Here’s some good news I wasn’t expecting quite so soon- According to Mika Mobile’s Twitter, they plan on submitting an update to Battleheart [$2.99] later today. Yesterday we posted about the game and mentioned that while we enjoyed this touch-based RPG style real-time battle game, many people on our forums (including myself) were experiencing random and not so random crashing issues.
Hilariously enough, according to their tweets, the cause of the crashes is when taps are “very fast or panicked," which explains why so many people were crashing so much on boss fights. These battles are difficult, and it’s not hard to get in to fast and panicked tapping mode while you’re managing your whole party. In cases like this, the game can’t quite decide if you’re trying to tap or drag a unit, and it crashes. Until the update lands, the developer recommends “direct, calm, [and] precise taps" while playing.
In the meantime, check out the thread in our forums where Mika Mobile is posting and people are still loving the game regardless of these issues.
I'm possibly the only person in the world who prefers Speedball to Speedball 2 :|
This does look like a nice update, though.
No you're not, dude :)
+1 to the no. Speedball one rocked.
Speedball 1 rules !
OMG chaos engine!!
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good to see bitmap brothers are on iOS
Amen to Chaos Engine. Actually amen to ALL the Bitmap Brothers Stuff
Not to state the obvious, but this game will live or die based on the controls. Huge fan of Speedball 2 back in the day. Hope The Chaos Engine is next! Another classic.
I've got an ad hoc of the game and am really liking the tilt controls, and am surprised that I do.
I can't wait for this. All I can say is \o/
Pretty cool to see the Bitmap Brothers logo up there.
i loved speedball 2 on my amiga.
but i doubt the controls will be good enough, as with all these kinds of games...
thats another reason why IOS games will allways be so limited to a casual experience.
the game I played most on the amiga as a kid. Cant wait to get this.
I love speedball2 on amiga. but I won t put to much hope on this one.bitmap brother haven t released a good games in a decade.
So ... because they haven't released any good games lately, you won't like a pretty faithful (yet upgraded) remake someone else did of one of their classic originals that was good? o.O
The original "Z" also was a good game on the PC.
Ice Cream! Ice Cream!
Please bring us chaos engine next time.
Yes. Chaos Engine.
Awesome. Speedball 2 wasn't my favourite BB game, but it was still lots of fun, and it's fantastic to hear that more will be coming. Gods, Magic Pockets and Cadaver would be my picks for faves to come.
Fantastic game back in the day. Hope it plays well on iOS.
It doesn't look like Dan Malone was involved in the graphics. Looks like they poorly tried to match his style. I'll still pick it up for gameplay if the control scheme works.
From the looks of it they're using the original art in a lot of places but it's been upscaled through Alien Skin's Blow Up, or Genuine Fractals along with a few pieces of new art here and there. It's a shame they didn't take the time to actually make new art for it.
Could not agree more. These graphics look nowhere near as good as Dan's originals. 20 years man!....Shows it's not just about the technology. Oh, and Flower milk you're clearly not gonna be the girl in your avatar pic with knowledge of the graphic artist in a game this old. Come on?
My apologies, saw it was a girl from your fantastic artwork. Lovely Stuff.
Ah ah no worries. It happens a lot. I'm not a hot girl, I just paint them :) I had the chance to spend a few hours with Dan a couple years back. He is my all time favorite pixel artist so it was great. And he's as nice and humble as talented. And now I just got to work with my other idol Chris Huelesbeck on my new game Subsolar so I feel very lucky!
hey it's sounds gooood :)) Any more informations about Subsolar ?
Sure. There's a TA thread: http://forums.toucharcade.c...
Please bring back The Settlers. PLEASE.
(Yeah yeah, Gameloft already did it. But theirs is a port of Settlers 3. I'm talking about good old Serf City)
Ahhh, the good old days. The Amiga 500. I had mine for several years before giving it up to buy a PC. My friend had a C64 for a few years before I bought the Amiga, and for a few years after. Some of the most memorable times in my life. Thankyou Bitmap for the memories.
Gods, Magic Pockets and Cadaver would be my picks for faves to come too.
* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_B...
* www.bitmap-brothers.co.uk
Speedball and Speedball 2 were so fun back then. I actually still have my original Amiga 500 (with an ICD AdSpeed overclock mod I installed), that works just fine! This is going to be a blast on iOS! Ice cream! Ice cream! Dang, I'm old!! :-D
Thanks for telling the rest of us what this game actually involves or how it plays. I was worried you were going to spend the entire post writing as if you were talking to a group of your friends circa 1985.
DEWD! SPEEDBALL!!
NO WAY!!!
YES WAY!!!
look it up on da internet dumbo. kids to today need their hands held through modern games. you could not handle this game son.
I hope they put the Ambulance animation back in. They took that out in the CD32 version. Maybe they thought it was too brutal. :)
A.W.E.S.O.M.E!!!
Just yesterday I installed an Amiga-emulator to my system and have been playing the classics, Speedball 2 among them of course, like crazy ever since.
Let's hope they get the controls right! I have to admit I'm somewhat sceptical about non-tactical nature of touch interface for this kind of title.
...and bring us Chaos Engine for the iOS too!
this game is ok.
BUT I WANT THE GAME "Z" BACK!!!!!!
Please BitmapBrothers make a new Z Version for the MacApp Store and for iOS Stores!
THANKS!
BITMAP BROTHERS - The day and hour you bring the screen gem, known as Xenon 2, to an iphone or ipad, is the day my life is complete. Go for it brothers.
Oh yes. Xenon 2 was just fantastic. And I remember how I was trying to mimic Mark Coleman's art!
One of the nicest Amiga shooters ever, just played a few days ago on my still up and running A500+ system.
Amiga's spirit coming on our iDevice... I love that.
Can't wait also Battle Squadron!
Please bring us also the demoscene :o)
I would have preferred they just pixel double Dan Malone's original GFX but I'll reserve final judgement until playing on a device. It's too hard to judge retina graphics on a lower res monitor. If the playability is great these graphics should be passable.
Shame they couldn't get Mr Malone on board to work on this though, he's one of my all time graphics heroes.
And I'd like to add my support for bringing Chaos Engine, Magic Pockets, just about any Bitmap Bros classic to iOS!
All of the Bitmap Brothers games (speedball 2, gods, chaos eng, cadaver) run great on iDos/ dospad on a 3gs. Controls are very good especially for the slower games, ok on sb2, not so good on xenon 2.