My students Iphone Game

One of my students has producted an amazing Iphone shooter which I wanted everyone to see and of course buy, to encourage him.

There's a review here, which will link you to the game if you feel the urge to buy it.

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/02/review-critical-wave-new-dual-stick-shooting-sensation/


Thanks

 

dude that looks ace... give them a pat on the back for me... i won't be purchasing tho as my tired old hands struggle with geowars as it is... geowars on iphone sounds too intense.

 

Well, it's very slick, love the graphical style.
How long did it take him?
And tell us all he's fugly and the girls hate him and all your other students are rubbish

I'm not normally a fan of virtual controls, mainly because it's mostly messed up - but this is done very well, very well indeed.

My only gripe would be the rotation of the players ship, I'm guessing it's a sprite due to it's limited rotations? If it's not I'd suggest smoothing out the rotation. But I'm nit-picking, it really is extremely well done

 

Part time about 9 months, while at the same time doing well with his studies.

He has done an excellent job and kept it under wraps till it was nearly done before going to get opinions and play test from his colleagues.


Fugly...ermm well from a manly mans opinion, he's an acceptable looking young man, but I can't comment on his girl attracting prowess....probably spends too long in front of a mac to get any

Oh...and he's in the top 10 of my students.....

 

That looks very cool - uber kudo's to him, I'll definitely grab a copy despite it not being particularly a genre I'm usually attracted to ...

 

Oooh dual stick shooter that kinda looks like geometry wars on acid. I'll be purchasing.

 

A dual stick shooter, for a platform with no sticks. Interesting design decision.

 

Probably more of a fan of that genre..there are a few geometry wars type games on the app store and clealry its popular. I notice a lot of hobby games reflect the makers preferences for play rather than sound design decisiosn.

He did a damn good job of it though.

 

It's on the iTunes New & Noteworthy list.

nice!

 

soooo proud!

what a great feeling.

 

I'm going to show the video to my students - should make a few wannabe programmers out of them

Looking good Brian, grats to you and your guys.

 

must..get...10..posts...so I can get....liiiink

 

I like it - reminds me of mutant storm, but it does suffer from not having a physical interface. I think there's maybe a bit too much in terms of UI on the screen as well, but overall very polished and good looking! Plays nice too

 

Yeah, I have the same problem =/, <10 posts = !links

 

So this is the punishment for not being active enough

 

Sorry the link is limitied to 10+ posters, you can look at it on most Iphone review sites but appdevice is the one I linked to and the project is called Critical Wave.

Please buy it...he worked hard on it


google is your friend.

 

Any idea of sales figures?
Would be interesting to know figures from a 'quality' game

 

yes...but I think, I should keep them to myself as its up to him to reveal them

he's quite pleased though. But he won't be buying that island in the bahamas anytime soon.

 

Yeah, I meant with his permission

Perhaps we need another thread for sales figures tied in with type of app.
I'm always hearing that putting stuff on the AppStore yourself doesn't earn enough to live off. And yet there's plenty of companies/people who pay developers to write stuff. It's a wonder how those who pay the developers manage to a living.

 

It looks really good, impressive

I'm not a huge fan of iphone games with a virtual game pad for controls, but I guess with a dual stick shooter it's unavoidable.