Shadow Vamp - A sunny vampire tale by Gamesmold

gamesmold

Hi guys,

again, I've been gone for a much too long time.
Over the last year, I've been building our house (close to finished now), we had our second baby... and of course I've been creating a new app. Quantumsheep has been following it quite closely and maybe some of you have also discovered it by now.

Here's a video:


And here's the App Store link:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/ShadowVamp/id602550187?mt=8

Hope you like it!

Now that this is done, I'll go back to Gamesalad for some overdue updates to all the rest of my apps.
Gosh, I even wanted to create some templates, but never found the time (sorry for letting you wait @tenrdrmer!!!). Hope this gets better once we moved into our new home and I can concentrate on app development again.

Best wishes
Thomas

-Timo-

one word: AMAZING!
this looks really cool good luck with the downloads

Gamer1992

wooow i will defo buy this

imGua

The concept is pretty good! I've spotted and interesting trend. Best GS creators often, switch to other game dev tools. I wonder, will this trend continue.

gyroscope

What a terrific, original idea! And excellently executed (as always) to a professional-plus level; gotta do well for you, surely, @gamesmold ... way to go.

Always nice to see stuff done with other game engines... :-)

Braydon_SFX

Been following this since before release! Lovely game!

mmzbr

Awesome game mechanic @gamesmold. Did you used UDK or Unity for this one? I´ve working in a Unity game but having problems with realitime shadows (low fps).

gamesmold

Thank you very much!

What a terrific, original idea! And excellently executed (as always) to a professional-plus level; gotta do well for you, surely, @gamesmold ... way to go.

Always nice to see stuff done with other game engines... :-)

Thanks a lot @gyroscope! I hope it will do well, as it was such a long time in the works.
At the moment, it's featured in Europe and Asia on the iTunes Home Page...

Awesome game mechanic @gamesmold. Did you used UDK or Unity for this one? I´ve working in a Unity game but having problems with realitime shadows (low fps).

It's Unity.
Yes, it took a lot of optimization to keep up a good framerate, but now it works well even on iPod touch 4, iPhone 3GS and iPad1. And on the newer devices it even has a nice subtle fog effect...

imGua

At the moment, it's featured in Europe and Asia on the iTunes Home Page...

Congrats! Any marketing?

LumpApps

Scheisse... Oops! That looks awesome! Must have". Downloading now. And downloading Blood Roofs too. Forgot about that one.

gamesmold

Congrats! Any marketing?

Not more than usual. Promo Codes for some review websites and of course the youtube video.
But I guess this doesn't depend on your marketing efforts, as it is being decided by the editorial team, anyway.

Scheisse... Oops! That looks awesome! Must have". Downloading now. And downloading Blood Roofs too. Forgot about that one.

Wow, thank you so much! Hope you enjoy them!

BazookaTime

Bought this as soon as it was released, amazing. This is one of the more original games I have played in a long time.

gamesmold

Bought this as soon as it was released, amazing. This is one of the more original games I have played in a long time.

Thank you, I'm glad you like it!

That was version 1.0.1 then, I guess? If you updated to 1.0.2 and if you also like the tweaks of that version, please feel free to give it a rating (as the update killed off the previous ratings, as usual...).

At least now I know that an early update doesn't keep an app from getting featured (which I always suspected)

beefy_clyro

Good work Thomas, looks sweet. Love the idea behind it

mmzbr

Bought it, tested on my iPad Mini and iPhone 4 (almost smooth on iPhone 4 only some lag on character selector) played the 3 first levels, impressive work for a 1 man studio. You´re an inspiration to me, you have great modeling, animation and texturing skills, your coding is good also and the game concept is original. God gave you an incredible talent/gift for sure. Good luck with the sales and sorry my english!

SnapFireStudios

Looks awesome! Great job, Thomas.
- Thomas

quantumsheep

Wonderful!

QS =D

SingleSparq

Genius!

Sparkyidr

You know when you see a game mechanic and think "damn.....wish I had thought of that"

....this!

ikhoata

So professional!
Did you make all the beautiful 3D graphics?

BBEnk

WOW! every game you make is just another step forward in your lineup, very cool.

gamesmold

Thank you, thank you all very much!

Yes, modelling, texturing, animation, design and coding was done by me. I also did the sound effects.
But the great music was done by my good old friend Moritz Horvath, as always...!

tenrdrmer

Looking great man.

Oh and I'm patient.

Benjamin_m5

Found this game last saturday on facebook (your page). AWESOME. Played it for 2hours so far and left a review (switzerland). Well done!
---
Benjamin

matarua

Well WICKED!! Nice one.

StormyStudio

Congrats gamesmold ... another incredibly polished title to add to your list... as always I'm in awe of the quality of the word an individual can create.

GSAnimator

Awesome!! great =D>

gamevicci

You have a great talent, your games have some kind of pure art!

In my opinion the only thing to change is the icon, you need something more "funny" and "easy"
Especially for the Japanese market

Congrats!!

LumpApps

I have been playing it a bit. What I like very much is the consistent style through all your games from spooky Hoofs and up.

gamesmold

By the way, Blood Roofs just became FREE, in preparation for Halloween:

[url]http://itunes.apple.com/app/BloodRoofs/id497008717?mt=8[/url]

If you've missed out on this one, now's your chance to grab it!

CodeMonster

love your work @gamesmold but just a question, how long did it take you to learn unity?
because im not sure whether to learn java, unity, or udk