The Secret of Grisly Manor - now live in the App Store!

firemaplegamesfiremaplegames Member Posts: 3,211
edited November -1 in Announce Your Game!
Hey everybody!

I'm very excited! My latest game, The Secret of Grisly Manor is set to go live tomorrow!
It should show up in the US store around midnight tonight.

It is currently live in Europe and New Zealand!

I'll update this post with links once it goes live.

You can also follow the thread over at the TouchArcade forums:
http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=69479

If you haven't yet, please play the complete game for free on gamesalad.com:
http://gamesalad.com/game/play/82485

I would love to hear any feedback you have!

Joe
Fire Maple Games
www.firemaplegames.com
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Comments

  • ChaserChaser Member Posts: 1,453
    Congrats!!! Hope it does well! It deserves it.
  • TymeMasterTymeMaster Member Posts: 527
    Awesome, you're gonna kick some ass with this one! Good luck
  • expired_012expired_012 Member Posts: 1,802
    This is gonna be huge!
  • NexusGameStudioNexusGameStudio Member Posts: 265
    Congrats bud, here's hoping for the best! :)
  • synthesissynthesis Member Posts: 1,693
    Good luck FMG! Keep us posted on the market response!
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    be sure to post the itunes link here when its up in US. I just did a search and didn't see it.

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  • TymeMasterTymeMaster Member Posts: 527
    Just noticed something about the app store.

    In the USA store I just did a search of "The Secret of Grisly Manor", of course it gave me the "Your search had no results" error. But, on the bottom left it put "Fire Maple Games >". When clicked it didn't show TSoGM of course, but I thought it was interesting that it shows the developer.
  • markjohnsonmarkjohnson Member Posts: 64
    played it the first day you announced it ,you did a great job looks awesome i hope to get games out that look that good someday, now it's back to work
  • expired_012expired_012 Member Posts: 1,802
    @firemaple, are your screenshots presented in the order that you wanted? Has apple fixed that issue yet? Just wondering because before it was totally messed up

    And i think you should have showed off the actual gameplay more instead of putting screenshots of the home menu. It's still gonna be extremely successful tho! This is gonna make the top overall definitely
  • firemaplegamesfiremaplegames Member Posts: 3,211
    @Arton: I never had a problem with the order of screenshots...was that an issue? I hear you about the images of the logo and the main menu - I just thought they are more iconic.

    it's a shame Apple only lets you put 5 screenshots up!
  • expired_012expired_012 Member Posts: 1,802
    firemaplegames said:
    @Arton: I never had a problem with the order of screenshots...was that an issue? I hear you about the images of the logo and the main menu - I just thought they are more iconic.

    it's a shame Apple only lets you put 5 screenshots up!

    Yeah, that was an issue recently. Apple kept on showing the screenshots in random order and they got many complaints because of that. Some developers had screenshots where if they were shown randomly it wouldn't logically make sense because they had a story sequence kind of thing, and they said that it ruined their apps sales.

    I think they cleared that issue by now though

    BTW I think its amazing how you managed to keep it at only 13MB!
  • TymeMasterTymeMaster Member Posts: 527
    Its in the USA store now!

    http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-secret-of-grisly-manor/id384282298?mt=8
  • firemaplegamesfiremaplegames Member Posts: 3,211
    @Thanks, TymeMaster! Very exciting!

    Man, releasing apps is such a roller coaster ride of emotions!
  • markjohnsonmarkjohnson Member Posts: 64
    good luck on your sales joe and keep up the good work
  • A3MGA3MG Member Posts: 152
    Nice Joe!!!!
  • scorelessmusicscorelessmusic Member Posts: 565
    Woohoo!!!
  • juzcookjuzcook Member Posts: 259
    looking forward to getting a copy of this! good luck!
  • CapCap Member Posts: 225
    Good luck, FMG! Great work!
  • quantumsheepquantumsheep Member Posts: 8,188
    It looks about 100% better on a phone than it does on the web (not that it looks bad on the web! That's very generous putting it up there for free!)

    Worth buying it just to see it in action on the target device!

    A brilliant little game - congrats Joe!

    QS :D

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  • CaptainChocoCaptainChoco Member, BASIC Posts: 124
    I'm downloading at hongkong appstore now.
    looks great!
    Is this really done with GS?
    Why don't you write a book? making ADV with GS.
  • beefy_clyrobeefy_clyro Member Posts: 5,394
    Completely agree with QS

    Congrats Joe, great to see another release from you. Good luck with sales matey.
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  • firemaplegamesfiremaplegames Member Posts: 3,211
    Wow, thanks everyone!
  • LAdrianLAdrian Member Posts: 237
    Congratulations, it looks great!
    Let us know how it does on the appstore ;)
  • UtopianGamesLtdUtopianGamesLtd Member Posts: 120
    Well done Joe, will you be posting sales results for us?

    Best of luck m8,

    Darren.
  • AppChogieAppChogie Member Posts: 503
    Joe I have been playing the game online via the browser and it's great. The art is top notch and the functionally is spot on I cant imagine how many scenes and actors are contained within. I love the interpolate at the beginning going into the house takes me back to my youth playing such games as Broken Sword and Day of the Tentacle with a touch of Myst.

    You have achieved what could be considered on paper and a massive project within the GS framework and made it work. I think the game is "Top Notch" and I wish you all the best with sales, however if you spent that much time creating the game I am sure you are all over the marketing.

    Take Care

    Keith
  • Rob2Rob2 Member Posts: 2,402
    Good luck with it...a real mini classic, superb style and very clever content...keeps you coming back for more (I never got past the colors) my son loved it. It reminded me very much of 'Alone in the Dark'...lets hope it creates the same buzz.
  • firemaplegamesfiremaplegames Member Posts: 3,211
    Thanks, guys!
    AppChogie said:
    I cant imagine how many scenes and actors are contained within.

    Thanks, AppChogie! There are in fact just 15 Scenes and 12 Actors... (a lot of Instances, though!)

    Because of the low Actor and Scene count, I am quite proud to say that the game loads in less than 2 seconds - something I was worried about with it being such an asset-heavy game.

    I'll post numbers when I get them, which I assume will be Tuesday.
  • LAdrianLAdrian Member Posts: 237
    That's great! So you don't get daily stats from Apple regarding the sales?
  • firemaplegamesfiremaplegames Member Posts: 3,211
    You do, but the game technically went live today - Monday. The sales figures you get are for the previous day's sales.
  • firemaplegamesfiremaplegames Member Posts: 3,211
    Thank you so much for the support, Basseman! I really appreciate it! Let me know if you get stuck again!

    And of course the game has already been cracked! It took a couple of weeks before my other games were cracked, I guess I am moving up in the world!
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