Critical Wave, Dual Stick madness, coming late February by Grannies-Games!

[Narf]

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Hey everyone!

Introducing Critical Wave, an intense new dual stick shooting experience.

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Critical Wave is an arcade survival game involving large swarms of enemies, huge boss fights and most importantly a vast amount of fun.

A vividly coloured and very sharp looking game, Critical Wave was made with the philosophy that variety is the spice of life and gaming. Critical Wave does everything in its power to bring you a new type of dual stick shooter experience.
By mixing things up, Critical Wave doesn't get stale after a few minutes of shooting. Varying types of enemies with a range of abilities, a wide selection of powerups and upgrades, endless waves of enemies that try to keep you constantly on your toes and a Critical Wave with a special boss that grows larger and larger will have you coming back time and again.

The game features everything you have come to expect from games in the dual stick genre, and more:

- Upgrades,
- Powerups,
- Easy mode for the people looking for a smooth ride,
- Hard mode for those who like a real challenge,
- Integrated online leaderboards with real-time ranking,
- Wave upon wave of enemies,
- Mini-Bosses,
- Mega-Bosses,
- Explosions,
- Tons of Bullets,
- Quite likely the sharpest graphics to ever please your eyes on the iPhone,
- Loads of fun

Some screenshots:
http://www.grannies-games.com/gallery/critwave/01.png

http://www.grannies-games.com/gallery/critwave/09.png

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http://www.grannies-games.com/gallery/critwave/07.png

http://www.grannies-games.com/gallery/critwave/05.png

The game has been submitted to the appstore and will hopefully be available next week!
The price will be $2.99

Let us know what you think!

[jak56]

i'd be sold if the screenshots were slightly clearer... dual stick sounds promising though...

[jak56]

oh! looks nice!

[TheSporkWithin]

Looks very sharp. The coloring is excellent.

[B34$T]

Did I hear dual-stick?
Cannot wait.

[otggamer]

Wow, this looks great!

[ultimo]

Wow, this looks great!
It indeed does :cool:

[Narf]

Thanks for the compliments, a lot of effort went into making the graphics as smooth and pretty as possible. We didn't spend nine months on the game twiddling our thumbs :cool:

[jak56]

yeah, i was pretty much sold after 'dual stick'

the really nice graphics are a plus though!

[LordGek]

Wowza!

[eggzbacon]

Looks colorful

[jak56]

very.

[B34$T]

How's the vid coming along :).

[Narf]

How's the vid coming along :).

Video is up, enjoy! :)

[Aldex Oun]

Another dual stick shooter? Sweet, I can't get enough of them.

[Narf]

Another dual stick shooter? Sweet, I can't get enough of them.

And it seems we developers can't get enough of making them. :p

[LordGek]

Whoa! Nice video!

[Bok Choy]

Huge nerd comes out in me, but the tri-headed thing in the banner and one of the screens reminds me of Magneton (Pokemon):

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DybPJg8QeRY/RrwEfZZeeRI/AAAAAAAAAgY/qCjZpKKJnig/s400/MagnetonPokemon.png

[Narf]

There is a resemblance, yes. Not because we like pokemon or tried to copy that while making the game though :p
If you check the movie you can see that its function is to pull the player towards it and it has three magnets to do so. All magnets can be destroyed seperately. The eyes are there to signify that it watches the player and can smartly grab on to him.

[jak56]

what can i say but wow. the graphics look excellent and the controls are dual stick. instabuy for sure

[Narf]

Status update:
We've finished work on the game and have sent a release build to our testers. If all goes right we will submit the game on Friday :D

[jak56]

testers? are they in house or something?

[Narf]

testers? are they in house or something?

No, not in house. We're just a small start-up made up of 2 programmers. The testers are friends from the game design school where I am a student, and colleagues from work.

[Vingdoloras]

testers? are they in house or something?

Are you jealous? I AM jealous xD

This will definitely get a spot next to my top favourite dualstickers. I need to kick one out. Minigore or iDracula?

[LordGek]

Are you jealous? I AM jealous xD

This will definitely get a spot next to my top favourite dualstickers. I need to kick one out. Minigore or iDracula?

Yeah, makes me want to hang out at computer schools for just the slim hope I'll strike up a friendship with somebody that will end up making a cool iPhone game!

[jak56]

Are you jealous? I AM jealous xD

This will definitely get a spot next to my top favourite dualstickers. I need to kick one out. Minigore or iDracula?

never, and i mean NEVER kick minigore out. i know, this is slightly hypocritical coming from me, but through time, i've realised that the simplicity of mingore just makes it overall the longer lasting dual stick shooter. it even outdoes guerrilla bob, which is something i thought i'd never say

[Narf]

Why would you need to kick out anything really, there's no actual hard limit right? Space won't be a problem with Critical Wave, it's only 7MB right now, the soundtrack takes up most of our space.

[SirDarkened]

Well, is there planned 2 player after release? I'm always willing to drop $4.99 for a good Co-Op game, aren't many out there either...

[Narf]

Well, is there planned 2 player after release? I'm always willing to drop $4.99 for a good Co-Op game, aren't many out there either...

We have thought about it and really wanted to do that, however, a full coop multiplayer would require months of extra work and we really want to release now.
We are thinking of multiplayer for our next game though, we might add some sort of multiplayer support here as well with an update, but not anytime soon.

[Vingdoloras]

Why would you need to kick out anything really, there's no actual hard limit right? Space won't be a problem with Critical Wave, it's only 7MB right now, the soundtrack takes up most of our space.

All pages full o,..,o you don't know me xD

[Narf]

Status update:
We've just submitted to Apple! :D

[jak56]

good luck!

[Narf]

Tnx :D
We're currently spamming f5 on our app page, I fear for how the buttons will look after the weekend :p

[jak56]

hehe. just like me on a twitter giveaway:p

[Vingdoloras]

Tnx :D
We're currently spamming f5 on our app page, I fear for how the buttons will look after the weekend :p

Duh. What shall I search for... Tilt to Live... Critical Wave... The Hero (has it been submitted yet?)... xD Can someone make an app that allows to see multiple searches on app store simultaneously? :D And add autorefresh to that app xD and an alarm for when it finds the desired app :D

[TheSporkWithin]

Nice, I hope this pushes through soon. It looks fantastic.

[Narf]

Duh. What shall I search for... Tilt to Live... Critical Wave... The Hero (has it been submitted yet?)... xD Can someone make an app that allows to see multiple searches on app store simultaneously? :D And add autorefresh to that app xD and an alarm for when it finds the desired app :D

The choice is obvious and comes with our undying gratitude ;)

[Vester]

Sorry, I have not followed this thread so if this has been asked or answered I am sorry. My question is price, has the release price been announced? Looks great anyway, I may just pick this up!

[Narf]

Ah sorry, we're aiming at $2.99.
The price was mentioned but I forgot to put it back in when I edited the end of the post yesterday. Fixed it now.

[Narf]

We've just been approved by Apple!
Critical Wave will hit an App-Store near you within the next 24 hours :D

[jak56]

have you got a link?

[jak56]

look what your newfound fan (me!!) just posted!

http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=46035