Nice Work... @ jonaswills, shiftgc, tpjeff & any other Team Phobic members. (GoldenBoyJC here) I want to congratulate you guys for surviving the app store for so long and still being popular after all this time. We all know it's hard to release a game into the app store and have it sell well, also be popular at the same time. So CONGRATS! I hope you win a couple of awards before the year ends to add to the trophy case, ha . (Already voted for best adventure game, no worries) As for this new release it is really a success. Adding Plus+ was awesome, this is a perfect game for leaderboards. With so many levels and the catergory of game this falls into it was a no brainer. Though I haven't gotten to play world 5 that much (due to my constant battles on the leaderboard), it looks and plays awesome. The new added dimensions and enemies are fun! Thanks for the constant updates. I have had Bounce On every since it was released with World 1. Bought it 1st day it was released & it has never been deleted from my phone. Lots of games grace my iPhone & Bounce On remains one of my favorites. I find it so easy to play now after beating all 4 worlds multiple times. If I may suggest a few things.... 1.) One thing I have always wanted ever since it's first release was being able to listen to my own music. Now don't get me wrong the music in the game is great, but sometimes you wanna rock out to your own jams. . Maybe Bounce 2 we will be able to do that? 2.) Direct/Instant Challenges - following me here... Imagine picking any level from all 5 worlds, beat that level with whatever time & send it to one of your friends on your list. For them to try to beat only with one try. Talk about pressure. That would be so awesome. I know Mazefinger & Elminate Pro allow this. I wonder if you could be able to do that as well in Bounce On 2? I'm assuming you have contact with shiftgc & tpjeff, please let them know I am having a blast battle it out on the leaderboards. I added them as friends, so hopefully adding me want be a problem. Well not bad for my 1st post, haha. Might as well make a big entrance right? Sorry for the long report, but I had a lot to say As for everyone else who managed to read this I want to know what are your favorite levels? Mine are oddly enough all in Rolling Hills. I love 1-10 & 1-17. 1-10 is just so fun, rolling down the massive hill is a blast. 1-17 is just a challenge that I love to take on every once in awhile. On more thing I have to say.... SPEED BALL FTW! It looks like a tiger Sonic The Hedgehog haha. PS - Good luck @ beating my time on 1-1! You can find me most liking at the top of the leaderboards, haha
Oh, man I lost all my levels so I will describe them. (1) That cool water world one on the Swamp level. You know the one where you have to float up and get all the gems. It was just so cool. (2) The swamp level where you need to go all the way up the hill and then roll down quickly and then use the magnetic ball to get to the cannon. (3) Most of the levels with lots of hidden lifes in the Pyramid world, there are 3 I just really liked but I don't know the numbers. (4) 4-15 because it took forever to get a gold, but now I got it down. (5) The black level on the 2nd world. I love this game.
Glad to see you have enjoyed it so long, we've tried hard to make a balance for the game to be fun for casual gamers as well as more hardcore. I think with Plus+ we really stepped that up and offer something our fans will really like. You should be able to listen to your own music in the game currently, I just talked to Jeff about this because we switched the way sound worked in the latest update but if you turn off the music/sfx volums in the options menu. While you are in the game double tap your home screen and your iPod should pop up a play menu. We want to add direct challenges to Bounce On 2, so we'll see how that turns out. Your scores have caused us to lose a lot of work here! Our developers should be working and not trying to beat your scores, haha! I lost a bet with Brian(shiftgc) that he couldn't beat your score on 1-1, but then he did. Looks like you have it back now but you better watch out. Our favorite levels here are 1-17, 4-15 and the new 5-9. 4-15 is by far the hardest in the game, so you should really try that one out.
On 5-9 there are 9 hidden lives, you should check that out, you even get an award if you find them all!
I really do hope you guys put direct challenges into Bounce On 2, only a select few games in the app store have em'. So it would set you guys apart from other games. As for the user music, I tried just now to turn off music/fx and stereo sound with no luck. I open up the game with my music playing, but like always it shuts it down. I'm glad my scores are giving you guys a run for the money and thanks for having faith in me betting wise , but I let you down =(. Good news is I took back my 1-1 & can't really seeing that being beaten. I literally did not stop/slow down through that whole map and barely beat it then. I also really like 1-17 and see my score was beatin' by five-hundredth of a second. Talk about squeakin' one by haha. Tell jpjeff that i'm coming back for my #1 spot haha. After I get my 1-17 back, 4-15 is the next one I'm coming after. Problem is I couldn't go after a lot of #1's cause I was straight up battling 1-1 & 1-17 forever. Guess I can work on some others. My problem is when one you guys beat my score I can't stop until I beat yours, haha. From what you said earlier about not getting work done, i'm assuming it's the same for you I noticed your located in Colorado. I'm from Colorado... really missing the soft powder hills for snowboarding right now . Nothing like Colorado winters.
5-9 is my new favorite level of the new levels by far and already found that award. I'm not touching it until the holiday. I'll get up on the leaderboard over the holiday. Just under crunch time at work. and can't get distracted. And unlike your team, my boss will not understand if I said, well I played Bounce On all weekend, but I'm high up on the leaderboard, so the presentation did not get done. But that said, I had to play through world 5. It it really impressive to see you guys get better and better. I fooled around with World one and the graphics are so much better, and World 4 and 5 are just outstanding. It's hard to stay relevant in the App store and you guys have for a year. It's just so impressive what you have done. I totally echo Golden Boy.
It's ok to echo me, . We need more people to talk about this game, so the more the merrier. I haven't played through all of world 5 yet, just having way to much fun with the other 4 worlds right now on the leaderboards. Though, I believe I have the top spot in the first 5 levels of world 5. I look forward to seeing your name at the top sometime. Not sure what your Plus+ is, but add me whenever. The worlds you said you like best are all very good choices. 5-9, is now your favorite? I just played that one last night for the achievement. To my surprise it wasn't that hard to find all 9 lifes right away, took me two tries . I always liked World 1 for some reason, but I absolutely love the speed ball that was introduced in World 4. By far my favorite levels to date are the ones that start you out with the speed ball right away and you use it through the whole map. So much fun! How do you like the boss at the end of World 3? The one where you have to beat up his plants, then pound on his big ole' nose, . Also what is your favorite power up?
Totally agree! I don't know why there is not more fuss about this game. It just so rocks. Totally will. Congrats on the first 5! I like long worlds with secrets. I really like puzzle games, so anything that has secrets I like. I thought the tree was the best boss of the whole game and one of the best bosses ever. The Square was Ok. He was kinda dull, but really fun to kill. I actually did not l like the boss on World 5 and he is pretty easy to kill, I got him the first time. Well world five is much easier IMHO than world 4. World 4 is most likely my favorite world. I really liked the black levels on it and there are a lot I like the speed ball and the magnetic ball, don't like the bubble much. I never do. floating bubbles slow things down. I like World One too. Its a lot like Mario, maybe that is why you like it. See you over the Holiday on the leaderboards. I'm galaxygrrl
After you are in the game with the music off, try double tapping on the home screen, a menu should pop up which you should be able to hit play on to continue whatever music. Jeff was just working yesterday on updating the music so this should work a little easier That's awesome! What part of CO are you from? We are in Superior, just outside of Boulder where we all grew up. A few of us went to Breck last weekend, it wasn't all too bad, but we'll be headed out later this year for sure! Thanks! It's been a long year, Bounce On was originally released Dec 20th last year so it's nice to have it all finally done so we can work on new exciting things(like Bounce On 2). Bounce On is starting to climb the ranks again! We are back to #37 in adventure so let's hope it keeps going up! The updated the lite version has really helped us out. So far over 16,000 upgrades of Bounce On and ~100,000 upgrades of Bounce On Lite.
I am using an iPhone 3GS just to let you know. I know the trick you are talking about, you hit sleep while in a game when your music stops, then double click the home button & a menu pops up. Sadly, though I have tried this and it does not work. On my original iPhone this trick worked all the time, but after I upgraded to 3GS you can longer get your music to pop up like that. To make things a little bit clearer for the both of us... this is what I do. 1.) Go into settings turn off music/sfx 2.) Play a song from my iPod 3.) Start up Bounce On and the music stops 4.) Sleep my iPhone, double tap home button...what use to happen was the iPod shortcuts would pop up, but like I said before I believe this does not work anymore for 3GS's. Hopefully, someone there has an iPhone 3GS and try for themselves. Well nevermind now, sorry. I did some troubleshooting and after a reboot it works now somewhat. I apologize for the confusion, haha. What is weird though is it only works after I get voice control to pop up by holding the home screen button down, then cancel it. After doing this double tap the home button brings up the controls. Very weird. Also it turns off again after entering a new screen. Say I get my music to play at the main menu screen, then pick a world to play and it shuts off again. To get the controls to pop up again I have to do that trick with voice control. Again hopefully one of you guys has a 3GS to test this out or maybe my phone is jacked up =(. I am from Colorado Springs, sure you have been there. Boulder is such a great place to vacation to. Living close by has to be a blast. Do you ski or snowboard? Quick suggestion that you guys might be working on is an automatic pause when people receive push notifications/SMS messages. I can not tell you how many times I have been racing the clock to have a stupid message pop up and fall off the map because the game doesn't pause for you like others do. This is really annoying, atleast for me.
Ahh Ok, I had no idea it was that difficult! We'll try and make it better, haha! I ski, I'm not too good but it's fun... everyone else either skis, snowboards or snow blades. Boulder is the best place we can imagine to run a company from, great environment, great food and lots of friendly people. Backflip Studios is also here in Boulder, if you haven't tried any of their games yet be sure to[/plug] l'll see what we can do about the pausing, I don't know much about how that works.
Sounds like a plan, thanks. You should learn how to snowboard, it's a blast. Been snowboarding since as long as I can remember. Ahh yes, I have heard of Backflop Studios. They made that game Paper Toss & most recently Harbor Havoc. That would be a nice addition for the more frequent players like myself. I just completed World 5 with all golds and for some reason it says I'm at around 65% complete... haha what happened? I'm in the top spot (leaderboard) for most of the levels in World 5, except the last two. So pretty sure my scores are all gold, unless I am blind. Here's some pictures. Maybe you can help out? Seems like I am having all kinds of trouble since Plus+ was added =(. I wouldn't really say anything unless it affected my achievements. It's kinda hard to get the 100% completion award and 3 100% award with this problem.
Much as I loved Bounce-On what happend to the great game music this app once had? now it's some generic atmosphere like tunes which take away a lot of the charm the game once had, plus they somehow made the game skip frames every second compared to the baby smooth game it was only a few months ago. The biggest downer of the year for me, sometimes changes make games worse, not better. Plus+ features or not I really miss the old music. The same thing happened to real racing, music was changed to worse not better.
Even with all the free games and price drops lately, this has got to be the finest sale going on. You're crazy not to get this game for $2. With all the updates it's already gotten, it's worth far more than even it's usual $4 price. Tons of game for your money with this one. And now that it has Plus+, there's a bunch of well though out achievements to get and a leaderboard for every level that has got me addicted. I can't really compete with the tip-top people, but I'm in the top 10 or 20 in some of them. It's really good incentive to make sure and get gold on every level. Back around when World 4 first came out, I accidentally deleted my game save. It was crushing because I had worked so hard for some of the gold medals. I had been meaning to go back and work my way through the game again, but it kept slipping to the back burner. Plus+ has really got me sparked to go through the entire game once more. I can't say enough great things about this game. Barring that one incident, it's never been off my device. There's been some pretty decent platformers on the app store, but IMO this is definitely the best one and I consider it my "Mario" for the iDevice. Try the lite, make sure you really give it a chance, and if you like it definitely grab this while it's on sale.
Yeah! Another fan, I couldn't agree more. If you like have any interest at all in these types of games do yourself a favor and just go download it. At 50% off now there really isn't any reason not to have this on your iPhone. Oh no =(. I know how hard it was to get some of my golds back when this was released last year. Now this game is so easy, but still so much fun, again so much fun! =) One good thing is with Plus+ isave feature included with this update all your games progress is saved. So even if you accidentally delete your game now, just sign into your account and your progress is restored. Cool huh? As for the leaderboards, keep at it. Each level has its own unique little way to decrease your time. You just have to look for em'. Maybe I'll see you knock me off the top spots, haha
Hey Golden Boy, yeah you're one of those "tip-top" players I was talking about. I sorta know what you mean by "this game is easy now", although I think it's a really challenging game. But once you really learn the controls, they work so so well, that everything becomes second nature and it's up to you to just react appropriately to the environment. It's near flawless, IMO. Couple that with playing the game a crap-ton (which it seems like you have!) and I can see what you mean. But even if you can breeze through the levels, it never ceases to be amazingly fun. I'm not quite at that level, but I love trying. One day, just maybe, I'll get a leaderboard from you. For a short time, at least because I'm sure you'd just swiftly destroy whatever time I accomplished. Which sort of brings me to a feature request I have in mind, a restart option from the pause menu. I hate having to exit the level to the overworld, possibly roll away cause I'm laying down on the couch (BTW I know you've heard this before, but I despise the accelerometer overworld map), and then re-enter the level over and over. I restart a lot, it would be nice if it was simpler. Hook Champ had a similar dilemma that was recently rectified in an update, and it was much appreciated. Ok that's probably the only somewhat negative thing I could ever find myself saying about this game, I feel dirty not giving it the ultimate praise!
I've had this game since day one of its release and it has never been deleted from my phone. So, I have a lot of practice under my belt. Though I should say that anyone can be good at this game, they just need to take there time through the levels. Thats what makes this game so great. Beginners can take there time and advanced players can rush through the levels to get a fast time. As for you taken my spot atop the leaderboard, =)... If that happens and I see it is you, I'll let it stay there for at least a day before, how you say "destroy" it. Some friendly competitiveness there for yuh, . Wow, that is actually a great suggestion and I hope jonaswills is reading this sometime soon. A restart from the pause menu would be an awesome idea, because I also restart a lot if I miss a perfect bounce or diamond. That leads me to something else you said about the accelerometer overworld map... Wouldn't it be cool to be able to just tap on level you want from the map itself, while having the option to use the tilt? That would be a nice added feature either in Bounce On 2 or an update to this one. I think sooner or later I'm going to have to make a updated list of suggestions from this thread, because there have been some very good ones. Keep the suggestions coming.
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions, we read and consider every single one of them and have been keeping our own list. A lot of them we have already planned/done for Bounce On 2
