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[astrofra]

'Improved it :

[astrofra]

Question, people :
what does this look like, in your opinion ?

[Franklin's Ghost]

Is it a save point?

[astrofra]

Hey
Well, er, not really.
It's meant to be a part of the body that the player is trying to reassemble.
This is the background story of the game, but there's no real implication with the gameplay (except that you have to collect items to complete a level).

I tweaked the mesh, as I found out it looked a bit like a water mine.

[Franklin's Ghost]

Looking nice and forgot that the aim is to collect pieces so with that in mind it definitely is a lot clearer.

I did think of a mine also because of the look but thought the hand symbol meant the player is meant to touch it so got confused. Seeing the other symbols and knowing that the player is trying to reassemble the body, it's more obvious.

[astrofra]

Thanks for the feedback
I just noticed that the last level is impossible to complete.
I need to fix this :D

[mbalestrini]

Hi
I've made a quick test on Android because I didn't have much time... but I'll play more later.
I wanted to give you feedback on a couple of things... maybe you already have some or all of these on your to-do list...

- The first it's about the controls. I like the feeling and responsiveness (I tried on a Galaxy S2), but one place where the game didn't responded as I expected was when I was pressing both buttons and released one of them. I felt the one button that was steel pressed should keep thrusting.
- There's no way to quit the app?
- I pressed the Home button and saw the app was still running (I think if there's another way to quit this wouldn't be a problem), and when I returned (I was on the game main screen) and went to "OPTIONS", the screen looked like this:

if I do: BACK > OPTIONS it's stilll broken.
if I do: BACK > LEADERS > BACK > OPTIONS it's fixed

- It would be good if the phone's BACK button worked besides the APP back button.
- Some minor graphical tip: the locked levels could have the locks shown on the button directly

Hope some of this helps!

[astrofra]

Hi
I've made a quick test on Android because I didn't have much time... but I'll play more later.
I wanted to give you feedback on a couple of things... maybe you already have some or all of these on your to-do list...

Thanks a billion for your time It's great to have a feedback from an Android user.

- The first it's about the controls. I like the feeling and responsiveness (I tried on a Galaxy S2), but one place where the game didn't responded as I expected was when I was pressing both buttons and released one of them. I felt the one button that was steel pressed should keep thrusting.

Yup, I noticed this one. It seems to be related to the low level of the engine I'm using. It's cool to have your description here because I couldn't find the exact path that led to this situation.

- There's no way to quit the app?

Indeed, it's coded but not working yet for some reasons :s

- I pressed the Home button and saw the app was still running (I think if there's another way to quit this wouldn't be a problem), and when I returned (I was on the game main screen) and went to "OPTIONS", the screen looked like this:

if I do: BACK > OPTIONS it's stilll broken.
if I do: BACK > LEADERS > BACK > OPTIONS it's fixed

Typically, this is a "GL Context Loss", specific to Android. I have to deal with it on every texture of the game, and there are still pieces of the game where it doesn't work

- It would be good if the phone's BACK button worked besides the APP back button.
- Some minor graphical tip: the locked levels could have the locks shown on the button directly

Nice idea about the 'start' button, I'm going to change this as you suggested.

Hope some of this helps!

Oh yes, it helps
Thanks!

[Udderdude]

Hey, I talked with you about this game on IRC.  Nice to see it's still in production.

[astrofra]

Haha,
yes,

your remarks still are in my todolist :

<Udderdude> it's neat .. enter should skip the end level screen
<Udderdude> narrow corridor full of damaging cogs isn't very interesting to me

[astrofra]

Gameplay Video :


App icon :

[Franklin's Ghost]

Nice gameplay video and really great app icon, although I think if you did a slightly different colour for the square the actual ship would stand out and be noticed more.

[eigenbom]

wow looking great!

[astrofra]

Ha, thanks for your feedback, both of you.
Actually, u're right, the background should be more red-ish, in order to contrast with the blue spaceship.

I'm reworking it, anyway, as I just found out that the icon above does not match the Apple iOS guidelines

[Pemanent]

Dang, pretty cool to see how far this has come!

[sabajt]

looks really fun.  the environments are charming.

[astrofra]

Thanks
I'm rather happy with the gameplay feeling.
The level design is a bit messy in my opinion, not really consistent, but this is my first real level design experience (the prev. one was an unfinished isometric exploration game).
Furthermore, my next big improvement on AstroLander will be to implement a level editor & an online platform for the players to share their creations.

In the meantime, here's the iOS-ised version of the app icon :

   

[astrofra]

 

[sonicblastoise]

God, I love these vintage pictures. Excellent work, astrofra.

[astrofra]

God, I love these vintage pictures. Excellent work, astrofra.

Hehe. I bought a loads of 60's color slides (and 30's b&w stereo glass plates) at the flea market. It is, indeed, vintage stuff