D-Capitatrix - Front page review on Touch Arcade :O

quantumsheepquantumsheep Member Posts: 8,188
edited November -1 in Announce Your Game!
That's two in a day - WHAT'S GOING ON???

http://toucharcade.com/2011/06/20/d-capitatrix-review/

Well done to all involved!

QS :D

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  • SparkyidrSparkyidr Member Posts: 2,033
    Was just about to post this... 2 lots of GS love from TA.... seems unheard of, but there it is :)

    Game looks ace in the vid by the way.
  • GamersRejoiceGamersRejoice Member Posts: 817
    This is so great! I saw both reviews one right next to the other. Almost brought a tear to my eye. :) Congrats to Both!
  • PhoticsPhotics Member Posts: 4,172
    Sparkyidr said:
    Was just about to post this... 2 lots of GS love from TA.... seems unheard of, but there it is :)

    Ha ha... maybe my discussion with Hodapp on Touch Arcade changed opinions about GameSalad.

    This is not just two GameSalad game reviews... it's two in a row.

    Hodapp mentioned something about hiring new staff members, so maybe they have more people for more reviews.
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    haha I just saw this too. Crazy!

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  • JeffreyShimaneJeffreyShimane Member Posts: 372
    Photics said:
    Ha ha... maybe my discussion with Hodapp on Touch Arcade changed opinions about GameSalad.

    Or maybe the games themselves deserved it?

    - Jeff
  • PhoticsPhotics Member Posts: 4,172
    JeffreyShimane said:
    Or maybe the games themselves deserved it?

    I don't know... what do you think...
    Hodapp
    ...it's generally safe to assume that if someone was serious about developing an iPhone game, they'd go the extra steps and use one of the many existing game engines that allow further customization than a basic game creation studio without being locked into all the weird things GameSalad has pulled over the years.

    I think that's a big 180° from what was said earlier.

    ...and then there's this...
    Hodapp
    Tomorrow is too busy of a day for a GameSalad preview.

    Just looking around here, members of this community are surprised. This doesn't seem like a completely random occurrence to me. I think it's possible that Touch Arcade is rethinking its opinion of GameSalad after what was discussed on the site...

    http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=86586
  • DizkoDizko Member Posts: 498
    Don't give yourself too much credit Photics.
  • gamesmoldgamesmold Member, PRO Posts: 279
    Wow...
    I knew that review was in the making, but I had already given up my hopes that it would get published.
    Again, my congrats also to jonmulcahy on his long way home!
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  • JeffreyShimaneJeffreyShimane Member Posts: 372
    @Photics

    I don't know whether jonmulcahy and gamesmold mentioned that they used GS to make the games in any of their correspondence with TA (if they had any at all) but maybe TA doesn't realize that these games were even made with GS. I know I asked you in the BOT thread about how TA knew BOT was made with GS and you said it was because you told them it was.

    In any case, I think it's pretty sad that you can't just congratulate jonmulcahy and gamesmold for getting reviews on TA without trying to take credit away from their efforts.

    - Jeff
  • JPickardJPickard Member Posts: 477
    Well deserved review. Congrats for the limelight.
  • PhoticsPhotics Member Posts: 4,172
    JeffreyShimane said:
    I don't know whether jonmulcahy and gamesmold mentioned that they used GS to make the games in any of their correspondence with TA (if they had any at all) but maybe TA doesn't realize that these games were even made with GS. I know I asked you in the BOT thread about how TA knew BOT was made with GS and you said it was because you told them it was.

    That's interesting. Maybe they don't know it was made with GameSalad.
    JeffreyShimane said:
    In any case, I think it's pretty sad that you can't just congratulate jonmulcahy and gamesmold for getting reviews on TA without trying to take credit away from their efforts.

    I'm not trying to take credit away from anyone... but the reverse shouldn't happen either. If I changed perception over at Touch Arcade, that's huge. It opens up the doors for the efforts of an entire community.

    Right now, I'm thinking... probably not. It seems that gamesmold was in discussion with Touch Arcade before the GameSalad discussion... and now I'm wondering if it's better to hide the "Made with GameSalad" aspect of our apps.
  • butterbeanbutterbean Member Posts: 4,315
    @Photics: Feel free to congratulate them at anytime.

    You are a very interesting fellow, and I'm trying very hard to give you the benefit of the doubt...

    It's mind blowing as to how you turned this thread into something about you, when a simple congratulations would suffice.
  • JeffreyShimaneJeffreyShimane Member Posts: 372
    Photics said:
    I'm not trying to take credit away from anyone... but the reverse shouldn't happen either. If I changed perception over at Touch Arcade, that's huge. It opens up the doors for the efforts of an entire community.

    Right now, I'm thinking... probably not. It seems that gamesmold was in discussion with Touch Arcade before the GameSalad discussion... and now I'm wondering if it's better to hide the "Made with GameSalad" aspect of our apps.

    Right now, I'm thinking... probably not too.

    - Jeff
  • PhoticsPhotics Member Posts: 4,172
    butterbean said:
    It's mind blowing as to how you turned this thread into something about you, when a simple congratulations would suffice.

    Well... congratulations to gamesmold and jonmulcahy!

    D-Capitatrix looks like a great puzzle game. It's unique and I can see why they'd review it. The game has great graphics.

    One of the comments after the review was funny to me :)

    As for "A Long Way From Home" - it's good to see that game see some recognition. That game was in development for what... seven months?! That's a really long time for an app. It looks like a successful launch so far.

    Still... the timing is interesting. D-Capitatrix was release last month and "A Long Way From Home" was released four days ago. Yet, Touch Arcade suddenly decide to publish back-to-back GameSalad reviews.
  • AppsRacKAppsRacK Member Posts: 346
    The games really deserves it.
    edit: i wonder if D-BOSS1000 is from around here :)
  • bluebyu25bluebyu25 Member Posts: 500
    drahc said:
    The games really deserves it.
    edit: i wonder if D-BOSS1000 is from around here :)

    I was wondering that too.....how else could he have known?
  • DizkoDizko Member Posts: 498
    I like Portal motif this game has even down to the sound effects. Very cool 2D interpretation of the Portal mechanics.
  • mangaroomangaroo Member Posts: 419
    well photics did push hodapp on his gamesalad bias recently and im sure more quality gs games being released didn't hurt either. hopefully people keep developing to release quality apps and the bias wont exist, i dont think it really exists as much as people think it does even now. gameplay trumps sdk...

    i didnt even know about d-capititrax it looks very polished so im glad it got the extra attention
  • beefy_clyrobeefy_clyro Member Posts: 5,394
    Congrats GamesMold
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  • HodappHodapp Member Posts: 1
    I didn't know either game was made using GameSalad, and the timing was just a coincidence.
  • PhoticsPhotics Member Posts: 4,172
    Hodapp said:
    I didn't know either game was made using GameSalad, and the timing was just a coincidence.

    Good to know, nice to see ya over here :)
  • beefy_clyrobeefy_clyro Member Posts: 5,394
    Hodapp said:
    I didn't know either game was made using GameSalad, and the timing was just a coincidence.

    Good to see you over here Hodapp, Welcome :)
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