Thanks for the votes of confidence. Please do keep your fingers crossed for us for some kind of Apple support on this release. It will make all the difference. We'll see later today if they love us or not, I believe the App Store features updates happen on Thursdays around noon PST. But don't be too hard on those guys. it's pretty challenging problem for them. They literally have THOUSANDS of updates and new apps going live daily, and from what I understand, just not enough people to do justice to all of them (nevermind the deluge of lowest-effort submissions). Rooting out the quality indies is challenging in all that noise. (presuming, of course, we count as a quality indie).
Hm. We might be suffering from some kind of App Store technical problem. You still can't find it by searching on the iPhone but you can use the direct link (see previously in this thread), and buy/download it. I don't get it. Not featured anywhere today either. Not sure if app store update is late, or if we just got passed up again. Oh well. Help us get the word out on your networks, friends of Gunpowder!
I don't normally share stuff I've discussed off-site, but just 10 minutes ago I brought this up with someone. This is it (unedited): "unless im completely mistaken, a bunch of today's releases arent showing up on the app store when you search for them. that makes entirely too much sense when you notice that to-fu, long siege, the iphone update of gunpowder, among other things are nowhere in best new games"
Oof. That's some classic bad timing for us if that's the case. I suspect this might cause us to get unwittingly snubbed again on a feature, and I doubt that they'll "make up for it" if it is indeed some kind of technical issue. Yesterday or the day before there were reports of app store problems where people couldn't buy things at all for part of the day. Maybe something bigger than all this is happening.
I seriously hope that isn't the case. That would be disastrous. But yeah, I dunno...with that many games not showing up, there's a chance things could be amended.
I also hope that isn't the case, but SOMETHING is up right now, and it's definitely not great for us. I am holding back a bunch of awareness push stuff, since i don't want people becoming aware of it only to then not be able to find it on the store immediately after... We seem to have a case of bad timing luck over here more often than our fair share. but i'm sure lots of people feel that way.
Metalcasket put this game on my radar recently. It looks amazing and I'm sorry to hear you're having problems. For what it's worth though, there's definitely weirdness going on. Some App Stores (like the NZ one, for example) still haven't updated their featured lists. I'm still seeing last week's, so whatever is going on it's not over yet.
Ick. Well let's all keep our finger's crossed. I have an email out to my contact there, though if something nasty is really happening i'm sure he's got his hands full.
Out of curiosity, is this conversation with somebody in the know about this? I would love to know what's going on and what to expect...
I hadn't heard of this one up until now. I've just played through the first 16 levels so far and I love it!
I bought the game through clicking the link here on the forum. I just tried a search on my iPad though, and it's showing up fine here.
got it. yeah, ipad will search fine, since it was there before. just the new update won't show up on iphones or ipods. *cry*
Ah, right. Incidentally, I just visited the app store via iTunes on my Mac and it is featured on the front page in "Best New Games" (that's the UK app store)
Sweet! At least our friends the brits like us. =) My other co-founder, Nick Bruty is a brit... I'm going to say that's why. =)
I enjoyed beta testing. Funny, I was ready to give the dev some advice (some of it constructive criticism), there was an update, and I no longer had anything but positive things to say. The dev has worked hard at developing the game. Creative and fun. Simple to play and sometimes quite the challenge. Good luck dev!
Just discovered we're now coming up on device search. No appearance on any of the features in US though that I can see. =( Did the features update finally? Anybody know? I failed and didn't record what i was seeing before vs now.
Your game is featured in the Dutch AppStore in the best new games section(IPhone). Very nice game indeed. Having a lot of fun playing it!
