Any trailers coming soon??? If there is one thing that I wish to be done to perfection, it will be the combat gameplay. Too many space combat games in the app store model ships like super agile fighters. Hopefully there will be large vs small starship battles where it involves a bit of tactics (speed vs firepower, for example). Edit - I just looked at the video showing the enhanced details for the iPhone 3GS again and I didn't realise that there was a bit of combat gameplay towards the end of it!
I'm so glad the word is finally out! It's been pretty cool porting the iPhone version over to the iPad. It has helped both versions tremendously. It has allowed us to add some extra tech that flowed backwards to the iPhone. We added a sort of "glow map" to the starships. Basically lights and engine glows and such. It makes a major impact when you are in a dark part of space, and you can see the bright lights from the bridge of the ship glowing. Both iPhone and iPad share almost all the assets. We designed the tech from day one to scale up. So the same texture is loaded on the iPod Touch and the iPad. Also we developed the iPhone version for 8 months. The iPad only got about a month and a half. So nobody should worry that the iPhone is the lesser version, it got all the love and attention. That said, the iPad is letting us do neat stuff with the screen size. We changed camera positions and UI designs to take advantage of the display. In regarding a Trailer, I need to see what the timeline is, but I think its obvious that everything will start showing up right as the iPad comes out.
Stinkin' iPad.. I guess now I have to go and google when this glorified iPhone is being released. Late April..
You from the UK? Coz in the UK it is late April - but I suspect the game will be launched with the US release.
I originally had the 3rd April in my post, then edited it after I checked on the Apple website.. but I didn't take notice if it was a UK or US version of the website. In any case, any date that is not today is too far away!
Hippieman, are you guys going to put up a Warp Gate specific website or just going to put the game in the iPhone game list on the Freeverse webite?
That's old and out of date. We'll be probably doing a standard Freeverse website in a few days. Right now I'm in a holding pattern waiting on some Plus+ stuff to finish up. But I expect to submit tonight.
Are you guys planning to let the iPhone version of the game go live on iTunes as soon as it is approved, or holding back for the iPad launch so that all versions get released at the same time?
Holding back. But not by more than a day or two. I still haven't been able to submit the iPhone version. Still working out some Plus+ stuff (just Awards and Leaderboard stuff).
