5. No. The global leaderboards are cleared weekly, the OpenFeint ones are all-time best scores. I did this one on Gold Skull, right at the end where you drop down to get 4 or 5 gems in a row.
idea for the endless mode: make different "chapters" so not one full level but endless random made levels
It sounds like if you get through that corridor cleanly, that you'll be able to get the high score back. I didn't even set out to get the high score. I just ran it a couple of times, and then got to 1 point behind you. After that I couldn't even complete the level, and then I finally got a good run, made it through the end cleanly, and got that score. I've been using Gunny and her 4 shotgun blasts to help. Yeah, I think the Bull levels have to be getting close to perfect at this point. I think there might be a little more to squeeze out of Silver, but I can't even come close to my Bronze Bull run anymore. I think I counted that I had the global scores on 8 levels last night. I haven't checked this morning. Yesterday was a fluke in that I totally didn't expect to get the top scores on Gold Frog (I'm not a fan of the frog levels) and Stone Rat. I had the top spot on Silver Bat, but qpawn overtook me, again. The bat levels are frustrating, because I find that a good run is really dependant on the bats, and at what point you hit them. If you hit the bats right, they will bounce you in a good way, but if you don't, then the bats will screw you.
I've been using Jake for Golden Bull, might have to give Gunny another try. The only real area for improvement seems to be that corridor. I'm really struggling with Silver Bull - at what points do you use your shotgun blasts and rocket boosts? Your best all-time score is still 24 points ahead of mine so I think I'm missing something. I hate the frog levels, and refuse to even try speedruns on them. Too much water to slow you down and too many awkward sections. That's why I like the Bull levels, nice and simple so you can concentrate on perfecting them. Might give Wimpy or Bat levels a try for a change though.
My least favorite levels are the Frog and Bat levels, but I have come to appreciate them a bit more. But I'm with you -- the Bull levels are my favorite, followed by Monkey. I also like the Wimpy levels, and was surprised to get a good score on Bronze Wimpy once I figured out the keys spots to use the rocket boots and shotgun blasts. I don't know if I can reveal my secrets for Silver Bull. Actually, I'll send you a pm, because I know there are a few others that might challenge me on that level. EDIT: Zoo, a pm has been sent.
Thanks mike. Everything you do is the same as me, with the exception of the rocket boost instead of using the spring block things. I think I need to have a break from the Bull levels for a while, might work on the Skull levels instead.
Yeah, skipping the spring blocks should speed things up a little bit. I've been working on the Skull levels off and on. Any tips for the end of Gold Skull where you drop down to the cluster of gems? I always come in at the wrong angle and miss 2-3 of them as I go flying past to fast. I did get them all for my best run but I missed the coins.
That may be a bug that we're fixing in update 3, sorry about that. Oh, unless you mean you only got one 1st score. I believe you need 1st locally on 18 or so different maps for the pirate hat? Someone really needs to write a guide about hats. Hat Guide. I'm not exactly sure what you mean. Unless you're talking about the same thing jar0d is below, in which case see my reply to him. OpenFeint 2.4 has a suggestion box feature built into it. We'll make sure Hook Champ gets that. It is sometimes hard to remember features that get suggested on the forum, unless we write it down immediately. We figured out awhile ago that we can't do endless mode with the current engine. We'd have to make a new app, basically. Due to FIRST GAME MISTAKES, the maximum size for a map is 1600 tiles. That would make for a pretty crappy "endless mode". However, we definitely plan to do a spin-off with this idea in mind, more info on this later. Maybe even tonight. We decided not to do this early on, as a design decision. We figured that some of the top people wouldn't necessarily want to give away their secrets to everyone. We also found that games that did this ended up being lamer because of it. HOWEVER We're revamping the challenge system this update. If you send a challenge to someone, when they beat your first ghost, you get the challenge back to try to beat. This means that you're then racing their new ghost, the one that beat your old ghost. This continues, back and forth, until someone wins the challenge. Because of the back and forth nature of the new challenge system, you can actually see how someone beat your score. If you want, you could just send challenges to some high scoring players and try to follow them to the best of your ability. You'll also get multiple attempts to race their ghost, instead of just losing right away if you mess up. It's a really great system, we think it's going to become the gold standard that everyone copies. Because we think people are going to copy it, we may as well give it a name that sticks. We're thinking about calling it: The H.A.T. Challenge System (Yeah, those letters stand for something)
Kepa, isnt it possible to include in the next update something like using especific hats unlocking some achievements? What i mean is that for example, i bought the game in the release day, and at that time (first weeks) i got the Crown (1st in global leaderboard), and still today my time is very good, but not as high (or perfect ) as the new ones. I really dont want to keep playing the levels just for beating others time, i've already had my share of it! I think it would be fair to make an update, and if i use the Crown i receive the achievement for placing 1st in the leaderboard. This should also be done about the achievements for buying hats. I bought all of the first ones, but know that they show as free to me, i cant buy them again in order to unlock the achievement, so i need to buy the more expensive to do it. If you make an update and like, if the players wears 40 hats (obviously he already bought them) the achievement would also unlock. Think about it! Thanks for your attention!
Known bug. There's also a similar bug about not getting the Local Celebrity achievements if you got #1 in a bunch of levels before OpenFeint achivements existed. We're hoping to fix both of these in Update 3.
Hopefully this hasn't been addressed before, but how do you get Hookbot's stovepipe hat? I've been going on a hat buying binge and I'm only missing that and the pimp hat.
Hey Kepa, I have a few questions, I am a new member, I'm curious, the 3000 coin hooks for all characters, are they just visual enhancements or do they add some function? I bought jakes and i can not tell! also, when is the next update coming out? This is probably my favorite game of all time. It reminds me of all the great 2d games of my childhood, a little bit of bionic commando, visual upgrades and unlockables are what makes a game to me, it has it all, thanks for this amazing game! UPDATE! P.S, I rave about this game on every single forum I am a member of, which is about 5-10, I tell all my friends with iphones about it, I seriously love this game!!
I totally don't remember. You get the pimp hat from winning an OpenFeint challenge someone sends you. The stovepipe hat might come from beating Gold Rat or Gold Skull or something for the robot... one of these days I should totally just write a hat guide. The megahooks are also a straight upgrade to the rope and hook. It's not quite as good as going from, say, the silver rope and hook to the gold rope and hook. It's more like half an upgrade than a full upgrade, to put it simply. We're almost done with the next update. When we submit it, it usually takes a week or two for Apple to put it on the App Store. The best way to show your support for the game is telling your friends. The second best way is probably just rating it and maybe writing a review in iTunes. As an aside, we're submitting update 4 *immediately* when update 3 is approved. Update 4 is going to be a fairly simple update, because it's mostly just going to be new levels. Maybe some hats. Maybe.
Kepa, thanks for the quick reply man, I just want you to know I am absolutely telling every single person I know about this game. I hope you guys are making good money off the game because you guys really deserve it, I would have paid 50 bucks for this game when i was 11 on my NES, for sure. I can't wait for the new updates, I'm super excited, I hope you guys remain interested in updates untill the entire world map is filled with stuff. I want to hug you for this game, thanks again dude, keep up the good work! (by the way, Blizzard entertainment took what, 11 years to make another starcraft because it was perfect? That being said, we might have to wait 11 years for Hook Champ 2, if you get the analogy!) I don't know if I'lll get in trouble for posting this, but, this is how I describe hook champ to my friends. Imagine Jesus. Imagine Jesus dying for our sins. Imagine Jesus coming back as an iphone app to rapture us all. This is hook champ. Buy it.
What if you're someone who considers Jesus as nothing more than a prophet who preached about love, friendship and all that jazz, but didn't actually have any spiritual connections whatsoever? Would that make Hook Champ better than Jesus? Would Hook Champ die for our sins?
