Monster Mine is live on appstore

thanhquan1512 · March 2013

Hi,

My release has been approved on both iOS App Store and Google Play, I am very appreciated if you could test it on your device and leave your suggestion. Thank you very much!!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/monster-mine/id621546910?ls=1&mt=8

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ultimategamestudio.monstermine

HOW TO PLAY:

Control your monsters in a mine world, dig down by matching monsters together and make them explode. Collecting copper, silver, gold and diamond to enrich your score. Dig fast and as deep as possible before the time run out, the deeper you dig, the more treasure you will find.

GAMEPLAY TIPS:

- Focus your matches on ones near the ground.
- Monster only dig dirt right below them, so try to focus on horizontal matches.
- There are also 3 levels of stone which takes more than 1 match to clear.
- Focus on the tougher areas first.

Truth be told, it is a simplified and cloned version of Diamond Mine mode of Bejeweled 3, so If you love diamond mine, for sure you will enjoy Monster Mine.

fxone · March 2013

congrats! very addictive, nice gameplay

hgvyas123 · March 2013

Kongrats Dude

thanhquan1512 · March 2013

@fxone, @hgvyas123: thank guys

fxone · March 2013

@thanhquan1512 I had 2 crashes (without Force Close error), which looked like the LUA bugs, after longer than 5 minutes gameplay. It's hard to say, where exactly but during smashing animations for sure. Tested on T-mobile move (armv6) with Froyo...

BTW you are my favourite developer from Gideros SDK community: very fast and talented at all layers. Is this your full time job: developing games? Do you use any special IDE for your work? Are you satisfied with monetization? Does Chartboost work good for you in a financial way? :P

AhBadiane · March 2013

@thanhquan1512 Great game, I love this style of gameplay :-bd

thanhquan1512 · March 2013

@fxone:
1. I myself got several bugs while testing on my devices. As far as I see, there are commons crash because of adjusting sound volume while launching/loading game AND crash because of chartboost plugins. I will discuss these bugs and their solutions in another thread, try fixing it in the next update.

2. Thank you for your encouragement, don't know if I deserved it :P All my released games are just ok, simple and not creative. I always dream about making great games in my future projects.

Developing games is only my part-time job, I really love it and intend to get full time development however my wife does not allow since ads revenue is only about 1/10 my salary. I use Gideros IDE for developing and Notepad++ for advanced tasks

Now I am satisfied with Chartboost, not Admob or iAds

I wish someday ads income can beat my salary so I can spend all day developing games, still trying

)

mysps · March 2013

i've downloaded on both ios and android! fabulous graphics and the game play is addicting. best part - the eyes moving

good luck!

BJG · March 2013

Nice one @thanhquan1512.

Scouser · March 2013

CongoRatz

Awesome game. Kept me playing for a while. I think there should be some form of instruction screen as it's not immediately obvious that you can connect your monsters diagonally.

deniz · March 2013

Congrats:)

Mells · March 2013

@thanhquan1512 The game looks nice

It would help for marketing if you created a page on your home page with a trailer or a gameplay video

It's great that you could reuse the same assets several times (different colors, even for the icon) and still retain the nice look.

BJG · March 2013

I think there should be some form of instruction screen as it's not immediately obvious that you can connect your monsters diagonally.

...yeah, it took me a little while to figure out what I was supposed to be doing. Maybe you could update the explanation on Google Play to make it a bit clearer. Eg:

"Monster Mine is a cool and cute mine games with simple game play. Control your monsters in a mine world, dig down by matching monsters together and make them explode. Collecting copper, silver, gold and diamond to enrich your score. Dig fast and as deep as possible before the time run out, the deeper you dig, the more treasure you will find."

->

"Monster Mine is a cool and cute mine game with simple gameplay. Dig down by dragging across three or more matching monsters (up/down/diagonal) to connect them up and make them explode. Collect copper, silver, gold and diamonds to enrich your score. Dig as fast and as deep as possible before the time runs out - the deeper you dig, the more treasure you will find!"

thanhquan1512 · March 2013

best part - the eyes moving

Thank you, glad to know that you like it

CongoRatz
Awesome game. Kept me playing for a while. I think there should be some form of instruction screen as it's not immediately obvious that you can connect your monsters diagonally.

Thank you very much, I will implement a tutorial in next update

...yeah, it took me a little while to figure out what I was supposed to be doing. Maybe you could update the explanation on Google Play to make it a bit clearer. Eg:

"Monster Mine is a cool and cute mine game with simple gameplay. Dig down by dragging across three or more matching monsters (up/down/diagonal) to connect them up and make them explode. Collect copper, silver, gold and diamonds to enrich your score. Dig as fast and as deep as possible before the time runs out - the deeper you dig, the more treasure you will find!"

Thanks for your time. I will modify it along with a cute tutorial - since people tired of reading long description.

@thanhquan1512 The game looks nice
It would help for marketing if you created a page on your home page with a trailer or a gameplay video

It's great that you could reuse the same assets several times (different colors, even for the icon) and still retain the nice look.

Thank you, I need sometime to update my homepage

Using same assets help me a lot from reuse my code and reduce development time. However next project should have a new look or player will fed up with my buttons lolz.

Scouser · March 2013

Just installed and tried on my tabled (Novo 7 Elf II) and it sometimes freezes or returns to android home screen after displaying large advert. I will try and capture logcat when I get home later. This is annoying as it happens when I get >11m

thanhquan1512 · March 2013

Just installed and tried on my tabled (Novo 7 Elf II) and it sometimes freezes or returns to android home screen after displaying large advert. I will try and capture logcat when I get home later. This is annoying as it happens when I get >11m

Crashing is going to be a big problem

@vitalitymobile: does your game get problem with Chartboost plugin? Do you have to override onKeyUp function in YourGameActivity.java?

phongtt · March 2013

Congoratz Quân! =D>

Scouser · March 2013

@thanhquan1512: It only crashes on my 7" tablet, that may be down to the custom ROM. I might try another custom ROM and see if it crashes with that. (I don't guarantee that this is the problem but will also try it on a lower spec device). Besides that, it's a great game & I wish I had written it

AhBadiane · March 2013

@thanhquan1512, I play a lot of with 3 platforms:
- iPad mini - iOS 6.1.2
- Samsung S3 - Android 4.1.2
- Samsung Galaxy Tab1 - Android 4.1.2

=> I had no crach

thanhquan1512 · March 2013

@thanhquan1512, I play a lot of with 3 platforms:
- iPad mini - iOS 6.1.2
- Samsung S3 - Android 4.1.2
- Samsung Galaxy Tab1 - Android 4.1.2

=> I had no crach

Great tester, thank you very much

@thanhquan1512: It only crashes on my 7" tablet, that may be down to the custom ROM. I might try another custom ROM and see if it crashes with that. (I don't guarantee that this is the problem but will also try it on a lower spec device). Besides that, it's a great game & I wish I had written it

Thanks for your encouragement! It makes me so happy

petec · March 2013

Using the back button on the initial Utimate games screen causes it to stop with an error pop up on my Chinese market ZTE running Android 4.0.4. Other than that, I echo what others are saying - it's a very playable and addictive game! Well done.

phongtt · March 2013

Played it nicely on my iPad4.
With more graphical effects (like Candy Crush Saga) and some leaderboard/social features, I think the game will be HIT!

Scouser · March 2013

Just checked and got the same crash as @petec.

thanhquan1512 · March 2013

Using the back button on the initial Utimate games screen causes it to stop with an error pop up on my Chinese market ZTE running Android 4.0.4. Other than that, I echo what others are saying - it's a very playable and addictive game! Well done.

Just checked and got the same crash as @petec.

Confirmed this bug, I think I was doing wrong with Chartboost plugins.

Played it nicely on my iPad4.
With more graphical effects (like Candy Crush Saga) and some leaderboard/social features, I think the game will be HIT!

Thank you for your suggestions

thanhquan1512 · March 2013

Btw, may I ask what is the best social feature which can be implemented with Gideros? A tournament every week like other puzzle games seem to be a best idea but I don't know how to start

Can we save scores in our cloud server?

Scouser · March 2013

How about post scores to FB / Twitter ??

jojobarcream · March 2013

Congratulation

thanhquan1512 · March 2013

How about post scores to FB / Twitter ??

I will dig into this, I read somewhere that people do not often use OpenFeint, Scoreloops or GameCenter. Facebook maybe the best choice.

Scouser · March 2013

I just installed on my old ZTE Blade (with custom rom) and it crashed in

GChartBoost.java
com.nightspade.gideros.android.plugins.chartboost.GChartBoost
onKeyUp
line 59

called from

com.giderosmobile.android.MonsterMineActivity
onKeyUp
Line 193

Hope this helps.

fxone · March 2013

@thanhquan1512 I use the same Chartboost plugin. Remember to add at main activity:

	<a href="https://forum.giderosmobile.com/profile/Override" rel="nofollow">@Override</a>
	public boolean onKeyUp(int keyCode, KeyEvent event)
 
	{
	if(GChartBoost.onKeyUp(keyCode, event) == true)
	return true;
	if (GiderosApplication.getInstance().onKeyUp(keyCode, event) == true)
	return true;
	return super.onKeyUp(keyCode, event);
	}

instead of default:

	<a href="https://forum.giderosmobile.com/profile/Override" rel="nofollow">@Override</a>
  public boolean onKeyUp(int keyCode, KeyEvent event)
   {
	if (GiderosApplication.getInstance().onKeyUp(keyCode, event) == true)
		return true;
 
	return super.onKeyUp(keyCode, event);
   }

I use this solution without crashes and I haven't yet received any crash reports from my two games, which are using this plugin.

One more thing:

is this misspelling?

GChartBoost.java
com.nightspade.gideros.android.plugins.chartboosr.GChartBoost

'chartboosr' not 'chartboost'?

Scouser · March 2013

Yeah, it was a typo, now fixed.

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