Crashlands - Butterscotch Shenanigans' next game

bscotchshenani · Jan 20, 2016

VirtualBoyFreak said: ↑

I have a 4S with iOS 7.1.2 and all their/your other releases work fine. According to what you're saying I'm okay, but I could experience some framerate issues (I guess when the action gets too hectic). That's fine with me, as long as it works...
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No guarantees there, but if our other games work, you might be in the clear!

klink · Jan 20, 2016

bscotchshenani said: ↑

Correct! $4.99 on mobile and $14.99 on Steam!
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Is it the same exact game?

Dailon80 · Jan 20, 2016

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Virtual sticks have their place, but not in every game. And definitely not in this game, IMO.

Imagine Flight Control with a virtual stick. Sure it would technically work, you could navigate a cursor over to a plane using a vstick, click and hold a virtual button and then drag the path you wanted the plane to follow. Then let go of the button, move your cursor to the next plane, and repeat. Now think about how frantic Flight Control gets and imagine trying to have to control it that way.

That's sort of how Crashlands works. When battling multiple enemies at once, you're constantly dodging their attacks and oftentimes needing to juggle between which enemies you're attacking. The action can be so fast that the only real way to manage all this is by being able to quickly tap here to move, tap there to dodge, tap that enemy to start attacking, etc. It would just all fall apart trying to do that with a virtual stick and button. Like, it'd be possible I guess, but it would be a poor experience.

Beyond that, just roaming around the world and performing actions would be an exercise in annoyance as you try to line up properly next to that tree so you can tap a button over and over to chop it down and harvest its resources. Or, instead, you can simply tap on that tree and your little character will cheerily bounce on over to it and just chop it down and collect the resources, all automatically with just that one tap. Breaking down objects and harvesting resources is something you do hundreds if not thousands of times during the game. Having to do it manually with virtual controls each time would suck.

Sure it's nice to give people options, and they COULD put in a vstick as an option, but it would be a poorer experience IMO, and I think most devs don't want to give people the option to play a shittier version of their game even if they're asking for it.

Anyway, that's just my experience. Perhaps the tap-to-do-stuff controls in Crashlands won't be certain peoples' cup of tea, and that's fine. Perhaps there IS a way a virtual stick method could be implemented that wouldn't make the game suck ass. But the bottom line is I implore everybody to not make a judgement until they've actually played the game themselves. The thing that drives me nuts is people just dismissing a game before even trying it because it doesn't have "X" feature or option. This game was crafted from the ground up for touchscreens and it shows, so give it a chance first is all I'm saying.
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Thanks for your thoughts I see now why they went with the controls they did
It won't be long and we can play this gem!

TheOutlander · Jan 20, 2016

Ok, so Crashlands is less than 24 hours away, so I just wanted to ask, what are your favorite Butterscotch Shenanigans game? Crashlands isn't out yet so it doesn't count :v
Mine is Quadropus Rampage, I even bought an iPad mini back in 2012 just to play it as my old iPod 4th gen wasn't compatible, never regretted that.

luckystrikeguy · Jan 20, 2016

TheOutlander said: ↑

Ok, so Crashlands is less than 24 hours away, so I just wanted to ask, what are your favorite Butterscotch Shenanigans game? Crashlands isn't out yet so it doesn't count :v
Mine is Quadropus Rampage, I even bought an iPad mini back in 2012 just to play it as my old iPod 4th gen wasn't compatible, never regretted that.
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Quad is awesome but I have to say towelfight really grew on me.

Duivs · Jan 20, 2016

I will buy this. I will play this. I will enjoy this...
But only after finishing my homework.
GO ON WITHOUT ME :'(

VirtualBoyFreak · Jan 20, 2016

bscotchshenani said: ↑

No guarantees there, but if our other games work, you might be in the clear!
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Thanks, I'll take the risk. If it doesn't work, well... I also have an iPad 3

Nekku · Jan 20, 2016

Dailon80 said: ↑

Thanks for your thoughts I see now why they went with the controls they did
It won't be long and we can play this gem!
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Actually, they said that if Crashlands is doing well, they will develop other control schemes as well to get it on consoles, too. I dont see why this shouldnt work considering that Dont Starve plays great on consoles, too. Here is still hope.

baldeagle86 · Jan 20, 2016

Happy crashlands eve everybody. Less than 24 hours!!

Guise · Jan 20, 2016

Crashlands. Crashlands! Crashlands!!

slamraman · Jan 20, 2016

One more sleep.

Unless I stay up!!

VirtualBoyFreak · Jan 20, 2016

slamraman said: ↑

One more sleep.

Unless I stay up!!
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If you stay up you'll sleep tomorrow... And won't be able to play Crashlands

skylined87 · Jan 20, 2016

VirtualBoyFreak said: ↑

If you stay up you'll sleep tomorrow... And won't be able to play Crashlands
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We'll see about that...pick your poison: red bull, cocaine, or meth. Totally worth it to get strung out to wait for the best game ever to hit the App Store! Lol jp, nothing beats a good nights rest, especially if you have work in the am.

Can't wait for the release though! I'm frickin anxious!

Ryan_Noodle · Jan 20, 2016

Congrats on the Launch!

Hey Butterscotch team!

Ryan here from Noodlecake Games. From one dev team to another I just wanted to drop in and congratulate you guys on the launch of Crashlands. Like many others we have been following the development story behind the game and cant wait to try it out.

Launch weeks are the best for projects like this so enjoy it as much as you can!

Cheers

anthony78 · Jan 20, 2016

I'm guessing this is going to be one of the 11 EST type releases? The anticipation is killing me!

blue rocket · Jan 20, 2016

Hoping it drops a bit earlier than 11 est... Keep checking all my feeds to see if anyone has posted that it's available! Hah

Eli · Jan 20, 2016

I talked to Sam yesterday and he told me they would be pulling the lever manually around 11:00 PM, so it should pop up on the App Store sometime around then plus however long it takes for things to filter out to the App Store itself.

Eli · Jan 20, 2016

Of course it's always possible they say #### it and pull the lever early, you never know with people from St. Louis.

blue rocket · Jan 20, 2016

Eli said: ↑

I talked to Sam yesterday and he told me they would be pulling the lever manually around 11:00 PM, so it should pop up on the App Store sometime around then plus however long it takes for things to filter out to the App Store itself.
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Bah! Release it early, what's a few hours!???

VirtualBoyFreak · Jan 20, 2016

Eli said: ↑

Of course it's always possible they say #### it and pull the lever early, you never know with people from St. Louis.
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Yes please yes! Many shenanigans for this!!!!! it's 18:40 atm here in Spain. I'd love to be able to play it before I go to bed! (Dreaming is free, right? )

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