Out Now: Zombie Minefield (iPad only)

phongtt

Zombie Minefield has been approved today. Enjoy explosion parties! \m/ 8-X

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zombie-minefield/id666758920?mt=8

Thanks everyone for your support!

phongtt

Technology highlights:

- Gideros, of course!
- EveryPlay for replay record and sharing
- InMobi LTVP for segmentation and actions
- Ads rotation: Chartboost, Heyzap, InMobi
- Virtual currency redemption, controlled from server, for promotion campaigns (currently turned off)

hgvyas123

Kongrats Game looks great

phongtt

Mmm... In-App Purchase doesn't seem to work on my side
(Works perfectly in sandbox mode)

Could anyone help check it? No need to purchase anything, just touch on an item and if the confirmation dialog appears then it works.

One possible reason is that the IAP items, although says "Approved" in iTunesConnect, take time to go live :-??

phongtt

Interesting:

http://iphonedevsdk.com/forum/business-legal-app-store/90754-how-long-for-iap-items-to-appear.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5753162/in-app-purchase-does-not-work-when-live

ar2rsawseen

Thats strange but I have "Error connecting to itunes", while restore purchase button seems to work connecting to itunes and saying that there are no purchases to be restored.
In other apps iap seems to work.

Do you experience the same problem?

phongtt

My guess is that because the IAP item is not live yet, so when the game query a transaction with item ID it will return an error. For Restore Purchase there's no item ID

hgvyas123

same here error #0 can not connect to itunes store

phongtt

Headache!!! ~X(

ar2rsawseen

But is it even possible to test real IAP before releasing app on the appstore?

phongtt

Unfortunately I don't think there's a way to do so.

( I could have done this: manually control the release date, so at least it's safer to check internally before put it live. In fact I was aware about that but seems I forgot )

hgvyas123

i like the game however i am stucked at level 4 can't finish it

phongtt

@hgvyas123: no it's not that hard you can do it!

hgvyas123

yeah

phongtt

More evidences showing that this must be Apple's issue (IAP items take time to be available for transaction)

http://iphonedevsdk.com/forum/iphone-sdk-development/99804-in-app-purchase-works-in-sandbox-but-not-on-the-real-store.html

http://blog.shinetech.com/2011/07/11/lessons-learnt-with-ios-in-app-purchasing/

http://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/39269-having-serious-problem-with-app-live-on-app-store-with-iap-iap-was-working-on-sandbox-but-not-on-app-store-any-ideas/

But no one here has had such experience? Or it's just because in my case I was too eager to check IAP right after the game went live while in most cases people (developers) aren't aware about that and they just know it works because they test it later?

ar2rsawseen

not to scare you, but some say it may be incorrect settings, for example:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/12339391/2274511

says that you need to set correct bundle version (same you have in the appstore):
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/technotes/tn2259/_index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS40009578-CH1-WHAT_S_NEXT_

phongtt

Mmm... I'm sure version number and build number were set (1.0.0 and 100 respectively)

phongtt

IAP works now!!! Almost 24 hours

ar2rsawseen

ahh, great. So will know of the problem, and probably it is better to delay app release for 1 day after approval?

phongtt

It may be the better way then.

techdojo

Just noticed on the App store description.

Description
Defense our land against the attack of vampires and zombies!!!

Should be Defend - not wishing to be picky but one simple spelling mistake like this can sour the public's opinion of your game before it's even been downloaded and all your hard work will go to waste!

phongtt

Fixed! Thanks a lot man!

techdojo

Your welcome

phongtt

Hey everyone, why not leave a comment and 5 stars? C'mon... Thanks a bunch!!! 8-X :P

phongtt

TouchArcade official thread: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?p=2968581

atilim

@phongtt it deserves 5 stars!

hgvyas123

Given 5 star

phongtt

Ranking is gradually rising

Btw, there's a serious bug in this version that has made me headache for the past few days.

Already submitted hot fix build and was approved for expedited review by late Friday last week. Now waiting for "In Review" status.

Platypus

Mate, why didn't you post this video on the forum? It's GREAT!

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8-X EXPLOSION PARTIES! @-) PARTIES OF EXPLOSION! >-) AAARRRRGHH!

Well done, Guava7! I think this game will be very successful. $-)

phongtt

Hahaha very emotional! Thanks man! )

Also enjoy replay recording uploaded by users: https://everyplay.com/zombie-minefield

phongtt

Version 1.0.1 is now Ready For Sale thanks to expedited review

This is to fix a critical but that made IAP manfunctioned (user bought an item but it was not put into the game)