Universal Highrise Heroes - The Towering Word Game (by Noodlecake Studios Inc)

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  1. pbb76

    pbb76 Well-Known Member

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    Not tried myself yet, but my GF is complaining that she started this on her iPhone and switching to her iPad had to start from the beginning... Any plans to add cloud saving?

    Also, when is android out, next week?
     
  2. macplash

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    if the game doesn't support iCloud and I want to switch between devices (as I'm doing all the time), I'm using CopyTrans tools which is probably the easiest way to do so. It's free and works like a charm.
     
  3. urban083

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    About a third of the way through the game and I'm thoroughly addicted. Been stuck on a level for a while now. Game certainly started out easy but is getting much more difficult. I enjoy the story and the random banter between characters. There is no reason that you'd have to spend a penny either. ( unless you want to buy the premium to support the developer, which is very likely in this case) Looking for long words to spell takes up much of my time, as 7-letter words yield big explosions.

    Highly recommend this game! Would have never found it most likely without the TA app.
     
  4. pbb76

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    Nah not gonna mess around with that (well, she wont - nor should she have to).

    Are you the dev of it as you have mentioned it alot :)
     
  5. macplash

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    #65 macplash, Dec 14, 2014
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    I'm approximatelly in the middle of 3rd chapter and for the first time one of my characters ran out of the oxygen so I tried to use "revive" option (to watch the ad) and my game just crashed. I tried again with the same result. I turned my device off and on again, tried and crashed it as well. I made the backup, reinstalled the game and tried again with the same result. I thought it might be the iPad so I tried in on my iPhone but it didn't work, the game always crashed. There's iOS 8.1.2 on both devices, anyone else experienced the same crash after trying to use revive option? Is the developer awared of this issue and if so, is the fix on the way?

    No, I'm not, LOL.. I'm just not a huge fan of iTunes and when I found how easy this program works, I was just hooked up. That's all. I mentioned it exactly twice, doesn't seem like a lot to me, I was just trying to help. Take it easy.
     
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    If you smart enough to create words "fallen", "tree", "games", "noodle" and "cake" in one round you will get something interesting

    :D
     
  7. undeadcow

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    Touch Arcade forums' Game of the Week Poll

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    Highrise Heroes - The Towering Word Game was successfully nominated for inclusion in Touch Arcade forums' Game of the Week poll with voting to occur over the next three days:
    http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=250424

    Developers may not vote for their own game or solicit votes. Only participants with a pre-existing and active Touch Arcade account will be counted.
     
  8. macplash

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    yeah, this is probably my GOTW, but I'm still experiencing constant crashes when trying to revive with "watch ad" button and occasional crashes after finishing levels. It's happening on multiple devices (iPad mini with retina, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5S), all with iOS 8.1.2 which is in my opinion the reason causing these crashes. Since the developer didn't comment here yet even though he seems to be active in this thread I contacted Noodlecake support through their site with this issue. We'll see how and if it's gonna be resolved.
     
  9. fallentreegames

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    We are now, and investigating your issue. Will follow up when we have some feedback.
     
  10. macplash

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    thank you..
    I'd love to support you and buy the premium pack (I'm just waiting until the crashing issue is resolved), but how is the revive option solved then? Is there still an option to watch an ad to get additional time (or to spend diamonds instead) or this option becomes free (similar to e.g. Mad Bullets and its 1 revive option for premium). Because if it's somehow free, there's no reason for me to wait. In chapter 4 I'd like to use the revive option occasionally but I can't because of the crashing issue. It's getting difficult to progress further without it, so I'm looking for the solution, but (and I'm being completely honest) I don't want to buy premium pack if it doesn't solve anything for me atm. So, how it works with premium pack?
     
  11. fallentreegames

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    #71 fallentreegames, Dec 16, 2014
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    Once the 'Upgrade' is purchased, 'lives' (ie retries) become infinite, so you won't have to watch any more ads to replenish them :)

    Gems still allow 'revives' (ie like arcade 'continues').

    I've passed on your bug report to our programmer. I haven't been able to replicate it myself, but he'll look into it.
     
  12. macplash

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    so if I understand correctly, the only possible option to revive in premium version is with gems and the "free option" by watching the ad just disappears? seems like disadvantage to me, isn't it?
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  13. fallentreegames

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    To be honest, I'm not entirely sure. I'll check with our programmer / gameplay designer and report back!
     
  14. macplash

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    Oh, ok, I appreciate it and sorry for inconvenience. There'll be no more questions from me, I promise;)
     
  15. joemoulding

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    Yeah, I suppose it is. We removed the ad option in the premium version as it felt at odds with the "Removes all ads". On the other hand we didn't want to make the revive completely free as it would remove any penalty.

    Instead the premium comes with 50 free gems, and there is no longer any need to spend gems on chapter unlocks. We figured this would be enough gems to comfortable use revive without being too many that it removes the challenge.

    This was just our best guess though, we're open to tweaking this! Do you think the video ad option should remain?
     
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    We do cap the score after revives, but only to the maximum for 3 stars. We felt this prevented the high score table being gamed, but still allows stars to be earned and progression.
     
  17. joemoulding

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    Hmmm this is strange. I justed tested on 8.1.2 on a iPhone6, iPhone 5, and ipad mini retina and it worked ok, so it might be crashing for a different reason.

    Are you connected to wifi at the time? We'll test some different configurations, but let us know if there's any setting you have which might be different to ours (sorry to be vague!).

    Thanks, Joe
     
  18. L.Lawliet

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    Sorry just to confirm but it sounds like later on you can only unlock chapters when you have enough gems to spend? I'm not too far but I'm curious when this appears. Chapter 2 seemed to unlock automatically when I got to it.
     
  19. joemoulding

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    For chapters, you can either use gems, or get enough stars to progress (or purchase premium).

    So it sounds like you did a great job of chapter 1 and it unlocked anyway from the stars you earned :)
     
  20. L.Lawliet

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    Oh thanks! I'm going to go ahead and buy premium. I feel like you guys are too generous that you guys deserve some sort of pay out (though I suspect chapter 5 will make me tear my hair out).

    I do hope you add some additional stuff in the future!

    I've just beat chapter 1 and no further but I hope we get secret levels underground! It only makes sense, since the level list scrolls down on the building :)
     

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