Cubemen - (by 3 Sprockets) (iPad 2+)

[Fil2]

Originally Posted by seon

As games are hosted by other players, if there is no one playing Cubemen, or no one wanting play a network game at that time, then you won't see anyone. Though Cubemen sales have been ok, it would need to quadruple (minimum) to get enough people always online to always find a game.

Your best bet is to get your friends to play Cubemen too and play against against them.

With regards to the Skirmish mode crashing, that's all been fixed in the 1.0.6 update that is waiting for review from Apple right now.



That has been improved a bit in the 1.0.6 update and I have also manage dto improve it more since the 1.0.6 update was submitted, so it's going to get bettering future updates.



Um, that's what Skirmish mode is. Or I am just not understanding what you mean?

Cheers :-)

Thanks for replying.
I tweeted you about these yesterday but you didn't reply me that's why I wrote it here.Hope you don't mind.


In the Skirmish mode you can't place the Cubemen wherever you want.In the Defense mode you can and I think an offline and online mode with the same Cubemen units in both sides with the possibility to place them wherever you want would be great.

[seon]

This can't be real can it?
http://cubementd.com/2012/04/12/this...e-real-can-it/

[KeaveXL]

Hi Seon. First off all thanks for this great game, I really enjoy it. Unfortunately the last (1.06) update ruined the game. After launching it crashes within 30 seconds. I rebooted my iPad, shut down the game via the task manager, but it keeps crashing. I am using the 3rd gen iPad with the latest iOS. Just wanted to let you know, I am sure it gets fixed real quick (as you always do). If you need any additional details please let me know :-)

[seon]

Originally Posted by KeaveXL

Hi Seon. First off all thanks for this great game, I really enjoy it. Unfortunately the last (1.06) update ruined the game. After launching it crashes within 30 seconds. I rebooted my iPad, shut down the game via the task manager, but it keeps crashing. I am using the 3rd gen iPad with the latest iOS. Just wanted to let you know, I am sure it gets fixed real quick (as you always do). If you need any additional details please let me know :-)

My web serve on Dreamhost is down and that could be causing the problem. It's been going up and down for 24 hours and they don't have a solution yet. Seem's their entire Irvine data centre is down.

I seem to be having the worst luck with new releases on iOS. Going to send me to an early grave!

Sorry, can you tell me what you are doing when it crashes? What level? What mode etc?

[seon]

Originally Posted by KeaveXL

Hi Seon. First off all thanks for this great game, I really enjoy it. Unfortunately the last (1.06) update ruined the game. After launching it crashes within 30 seconds. I rebooted my iPad, shut down the game via the task manager, but it keeps crashing. I am using the 3rd gen iPad with the latest iOS. Just wanted to let you know, I am sure it gets fixed real quick (as you always do). If you need any additional details please let me know :-)

I just played through an entire defense level on my iPad 3. No issues, no crashes.

i'd love to get some re-producable steps to make it crash if it is that consistent for you.

[KeaveXL]

Originally Posted by seon

I just played through an entire defense level on my iPad 3. No issues, no crashes.

i'd love to get some re-producable steps to make it crash if it is that consistent for you.

Well it happened 10 times straight in a row, just be launching the game and doing 'things'. First time I booted the game, went to achievements, scrolled through the achievement list and it crashed. Second time I went to the level select (classic/defense), flipped through some levels and it crashed again. I did this a couple of times and then I figured something was 'wrong' after the update. Then I tried what would happen if I just picked the first level and started playing right away. This also ended up in a crash just after the first enemies entered the map. So all of these crashes happened in the 30s to 60s after launching the game.

This morning I tried to re-produce these steps for you and the game worked fine. So all of the above probably happened because of the server downtime. I tried if it was re-producable by unplugging my internet connection, but then everything just worked fine. So this might be a small issue, but I think it would be nice if the game doesn't crash when your servers are down

[seon]

Originally Posted by KeaveXL

Well it happened 10 times straight in a row, just be launching the game and doing 'things'. First time I booted the game, went to achievements, scrolled through the achievement list and it crashed. Second time I went to the level select (classic/defense), flipped through some levels and it crashed again. I did this a couple of times and then I figured something was 'wrong' after the update. Then I tried what would happen if I just picked the first level and started playing right away. This also ended up in a crash just after the first enemies entered the map. So all of these crashes happened in the 30s to 60s after launching the game.

This morning I tried to re-produce these steps for you and the game worked fine. So all of the above probably happened because of the server downtime. I tried if it was re-producable by unplugging my internet connection, but then everything just worked fine. So this might be a small issue, but I think it would be nice if the game doesn't crash when your servers are down

Thanks for the feedback... Cubemen definitely SHOULDN'T crash if the server is down, but it might have issues if the server returns corrupt data, which might have been the issue as it was up and down like a yoyo, in like 10-15 second intervals

I'll have a run through of my codebase for the next update to do more checks against corrupt data from the server.

I'm sorry you had issues after the update but I am glad it's all working for you now.

[Fil2]

It would be great if we can play other levels in the Skirmish mode without having to go back to the main menu.

And it would be great if before playing a Skirmish level we can see our last, our best and the best internet scores of the level like in the Defense mode.
I know there are stats in the Skirmish scores on the main menu but to see them before confirming to play a level is a +.

[seon]

Originally Posted by Fil2

It would be great if we can play other levels in the Skirmish mode without having to go back to the main menu.

This is already added to the v1.1 update for both Skirmish and Mayhem modes :-)

[seon]

I have started a new Cubemen v1.1 gallery page on the Cubemen website. I have just added a first look image of the new Mayhem game (me v.s. 5 AI on the first playable level "SO IT BEGINS")

I'll be adding new images here as quickly as I can as work progresses on v1.1

So so everyone is clear, I am not rushing v1.1 out the door. I am making sure it's perfect and it's everything it can be. No ETA to announce yet.