Pirate's Treasure - by GameLab/Chillingo [iphone/ipod]

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Pirate’s Treasure - by GameLab/Chillingo is out now!

Its a 100% unity3D game :slight_smile: we are proud, that we could use this engine to create such a great game!

All thoughts and suggestions are of course welcome!

get it here:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pirates-treasure/id358507698?mt=8

some screenies from our game :slight_smile:


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Looks really cool!

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The style rocks :smile:
Hope you have success with it!

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Vids?

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just bought…ur app icon is the first ive seen without the box around it…is this something new?

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Great screenshots! I hope it’s a huge seller for you, can’t wait to play it.

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Gratz on the release! :slight_smile:

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WoW! This game looks great!
Can you tell us something about your process?
Maybe you have a devblog or something?

/s

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  1. I saw it mentioned on Touch Arcade.
  2. I saw it is a dual style shooter with fun graphics.
  3. I saw it is published by Chillingo of Minigore fame.
  4. I bought it right away.
  5. I now see it’s made with Unity, which is a plus!

So now all I have to do is actually play it. :slight_smile:

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Thanks to all :slight_smile:

What exactly want you know? :slight_smile:

right now there is no dev blog we had simply to much to do with the game itself!
but well what can I say to keep it short:
-a while a go we bought a game starting with “M”
-found it boring :slight_smile:
-designed an own interpretation
-Told the graphic artist, that he will get paid, when the game is ready (he startet to paint and draw)
-Told the coder he is great (he started to code)
-after 758 Pizzas and 91023l alcohol the game was ready :slight_smile:

okok that is not how it worked… but if you want to know something more - just let me know! All in all it was a 4 month project made with 3(design,code,3D) + 1(somethimes some 2D work) people + 1 sound designer (outsource)

cheers

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I really like it! The art and especially the music are ace!

The gameplay is fairly simple (like Minigore), but overall it works well.

I was a bit disappointed to see the very linear progression (you get 1 key per level, and you’ll need one extra key per next level). Especially since from the start you can already walk around the level selection areas, I expected a bit more freedom.

Also, when you want to go to the shop, you often walk towards the advanced levels area instead. Would be nice if that were a bit more forgiving.

To be honest, I think the trailer doesn’t quite reflect how cool the game is. The trailer is a bit slow, and the first 20 secs or so could be taken out. Instead show the super cool animated in-game intro screen! I love the island and the birds and everything! And I believe one of the more up-beat, positive songs would be better suited for the trailer.

Oh, and more more specific thing - the ‘Times New Roman’ kind of font used throughout the game is really distracting! Do consider changing that please, it would be so much better with a custom pirate font. :slight_smile:

Hope you don’t mind these comments, they are just my personal opinion of course, and are meant as encouraging, constructive remarks.

Overall, very high production value and fun to play. Great job!

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Congratulations on such a great game! I had a lot of fun playing it too :slight_smile:

Maybe you could add some limits to the camera movement so it doesn’t show the edges of the screen.

I only played it a bit, but I’ll let you know if I’ll have any good feedback.

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Played it!

Comments:

  • love the art/animation
  • gameplay is great
  • as the poster said above though, there is no real freedom when getting keys to unlock, its just completely linear…and you give the illusion of freedom why?
  • control locks up on me sometimes (is it an iphone problem, because Ive noticed something like that when coding my game but I always thought it was fixable later on, is it not?)
  • great music

Question:
Whats the highest amount of polycounts mostly on screen? Seems pretty smooth with atleat 4 enemies on screen…

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Amazing stuff. Congratz 8)

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Just saw it on Dylan’s iPhone, looks great and the music is fantastic! So I just bought it :wink:

One remark though; I have the feeling the springboard logo really doesn’t really fit between the rest of the graphics. It reminds me a lot about a CD from The Offspring

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thanks to all :slight_smile:

Lukas: you mean this here: http://muz-zone.alport.lg.ua/uploads/posts/thumbs/1190208085_cover.jpg ?? hehe

jrricky: we tried to keep the poly count low… but it was never under 3k mostly around 5-6k

BogdanDude:Thanks we love your game too (and can’t wait for predators :stuck_out_tongue: ) anyway didn’t you had the feeling that coding a big dual stick shooter is much harder on unity than making a FPS? :stuck_out_tongue:

Dylan: some of your suggestions will be integrated in our first content update :slight_smile: so stay tuned! you will like it

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When I asked about polycounts I was talkin about faces in the 3d program and not the tris that unity uses, which one were u talking about?

Also, the progression could definetly use a similar structure like mario galaxy, like certain amounts of keys might open another level in another stage, it’s too linear at the moment and I think something like that would give the player more freedom. Yea, take tips from the best game ever made (Mario Galaxy 2) :-P.

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So how’s that patch going for you? :slight_smile:

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Just to let you know, it runs without any problems on my first gen iPodTouch. The music and speech are great btw! :slight_smile:

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I like the game.

What I though dislike is that you don’t store states midgame (or at least did in the version previous to update). Thats normally no problem but especially on the 1000 kills mission I nearly threw the device against the wall when I realized that my 600 kills went to nirvana