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reminder said:
There's a Lite version of it, just try it out for yourself ;)
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I'll have to try that. Their games are kind of pricey, and I didn't really like hot springs story after buying it blindly.
 
bkfount said:
I'll have to try that. Their games are kind of pricey, and I didn't really like hot springs story after buying it blindly.
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I've only bought Game Dev Story yet at a low price after playing the Lite version, but it gets repetetive very fast. I don't regret it, though. It was very fun and i also liked the Lite version of Grand Prix Story. Since i have enough to play right now (3 free games from Gameloft for Xperia Play owners, yay :D ) i'm not in hurry. ;)

But i hope they make some kind of Soccer Team Story or so. Would be an instabuy for me. :)
 
bkfount said:
I'll have to try that. Their games are kind of pricey, and I didn't really like hot springs story after buying it blindly.
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mmm... Hot Springs was a lot like Game Dev, Grand Prix is quite different.

reminder said:
I've only bought Game Dev Story yet at a low price after playing the Lite version, but it gets repetetive very fast. I don't regret it, though. It was very fun and i also liked the Lite version of Grand Prix Story. Since i have enough to play right now (3 free games from Gameloft for Xperia Play owners, yay :D ) i'm not in hurry. ;)

But i hope they make some kind of Soccer Team Story or so. Would be an instabuy for me. :)
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Soccer Superstars is actually quite good, fun, and fucking long.
 
Fieldrunners HD is free today @ the amazon app store.

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Spirit is out today on the Android Market. Awesome game. I supported it with my $1.99 as well as the $.99 for Cut the Rope a few days ago. Both are well worth supporting.
 
Fieldrunners HD is also on Android Market at 99c/63p.

Just bought my copy, could do with a tower defence game, and thought I'd do my bit to support the Market.
 
sionyboy said:
Fieldrunners HD is also on Android Market at 99c/63p.

Just bought my copy, could do with a tower defence game, and thought I'd do my bit to support the Market.
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If it's only $.99 I'll probably do my part to support the market as well soon. I just got it on the Amazon Market as the free deal, great game.
 
andycapps said:
If it's only $.99 I'll probably do my part to support the market as well soon. I just got it on the Amazon Market as the free deal, great game.
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Sadly Amazon Market isn't available in the UK (well, not without a bit of shenanigans anyway) so the option wasn't there for me :(

Now, when are popcap going to bring their stuff over the Android Market? Stupid Amazon hogging all the peggle.
 
Hey GAF.

Not sure what the self-advertising policy is around here, so I'm going to try my luck and present our games.
We're a 2 men team eager to make fun games without a publisher.

Our latest release is FMX Riders, an Arcade freestyle motocross racer.



Gameplay is a lot like the SSX series with tricks giving you boost and both race and freestyle events (and also time attack and hotlap modes).
It was designed around Tilt-to-turn, Auto-acceleration and Touch-to-trick controls from the start: simply tilt your device to turn and swipe across your rider when in the air to do flips and spins. (You might have to hit the brakes from time to time though, especially in 450cc and the harder tracks).




FMX Riders comes in 2 flavors:

FMX Riders HD ($2.99) optimized for the following GPUs: PowerVR SGX540, Adreno 205/220 and Tegra 2 (twice the draw distance, bigger textures, higher-poly models). If you can see this version on the market from your phone, then it's the better version for you.
FMX Riders ($2.99) for every other device

If you give us a chance, we'd love to know what you think! (and fix bugs if any).
And if I don't get perma-destroyed by a mod for shameless advertising, I'll be back to present our other game :P
edit: Nevermind, apparently it's ok :D
 
Lots of things seem to be cheaper on Amazon market. If only as little as a dollar. Zenonia 2 is only .99 on Amazon. Majesty is only 1.99 instead of 2.99

I guess Amazon is subsidizing a little.
 
sionyboy said:
Sadly Amazon Market isn't available in the UK (well, not without a bit of shenanigans anyway) so the option wasn't there for me :(

Now, when are popcap going to bring their stuff over the Android Market? Stupid Amazon hogging all the peggle.
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I don't know about that. I'd assume that Amazon signed an exclusive deal with them for a period of time to help boost visits to their store. I'm just not sure how long Amazon's store will actually last since they're not the official one.. I'd guess that there is a hardcore following that checks their deal of the day but how many people would actually buy apps through it over the real Android Market? Most of their apps are usually not as up to date as quickly as the Android Market cousins. Plus, if you buy something there, and the Amazon Market ceases to exist, you wouldn't be able to get updates anymore, or potentially transfer the purchases to future phones.
 
andycapps said:
I don't know about that. I'd assume that Amazon signed an exclusive deal with them for a period of time to help boost visits to their store. I'm just not sure how long Amazon's store will actually last since they're not the official one.. I'd guess that there is a hardcore following that checks their deal of the day but how many people would actually buy apps through it over the real Android Market? Most of their apps are usually not as up to date as quickly as the Android Market cousins. Plus, if you buy something there, and the Amazon Market ceases to exist, you wouldn't be able to get updates anymore, or potentially transfer the purchases to future phones.
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I'm sure that the original news reports said that they would be timed exclusives for two weeks, although it's been way longer now a and still no sign.


On a very related note, fieldrunners hd has disappeared off the android market :s
 
I haven't purchased anything from the Amazon android market. I just check each day to see what's free, and pick that up if it's interesting.

If the store ever goes belly up, I'm out zero bucks and the small chunk of time it took me to download the games. As long as the Popcap stuff ends up on the Android market, I'll repurchase it there.

Been waiting for fieldrunners to make an appearance. It was supposed to have been on the Android market a week or so ago. They must have been working out a deal with Amazon, since they said they wanted it to be free for a day and the Android Market doesn't like their apps doing that.

Has anyone tried Spectral Souls? It's a bit pricey for an Android game, but I always love a good FFT clone. It's also a huuuuge file.
 
andycapps said:
I don't know about that. I'd assume that Amazon signed an exclusive deal with them for a period of time to help boost visits to their store. I'm just not sure how long Amazon's store will actually last since they're not the official one.. I'd guess that there is a hardcore following that checks their deal of the day but how many people would actually buy apps through it over the real Android Market? Most of their apps are usually not as up to date as quickly as the Android Market cousins. Plus, if you buy something there, and the Amazon Market ceases to exist, you wouldn't be able to get updates anymore, or potentially transfer the purchases to future phones.
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Well Amazon are meant to be launching their own range of Android devices this year. Unless those flop it's going to create a large userbase for their app store. I'm sure it wouldn't be hard for them to find ways to encourage networks or manufacturers to preload the store onto other devices as well, and have it placed in a prominent position.
 
My issue with the Amazon app store is that it's not available outside of the United States.
 
Age of Zombies an Inotia 3 for free? Why yes, I think I shall.

I used to own a DSi and a PSP. I haven't had them for a while, and really, have had no desire to replace them with more dedicated handhelds. I always have my phone with me, and yeah, the games may not be as advanced, but they're still a lot of fun.

I enjoy fun. I'm weird like that.
 
Age of Zombies doesn't work on my Asus Transformer tablet, unfortunately. I have the game on my PSP Go, but it still would have been nice.

By the way, if anybody else with a Honeycomb tablet tried Fieldrunners HD and had it show up with a black screen with a HUD when the battle started, all you have to do is a pinch-to-zoom out gesture and it will show up. No idea why it's like that, but it works.
 
I'm gonna be getting an android phone today, what are the best games that I'd maybe not heard of? Like something that isn't a port of an iphone game.

Also, Toki Tori is only 99 cents until monday.
 
Finally got around to adding my credit card to Feint and picked up Fruit Ninja and Football (LTTP I know but addicted to Friend Leaderboards already).

Anyone know of anything else worth a purchase?
 
HadesGigas said:
I'm gonna be getting an android phone today, what are the best games that I'd maybe not heard of? Like something that isn't a port of an iphone game.

Also, Toki Tori is only 99 cents until monday.
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Age of Zombies, 180, Paradise Island, Majesty, Cut the Rope, Plants vs Zombies, and Peggle. I believe Plants vs Zombies and Peggle are only available on the Amazon App Store, could be wrong though.
 
sca2511 said:
Age of Zombies, 180, Paradise Island, Majesty, Cut the Rope, Plants vs Zombies, and Peggle. I believe Plants vs Zombies and Peggle are only available on the Amazon App Store, could be wrong though.
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Grabbed Age of Zombies on the Amazon store since it's free (Already own it on PSP). Amazon App Store is a bit of a hassle to use since I'm on AT&T...
 
So after about a year of testing the "2 version" method in the market (1 free ad-based version, 1 paid version with extra features/no ads), we've decided to test the completely free to play model, and crammed all of our pro features into our free app. I'm very curious to see how it works out. No matter what we tried, we just felt that the money is in ads at every turn.

We made this update live yesterday, and are now getting a bevy of chronic force closes that we can't replicate across our test device pool. Would anyone be willing to try our newest version, and report back if it's FCing on them?

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mob&feature=search_result

Thanks!
 
Menelaus said:
So after about a year of testing the "2 version" method in the market (1 free ad-based version, 1 paid version with extra features/no ads), we've decided to test the completely free to play model, and crammed all of our pro features into our free app. I'm very curious to see how it works out. No matter what we tried, we just felt that the money is in ads at every turn.

We made this update live yesterday, and are now getting a bevy of chronic force closes that we can't replicate across our test device pool. Would anyone be willing to try our newest version, and report back if it's FCing on them?

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mob&feature=search_result

Thanks!
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Oh man, I forgot a Gaffer was behind this game! I just played it for a few minutes, no problems on the OG Droid.
 
VanWinkle said:
Age of Zombies doesn't work on my Asus Transformer tablet, unfortunately. I have the game on my PSP Go, but it still would have been nice.

By the way, if anybody else with a Honeycomb tablet tried Fieldrunners HD and had it show up with a black screen with a HUD when the battle started, all you have to do is a pinch-to-zoom out gesture and it will show up. No idea why it's like that, but it works.
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Huh?

I have an ASUS transformer and have had no problems with either fieldrunners or age of zombies. Played them both for 20min or so yesterday.
 
Menelaus said:
We made this update live yesterday, and are now getting a bevy of chronic force closes that we can't replicate across our test device pool. Would anyone be willing to try our newest version, and report back if it's FCing on them?

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mob&feature=search_result

Thanks!
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I gave it a quick 2 minute trial and it seems to work fine on my HTC Incredible. Cute little game to pass a few minutes! I'll try out more when I'm not busy being lazy and post again if anything happens.
 
ZZMitch said:
Oh man, I forgot a Gaffer was behind this game! I just played it for a few minutes, no problems on the OG Droid.
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Cool, thank you for trying! I'm thinking the problem is relegated to 1.5 users, and unfortunately, we haven't been as quick as other developers to cut them off. They represent about 15,000 of our active 250,000 user base.

burningnad said:
I gave it a quick 2 minute trial and it seems to work fine on my HTC Incredible.
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Thanks to you as well!
 
Menelaus said:
Cool, thank you for trying! I'm thinking the problem is relegated to 1.5 users, and unfortunately, we haven't been as quick as other developers to cut them off. They represent about 15,000 of our active 250,000 user base.


Thanks to you as well!
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that's a pretty healthy userbase :) If you are getting a strong percentage of that many people looking at your ads, then free-to-play would be the way to go!

I'm pushing free as well, although my installs are still way too tiny to actually be worthwhile. It's still very early though.
 
The Quadsphere said:
Hey GAF.

Not sure what the self-advertising policy is around here, so I'm going to try my luck and present our games.
We're a 2 men team eager to make fun games without a publisher.

Our latest release is FMX Riders, an Arcade freestyle motocross racer.



Gameplay is a lot like the SSX series with tricks giving you boost and both race and freestyle events (and also time attack and hotlap modes).
It was designed around Tilt-to-turn, Auto-acceleration and Touch-to-trick controls from the start: simply tilt your device to turn and swipe across your rider when in the air to do flips and spins. (You might have to hit the brakes from time to time though, especially in 450cc and the harder tracks).




FMX Riders comes in 2 flavors:

FMX Riders HD ($2.99) optimized for the following GPUs: PowerVR SGX540, Adreno 205/220 and Tegra 2 (twice the draw distance, bigger textures, higher-poly models). If you can see this version on the market from your phone, then it's the better version for you.
FMX Riders ($2.99) for every other device

If you give us a chance, we'd love to know what you think! (and fix bugs if any).
And if I don't get perma-destroyed by a mod for shameless advertising, I'll be back to present our other game :P
edit: Nevermind, apparently it's ok :D
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Made with Unity ?
 
LuchaShaq said:
Huh?

I have an ASUS transformer and have had no problems with either fieldrunners or age of zombies. Played them both for 20min or so yesterday.
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Huh. Just tried Age of Zombies and it indeed worked fine. Sweet.
 
Menelaus said:
http://www.destructoid.com/free-apps-of-the-day-android-and-ios-205804.phtml

Congrats for getting featured, guys. I've been tweeting to Maurice trying to get Cubes featured...guess I'm not big league like you guys =P
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wow I didn't realize Destructoid gave us a nod!
Yeah we got featured on Amazon App Store today, so I have kind of been making the rounds spamming it out..



I am very happy with the reception on Amazon, as with Android in general the app has generally just had a much more positive reception overall than the previous iteration's iPhone rollout. Of course, I still am very far away from making any actual money with any of this, I'll let you know how it winds up - hopefully some better times ahead ;)

BTW we also made the iPhone version temporarily free to help drive the point home, so grab it if you got one of those too!
 
wondermega said:
wow I didn't realize Destructoid gave us a nod!
Yeah we got featured on Amazon App Store today, so I have kind of been making the rounds spamming it out..



I am very happy with the reception on Amazon, as with Android in general the app has generally just had a much more positive reception overall than the previous iteration's iPhone rollout. Of course, I still am very far away from making any actual money with any of this, I'll let you know how it winds up - hopefully some better times ahead ;)

BTW we also made the iPhone version temporarily free to help drive the point home, so grab it if you got one of those too!
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Great game my friend! Looks fantastic on my Transformer.
 
Been an ipod touch owner for the last 3 years but today I bought a new phone (galaxy ace) and now have android 2.2 woo :)

Looking forward to trying out android apps now, originally wanted to buy an android tablet but I did need a new phone so went with that option.

Is there a must have list going around?
 
Diablohead said:
Been an ipod touch owner for the last 3 years but today I bought a new phone (galaxy ace) and now have android 2.2 woo :)

Looking forward to trying out android apps now, originally wanted to buy an android tablet but I did need a new phone so went with that option.

Is there a must have list going around?
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well, you might look at the first post on page #1 for starters :)

and grab my game for free while you are at it (as I shamelessly plug it on yet another page, hey a guy's gotta eat)



Of course the usual things people love are Popcap's games (Plants vs Zombies, Peggle) - Cut the Rope is pretty hot right now, Zombieville USA just released too.


BTW the Amazon free promo went really well, too early to tell if I got any actual sales out of it however. Check back with me in a week :)
 
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