I do believe that with a username like shortappsreview, you would be able to see the potential of a game, the fact that minigores engine is optimised for editing and adding features should say something, while a4e is not optimised for that, so adding a survival mode is not as easy as extending the time or anything like that. Think about it like this, a game comes out with a utility to mod its engine, while not complete, everything is set up for you to edit. Another complete game comes out, the engine is optimised according to what it can do, nothing more, no mod utility setup, now of course the game can be modded, but how much do you have to do, you have to edit the source code to implement the whole feature in. Minigore has the main component setup, survival, now its easy to work backwards and build off of that, since the engine is optimised to handle alot of 3d objects on screen with no lag. A4E is more like it was optimised for just 2 minute survival games, no increase on enemy output, no harder enemies as you go throughout the level, so no real sprite changes. A4E has to go another testing session before it actually will be able to handle that. Im not saying A4E is a bad game, far from it, but in its curent state, with no survival mode, and just talk of adding it... it will be a while before the actual update comes out.
I hope Hardgore has a pure "Village Defence" mode. Not just playing the same missions over and over...
Well, I just bought Minigore! It's pretty awesome. It seems so simple, yet gets so challenging. I can't wait for those updates! Although I heard somewhere that John Gore's daughter (in the opening screen) will be a playable character. Is that true? Or will she be a NPC? Or just not in the game at all...
Hi! Glad you liked the game! About the little girl i'm pretty sure that she will be a playable character... Maybe someone has more info?
Minigore dev diary The final day of testing is upon us, hopefully no new bugs are found today! skyye06: When you start expert mode from 2000 points with the extra health it should be possible to reach 6000 points. MidianGTX: I don't think they're related, funny coincidence though. Reminds me of the movie industry where two animated films about the same subject can be released simultaneously. It's crazy when you think about the development cycles for those films, they can be in production for years and then two films about fish are released into theaters! Hmar9333: If you finish the model post it here, I'll put it up on the blog if it looks anything like John Dark NRG: It would be hard to integrate crossovers in a meaningful way to Hardgore, it's so story driven. Combzzz: When you breed a tiger and a lion it becomes a liger A4E and Minigore equals something like... this? This works on 3GS but it's too many characters for older models and it would kinda suck to make it exclusive for only the latest models: http://www.flickr.com/photos/minigore/3844028508/ We'll try to figure something out because we love zombies too much to ignore them Snow level's "undead cossack army" (they can shoot and they're not as braindead, yet) will bring some satisfaction while waiting for the true lumbering living deads... dominator246: There is a high risk/reward ratio attached to wandering outside the village defences. Going into the Hardland wilderness is kinda like doing the side quests in RPG games like Diablo or Knights of the Old Republic, you don't have to do them but it helps. gscal: Thanks for supporting us! John Gore's daughter is gonna be a playable character. Another member of the Gore family called Al.. I mean Jerry Gore will be playable too, Egoraptor is doing casting tests and it's gonna be hilarious - we're trying to nail the right kind of badass war veteran voice using TA member thepoisonivy's dialogue lines Forgot to post the other Hardgore challenge example in the last post (penguin chain thing): (it's a pic from Hardgore, not Minigore) -Timo
Glad to see my dialogue will make it into the game also . Jerry gore is one of the main reasons i am excited about the future of this game. I can't wait to see him in action. You think Clint Eastwood would voice him over? Timo you should definitly give him a call
with expert and insane, seeing as my top scores 10000ish.. will i have to get 2000 and 6000 to unlock expert and insane?
Hi how was the final day of testing? I'm loving minigore for a while now, the music is absolutly fantastic as well, very nicely done. When you say final day of testing, does that mean that you possibly send it for approval TODAY? Can't wait for an update with more content, I know every bush on that map by heart right now. You know what would be cool, in my opinion, was that you had movable/usuable things ON the maps. You put stuff like giant canons and what not on the map, which you can use ever so often (after killing 100 of them or something) and when that happens, you can shoot (not manually handle them because you're too slow) at some distant target attached to the cannon, which will trigger the canon too fire directly at you (shoot a big canon ball, or a bunch of tomatoes, I don't care) so everything behind you is a goner. This sort of stuff would make the map a more interactive place and would undoubdetly make for some fun mass furry handling. Also bullet time item would be great, like when you press it, you press bullet time and bam, you can sneak out of a potentially lethal situation, and once bullet time is over, you turn around and send them furries home! Or more Gore style, shout like Chuck Norris would shout, and daze your ennemies while you sneak out in pure awesomeness. But then again, Gore is more of a Rambo guy in my opinion so bullet time/slow motion is better. Also, obligatory, when he does the slow-mo/bullet tie, you need to have Gore scream in slow-mo too, that would be reason enough to buy the game Also, for me, Gore should speak more often and more different sentences, I don't think that would be too hard to accomplish.
Ok, all I have to do now are the hands and the gun. (which looks really hard)... I'll post a pic when I can get mah hands on mah digital camera.
If they are gonna submit today they'd better hurry, because here in Finland after half an hour it's technically tomorrow But whatever, just hope the update will be released in these hours.
Havent been following all that closely...what update will include coop? My kids keep asking me about it. They want to kill with daddy
Haha a family that kills together chills together . no this is not the mythical coop update we speak of. This is a combination of updates 2 and 3. As far as i know at this point co-op is still part of update 4 but it has yet to be completed.
I just meant that hopefully the update will be submitted as soon as possible. Oh yeah, the word "release" may sound quite a lot like I'd think that Apple would release it immediately
