Sleigher!

Hi everyone!

My new game is here, it's called Sleigher, and it's free to play. You can get it right here!

Smash through mountain roads, ice lakes, ski resorts & towns as you guide your dogs using super easy controls. Gain bonuses for high-speed runs, air time or generally causing chaos along the way!

Your rival skiers will not approve, but they are no match for your husky team! Can you show 'em who's boss before they get the better of you?

Upgrade your sleigh with upgrades such as a BBQ & bacon canon, a trained SQUIRREL, rocket boosters and even a wrecking ball!

Why not find out for yourself? It's free!

Features:

-16 wacky sleigh upgrades!
-13 dogs to choose from!
-5 Game modes including a super special Santa mode!
-GameCenter integration with 30 achievements & high scores!
-Unique hand-drawn illustrated graphics
-Randomly generated terrain makes the game completely different each time.
-An awesome high-energy rock soundtrack!
-Designed for all iOS devices- no black bars or stretching to fit screens!

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Damn it Cole, if I wasn't so wrapped up with client work I'd be pumping titles out too! Good Job, downloading for my iPod Touch now!

Btw, I heart your graphic style.

F-F-F-F-F-FANTASTIC! Great work!

fantasticccccccccccccc i will buy this game soon!

Looks like you've got a pretty impressive frame-rate going there! Will check it out :)

I had to do some pretty intense optimization to get it to run well as there's a lot of graphics and animation. I think I've managed it though, it runs smoothly enough on my 4, which I now guess is considered among the lower end iOS devices. Performance can be a bit low right at the start of a game, but after it's loaded everything in it's generally fine.

Good call on making it free, it's the only way really when your game isn't targeting a niche (i.e. retro platformer) and you don't have an advertising budget.

Love the visuals, really well drawn, and love the rope physics.

What's the orange bar at the bottom for?

Thanks :) The orange bar at the bottom is essentially just there to fill out screen space on the iphone 5- the idea being you can use that area to tap left/right instead of using the actual screen space.

The reason being that I made most of the game before the 5 came out so I wasn't really designing it with the extra screen space in mind. I thought it might be a little unfair if I just gave the 5 users more game screen space since the game would be much easier if they could see objects approaching from a further distance if that makes sense. So I decided to keep everything equal and fill the space with that bar.

Awesome game!

I seem to notice some sort of motion blur in there. Could just be me though.

Looks very nice, I'll have a play when I get home :-)