Coming soon: Zombie Minefield

phongtt

Do you like zombies and vampires ?

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https://www.facebook.com/ZombieMinefield

SinisterSoft

Liked.

thanhquan1512

any pre-released screenshots ?

zoolax

Gave you a like on facebook:)
The art and the name looks and sounds great.
Wish you the best.

unlying

They have Zombie Minefield too:
http://www.fubarboardgames.com/our-games/zombie-minefield

phongtt

Thanks everyone.

@thanhquan1512: keep calm & wait :P
@unlying: oh, what a coincident. Anyway, this one is in action arcade genre

fxone

@phongtt call it 'zombfields' and will be the same

phongtt

A little info regarding the technical side:

+ Spine is used for the animation
+ Free-to-play (IAP)
+ EveryPlay will most probably be implemented

phongtt

@fxone: good idea, I'll use it for the shorten name displayed on device home screen

thanhquan1512

@fxone: only good for short name on devices, 'zombfields' surely will be difficult to search if player don't remember your game name.

My experience was with 2 games: 'Mashball' and 'Bumbee'. I remember something like 'smash ball/ mash ball' or 'bumble bee' but can't find it on Google Play. So again, keyword is really important.

Btw, 'zombie' seems to be a competitive keyword, let's see by the time Guava7 publish it on Google Play.

Mells

@phongtt
I have often wondered if the best strategy is :

• Send people to a page with no screenshot but get them to know that you are working on something so you keep them around until you launch (the risk is that they are disappointed to see a blank page and never come back)
• Send people to a page with enough screenshots to get their attention, but with a smallest window until launch to build anticipation

Have you compared both strategies?

phongtt

@Mells
Good point indeed.
But I haven't thought much about it (thus not tried yet), I just go with the 2nd option according to my common sense and instinct

phongtt

I'm planning to start video trailer and marketing screenshots this week.
Meanwhile, see my mockup design for the credits screen )

atilim

whoa! >-

phongtt

Story

phongtt

I've just created a thread on TA forum: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=196088

phongtt

Some WIP screenshots.

@thanhquan

phongtt

Here is the tentative game description made by our designer. As we are not native English speaker, I'd love to have some help from kind and nice native speaker members such as @Platypus @techdojo @OZApps etc. for the proof-read and/or correction. Thanks a lot in advance!

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THE APOCALYPSE IS NEAR!!! A vampire wants to take over the world with zombies. Fortunately, we have a lot of devastating weapons on our land: MINES AND BOMBS. Let them come then blow them all. What a clever plan! COMMANDER, ARE YOU READY?

FEATURES:
FREE TO PLAY
So many types of weapon: about 20+ and most of them are massive zombie killer
Against all types of zombie: urban zombies, giant zombies, crocodile zombies…. and more
TONS OF zombies each level, you can’t stop destroying them
50+ battles with explosions all over the screen

WHAT’S NEXT?
The vampire and his fellows appear. They are far more devil than zombies. True battles are coming soon with more weapons, more explosions!!!
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Platypus

THE APOCALYPSE IS NEAR!!!

A vampire wants to take over the world ... with zombies!
Fortunately, we have a lot of devastating weapons on our land: MINES AND BOMBS.

Let them come, .... THEN BLOW THEM ALL AWAY!!!
(What a clever plan.)

COMMANDER,...
...ARE YOU READY?


FEATURES:

FREE TO PLAY
• So many types of weapon: 20+ (and most of them are massive zombie killers!)
• Against all types of zombie: urban zombies, giant zombies, crocodile zombies & more
• TONS of zombies in each level - you can’t stop destroying them!
• 50+ battles with explosions all over the screen!

WHAT’S NEXT?
The vampire and his fellows appear! They are far more DEVIL than zombie. True battles are coming soon with MORE weapons & MORE explosions!!!

Platypus

Just in case the bullet points (above) don't display correctly on non-Macs, here's an image:

Platypus

Regarding the W.I.P. screenshots:

1) "A Dracula" sounds cool. I like it. Since "Dracula" is (was) a particular vampire's surname, maybe "a Dracula" is one of his ancestors, siblings or descendants. However, I think many people would assume it is a mistake. People expect to see "Dracula" without "a". Personally, though, as I said, I am all for it!*

2) I don't quite understand "Join parties of explosion". It does sound exciting, though! What does it mean?


[*That sentence is for @Moopf's Missus! Tee hee.]

techdojo

@phongtt - I pretty much agree with everything @Platypus has said, especially the bit about "A Dracula", why not call him "A Vampire Lord", or " The Great Great Great Grandson of Dracula"

Just my $0.02

phongtt

Thanks a lot @Platypus @techdojo @OZApps
Your advices are extremely helpful!

Platypus

@PhongTT,
You are welcome, sir.

plamen

Dracula and zombies, now who is talking about breaking the rules. Awesoooome :-)

phongtt

Game play

OZApps

Just 2 questions,

1. Why is the video Mirrored
2. What is the gameplay about?

phongtt

@OZApps
1. I used my DSLR camera with a tripod, recording from top down the tester playing the game, but in the oposite side. After that I used the default Quicktime player on my Macbook to flip the video, but everything is mirrored )
2. Just wanna show a bit the game in action. Do you find it's interesting?

OZApps

@phongtt,
I did find it interesting, but did not quite understand what to do, the message I guess reads, "you can't bomb target" which I did not quite understand from the video.

Mells

@phongtt
1. I use AirServer and ReflectorApp.
If you can bring your laptop next to the user(s!) playing, you can record it in better quality.
But watching the way the player positions his hands and searches for buttons on screen is very important too I totally agree.
Well it depends on what you want to achieve

2. This video might work very well for internal work and decision-making (from customer feedback), but not much as a teaser I guess or gameplay showcase.
Everything happening on screen seems very confusing for a non-player point of view.
Question, do you also make a video of the face of players when they are testing your game? This is something I would like to try (device video + face in sync) to analyze even more what their experience is with the app.

phongtt

@Mells
Yeah I don't consider it a "teaser" or some showcase. Just wanna release a quick record of gameplay in the hope of getting some curiosity from users (but I agree I could have done it better)

@OZApps
Basically user can't put bombs on top of zombies, what's why.