Dragon Fire: Una's Quest - Out Now - Links & Video

debugdesign

Sorry for the double post, I just wanted to announce the game properly, feel free to delete the other one...

Dragon Fire is Now Out:

Dragon Fire: Una's Quest - Retro Top Down Shooter for iPhone and iPod Touch

Dragon Fire: Una's Quest follows the story of a young Dragon who must fight her way through through the various lands of Krytok defeating hordes of enemies to reach the Evil Queen Hydra. Each land is protected by a multiple headed Dragon princess and it's unusual general. Una is the only one who knows Hydra's true plan to steal the 'Dragon Spark' from each princess to have the ultimate knowledge.

Dragon Fire: Una's quest in a retro inspired top down shooter across 14 exciting levels including seas, forests, deserts, mountains, ice plains until its final climactic end in the volcanoes on Krytok. There are various powers up which include rapid fire, speed boosts, and phoenix fire. By defeating the end of level boss gives Una the power to grow additional heads to increase her fire power.

The game has vibrantly colorful graphics with a crazy selection of weird and wonderful enemies from flying pigs to stomping cyclops reminiscent of the classic game Parodius. Mix this with awesome style of Pop 'n' Twin Bee and you have an action packed fun shoot em up for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Collect stars throughout the game to unlock three pig related mini games; Piggy Bank Plinko, Slippy Pig's Castle Escape and Protect the Pigs.

The game can be played with a D-Pad or Joystick and with a plethora of options this game can be played again and again.

So help young Una battle her way through the army of quirky creatures, and collect the dragon sparks and bring peace back to the land.

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/dragon-fire-unas-quest/id395148253?mt=8

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dragon-fire-unas-quest/id395148253?mt=8

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quantumsheep

Best of luck! Tried to download it but it's just over 20mb - will try again when I'm on wifi!

goliath

What did you do the video trailer in?

MotherHoose

Absolutely stunning on iPad!

::Scores...Where is Pig Run?

::About
J-stick…
thought it was a joy stick…stead auto fire and and touch screen
which is phenomenal playing
felt D-pad was difficult to control on iPad because distance between buttons
Back button covers sheep.

::Mini Game
after the first Retry the only option on game over is [Retry] and must restart to get back to Main Menu.
Plinko was open before 200 stars
Tower was open though < 200 stars

Oh the music is so gooooood!
and the graphics!
and the play! retro and still looks and feels modern.
love being able to access any level … I'm good in ice scenes; lousy in fire scenes.
when I get 6 heads, I really kick a$$.
so happy with my purchase!

Thank you, Ian, for making this one!
MH

PS I can't turn the music off...in About

debugdesign

Thanks for the feedback MG, I'm glad you like it!! (i wanted to make a ipad version)

Pig Run is the 2nd mini game (maybe I called it castle escape?)

everything is unlocked!!!! arrrgh!

I will get on the update shortly... lock everything and fix the music off

Thanks again, I appreciate any purchases!!!

The trailer was done by Keith Curtis - KC8

MotherHoose

Ian...
the second mini game is titled Tower Escape

..little things I pointed out don't interfere with playing the game... that is pure fun!

graphics on iPad are super...1x or 2x play is good... so don't really need iPad version.

thank Keith...trailer is the best intro to game.

MH

Sparkyidr

yeah man. I got the same bug.
On the plinko game when you have retried once, you only get the option to retry (and not quit) when you run out of coins.
Also...when I hit retry that first time, it stopped the music.

Also.. the back button on the about page covers up QS's name ;o)

It plays nice and smooth. The scrolling and graphics look really really good etc ;o)

/hijack thread a sec
Mootherhoose....glad you like the music

Sparks.

Sparkyidr

bah.. sorry man.
just found another odd couple of bugs :

Just paused the game, when I hit the pause again, it still said pause, even though it was un-paused.....so I paused again, and it did, but wouldn't let me unpause, but the main menu button worked and let me quit.

strange one

I only have 147 stars, but minigame 2 is unloackd now!

juzcook

this is great man! got the same bugs everyone else mentioned, and running on my iphone 4 was flawless. the video actually made it look like it ran a bit choppy, so i was pleasantly suprised when i loaded it up

quantumsheep

MotherHoose said:
Back button covers sheep.

Story of my life!

It's just downloaded and will give it a good go today!

Congrats on the release, Ian! Wish you the best with it!

QS

debugdesign

if you find any bugs please feel free to email me at ian (at) debugdesign (dot) com

beefy_clyro

Good work matey, glad its out. Bought it last night and will leave you a review at some point today. Graphics are great, music was awesome and matches the feel of the game perfectly. Best of luck with sales

EnlevelStudio

bought it. great graphics, music and gameplay. Love the minigames.

butterbean

Sweet! Buying now!

butterbean

Just played it and wrote up a review for you! Been looking forward to this one, and i LOVED it! Love the quirky bosses and enemies, the gameplay is great, love the powerups, you did a marvelous job!

It also really reminds me of Zelda, did you draw inspiration from that at all?

Great job, and hope it does well for ya

chosenonestudios

Lookin good!

debugdesign

thanks butterbean!! I'm really glad you like... sorry about everything being unlocked

I will update this weekend so enjoy all the levels whilst you can!

jessicaleahy

Great job on the game. I looks spectacular. I particularly love its effects.

debugdesign

Thanks for the 14 sales (over 2 days) I know I bought one, my brother, my sister, 2 friends, and QuantumSheep (my special friend )

So to the other 9 that got it... You are all awesome!! thanks

not quite enough to retire on yet...

butterbean

I'm the only one so far that's left a review, so when people have a chance, please leave a review for this game!

debugdesign

Thanks BB, you're a star, I have 3 reviews in the UK store and 1 in the US store.... i hired a 'press release' writer who writes something and sends it to people so hopefully when she gets going it might improve...

beefy_clyro

I have left you one in the uk store. Hoping for good results on the press release

TymeMaster

Your game looks nice, good luck with it!

juzcook

i left my review in the aus store a couple days ago

debugdesign

Should I make a website for the game... I can't decide...

Do you go to game websites often?

what are the benefits?

quantumsheep

debugdesign said:
Should I make a website for the game... I can't decide...

Do you go to game websites often?

what are the benefits?

I think it all helps, Ian. At the very least, have a game page somewhere, even if it's as part of your main site or something.

Hope that helps!

QS

Chunkypixels

Its obvious a lot of work has gone into the game, so hope it does well for you.

I have to say though, that Im not overly keen on the controls, and think they might turn out to be an issue with customers.

They seem a little confusing in their naming... D-Pad and Joystick.

For the Dpad, I think the controls are too spaced out, and taking up a lot more of the screen than they need to... a traditional D-pad would normally have them all close together in a cross that can easily be controlled by one thumb. I think this is what most customers will expect.

Again, for the Joystick, I was expecting something along the lines of an analogue stick...similar to the Codemonkey joystick example. Your Joystick control is more of a point/drag around system, and gets quite fiddly when your finger/hand gets in the way as you move it around the screen.

Overall its a nicely polished game, so just mentioning the controls as I think its a potential weakpoint that might benefit from some tweaking.

FanStudioUK

Hi Ian,

How are the sales going?

Cheers,

Andrei

jonmulcahy

Just picked it up!

debugdesign

6 sales yesterday so its still the cheap wine tonight

36 total now... so that family, friends and you guys and gals (thanks by the way)

quantumsheep

Chunkypixels said:

Again, for the Joystick, I was expecting something along the lines of an analogue stick...similar to the Codemonkey joystick example. Your Joystick control is more of a point/drag around system, and gets quite fiddly when your finger/hand gets in the way as you move it around the screen.

Funnily enough, I implemented the joystick variation of the controls for Ian on this game.
It's the Codemonkey Joystick example - the variant that moves the joystick base's origin to wherever you touch the screen!

I agree that your hand gets in the way sometimes - I'm investigating how to make it a bit better for my own game, and will obviously apply any findings I have to Ian's!

Cheers,

QS