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The Official iPhone/iPod Touch Gaming Thread
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mrWalrus said:
By posting about it here, I'm sure detective-gaf (well, any internet forum) will find out who is responsible and dish out desserts. I'm not saying I condone that, but that may happen. By posting here, is it a sort of "Oh I didn't mean for that to happen, but I did" kind of thing?
Anyway I hate tactics like that. Just so dishonourable and unfair, but that kind of describes life unfortunately. Contact Apple with your discoveries. Possibly hit up some news sites. I'm sure word will get out.
Oh, and sucks to be GeoDefense swarm. Maybe their time icon looks too much like a clock (see convertbot rejection).
Which is? edit: http://twitter.com/GEODEFENSElawblob said:
Doesn't say geodefense was rejected, how do you know?
lawblob said:
CrunchinJelly
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Keywords are what you can search for and that app will come up.Reno7728 said:
According to Twitter, he used other games names as keywords, so I guess that was it.
I guess it's to stop everyone just having 'Flight Control' as a keyword, or a really popular game. Makes searching much cleaner.
Reno7728 said:
If that's all it is, it should be a 24-72 hour change. Though in our experiences. It would appear Apple has several internal departments that handle each part (app description, app reviews, iTunes promotion, etc) separately.
These departments don't talk at all.
So just because they were notified their keywords are in violation that doesn't mean the binary was approved and 'ready for sale'.
It's all very nebulous. When I have some more time I'll start to fill the board in on some of the craziness we've encountered. I'll say this right now though, if it's only 40 people in there doing all this stuff like I've heard rumored (someone correct me if they know different) then I feel for them, and think they'll doing a hell of a job. I really don't think Apple ever thought this market would get so absurd so quickly.
The process needs fixing. I think Apple is well aware of that tho.. I think September 9th should start to fix some of this stuff. En total, it's very encouraging to see the progress being made by Apple in such a small time. Two years from now this landscape is going to look very different.
Gunstar said:
They are.
btw, for anyone with an App in the store. Appfigures is awesome! shows you all the reviews worldwide (even translates them).
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Apples response to the FCC stated that they have 40 app 'reviewers', and each app is checked by 2 different people.mrWalrus said:
cjelly said:
Yup, developers should be discouraged to do that. Putting similar game titles is kind of grey, I reckon - helpful, but still artificial, after all, you should just put a genre like "Tower Defense" in your keyword.
It's mostly to discourage putting all games from the top ten. Apple is not going to start distinguishing genres, so I'm guessing they're just cutting to the chase and preventing other game titles altogether.
Holy fuck so that means instead of 7mn reviews, apps get 2x3mn30 reviews? Awesomecjelly said:
Yep. NA is probably the most active one by far though, especially for the game devs posting on gaf.Gunstar said:So the assholes are only influencing the American (biggest) market then. It would probably be too much work for them to target all the individual European stores.
On the other hand, it does mean you can't offset the effects from your european AppStore (nothing stops you from reviewing though, as far as I can see on the French store, many good games & apps are a wasteland, unreviewed, undownloaded and unloved)
Gunstar said:So the assholes are only influencing the American (biggest) market then. It would probably be too much work for them to target all the individual European stores.
It's my understanding it's happening over the 'Big Eight'.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany/Deutschland
Australia
Canada
France
Italy/Italia
Japan
Just to clarify.
The idea is for them to basically keep the app 'in-check', not avalanche it so it looks obvious, making sure the 1's just out weight the 5's and that the rest evens up (4's, 3's, and 2's). Also, as should be noted, before this started we had only 1 2-star rating.
For all intents and purposes the US and UK stores are really the only two worth monitoring for them.
The idea is for them to basically keep the app 'in-check', not avalanche it so it looks obvious, making sure the 1's just out weight the 5's and that the rest evens up (4's, 3's, and 2's). Also, as should be noted, before this started we had only 1 2-star rating.
For all intents and purposes the US and UK stores are really the only two worth monitoring for them.
Just bought Synth Racing and played it for a bit. It's pretty cool, especially once you hit a high speed (which admittedly didn't happen a lot yet since I suck for now). I can see myself playing this game in short bursts, since all the other games I own are 'bigger' games - Civilization, Zenonia, Monkey Island, etc. - less suited for really short times. Good stuff.
Only got one problem with the game. Everytime I choose 'continue' after a race it boots me from the game to the home screen. I'm on a 3GS and already tried rebooting with no luck.
Also, being able to use your own music would be perfect for this game. Is this coming in an update? I can see myself rocking this game while listening to Way Out West, would be awesome.
Only got one problem with the game. Everytime I choose 'continue' after a race it boots me from the game to the home screen. I'm on a 3GS and already tried rebooting with no luck.
Also, being able to use your own music would be perfect for this game. Is this coming in an update? I can see myself rocking this game while listening to Way Out West, would be awesome.
viralmarketeer
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wait... were unify and word ace rejected?!Khanage said:Shit!
No Geodefense Swarm... No Unify... No Word Ace...
Why apple? Why don't you want my money!?!
viralmarketeer said:
Not that I'm aware. Approval can be up to three weeks at the moment (Although one update I was waiting for was approved two days after submission).
It's possible that Apple have added keyword violation to their disapproval criteria, and a bunch of unknowing developers have had their apps rejected.
Mik2121 said:Btw, is there any Warioware-like game? I'll guess no.. and too bad Nintendo would never ever develop anything for iPhone.. but I'd love something similar, with hundreds of 10-sec minigames
Heh, ADD (not on the appstore) was meant to be a warioware like game, I bleieve but it has been in the approval process for ice several months (not sure if it is outright rejected). I think developers were trying to push the approval rating system with it. Not sure, don't know much about it.
Gunstar said:
Yeah, it can suck sometimes.
The only reason I even know about this stuff is because I follow the developers activities. This kind of makes it my problem. The appstore is pretty slow, and it seems like they're in a rough patch (maybe 3.1, or even the mac side of things with the recent SL release), and they're not as forthcoming about it to the developers, but it's not really meant to be an issue for the consumers.
I'm currently waiting or updates to: Duke Nukem and the release of GeoDefense and Unify. There's no point hitting refresh every 10 minutes. They'll come out when they come out.
*goes back to hitting refresh*
Nihilistic Monk
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mrkgoo said:
They certainly succeeded at that! I downloaded the demo version and was amazed that apple let that hit the store :lol Towel whipping, plus the paparazzi with a women getting out of a car stage..... :lol
wondermega
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that's some terrible BS MrWalrus - sorry to hear you got singled out, I hope the cretins who targeted you get what they deserve :S
This iPhone market is bringing out the best and worst in people, it seems..
In the meantime, the best strategy I can see to suggest is to keep cranking on your title, get it to the point where you so want to start getting reviewers to pick it apart and then you'll only get that much more (positive) publicity and drive some more sales of your already-deserving app!
This iPhone market is bringing out the best and worst in people, it seems..
In the meantime, the best strategy I can see to suggest is to keep cranking on your title, get it to the point where you so want to start getting reviewers to pick it apart and then you'll only get that much more (positive) publicity and drive some more sales of your already-deserving app!
Mr driller is up for $0.99. 3 control methods: dpad, tilt, and swipe. I hate tilt controls so can't comment on them, but swipe seems really janky and the dpad is workable but a bit too big. A lot of options for difficulty, number of lives and such. It's not mind blowing and I can see it being a bit infuriating, but it's mr driller for a dollar.
Tony Rocky Horror
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You're selling me.mrkgoo said:
Psy-Phi
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kaizoku said:
It's Mr. Driller...plays just like it should. Has a few control options but I've only messed with the d-pad one and auto-down (when not pressing a direction). Nearly made it to 500m on my first go. If you enjoy Mr. Driller, you'll enjoy the iPhone version, especially for 99 cents.
RelentlessRolento
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curious about Run as well.
that sucks about this iSR fiasco... I will def put in my review when I get home tonight... auto 5 stars. I'm contemplating calling them out in the review as well.
that sucks about this iSR fiasco... I will def put in my review when I get home tonight... auto 5 stars. I'm contemplating calling them out in the review as well.
TheChillyAcademic
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So do we have any date for Lumines?
Banzaiaap said:
Great! I try my best.
Seriously, all I meant was that it plays like it should, but it should be worth noting I did get a crash, but that's not uncommon with certain apps when run for the first time after installing without a reboot.
To extend - I haven't had a crash since rebooting, but I did get a little bit of a glitch in my second game at the same point - high score entry. IT paused for a bit, and was unresponsive for a few seconds. I thought it was going to crash. It seems to me, it's calling a text entry/save process, maybe asking for memory, memory that my iPhone simply is low on in general. I have a 3G.
Other than that, it plays just like a vanilla Mr. Driller. For those uninitiated, it plays more like an action game rather than a puzzle game.
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