Might just give this a whirl. From what I have seen, insta reminds me of a mix between mario kart and sonic!
You can access the weekly leaderboards for each event. Just tap the GC icon in the Event Select screen.
That sounds awesome. However I do hope they are not one use ptw boosts. They ruined a lot of great games. Can't wait!!!!
I just got this bug myself, and it looks like it's an issue if you access the event select screen before GC has authenticated. You can either wait for GC to authenticate (you'll get the Welcome Back notification), or disable your internet connection. Good spot We'll get that one fixed in the first update. Thanks!
Oh hey! Pocket Gamer just gave us a review! http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPad/Tail+Drift/review.asp?c=62029 We've been hard at work this week everyone, and will have a bug fix update out as soon as we get can
Looks like a fair review. Definitely a little light on content (well, can't complain for $1!) at the moment but I still find myself going back and trying each event with all the different craft trying to best my own times. Any chance of a cloud save/save transfer tool in the future?
It's definitely on our list of things to do. Your scores are transferred via the leaderboards, but we don't have iCloud support yet. It's something I personally want to get in when we get the time. We're hard at work on Tour 3 at the moment though
Awesome review by AppSpy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6MI-Q-euO0 The only thing they didn't like are the endurance races, saying they are too hard. I disagree; they're my favorite part!
Tail Drift has gone free on iOS Hey everyone, We've just released a big update for Tail Drift today and have taken the game free. This free 1.03 update should start to show up on App Stores around the world soon. We've been inspired by the success of Crossy Road and the way Matt and Andy handled their free model so the team have made all ads opt in. This means there are no banner ads or pop ups in your face. If you want to watch an ad to get extra stuff, it's up to you. The team have also added in full language support for Spanish, German, French, Italian, Brazilian, Korean, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Turkish and English. There's also another update in the works featuring achievements, new planes and a new league with a brand new race environment and more tracks. This should be hitting the App Store sometime next month. But in the meantime, go grab the free version now! Oh, and if you already bought it for 99c you'll get a ton of free coins in the upgrade which will keep you busy for a long time! John
Sounds great, I hope the switch works out. I happily paid for this on launch and am excited to see the new content!
Hey everyone! I'm going to be very frank and open about the state of the game. As John mentioned, we've gone F2P. I'm sorry we've been quiet lately, but to be perfectly honest, our launch was far from perfect. We thought we'd go the paid route, but that didn't get us enough installs to fund the next block of work. We'd worked ourselves incredibly thin to get everyone Tail Drift, and with no real funding coming in from our premium launch, it was really hard for the whole team when deciding what to do next. We started on the next lot of content (and that is still coming!), but we realised that there wasn't much point focusing on more content when we were still struggling to get people to buy the game in the first place. Adding more levels won't get us the resources we need to make even more content, so we had to reassess our focus. We eventually landed on a hybrid model of an energy system (fuel) and videos ad. As a gamer, I'm a big fan of videos, because it's not much of my time, and I don't need to spend. Watch a video, get a thing, and we, as the developers, get a slice of that ad revenue. Don't want to watch videos? Get more planes - each has its own energy bar. You can buy planes with coins, either earned though play or IAP. We give a bunch of choices on how you want to play. If you're happy to just have a race every now and then, you don't need to pay anything. If you want lots of races, you can either buy a few planes so always have a few refuelling, or just watch quick video and jump right in. This means we'll have lots more users, which means more people to compete against. We still have all our leaderboards to beat your friend on. And now it's super simple to convince your friends to download Tail Drift, because it's totally free to jump in. We have more coming soon, and I hope even though we've gone free, we haven't done it in a way that you feel is unfair. If you've already purchaseds the game, you'll get a huge pile of free coins when you update. If you've deleted the app, unfortunately you won't be able to get those free coins, but email me at [email protected] and I'll see if I can help you in the future.
It's too bad things didn't work out as a paid model. So are you saying you added a timer or some sort of lockout when you've run out of "fuel"? How many coins will I get once I update? I am VERY hesitant about this.
It's a cooldown timer. So once you run out of fuel you need wait for more to race. At that point, instead of waiting to refuel, you can watch a video ad. If you don't want to watch a video ad, you have the option to refuel with coins too. Or wait. Up to you. Personally, I just watch the 15 to 30 second ad If you update you get 300,000 coins, that's enough to buy all the planes, so you don't really have to worry about the fuel system too much.
That's cool that you did that for those of us that paid. I'm shaving an issue....I try to download, and it's just stuck taking forever. I ha 2 other apps update at the same time very quickly, but this one is just stuck....
