NeoWars Matthias Schindler Play Neo Wars now! A sci-fi node-based RTS game with deep tactical gameplay. Land your harvester on a planet to gather… Free Buy Now Watch Media DetailsPlay Neo Wars now! A sci-fi node-based RTS game with deep tactical gameplay. Land your harvester on a planet to gather its resources. Connect to an empty resource field to take it over, and build an efficient distribution network between your harvesters. But beware, you are not alone. Up to 3 enemy AI players battle with you for the last remaining harvester on the planet surface. Be smart and quick to achieve a glorious victory. Use different upgrades, buffs and debuffs to gain the edge over your enemies. The game has a unique payment model, we call “Free2Paid”. With every IAP or watched ad, you not only get rewarding items in return, but fill up a bar that unlocks an ad and IAP-free version of the game. ********* Thank you for your feedback. We are currently looking into the problem of the stuck loading screen some of you experience. We hope to release a fix in the next 48 hours. Thank you for your patience. ********* __________________________________________________________ Features • Beautiful minimalistic sci-fi setting • Tactical game play on 5 different environments • Campaign with 50+ planets to conquer • Up to 5 difficulties per level – from easy to insane • 4 permanent upgrades • 35 buffs/de-buffs for friendly and enemy nodes in 5 rarities • Advanced enemy AI with up to 3 opponents on a single map • Unique “Free2Paid” model for mobile version • Awesome 8-layer interactive music score • Lefthanded mode • Reduced graphics settings for low end devices (settings menu) ___________________________________________________________ Game Center • 23 Achievements • Leaderboard • Savegames across multiple devices via iCloud/GameCenter • Game Center can be activated/deactivated in settings menu in case you have problems ___________________________________________________________ Planned features in the next updates: • Translation in different languages • Additional play modes • Multiplayer mode • Level editor Information Seller:Matthias Schindler Genre:Action, Strategy Release:May 31, 2016 Updated:Jul 26, 2016 Version:1.0.7 Size:131.7 MB TouchArcade Rating:Unrated User Rating: (11) Your Rating:unrated Compatibility:HD Universal Subscribe to the TouchArcade YouTube channel Subscribe to the TouchArcade YouTube channel Muchuu Well-Known Member Jul 2, 2013 46 0 0 #2 Muchuu, Jun 3, 2016 Ah finally! Did anybody check it out yet? Wrath Well-Known Member May 26, 2011 480 9 18 Seattle #3 Wrath, Jun 3, 2016 Only had time to go through some tutorials at this point, but it's decent so far! JoeCool Active Member Apr 7, 2016 28 0 0 Indie Games Developer Germany http://neowars.net #4 JoeCool, Jun 4, 2016 Hey all, I am one of two developers of NeoWars. We are looking forward to your feedback! Let us know what you think. We have heard back from a few people, whic have problems with iOS Version 9.2. The game crashes after beating a level. Would be great if anybody, who has that problem could report back. We think its an issue with broken GameCenter of iOS Version of 9.2, but we are not sure. We have tested on 9.2, 9.3.x, but could not reproduce the issue on our devices. Muchuu Well-Known Member Jul 2, 2013 46 0 0 #5 Muchuu, Jun 4, 2016 Played through the first two worlds... No problems thus far! JokerOne New Member Jun 5, 2016 1 0 0 #6 JokerOne, Jun 5, 2016 Interesting payment model. I hope the risk of trying something new pays off for you. The game feels extremely polished and I haven't experienced any problems. CaptainKronk New Member Jun 5, 2016 1 0 0 #7 CaptainKronk, Jun 5, 2016 Some Levels are quiet tricky I played the first two galaxies. Getting better but this special planets are quiet taff. # JoeCool Active Member Apr 7, 2016 28 0 0 Indie Games Developer Germany http://neowars.net #8 JoeCool, Jun 6, 2016 Thanks for the feedback all. We are currently working on adding more languages to the game: For now its those 4: - German - Russian - Spanish - French fgl_sam Well-Known Member Jun 7, 2016 48 0 0 Engineer Norwich, UK http://fgl.io/2nj #9 fgl_sam, Jun 7, 2016 NeoWars, looks excellent! Hi Matthias and co, This looks excellent, we work with a lot of mobile developers and publishers and it's nice to see a gameplay idea that is actual original! How are you monetizing the game at this point? Sam JoeCool Active Member Apr 7, 2016 28 0 0 Indie Games Developer Germany http://neowars.net #10 JoeCool, Jun 7, 2016 Hey Sam, thank you . The game features a unique payment model we call Free2Paid. With every IAP or watched ad, players not only get rewarding items in return, but fill up a bar that unlocks an ad and IAP-free version of the game. New balancing kicks in, the game now behaves like you would have initially paid for it. Toucharcade actually wrote about it: http://toucharcade.com/2016/04/18/neowars-will-let-you-unlock-its-paid-mode-by-watching-video-ads/ fgl_sam Well-Known Member Jun 7, 2016 48 0 0 Engineer Norwich, UK http://fgl.io/2nj #11 fgl_sam, Jun 7, 2016 That's a fascinating model, I'm sure lots of developers would be interested. Was implementing that hard? JoeCool Active Member Apr 7, 2016 28 0 0 Indie Games Developer Germany http://neowars.net #12 JoeCool, Jun 7, 2016 Well not sure, its a model where you take a lot of risk as a developer. The whales which love your game are not able to spend a lot of money and the people which never spend money on IAPs will probably never spend money even in NeoWars. I have been developing a lot of F2P games and I just didn't like the psychological model behind it. So the motivation was really to try something which haven't been a lot. Unfortuantely paid model is problematic if you start out as a new studio without a good reptuation. The implementation was actually not too hard, you have to setup a second shop with only softcurrency and you have to change your balancing. Also you have to communicate to the player, that something is special in your game. I think in NeoWars, its not as obvious as it should be, we have to still improve it. We got already 1 Star Rating for beeing a Pay2Win game . fgl_sam Well-Known Member Jun 7, 2016 48 0 0 Engineer Norwich, UK http://fgl.io/2nj #13 fgl_sam, Jun 8, 2016 Perhaps a bar that fills up from rewards that turns off ads/iap for a period of time. Like getting a star in Mario, you experience "god mode" for a while, but then it runs out. Gives players a taste of what they're building too by playing, without taking away the buildup or suspense. I suppose an IAP that unlocks that mode for a period is good too. Two ways to make money then! What sort of rewarded videos do you have in the game, are they through an ad network? How much $ per 1000 impressions do you see from videos, do you still show banners, interstitial etc? JoeCool Active Member Apr 7, 2016 28 0 0 Indie Games Developer Germany http://neowars.net #14 JoeCool, Jun 8, 2016 Well the bar is exactly how we did it, maybe not promient enough though. We are using Unity rewarded Ads. I can't tell you any numbers yet, just too early. fgl_sam Well-Known Member Jun 7, 2016 48 0 0 Engineer Norwich, UK http://fgl.io/2nj #15 fgl_sam, Jun 8, 2016 Thanks Joe, I sent you an email today to [email protected], is there a better place to reach you at all? Sam Muchuu Well-Known Member Jul 2, 2013 46 0 0 #16 Muchuu, Jun 9, 2016 lol pepedrago Member Apr 11, 2016 20 0 0 #17 pepedrago, Jun 10, 2016 Hey, We've got an update in submission that fixes some minor things, and also added a battery saving mode to the options. Feedback is great so far ( and we are even featured by Google this week ) Also some reviews are starting to appear on youtube Noomen Well-Known Member Sep 14, 2014 68 0 6 #18 Noomen, Jun 10, 2016 huge paywall with the first big planet the little bonuses and perks you buy in the shop are necessary to win... plus they look all the same so you will make a lot of mistakes avoid JoeCool Active Member Apr 7, 2016 28 0 0 Indie Games Developer Germany http://neowars.net #19 JoeCool, Jun 11, 2016 Sorry to hear that you feel like this. The elite planets are meant to be hard challenges and you do not have to necessarly conquer them directly. So grind some gear before you start attacking them and learn how to use the gear. You can get a detailed description of the gear, just buy holding and tapping and read through what they do. As of the pay wall argument, if you watch 150 ads in the game the game will switch to paid mode, where your rewards are doubled automatically without watching ads. Nonethless its a challenge to balance that good, so that is doesn't feel like pay to play, but we also need to earn some money. What would be your suggestion? JoeCool Active Member Apr 7, 2016 28 0 0 Indie Games Developer Germany http://neowars.net #20 JoeCool, Jun 12, 2016 Sorry! Hey all, We want to apologize as we obviously ####ed up our new monetization model. We really wanted to make a fair price model, but it seems we get rated down for being too greedy, we slowly understand why this is happening. As a small developer sometimes you are in your own world. You play the game for hours and hours and do not realize how difficult you make your own game. Even though we let new players play the game and had a huge beta test with over 250 players, we some how missed the mark here obviously. So we wanted to make sure that NeoWars is challenging and that you have a hard time on some levels, but we also wanted to earn some money. But it was never our intention to put a hard pay wall onto you guys. As a first step, we reblanced the economy a bit and made much clearer how much ads to watch to reach paid mode.Here is a change list: It should be now much clearer how to reach paid mode (we show you real numbers) The basic gear is now 25 Retron cheaper You get more Retron when winning a planet You will still get Retron, when you have beaten all difficulties of a planet Reduced the difficulty of Shahar Prime The version is currently waiting for review and should hit the store in 48 hours latest. Please let us know how you feel about those changes and also what we could improve to give you a better/fairer game experience. Thank you! (You must log in or sign up to post here.) Show Ignored Content Page 1 of 2 1 2 Next > Share This Page Tweet Your name or email address: Password: Forgot your password? Stay logged in
Hey all, I am one of two developers of NeoWars. We are looking forward to your feedback! Let us know what you think. We have heard back from a few people, whic have problems with iOS Version 9.2. The game crashes after beating a level. Would be great if anybody, who has that problem could report back. We think its an issue with broken GameCenter of iOS Version of 9.2, but we are not sure. We have tested on 9.2, 9.3.x, but could not reproduce the issue on our devices.
Interesting payment model. I hope the risk of trying something new pays off for you. The game feels extremely polished and I haven't experienced any problems.
Some Levels are quiet tricky I played the first two galaxies. Getting better but this special planets are quiet taff. #
Thanks for the feedback all. We are currently working on adding more languages to the game: For now its those 4: - German - Russian - Spanish - French
NeoWars, looks excellent! Hi Matthias and co, This looks excellent, we work with a lot of mobile developers and publishers and it's nice to see a gameplay idea that is actual original! How are you monetizing the game at this point? Sam
Hey Sam, thank you . The game features a unique payment model we call Free2Paid. With every IAP or watched ad, players not only get rewarding items in return, but fill up a bar that unlocks an ad and IAP-free version of the game. New balancing kicks in, the game now behaves like you would have initially paid for it. Toucharcade actually wrote about it: http://toucharcade.com/2016/04/18/neowars-will-let-you-unlock-its-paid-mode-by-watching-video-ads/
That's a fascinating model, I'm sure lots of developers would be interested. Was implementing that hard?
Well not sure, its a model where you take a lot of risk as a developer. The whales which love your game are not able to spend a lot of money and the people which never spend money on IAPs will probably never spend money even in NeoWars. I have been developing a lot of F2P games and I just didn't like the psychological model behind it. So the motivation was really to try something which haven't been a lot. Unfortuantely paid model is problematic if you start out as a new studio without a good reptuation. The implementation was actually not too hard, you have to setup a second shop with only softcurrency and you have to change your balancing. Also you have to communicate to the player, that something is special in your game. I think in NeoWars, its not as obvious as it should be, we have to still improve it. We got already 1 Star Rating for beeing a Pay2Win game .
Perhaps a bar that fills up from rewards that turns off ads/iap for a period of time. Like getting a star in Mario, you experience "god mode" for a while, but then it runs out. Gives players a taste of what they're building too by playing, without taking away the buildup or suspense. I suppose an IAP that unlocks that mode for a period is good too. Two ways to make money then! What sort of rewarded videos do you have in the game, are they through an ad network? How much $ per 1000 impressions do you see from videos, do you still show banners, interstitial etc?
Well the bar is exactly how we did it, maybe not promient enough though. We are using Unity rewarded Ads. I can't tell you any numbers yet, just too early.
Thanks Joe, I sent you an email today to [email protected], is there a better place to reach you at all? Sam
Hey, We've got an update in submission that fixes some minor things, and also added a battery saving mode to the options. Feedback is great so far ( and we are even featured by Google this week ) Also some reviews are starting to appear on youtube
huge paywall with the first big planet the little bonuses and perks you buy in the shop are necessary to win... plus they look all the same so you will make a lot of mistakes avoid
Sorry to hear that you feel like this. The elite planets are meant to be hard challenges and you do not have to necessarly conquer them directly. So grind some gear before you start attacking them and learn how to use the gear. You can get a detailed description of the gear, just buy holding and tapping and read through what they do. As of the pay wall argument, if you watch 150 ads in the game the game will switch to paid mode, where your rewards are doubled automatically without watching ads. Nonethless its a challenge to balance that good, so that is doesn't feel like pay to play, but we also need to earn some money. What would be your suggestion?
Sorry! Hey all, We want to apologize as we obviously ####ed up our new monetization model. We really wanted to make a fair price model, but it seems we get rated down for being too greedy, we slowly understand why this is happening. As a small developer sometimes you are in your own world. You play the game for hours and hours and do not realize how difficult you make your own game. Even though we let new players play the game and had a huge beta test with over 250 players, we some how missed the mark here obviously. So we wanted to make sure that NeoWars is challenging and that you have a hard time on some levels, but we also wanted to earn some money. But it was never our intention to put a hard pay wall onto you guys. As a first step, we reblanced the economy a bit and made much clearer how much ads to watch to reach paid mode.Here is a change list: It should be now much clearer how to reach paid mode (we show you real numbers) The basic gear is now 25 Retron cheaper You get more Retron when winning a planet You will still get Retron, when you have beaten all difficulties of a planet Reduced the difficulty of Shahar Prime The version is currently waiting for review and should hit the store in 48 hours latest. Please let us know how you feel about those changes and also what we could improve to give you a better/fairer game experience. Thank you!
