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[X3N]

Got the update - like the new mode! Also realized I could slide my thumb up and down the height changer instead of tapping which helped a lot .

Suggestion feedback:
A control adjustment to consider: being able to hold down on the screen (above the ground, for those using the touch-controls) and have the duration of your holding determine the height of your jump (let go to fall), Mario style. Just a thought.

The timer-combo means sometimes if you go really high up and aim for an enemy at the bottom, you'll run out of time before you can reach them. Have you played with making the combo per-bounce (touch the ground and it ends) or per-bounce + a guaranteed time (you have
XX ticks after hitting something that your combo will not end even if you touch the ground, for those using short bounces).

Kudos 

[Zaknafein]

Awesome! The tilt controls work really well.

One thing, not sure if it's been mentioned already,... but why not leave filtering off? (aka use nearest-neighbour interpolation or point-filtering) Filtered pixel art makes my heart weep.

[archagon]

One of the best games in the App Store right now. You really get the platform. Thank you!

[GregWS]

I don't know if I'm the only one getting this bug, but it's a pretty big one: the powerups for the new mode are the ones that show up in the old modes. 

[ChevyRay]

My reply from the TouchArcade forums:

Holy crap, a bit of a slip on our part.

A bit of undesired code leaked into the release, somehow went unnoticed when we were testing. We're hastily putting through the fix and maybe Apple will have a heart and rush it for us a bit (haha).

How embarrassing. Sorry guys! At least the new gameplay mode works for now, so enjoy that while we slap our foreheads and send the new one your way.

Lotsa luv,

Chevy

[scoz]

I don't know if I'm the only one getting this bug, but it's a pretty big one: the powerups for the new mode are the ones that show up in the old modes. 

Heh. Came on with the express purpose of posting about this... I thought it was intentional. Though I must admit, Halloween with only the question marks is pretty fast and frantic, I think there's potential there :D

Anyway, I don't think I have much more to say. Skullpogo was one of my favourite GM games and is now one of my favourite iPhone games. The only flaw I can find is that I miss the old Skullboy with the monacle and top hat

[X3N]

I've been playing this more.. damn its fun. And I'm getting more used to adjusting my height with a sliding thumb  . Is there a universal high score board? I dared to make an Open Feint to find out I had no friends and the leaderboard only had me on it

[ChevyRay]

I thought the OpenFeint leaderboards were the universal ones... :/ Are you sure you're not looking at a personal leaderboard or anything?

[X3N]

Doh. I misread it wrong. Got it! Thanks
Btw how does the scoring work, exactly? There seems to be some randomness involved. And what causes the different words to pop up - is it based on how you've been comboing/accuracy or is it more random?
second edit: this is more fun than rolando (which sold hugely)

[ChevyRay]

I've been told it is more fun than Doodle Jump too, which also sold hugely oh well, heheh.

The scoring has many factors. The main things are: hit enemies before your combo meter (top-left) runs out, every time you hit, it refills, and every hit adds on to your current combo chain. Your combo's score is multiplied by the amount of hits in that combo. Other than that, how fast and hard you hit an enemy also slightly alters the amount of points that enemy will give you. And when you get one of those powerups that paste a series of enemies on the screen, hit the enemies in that order, and you'll get an even better score for that combo

So yeah, lots of ways.

Anyways, glad you got the leaderboards working. Cheers!

[X3N]

So falling faster = more points? interesting. For the perfectionists, you could add a "closer to the center of the sprite = more points" modifier. Really fun game you guys have made, looking forward to the update  . btw the big cow is hilarious looking.

[ChevyRay]

...you could add a "closer to the center of the sprite = more points" modifier.

Tried this in testing. Didn't work out as well as it sounds, so we took it out.

btw the big cow is hilarious looking.

Haha, I laughed good when Justin first suggested the inflating cow idea. It's so wonderful.

[scoz]

I've been told it is more fun than Doodle Jump too, which also sold hugely oh well, heheh.

Have you done much PR/Advertising? I only stumbled across this on TIGSource a while back; I don't see many of your "average" consumers finding it that way

[Botulino]

I've got no iPhone so I'm still toying around with the PC version and it's still as awesome as ever. Should you make a commercial pc version I'll be the first to buy it!

[ChevyRay]

Haha it'd be pretty hard to sell a PC version with the free one kickin' around. I'd rather sooner or later have a Flash version of the new game available for free instead, though

[monoRAIL]

One thing, not sure if it's been mentioned already,... but why not leave filtering off? (aka use nearest-neighbour interpolation or point-filtering) Filtered pixel art makes my heart weep.

Seconded - turn off the filtering!

[Jared C]

Hey Chevy, guess what I just got?
iTouch
Guess what I'm about to buy?
Skullpogo
I'm so excited.

EDIT:  FUUUUUU-- this is so much fun.

[X3N]

Numba 21 in Farm, woo  .
Damn those increase-time ones are hard to hit when there's so many on the screen! Great game.

[ChevyRay]

Just got a cool picture from Luc ADR, so I thought I'd post it here:

[hyperduck]

Bought and loved it, thanks Chevy, great game really great. *HUGS IPOD*