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By: The 9,000 BC Guy

The 9,000 BC Guy — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:58:08 +0000

I really don’t mind criticism. Whatever gets the product improved, right?
Anyways, thanks for the insight. Very helpful :)

By: The Management

The Management — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:23:08 +0000

Heh, well, that sure is quite a long feature list. Then again I did take a bit of a shot at your game, so a little advertising can’t hurt.

It also sounds like you’ve addressed its biggest issue, but truth be told I don’t have that much free time to replay titles. If I do, though, I’ll let you know what I think.

By: The 9,000 BC Guy

The 9,000 BC Guy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:46:38 +0000

Hi,
Thanks for the great feedback! Getting insight from an experienced profession was really a good learning experience for me, since I have just gotten into game dev ;)
I am the developer of 9,000 BC. I also realized that slide to shoot was not that great of an idea since many users wanted a better way to shoot. The update is out with tap to shoot and some great new features. All the features were recommended by users :>

It would be great if you try out the update and let me know how you feel about the game! (you have my email! ;))

Here is what’s new
??? What’s new? ???
*** Powerful monsters are now on your side!
—> The Red Eyed Monster
—> The Ferocious Shark Head
—> The Powerful Beast Man has
— arrived from the jungle and seas to aid
— you in your battles!

*** Tree of MAGIC ***
—> You can buy Magical Fruits that give you
— the ability to Cast Spells.
—> Eat a Magical Fruit to cast spells on
— those evil monsters!

*** 3 Different types of SPELLS ***
—> Ancient Way of the Spear
——-> use this spell to get a huge magical
——– spear for a while and kill multiple
——– with one shot. Yeah, ONE shot.
—> Short Term Mind Control
——-> use this spell to stun the monsters,
——– they will be SHOCKED and stay
——– where they are for a short duration.
——– COOL!
—> Mega-Tiny-ize
——– cast this spell to SHRINK the
——– monsters and make them weaker.

*** A lot of people wanted this
—> now you can Tap to Shoot the spear!
—- Woohoo!

*** Full OpenFeint support with
—- achievements,leader-boards and chat!

*** What’s next? – MAPS!!!, more prehistoric
—- beasts, and EVEN more…

*** This is not it. We are still working hard on
—- the next release.

Thanks again for taking your time and writing this article, will surely help me become a better game designer!

By: The Management

The Management — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:45:20 +0000

That’s true — many developers initially had problems coming up with suitable solutions to mouse-hover events, i.e., displaying tooltips or highlighting objects under the cursor as stylus-based touch events simply initiated the interaction sequences.

It’s not as much an issue these days — and different games approach this in different ways — but DS RTS titles in particular have come a long way.

By: PinkTowel

PinkTowel — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:39:57 +0000

good points, but i don’t think the hands issue has subtracted that much from my enjoyment of these games. maybe it’s just worse in 9000bc?

either way, it took developers a while to get used to the DS, so i expect iphone titles to have a similar evolution.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:34:21 +0000

Yeah, I noticed these games all over the app-store. They’re fun little distractions, but I couldn’t really get into em.