Since kids, my brother and I have always been interested in making games and it finally came to fruition. We also loved the deep, well-written stories associated with some of these games. We've worked on this app for about 2 years now and have spent hundreds of hours now on this. We really poured our heart into this thing.
So, we decided to make an android app that basically reads as a story but also has some minigames thrown in. Our plan is to release one chapter at a time with more minigames as the story progresses. The game is free, and we released the first chapter this past weekend! Take a look at the story/game if interested, and please let us know what you think!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.storytime.jsr.tetsh&hl=en
Thank you,
Feathermind Productions
Well-written story, great!
Unfortunately, English isn't my language, so I could miss something.
For that genre, you may think about translation to some languages.
By the way, do you promote your game and how, or that 500-1000 downloads on Google Play during one month is normal?
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Say Hello to a new World.
There are few games on mobile that are insanely addictive. Parallel Kingdom AOT, is by far the most intriguing one I have come across. PK comes across as a MMORG, which uses the GPS on your phone to place you in your actual location in game.
The game starts you off as an explorer beginning his/her journey. As you continue your adventure, you level up, get upgraded weapons and armor, and slay monsters day in day out. You constantly play alongside other players, from throughout the world, teaming with them to form kingdoms, cities and alliances.
Parallel Kingdom uses Google Maps as the background, and makes use of GPS satellites to place you in your real life location. New updates including the satellite map feature lead to you actually getting the sense that you are enjoying a high seas adventure with your mates, or leading an expedition through the Sahara desert, or struggling through the Amazon forest, slaying any monsters that come you way.
The great thing about PK is that you continue in the same place you leave. So you don’t have to worry about getting back to where you log off. Perblue devs have managed to create an amazing game through almost a 3-year period.
PK is available on both Android and iOS.The game has reached the 1,000,000 player mark and is spreading fast. The game is a nice change from Angry Birds, and maybe a step away from it and possibly all other games. Don't blame me if you end up becoming a PK addict.
Try to use my referral code at the end of the tutorial.
Use kmfkl to get 300 food, and 1000 gold. My in-game name is democrats , message me and i'll get you into a nice city and kingdom.
This is the link to the website
http://www.parallelkingdom.com/
and their game forums
http://www.forum.parallelkingdom.com/
and the online game
http://play.parallelkingdom.com
This is the link to the game on the online android market
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.silvermoon.client
And, this is the link for the game on the Apple website
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/parallel-kingdom-aot/id308407509?mt=8
I am not a dev for this game. Any reason you dislike this game or have a technical issue while playing send an e-mail to [email protected]
Hello new world......you got WoW por la me?
Seriously try this, this is an epic game. Not the 3-d graphics etc you would normally want from a mobile RPG. However, this is really an exceptional game, and it runs very smoothly, plus its easy to adapt to and very hard to get away from it.
Thanks for the tip, gonna have to try this out now!
Bump, people message me in game, my name's 'democrats', il try to help you out.
hey... Helloooo new world
seem interesting
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no thanks.
I believe you're overreacting.
The developers likely use SMS for the in-game chat. Thus why the permission is needed.
looks awesome
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no thanks.
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The game uses food as a currency. Food can be bought with real cash, dollars pounds etc. One of the payment methods which can be used is Zong. Zong uses messages to get u food, I am not sure about the entire procedure but thats the basics. If you wish to buy food you are directed to a message which if you send gets you the amount of food you want to buy.
This was brought up on the PK forums as well.
hey... Helloooo new world
I sent out messages to all the people who started playing, just send me a if you need any help at all.
Front page?
This game has been out for years, you advertise it on the forum along with your referral code and it gets on the front page? Did you make the game?
Agentx002 said:
This game has been out for years, you advertise it on the forum along with your referral code and it gets on the front page? Did you make the game?
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I am not one of the devs. However, people at XDA looking for intuitive, exciting, and enjoyable content, and PK, is that. So it was'nt a surprise that this ended up on the front page.
It was maybe lost on the XDA forums, because when I checked for other threads about PK, there were a couple from two years ago.
This is a brilliant game and it deserves to be highlighted on the front page regardless of the day it was launched.
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This game has been out for years, you advertise it on the forum along with your referral code and it gets on the front page? Did you make the game?
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DB - Its people like you that are making XDA what it is now, D-Bags like you....
As far as OP goes, I love this game been playing for a few months too......It's very addicting and constant changes and improvements to gameplay and strategy. The Devs are great at listening to the users and giving them what they want. One of the best parts about this game is it's multi-platform so you are playing with IPhone players as well so the vast amount of people playing is ridiculousness. I got the same name on the game as here so look me up.
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DB - Its people like you that are making XDA what it is now, D-Bags like you....
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LOL! D-Bags made XDA the efficent dev forum we know and love? And I'm one of those d-bags? Oh, I feel special.
As for pk, I played it about 2 years ago, lasted an entire month and a half with me playing seldomly. I'm no longer an active player, but it was a great time waster when there's nothing else to do.
Thats pretty neat
interesting...
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LOL! D-Bags made XDA the efficent dev forum we know and love? And I'm one of those d-bags? Oh, I feel special.
As for pk, I played it about 2 years ago, lasted an entire month and a half with me playing seldomly. I'm no longer an active player, but it was a great time waster when there's nothing else to do.
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Two years ago this game was more or like in its initial stages, but now it's been under developed for quite some time and has improved a lot.
I suggest that you give it another shot, you might get hooked on to it now.
My in-game name is 'democrats' if u still remember your account details log in and send me a message, and I'l help you out.
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Hello!
I've recently completed the first book of my text adventure game after a year of work, and I would be very grateful if you could give it a try and give me some feedback. In this game you play as an ordinary guy trying to win a mage tournament against the most powerful mages in the world, in the hopes of winning the grand prize, and using it to fulfill your lifelong dream of becoming a mage yourself.
As you progress, you will also get to know the inhabitants of the continent that the tournament takes place on, and you will learn that a person called the Creator established several utopias in this realm a few hundred years ago, where animals and humans could live in harmony, and where food was created through magic. What you will get to experience throughout the game, however, is the downfall of these utopias, and you can even choose to save them from destruction if you so desire.
Besides the traditional choice making, you also have stats you can level up, and there are different checks in the game to see if you have the necessary level to take a certain action. For example, if your ancient languages level is high enough, you can understand when the animals or monsters speak.
Here is the link to the game: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.magiumgames.magium
I hope you'll all enjoy playing this game as much as I enjoyed making it!
Cheers!
Congratulations
Dude, your game is just amazing, the best app I have ever downloaded in my phone, I just want to congratulate you and say that I cant wait to see what happens next! Keep up with the good work (and please tell me the first book's ending can be reversed ).
P.S.: why don't you put your game for ios as well? I have some friends that loved the idea but only have iPhones.
I just saw the XDA thread on r/androiddev and I remembered this forum. Just wanted to let everyone here know that since my initial post on this forum, the 2nd book has also been completed and the story is still in progress. Chapter 4 of book 3 was published a few days ago on android and iOS.
Cheers!
Hey there, thanks for sharing your game!
Not available in my country (Montenegro) for some reason...
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Not available in my country (Montenegro) for some reason...
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I can post link to dropbox and you can download my copy. It is avaible here in Slovenia.
its nice game to play.. thx..
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Not available in my country (Montenegro) for some reason...
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Unfortunately, it looks like Google Play purchases are unavailable in Montenegro, and this game relies exclusively on IAPs for income (the game doesn't have any ads). Aside from that, if I were to publish the game there without an option to pay to unlock the next books faster, I'd be sure to get negative reviews from people. I'll publish it there if Google ever makes purchases available in that region.
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Unfortunately, it looks like Google Play purchases are unavailable in Montenegro, and this game relies exclusively on IAPs for income (the game doesn't have any ads). Aside from that, if I were to publish the game there without an option to pay to unlock the next books faster, I'd be sure to get negative reviews from people. I'll publish it there if Google ever makes purchases available in that region.
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Makes sense. Maybe you could consider making an alternative version without IAPs, so that you could sell it from Play Store and XDA store with an upfront price? Or maybe there are other IAP providers that do not depend on Google's slow expansion? I have no idea how practical that would be, but at least you would be able to reach a few more people...
czarkoff said:
Makes sense. Maybe you could consider making an alternative version without IAPs, so that you could sell it from Play Store and XDA store with an upfront price? Or maybe there are other IAP providers that do not depend on Google's slow expansion? I have no idea how practical that would be, but at least you would be able to reach a few more people...
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I can't really sell it with an upfront price because the game is still in development. The first two books and first four chapters of book 3 are available, which all amount to around 600k words on all paths, but the series will have 5 books or more, and I don't want to ask for the full price now, because it takes a long time to write these.
I had the game up on the amazon store for some time, but there were barely any downloads coming from there, so I pulled it out, because it wasn't worth the extra effort to port a new version for that store.
When the whole story is finished, I'm planning to put a full-priced version of the game on Steam, and maybe then I'll also consider some other stores, but that will be years from now.
Ok, good luck and sorry for noise.
Amazing story, enjoyable and fun. Must be crazy hard to keep up with writing it tho.
A song that kinda feels like it matches this is "Tabi no Tochuu (Spice and Wolf)" by AmaLee.
Barry (my one at least) is a crazy but smart guy focused on his aim, which I love.
Good luck with the rest of it, I'll defo be keeping up.
PS - You might wanna secure achievements by forcing over the cloud or something cause someone can get the books for free by editing the savefile as root.
This is interesting
That's right. 2 highschool kids, bored out of their minds. 2 years of Java, C#, and gave development courses, lots of RedBull and 2am nights later and HyperBounce was born in a room in Bellevue Washington. Mainly inspired by flappy bird, HyperBounce adopts its simplicity and pick up and play aspects, but adds its a very high amount of frustration and addictive nature to the game. Our highschool loves it, will you? Lots of work and dedication was put into this game, give it a look. It might just be the next big thing. Find it on the google app store, HyperBounce. Beat 100, we know you wont be able to....
were gonna be putting out constant updates and it will come to IOS soon!
We have a working leaderboard - anyone who manages to beat 500 will get a special prize..
reply with a screenshot of 500 points and you will be awarded!
THANK YOU AND LOTS OF LOVE FROM RICK AND JAKE!!!
I AM NOT A NEW USER SO I CANT POST LINKS - GO ON THE GOOGLE APP STORE AND LOOK UP
"HYPERBOUNCE" IT WILL BE THE FIRST APP!!!!
Hi everybody!
This game is a first complete product of our small three-dude team. We're seriously digging in gamedev and wish to continue with more complex stuff. But currently investing our time in small mobile games to gain some experience.
Our promote video
Well, we tried our best...
The idea of the game is somewhere between runner and team-manager. Your goal is to run through hordes of enemies, smash the boss and get to the tavern. During the run you can catch random bonuses, drink beer, use axe-accelerator and throw enemies off your shield.
And, of course, there is a little story between stages .
Our game is based on Unity engine, it's awesome for mobile development.
Viking Roul is completely playable without ads interruption. We hate p2w games.
So, there it is. We will glad to see any comments. Feel free to criticize, our goal is to learn something and get better.
You can try it on Google Play (iPhone version currently in develop)
Ah, just forgot!
You can post your questions and reports in our groups, in social network you prefer.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/119632385396405/
Groups are quite empty, but we try to fill it with interesting stuff, and appreciate if you'll help us
I like this characters)
I like this characters that you draw). If not secret, how much time you worked for this game?
CosmoKitten said:
I like this characters that you draw). If not secret, how much time you worked for this game?
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Thank you very much
Well, we started about a 1.5 years ago, in the middle of 2016. But it's our first complete project, so, we wasted a lot of time to learn, optimize, research and so on.
Hope we'll be faster next time