Birds Eye Golf released

Or at least, I THINK its available ;) I can't find it by searching the app store, even if I type the exact name in.

Anyone else have this issue?



http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/birds...lf/id507450451

Website:

cozmologic.com



Now that the release weekend is upon me, I need to decide if its worth getting the app reviewer promotions going to take advantage of the surge. The alternative is to do bugfixes for a week or so while listening to the reviews of early adopters.... Maybe it's best to only start promoting it after version 1.1 is out.

Congrats!!

Thank you sir!

Does seem a little odd that nothing comes up in the search, but I seem to remember it taking a while to get into the search engine. Try searching again tomorrow! Well done - I know how hard it is to get a game into the App Store!

Yes, I had the same experience - I'm still not quite on top of the search results when you search for the exact title of my own game, but it's better than it used to be :) Wait for 24 hours or so and you should see it beginning to appear.

Heh, I got impatient for my first sale, so I bought it :p

Still no updates in the sales screens, so that comforts me. Time to go to bed and check it in the morning. :)

Just checked this morning and the search is now working! Good luck with your sales!!!

Thank you :)

I dont think I have a single sale yet. Nothing is coming up in iTunesConnect :/

Oh well - guess I'll have to wait and see. I'll probably spend most of my day researching app promotion strategies. I posted some promo codes at toucharcade, but I wasn't impressed how they were gobbled up quickly by forum lurkers.

Here are some promo codes for the clickteam community. Give me feedback! :)

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Thank you :)

I dont think I have a single sale yet. Nothing is coming up in iTunesConnect :/

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Check again in a few hours.

Ah-ha, now I'm feeling way better. 10 units sold yesterday, one of them likely mine :)

Now a few hundred more to go to recoup my investment. Hopefully they wont fade off too strongly, and I can upgrade to MMF Developer soon.

It looks good! I downloaded it and left you a review to hopefully give you a boost. I'm actually surprised that that "Exit" button got past the review, as I thought that Apple disallowed anything that 'quit' even voluntarily... but still, consistency and normal computer logic don't seem to be their strong points sometimes.

It's only now that I'm replying here that I realize how complicated the physics behind it must be - the game looks simple at first, but it takes wind, height and ground type into account - that's a very impressive engine :) I have to say it must be a vindictive course designer that routinely starts you off in the rough... as vindictive as the real-life course designer who made up the 17th at Sawgrass, which you've so faithfully recreated in the game. Thanks a lot!

First app I have seen with an exit button that quits the app.
Great game! I just bought it, and will write a 5 star review in the Norwegian app store later today :-)

I used to study astrophysics ;) Now I am a cancer biologist.... Needless to say, grad school doesn't pay well, hence me getting into this side business. I'm hoping to net a couple grand a year to pay for research I would like to get done in my lab. If I get a few more games out, hopefully I can do it!

As for the engine, I posted a description of how it all works here:
http://community.clickteam.com/showthread.php?t=69337

... its really simple how I did it. Each surface type gets a separate layer, with a single pixel active in that layer for background collision detection. For each step, Im setting the XY coordinates of the ball. The lakes are all quick backdrops with gradients, and the fairway around the lakes is a border in an upper layer. This lets the water splash effects work.

Overall, the physics engine is quite realistic in that it obeys simple Newtonian Kinetics, however I'm still not satisfied with the parameters entirely. (Frictions, ball bounce coefficient of restitution, etc...) I'm not simulating the ball trajectory with any realistic units or anything. I just tweaked the parameters until they looked good. :)


Thank you kindly for the review. I'll download Running Free at some point and return the favor. That game looks awesome! I want to try making a puzzle game at some point, but it seems that level design might be challenging. Just how to do think of many variations and order them by how challenging they are? I always get bored playtesting my own games, which is probably a bad sign ;)

Thanks Aasland! Do you have any released apps that I can review?

No problem :-)
Yes, I do, but please wait for the update.
I will make a post when it's out!

Someone actually indicated in a rating that they didn't like the fact that my hole flag doesn't point in the same direction as my wind ;)

Its funny, since I noticed this during design, and tried making flag animations for several wind directions, but i never kept them since I didn't think people would care enough :P

Hi all - Im going to try making this game free for 1 day to see if I can drive up the userbase. I'm hoping this will get me more paid downloads tomorrow.

If anyone has the time to try my game and give me feedback, I would greatly appreciate it :)
I am hoping to get a first update out in a weeks time, and I would love to hear recommendations for how to improve this game to make it better.

Thanks all!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/birds...0451?ls=1&mt=8