Congrats on the review! I left a comment for you! Thanks for working with me on the icade joystick support, it is awesome. Curious to see what the icaders think in a couple of days. One icade note not in my previous beta reports. When the high score popup comes, there is no easy way to enter the text via keyboard cause it is overridden by the bluetooth joystick. So the only way to add your name is by disabling bluetooth, is there an easy fix? I usually just cancel out. But you might want to mention it in your help webpage just to make it clear. Great joystick controls! Woohoo!
We'll see Finally finished conquest without dying -_- So close to you duckee75 but ill let you have it. No point since that first score is obviously hack. I think it might be a clean run through and thats the best score you can get. Because seriously, NO ONE will get CLOSE to that score without hack or whatever he did. Top 5 in all 3 modes, I can die a happy man now =P **Crashed again, I was around lvl 60 something. This time I resumed gamed off a long pause, maybe that's what happened in the other game that crashed. Moral of story: Don't pause and resume play off a long period of time!
I didn't think I'd need to mention it, because it's in the manual for my 8-bitty that you need to turn off the controller to use on-screen keyboards. It's pretty standard right? I can't force iOS to display the onscreen keyboard as long as it thinks an external one is connected, and that's what the iCade is. I'll add a note about it on the website.
I don't have an iCade so have no dea what I'm talking about guess I would expect name or initials input via iCade to be like in the arcade - tap controller left or right to choose letter and press Fire to select the letter. Or something like that.
Yeah that would work except in the case when someone actually has a bluetooth keyboard attached (which is probably rare). Of course with this game once you've put your name in once, you never have to do it again. So, it's not really a big deal. I kind of wish games like this offered regular bluetooth keyboard controls as an option along side iCade. Then any keyboard could be used. I have a small one about the size of a controller that would be perfect for platformers & shooters.
Greg, that would be nice, and that was what I was hinting at, but it probably would be a lot of work for nothing. Another way, maybe to recognize icade users and not allow the pop up. But regardless, it is more work, and this is an icade bug, so it has nothing to do with the dev, just thought it would be a good idea to put it in the webpage help file so that it is documented in case anyone is baffled or complains. But it is a small point, and really doesn't cause any problems, cause one can easily cancel out of it. Looking forward to the new update, even though for me I guess, there will be no change I guess, but anywayz, hope everyone is happy with the new icade controls with 5 sensitivity settings, it is totally wild, and the first of its kind, maybe even on console gaming, cause I can't think of any game that has 5 joystick speed settings. Anyone know of any?
FWIW, you cannot turn off the iCade. You turn it on by pressing one of the buttons, and it turns itself off after a while. So that is kind of annoying when you need to input something. But like Connector said, no problem in this game if you can just cancel out of it, already happy enough with iCade support!
Yeah, on the icade core, there is no real off button, so one has to turn bluetooth off too use the keyboard, which is a little inconvienent, then turn it on again. But in this game, it is a nonissue since you can just hit cancel real fast or if you are determined, turn off bluetooth, but anyway, it is not a serious problem. Volbard, when you do think the update will be out, so they can see the awesome new one of a kind icade controls? And man, this is becoming one of my favorite games on ios. The use of a joystick, and the catchy music and graphics are way cool. Pretty rare when I can play any game day to day for a long time at a time. It is cool!
Thanks! Friday is a good bet for the patch release, but it's up to Apple. The patch could always get rejected and set us back another week too. I don't think there's any reason for that though.
Cool, looking forward to it. Also, when was this game released? Holy hell, that new score in survival is insane! I was wondering if it would be kind of endless like hardcore or it would have a level limit, guess not! Hurry up update >_<!
It was released March 17, 2013. Update should be out anyday now I think. Eveyone, please read my long write up here since some of it is about the new update. http://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=2785519&postcount=81 Top secret picture of the new Plasma Sky update with icade core joystick support. 5 icade speed sensitivities, too cool.
Right on the date, it was officially the 18th but available on the 17th depending on your timezone and which store you used. Thanks for spreading the word Connector! I've lowered the max score to bump that one off. After the update scores will change a bit, so we'll see what you guys can get and I'll set new max scores based on that.
No problem, was playing some iphone games on my icade core (Storm Strikers) as attached. Cause someone asked how games would play with icade with a iphone or itouch. Works great, played Phoenix hd, and many others on my iphone with my icade core. Then I tried Plasma sky, and was surprised it didn't work, but funny thing is, that is the old build. Do you know if my testflight will work with my iphone, or do I have to have another testflight account? I always beta test with my ipad 3 cause I don't really play on my iphone 4, but this made me curious. You might want to load it on an iphone or itouch to see if it works fine, should work fine I figure.
You have to set your iPhone up on Test Flight and have developers add it to their device list to get builds. It's probably best to stick to your primary device, since devs only get 100 devices total, and it takes a year to remove one from the list. I've been testing iCade with a phone, works fine!
Coolness, that's what I figured, all icade core games that I have tried on my iphone have worked fine. Starting to get questions on whether it is easier to get high scores playing on icade joystick or touch, gonna try a very unscientific experienent tonight. Gotta figure since icade is a bluetooth keyboard hack, it shouldn't be able to match up for high scores, but the big stick of the icade core may help alot. What do you think? Which is easier for high scores? For fun though, I like joystick far more. Far more. Oh, you might wanna buy an icade core in addition to hour bitty sometime, the big stick and buttons are really really nice.
Interesting that the survival high score was deleted but the conquest high score isn't? It may have been legit if he kept getting the time ships.. Heh.... Guess we'll see since the update is out! Also the reason I asked about release date was because the no.1 score in conquest was set on the 25th march (iirc). Was thinking it would surely be hax if the high score was set on the day of release, but guess not. I still think its bogus.
