It won't let me purchase hookbot dlc. I get a message saying this isnt a test user account, then one saying you're not logged into your iTunes account (when I have just entered my password) ps if it matters, I'm in the UK
Any of you money-bags out there know what each of the top-tier hooks does? I'm working on building up my own money reserves to buy one of them. And getting enough money to buy two will take me months I think.
mikeg, I see you've taken first place on Stone Bull, despite having the same score and a slower time. My entire day will now be spent reclaiming this #1 position. Good bye.
OF scoreboards are all-time. The new DLC character, Hookbot, lets you do levels at your own pace. He was designed with people that want to explore the levels in mind. No ghost hassling you, and a recharging rocketboots replacement. You know, I also wish this game had better graphics. (Read on) We did the graphics this way for that reason, but I think for future games we're going to try a slightly different art style. It'll still be a pixel art style, but I'm thinking we're going to move to a later Super Nintendo style in general. 16 bit inspired, rather than the current 8 bit inspired. Brighter colors. Some scale changes... I have a laundry list of things I'd do if I were to do Hook Champ over. That's odd, anyone else having this problem? The top tier hooks, first of foremost, look fancy. Hookbot gets a laser hook, Gunny gets a harpoon gun with blast effects, Jake gets a purpley cursed skull hook. They are also about half an upgrade stronger in both length and speed than the previous maxed out hook and rope. This isn't that much stronger, so they're mostly a showing-off kind of thing. We'll be monitoring how people are liking the DLC. We'll be looking at both sales reports and iTunes ratings to do this. We don't want to make money at the cost of losing ratings. Still, we hope that this DLC experiment is successful. If the DLC sells well while maintaining a high rating for this update, we're going to consider selling future games cheaper than we would have otherwise. This will let us attract more people initially, while hopefully making some money back from fans buying extra, non-essential content via DLC. If this works out well, we can do stuff like putting even more content in a future game for the same price, or making a 99 cent game with huge amounts of polish. So far, there's already one star ratings on the iTunes page, solely concerning the new DLC. It's early, but we'll keep watching it. If people really hate the mere concept of DLC that much, we'll stop doing it.
Personally i dont mind paying for DLC when ive gotton pleanty of free stuff in return like all the levels and i got the game for 59p so ive bought hookbot, hope this helps the updates for hook champ. Im in the UK and the DLC worked fine. Better get saving up for the upgrades now!
The robot got my attention I had deleted Hook Champ as I had gotten to where it was frustrating rather than fun for me. I love the game but cane to the conclusion it wasn't for me. And I am glad that you found a way to make the game more accessible to the casual masses (that's me although I love games- I'm just not a hardcore or very talented player) without sacrificing the challenging gameplay that your core fanbase loves about the game. As for it being dlc, I'm mixed. For me, original 99 + 99 dlc makes this a $1.98 game. Dirt cheap in my book for the quality offered. Having read posts in iTunes, I can see the other view. The casual gamer is being taxed for wanting to play the game casually. It's not unreasonable to expect a "free roam" mode to just be part of the game and not a dlc add on. Also wondering if the level design is complex enough to support free roam as a fun mode. Anyone play with the bot yet? Impressions?
I know I just posted, but wanted to share a new experience. I downloaded Hook Champ, looked at the bot dlc, and just couldn't pull the trigger. Why? Well, I suck at the game (feel bad). Having to pay extra to explore levels I'm not skilled enough to navigate is like salt in the wound (feels more bad). Then I see Jet Car Stunts just offered an update with a non-dlc casual mode. Unfortunate timing with jcs but would rather see the bot as a way to broaden the audience appeal and potential market rather than a paid add on for the gaming impaired (that would be me). I have no issue with dlc per se but I'm not sure the bot is a good choice for dlc. It's an experiment as you say and I'm all for your team doing well and being able to offer more polished games in the future
uSuxors, just beat your Stone Bull challenge, only by 20 points or so though. And reclaimed #1 from mikeg in the process. I'm pretty pleased with that score, I doubt I could better it. Kepa, I'm glad to see my quick character select suggestion made it in, but I really don't like the icons. There are too many styles of character designs - the in-game pixellated ones, the ones that appear in the intro chatter, and now these new ones. Can't they be replaced with the intro chatter ones instead?
Good job on Stone. After reclaiming Silver, and then later Bronze, I had to give Stone a run while I was in a groove. The odd thing is that it said I had the #1 local score and #2 global score, but when I checked I had the #1 spot, even with the slower time as you had pointed out. But that is all moot now since you have beaten my score.
I have to say i love this game but can some tell me how sendimg challengs work and can someone send me ome a easy one
Does this just have a semi-cult following, or is it like Jet Car Stunts where everyone loves it, but it still isn't on the top 100 paid apps list?
Just an fyi for anyone trying to get hookbot but coming up with "sandbox" type errors, I use a jailbroken device for development (makes it so that I never have to deal w/ provisioning issues until the final stages), and purchased the game in my osx itunes and installed by synching. Apparently this isn't workable solution, so I followed some advice which is simple: Delete the app Install over wifi from your device's app store. Then the in-app purchases will work Obviously all my records were deleted as well (please dev.. implement openfeint user data restore!) but i don't really mind since I was going to replay the whole thing w/ hookbot anyhow. Chris.
Everyone loves it. including me . Its an awesome game, but it seems to have a steady sales rate, it never really peaks on sales, so its never gone into the top 100.
