Estrica, Im not too sure on your problems. Is it possible that you gave it to a deagon that was sleeping? And I think you just can't see every 1 xp on the xp bar. And congrats on the 25! But the door doesnt open yet. The devs are working on an idea that the door opens to Valhalla (which will *fingers cross* be available soon). You can read more about it through the topic if you're willing to dig through.
I think it is not possible to give it to a sleeping dragon, but will tell if I run into this again. I tried to reproduce the XP thing too, made tons of pictures, but it did not happen. The difference was that I stopped each time at the dragon below to make a picture of the XP bar. However when I went to the target dragon without any stop (and no picture), sometimes the screen flickered and I again did not see any change on the XP bar. Maybe I'm wrong, can't really tell. Anyway, got 2 cute pictures from it at least: http://port70.net/~estrica/images/dragonup/dup1.png http://port70.net/~estrica/images/dragonup/dup2.png
Yeah I would probably say that when you get to the higher levels of XP, 1 XP doesn't always make a visual change to the bar because it only increments it a little bit. We do want to roll some more presentation into it at some point! Also awesome pics! Can I use those? Might post it to Facebook or Twitter! We ran into a whole heap of technical issues and we're behind on getting the door open, so sorry for the bait and switch! It's also going to be called "Dragonia" behind that door, as some people didn't like the afterlife feeling of calling it Valhalla... No dragons are harmed in the making of Dragon Up. It's more like it's their rightful home and you want to get them home. Anyway, we're delayed on that, but we've got an update for some more bug fixes and small tweaks and if we find that Dragonia is still a ways out after more review, we may release some more dragons in the meantime!
I like the Dragonia name, I like Norse and Greek mythology but I didn't think Valhalla suited the game. I seen the post with the shades outlines of 3 dragons hopefully they will come soon too!
I think something needs to be done for the hoard though because it is rediculous trying to level up treasures with the space you have considering there are 25 dragons. I keep needing to sell treasures I need to make space for something slightly better or so I can collect my fusion.
Yea I hope they change something with the fusion system. Like I think even having one of the same item (not level) to fuse an item, with an added gem payment equivalent to both of their levels. So the most you'd pay to fuse is 18 gems when combining two lvl 9s. I only suggest gems because I feel they are given in excess (which is an awesome thing!) with little to use it on.
I do like that the developer isn't money greedy in IAP's but then the thing that leads me to worry about is are you guys making any money off this game? I hope so, so you can continue to update the game. I like your idea for fusion too, it's very awkward needing so many of each to get to certain levels ect I love micromanagement but its rediculous and I don't find it fun. I enjoy getting treasures and improving them but the current system takes fun out of it after a while.
Sorry for the lack of updates! Good segway into the business side of things as that is the thing we are scrambling to figure out right now... We went in trying to prove that you don't have to be heavy handed to make money off IAP and I think we succeeded! The 8bit bundle has been really successful and then those players often go on to buy some extra gems too! The problem we've been having is installs... It's really hard to get visibility in the App Store without an Apple feature or reviews from the big iPhone sites and organically (without buying installs) we're only getting about 50 installs a day... BUT, we do have our next step. To get the most visibility, we've decided to focus on going multiplatform with shared progress between all devices. And not just iPhone/Android, but also Facebook, because as a company we came from a Facebook background and know that it is much easier to get organic installs on Facebook, and then try to push them to the mobile versions. So it's a lot of tech we have to build, so updates are going to slow down unfortunately, but I'm excited for what will come in the future!
Hey thanks for the update jim. Usually when theres a period of lack of communication, I actually find that a good thing, in that you're probably super busy (working on the game, hopefully!). I totally understand the direction you guys are taking in order to reach a broader audience. But Im guessing this means any updates are on a hiatus for now? Well, Happy Street did just have a monster update and from what I heard Pixel Peoples should be huge and coming out shortly, so Ill have those to tide me over until you guys are back on track! Haha
Aye getting visibility is tough on the store or review sites. Playing Dungeon Plunder which has been very lucky with its free promo. If you guys are going to be working on other things for now instead of updates is there any chance of an update with new dragons you've done already before it gets put back? I hope you manage to sort things out though, have you ever looked into sharing promotion with a popular game? I play Book of Heroes and recently they added a Kabam advert on the app and Kabam advertised BoH and we now have a lot of new players
Hey Xbtran Castle Champions out tonight and dropping to free after world wide release looks like it may fill the void
Hey thanks for letting me know. A bit swamped with school but Ill check it out! On topic, the games been updated. A new dragon but I think its more expensive than the last? I love supporting them but I hope these exclusive dragons with a cost dont become too normal...
EDIT: Never mind, I got excited before realizing it was iPhone only. Oh well. Seeing this for the first time, just grabbed it - looks quirkily adorable, and dragons!
So all my level 10s get one heart now per visit. Its so worthless. I was addicted when I was getting almost one gem per visit, but I can see my play dying down a lot now especially with the devs focusing on development for other platforms. I do understand why you guys took out the 1 gem per level ten. I was netting a lot of gems. What I want to suggest is that level 10s have an xp bar of maybe 10? And everytime the bar fills up we get a gem. It would give more reason to actively play than just one heart.
To be honest I've deleted it. I've been spending countless hours checking in constantly to fuse and send in trips but then the news of no updates was sad but I figured I can wait if it means they get the word out about the game more. But then the update come with only 1 new dragon...even though I've seen pictures of a few on Facebook though could have added? Then with the price of it being pretty steep just for 1 dragon I thought it might be something that happens more. 10k gold is nothing as I had millions and the same for gems as I had thousands. It was a tough decision : ( sorry guys.
This This is what I've been upset about since the last update. I was almost impressed with the inspired foresight that a level 10 dragon should just get gems delivered every time. I hope they change it back.
Glad that I did not hit the update button.. Now, I will continue to farm the gems until the dev bring something substantial (like 100 new dragons) in the next updates.. Or I will just delete this..
I immediately stopped playing after the new update. Main reason, is because lvl10 dragons dont give out gems anymore. I was addicted too, playing it for hours, all killed by a simple update. I hope it is changed back. If there is no change, i want my money back on the new dragon. I was through an through a supporter of this game and devs until now.
This seems to be weird. I had my last dragon a couple of days ago and normally I should have enough coins already for the next one. Yet I only managed to gather a bit more than 100k... At night I made a picture of my coins: have 135.722 In the morning I rechecked: earned 20.992, have 140.352 1-2 hours later I again checked: earned 8.680, have 146.199 So what is happening? I will check a couple of hours later again. Did anyone else notice it? Update: again a couple of hours later: earned 27.342, but have only 152.092, so only ~6k more instead of ~27k
