Considering the dev said it would be a brand new game with a lot of different things, it can be like that 19-games-in-1 box where on the start screen you can choose JCS 1 or JCS 2 to play
I'll take a look and see what they are doing in Hook Champ... Maybe there are new things in Openfeint 2.4 - I'm in the process of hooking in Openfeint 2.4 into Space Tripper then upgrading JCS with it, so I'll take a look at the new stuff in the SDK.
It's been mentioned somewhere in this thread that some of the easier levels will be free and the harder ones for a fee. Price wise we will not be charging for individual levels but groups of levels - level packs that replace the current set of levels. Price wise, maybe 99c.
To go down the DLC route for the sequel - this has not been decided yet. After the New Year Luke and I need to discuss our possible work plans for 2010 to see what are the best actions to take.
For all the praise and hype re its framerate, I must honestly it's just alright. It's not as smooth as the first Fastlane and definitely nowhere like Snail Mail even on Airplane mode. I know this looks more beautiful with the illumination effect and everything, but when I asked about framerate, I only wanted to know about the framerate without 'but this' or 'but that'. To be honest I'm a little disappointed as I expected a Snail-Mail-smooth game to play before going to celebrate new year, but hopefully the gameplay makes up for it.
Are you playing with music playback on? One of the things people wanted was iPod music playing in the background, which we added. There is a trade off for this because the game was optimized very heavily on it's first release - there's not much we can do there anymore. With music playing CPU time needs to be devoted for this, so on older hardware it's not as smooth as it would be for no music playback. If you turn off the music it should be smooth If not then is your phone Jailbroken? That's another tradeoff because jailbroken devices are not as fast as the normal OS. But I hope you enjoy the game...
I'm not sure if any of this was posted already but I just noticed a couple articles. A Slide To Play Review updated upgrading Jet Car Stunts to 4/4 Jet Car Stunts mad the Top 10 best iPhone games of 2009 lis on PocketGamer.co.uk AppAdvice put us first on there essential apps racing games list
@TrueAxis: 1. No I'm not playing with music playback on 2. My iPhone has never been jailbroken 3. I turn on Airplane mode and then restart my iPhone before playing 4. It's still not as smooth as Snail Mail or the first version of Fastlane. 5. But the gameplay makes up for it, I love it 6. How to save replays? (Someone mentioned about saving replays earlier) 7. In replay mode, some angles look weird, like the track or blocks have missing sides, etc. 8. Happy New Year!! Awaken the spirit!
The update got me back into this game. Before the update, i kept getting frustrated at the impossible platforming levels, and some of the time trails...but now ive gotton back into this game somehow. Hopefully that new stunt mode will be out with a new car...? Is there a way to save replays? I love how we can now use the angles from the Game Announcement video...looks so good! Keep the updates going with this addictive game! 2g
You guys seem like you can do this, since the guys at Hook Champ did it. It saves your best time. But it may be hard to implement into JCS, since the car time and movement may be hard to re-enact, or something of that sort.
Replays do get saved but for future reference - we are not doing anything with them yet. This is there because of youtube videos (waiting for some technology, Openfeint or whatever to implement this) or uploading the saves to a server for people to download (waiting for some technology, Openfeint or whatever to implement this)... But it's there for future stuff.
The thing is 1.99USD is too cheap for this game for the content on offer... A sale of 99c will never happen. It's been given away as it is
BUG: The game resets to your last checkpoint automatically. It usually happens after I pass through a checkpoint. Happened to me 3 times now then I just stopped playing. It's frustrating that it resets my 'so far' perfect run. Happened to me on Hard levels.
