Still Waiting for Approval [Update] - Looks like the build is approved! You should all have an install email now. Enjoy!
So far I am loving the personality this game has. The Amazon drones are particularly awesome. Great job so far and everything seems stable on my iPad Air under iOS 8.1.
Playtest Comments So... lots to say, I'll try to keep it simple. First off, great design, great theme. I found the initial tutorials and achievements a bit much - I was achieving things faster than I could even figure out what was going on. HOWEVER, I will say that the tutorials and prompts to get me to do new things was definitely enough to keep me going. Notes: - Airdrops: Why tap and hold as opposed to just tap? - Airdrops: great job allowing me to tap while holding down with the other thumb to open the box - Airdrops: surprisingly frequent. Maybe consider either changing the look of the drone or having a few other things such as boxes that warp in, lightning bolt in, etc. - Airdrops: I wouldn't mind having the drone just drop parcels on the floor and have me open them like presents later on at a time of my choice. - Upgrading the room: I found that I was less interested in tapping the screen to earn bitcoins and more interested in investments. As such, I was less likely to upgrade to the next version of BitMiner. - Something Happened: I didn't like the fact that in some cases, when I selected a card and all cards showed up that everything was negative. (All three cards had a stock market down symbol). The entire concept of chance goes out the door if everything is a failure. - Something Happened: why swipe instead of tap? It didn't seem intuitive, but maybe because you thought people would just tap somewhere by accident? - Something Happened: I actually like the fact that bad things happen from time to time. I also like the fact that you have the option not to lose the funds/investments/etc and it doesn't cost you a fortune in Hyperbits. - Hyperbits: great job explaining to the player that they get 25 per day just for playing. - Tasks: one quick note - when I tap on the box to fall from the drone and I tap and hold to open the box, or when I open an email, those don't count as "taps" when the task counts down the number of taps left before the reward. - Investments: it feels like there is a large gap between the Video Game Industry and eSports. When I have 15 Mb and 20 MB, I want to spend it. I don't want to wait until I have 50 Mb because that's gonna take some time to get to. Then again, that's probably your intention or you'd have to make many more investments. - Watching videos: I found this was less valuable for 1 hyperbit and tended to delete this option. - Enable Banner Ads: I always selected this. Easy for me, easy reward, no impact to gameplay (unlike videos) - News: entertaining that you added comic versions of recent news, like Amelia Earhart's plane. I can really see that you've spent time adding in subtle nuances, even like the character tapping faster on the keyboard when I tap super-fast. - Casino: this is a really smart idea to earn you guys extra $$. I would love to know how this works out (in terms of % earnings compared to other in-app stuff like banner ads, etc). Overall, a well balanced game. I like the fact that you've incentivized ads, videos, coupons for the poster website, etc. It surprisingly isn't too much. Considering how much I HATE videos in free games, this one is ok in terms of watching videos every now and then. I'd personally be more inclined to watch videos if the hyperbit value climbed every time I declined (up to, say 3 Hyperbits max). Push notifications work. It's quite addictive. I haven't found any glitches yet. I'll keep playing and post more as I find more/have fun in the game. Great job, as always.
Wow thanks for the awesome feedback! We will pass the info onto the dev team and take everything into consideration. Mad respect for going into such detail. Definitely didnt need to do that. The TA forum users are the best!!
Launch Date! We are excited to announce that Bitcoin Billionaire will be out on Nov 6th!! Get those fingers ready to tap tap tap!
The game is pretty much wrapped up. Looks good, sounds good and I didn't come across any bugs. The taptaptap mechanic is funny, but I think the game needs something more than that. I don't know, maybe some kind of mini games, some some kind of competition, maybe a social network like Ridiculous Fishing (Bitwitter?) where his friends are bragging about their mining and we have to top them. I think maybe people would get tired of just tapping to get upgrades to tap more without some kind of goal, some motivation to keep playing. And the freemium aspects aren't bad so far. They are pretty fair, in fact. About the upgrades, none of them I think as necessary as the Bit Miner. I only upgrade the Bit Miner until I'm making money enough to make the other upgrades very cheap. And I agree with starlingware, every time there is something to hold or to swipe I automatically tap it.
Cheers! Good game = good feedback. We are developers too and detailed feedback is necessary to improve.
Hey all, I am the lead developer on this project and I wanted to also say thanks for all your input and feedback! Everything said here will be taken into consideration for future updates. It's been really interesting to see how each person tends to have their own play style and some get through the game in ways we didn't expect. I am going to respond to just a couple things for now: - The main reason we initially had hold & swipe mechanics is to avoid accidental taps. Later I came to find I also enjoyed that it added a bit of variety to what I was doing. - Something Happened. All negative cards. That's a good point; I will tweak how that works in the future. Thanks again guys, we can't wait for this to go live on the 6th!
I would like to see a way to steal bitcoins from my friends. It would make the game more social and competitive, I guess. And an upgradable firewall to protect you from steals for an amount of hours.
Sorry guys early access is closed. However good news is it will be out world wide on the 6th so only 4 days!
