Joan Mad Run – Bloody indie scroll shooter for pixel lovers.

The full game is to be FREE with a soft monetization scheme like in our latest game Tomb of the Mask. Not the premium, but should be fair. Tried to not repeat the issues that the first release of TotM had. More close to the update of TotM with fair leader boards and etc.

Because of the main reason. To bring it to life from almost the afterlife we had to do quite much. Eventually we had to stop it.

Otherwise, it could take a year more to remake it or make it a different game.

It should feel like Tomb of the Mask in terms of upgrades with lots of guns and enemies and a control scheme that needs your both hands.

A bit better thing about the ads. Buying ads removal or coin doubler should turn off ad popups completely, including opt-in rewarded video ads. However, for those who don't feel that it's fair and want to earn extra coin, there is a little switch in the app settings. However, we didn't turn on popups in TotM because video did gave enough. So, in case you'll buy the popup remover it'll remove video ads buttons, giving you a kind of a more premium experience - but buying it is not necessary, as we have no intention to turn on popups the same way as in TotM.

Other parameters are to be tuned still.

Once it gets approved we'll spread a few early bird promo codes and will listen to your feedback.

Until then you can recall a bit how it feels by playin the game about Joan's friend "John Mad Run".

Joan's final build got a lot more fixes and polish (including faster jumping between lanes/levels). And we'll post the update for John as well (with popups removed), although with lesser number of fixes. The colleague that initially worked on it, unfortunately, didn't use the same code base for John, so after so much fixes to Joan it's unsafe to just copy the engine over it.

 

Dear TA members,

I've to apologize for a little premature upping of the thread without updating it to the actual state of the game and without synchronizing my effort with the team. Not all features we wanted it to have will see the light upon the upcoming initial release. Features like cross-platform multi-player, pets and character customization, controllers and video streaming support are not in there. Although we wanted to implement it all, the final decision was to keep it simple and eventually stop in order so the game would see the light of life. Otherwise, as it would take a year more of our work – so, when the other part of our team joined the project to speed it up, we fixed lots of bugs, added polish, redesigned weapon effects, and updated it for new devices.

Nevertheless, the game should feel a very rewarding experience – there is Joan, there are lots of insane guns, gore, pixels, kills, and death effects.

The actual information about the game, new screenshots and videos are being prepared and will soon be posted here. Until then, those of you, who didn’t read about it earlier, can enjoy the spectacular pixel craft in the older screenshots and videos. However, please take into account, that in the current build there is more polish then on many of the older screenshots.

And the previous short announcement is true - the build is submitted and awaiting a review with the release date in the beginning of May.

Sincerely yours,
Happybyte.

 

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Great news, dear friends!

The App Store has approved Joan Mad Run and we already know the release date!

The long-awaited day is May 3rd, 2016!

Dozens of meticulously designed kickass weapons, eerie bosses, deadly traps and spectacular death effects - it's all in there. Hope you will take a peek and stay

And in the meantime here are 2 fresh gameplay gifs: