At long last... after 6 months

Razorleaf · 2010-01-16T18:54:27

Hello GameDev community! It has been quite an exciting week for my brother and myself. After 6 months of grueling work and testing, we finally launched our first iPhone application! Here is a video of the game - let us know what you think! More information on the game can be found at itunes link: www.itunes.com/apps/gushers or on our website www.razorleafstudios.com We are frequent browsers of this site and wanted to share some of our experiences developing for the iPhone/iPod touch. First off, while the device itself works exceedingly well (the touch interface is extremely precise, allowing for even very small in-game objects and the like to be selected, tossed around, etc with ease!), programming for the device is certainly a pain! I'm sure most of you are familiar with the numerous restrictions and the chokehold that Apple has on it developers, but I feel this should be reiterated in case anyone else is curious about the iPhone platform. I'm certainly not saying not to develop on the iPhone, but it would be really interesting to see how creating applications for other mobile platforms would be (especially Android with the additions of the Driod and Nexus One!) Anyone care to share experiences? Should we stick with the iPhone for future projects or try something else? We are two college students with a passion and dream of creating games and hope this will be a good start for us. Any advice or feedback, either about mobile platforms or our first game, would be much appreciated! We would like to thank YOU GUYS, the GameDev community, for providing tips throughout the project; it's our first game and, before we started, we knew very little about programming. We hope you enjoy the game! Razorleaf Studios [Edited by - Razorleaf on January 6, 2010 5:32:16 PM]

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Started by Razorleaf January 05, 2010 07:22 PM

10 comments, last by Razorleaf 14 years, 9 months ago

Jroggy

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January 13, 2010 12:28 AM

Oh man.. MacPipes! I used to play this on the super old imacs when I was in school. Going to have to grab it once I have another iphone to play with :) Congrats, I just finished my first iPhone game with someone else as well.

Hopefully you have more luck than us, our game is a little more unique (uses the camera), but selling horrible :(

Razorleaf

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January 16, 2010 06:54 PM

Quote: Original post by Jroggy
Oh man.. MacPipes! I used to play this on the super old imacs when I was in school. Going to have to grab it once I have another iphone to play with :) Congrats, I just finished my first iPhone game with someone else as well.

Hopefully you have more luck than us, our game is a little more unique (uses the camera), but selling horrible :(

Congratulations to you my friend! And yes I know how it is, its tough to get visibility for apps these days (over 135,000 apps I think right now!)

Best of luck to you... don't give up!

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