3.1 which makes it better then when it first came out....
That doesnt make sense....
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This is almost like getting upset that I can score a better deal on a new Xoom right now then those who bought it on day one, and mine would come with HC 3.1 which makes it better then when it first came out....
That doesnt make sense....
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It doesn't at all..The developer is now as we speak preparing updates to this game, they want to keep the game fresh n exciting for us. How many Android developers do we have that give us this type of support, especially when the game hasn't sold well? They have been really great an to suffer in sales due to immature ratings is not just bad for them, but bad for us also...we need to show support for developers who deliver quality which the Android platform needs
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This is almost like getting upset that I can score a better deal on a new Xoom right now then those who bought it on day one, and mine would come with HC 3.1 which makes it better then when it first came out....
That doesnt make sense....
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It is like buying an Xoom and then two weeks later, they drop the price half price.
That doesn't make any sense, right...!?!?!
Evo Better Than The Best...
I also bought the game day one and hated the controls so i refunded it, if they didn't lower the price i wouldn't of given it a second shot (glad I did, cuase now its great) good move on devs part with the 3.99 price.
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It is like buying an Xoom and then two weeks later, they drop the pric0e half price.
That doesn't make any sense, right...!?!?!
Evo Better Than The Best...
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Your comparing 400 dollars to 4 dollars?
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I also bought the game day one and hated the controls so i refunded it, if they didn't lower the price i wouldn't of given it a second shot (glad I did, cuase now its great) good move on devs part with the 3.99 price.
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I still think the controls are haywire but I kept the purchase this time ( I had also previously purchased it, vomitted in my mouth a little and refunded ).
Space Weight, well as I am sure you're hurrying to rush to your favorite distant destination in the solar system, which is why this little auto-instant converter from LBS to Planet weight is of the utmost important thing to you.
With the help of Sir Issac Newton, your long-awaited dream is for WP7 Mango (work good on NoDo too).
You can now download Space Weight in the Marketplace, visit at: http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=8e386384-f33e-4b79-9749-2c4719e0ce0a.
*Sigh, some apps really need the touch of a graphics guy.
Lumic said:
*Sigh, some apps really need the touch of a graphics guy.
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Absolutely do but unfortunately Artists don't do free work. They don't realize if we don't get paid, hard for us to pay upfront for something a profit will never be rendered or even on soon to be paid apps, can't always pay upfront, which is why my kickstarter has a few big apps but need funding to hire artists/org for characters for games.
So, Photoshop tutorials and not following them and mixing is unfortunately how a lot of my Gfx are made. We have gfx artists that do our clients websites but to have side work, gets pricy. ;/
I'm probably going to look into doing something during the holidays break, I've never had Photoshop lessons but I can do basic graphics. If I get the motivation, I probably wouldn't mind thinking up a redesign for this app.
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I'm probably going to look into doing something during the holidays break, I've never had Photoshop lessons but I can do basic graphics. If I get the motivation, I probably wouldn't mind thinking up a redesign for this app.
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Anything you can come up with, would be greatly appreciated. Always nice to see what others would like things to be . You will of course be credited on anything provided and happy to share AD commission which is like pennies but they supposedly eventually add up, which I have yet to see but happy to share .
Hi All!
I'm quite new android games developer. I'm looking for developers community feedback on my first "serious" project.
So, as I'm keen on brain teasers I wanted to create some puzzle game. I've started my research and found out one of old style games called Freeways. So I thoutght that I can improve it from design and car behaviour perspective.
For last couple of weeks I have few thousands of downloads but very few feedback!
And I don't know should I upgrade it further or there is no chance to find my audience....
I've spent like 1 year to make it and absolutly dissapointed that there is now feedback from players. Should I start another project? Another 1 year?
Please advise... Thank you in advance!
Link to my game is here:
Motorways mind logic puzzles - Apps on Google Play
Stack the states in brain teaser IQ puzzle. Memory & thinking car traffic maze.
play.google.com
WYSIWYG.
Feedback, yes well here you go...
Looks like a data miner to me
No reason to know my precise location or browser history, share with 3rd parties or for me not to have the option to delete collected data.
I wouldn't even install it... based on that alone.
The games I have are all firewall blocked
My favorite apps have zero permissions and never request internet service. They are also some of the best.
Hi Blackhawk! That's a feedback already. This is set up of ads mediation I'm using. Probably it stops other users aswell. Probably I need to find another mediator
Carrot Games said:
Hi Blackhawk! That's a feedback already. This is set up of ads mediation I'm using. Probably it stops other users aswell. Probably I need to find another mediator
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I know you want sponsorship and to generate revenue. I can understand that. It's a tough business. Poweramp has a good business model and is one of my few gladly paid for apps. A lot of bang for the buck and nothing comes close to it for a stand alone music player.
Unfortunately from a user prospective that degree of data mining is potentially harmful. Personally I won't tolerate it... no app is worth that. All social media and shopping apps are banned from my devices. Done that for a decade now. One of the first things I targeted when I started using Androids.