I don't think it's been posted already, if it has I'm sorry, but a new version of Mikey Shorts has just hit the App Store! You can update your game right now!
We posted about the update last night. There's also a FREE Lite version to try the first 4 levels: iTunes Link
The lite version also contains iCade and Joypad support, so if you are still on the fence about Mikey Shorts definitely check it out!
First off, great job Mikes on making one of my favorite games of all time. I had given up on iOS platformers about a week before the announcement of this game, and my life is changed forever. Second, great update! I was sitting down, my finger an inch away from booting up Mikey Shorts, when I got an email from AppShopper telling me the game had been updated. I rejoiced greatly. Third, thank you for letting me run around as a Samurai Bandit Duck-man. I had no idea how bad I wanted to do that before the random button made it happen. And finally, a costume suggestion. Much like the TouchArcade crew has discovered how to make themselves, I would love to see random components that can be used to make famous characters while not violating copyright laws because you guys do not put them together. For example, black pointy ears, a black mask that goes from the top of the head to the nose, and white, upside-down triangle eyes. Or maybe a red (or green) hat and a curly mustache. Hopefully, you get the idea. Keep it up! - Jonathan PS - If you were ever to release a second set of story levels, I would pay for it.
Thanks for the support and disguise suggestion, Jerutix! Glad we could help renew your enthusiasm for iOS platformers. Now we haven't really talked about this in public before, but the main obstacle to adding more Story levels is the fact that GC only allows a maximum of 25 leaderboards. One of our goals from the beginning of development was to allow folks to compete with each other on a level-by-level basis, which is what the Story levels allow for. And because we have so many Challenge levels, we were able to lump all of those scores together in our one remaining leaderboard. I'm always hopeful that Apple will someday increase the number of leaderboards allowed.
I'm having trouble with the search function so I wasn't able to go through the whole post and see if this is a nown glitch For some reason, even though I have all of the achievements unlocked, there are a few disguises that require achievements that are still locked for me? For example, 'gate breaker,' one of the easiest achievements. Any tips? My OCD wants me to have all the costumes! While I'm at it, which level do you guys use to get the most coins/min?
Yeah, it was a known glitch. But as long as you've updated from the initial version of 1.0, then you should have an Options->Data menu. Go there and press the "Refresh" button. That should unlock the disguises. Sorry about that! And I'll let others chime in with which levels they use to farm coins. Kind of sad I can't say, but I pretty much only get time to play level 1-1 for testing purposes.
Disguise Ideas Let us know if you have any disguise ideas for Mikey's head, eyes, and face. We'll try to make as many as we can for future updates!
Drunk eyes X X. A wide open mouth screaming if there isnt one yet, and a beer glass for a hat. Or my suggestion would be to create either a new section or just add to one of the others, a type of mask that covers everything, ex: gorrilla head, robot head, dragon head, skull
I don't think we can have actual characters, but we can make a pet monster hat. We're trying to keep Mikey Shorts suitable for all ages, so the Beer Hat will have to be Apple Cider. Interesting idea about how to handle masks. That's something we'll have to investigate down the road. Thanks!
Finished all the story levels with 3 stars and 1/3 of the challange ones. Great game I would love more modes and additional gameplay elements: for example a creep that kills you if you jump on it, but you can still slide into him.
Excellent game. This is the first speed runner that I actually try to improve my times. And I was actually finish the challenge mode (a few stages were really hard for me). Now time to slowly go for all 3 stars on the challenge levels. =)
Thanks to the both of you! Glad you two are enjoying the game. I see we broke 33k GC users yesterday, so that was cool! EDIT: Too bad we have over 2k people in GC sandbox mode...
