The Act - (by Chillingo)[Universal]

[Dan@Chillingo]

Hi all,

Thanks for all the feedback as usual, we appreciate it (both positive and negative) Just one thing to bear in mind when discussing the game length is that The Act was an arcade game originally. It would have been unfeasible for it to have been as long as many more traditional games due to its very nature.

Thanks! Any q's just pop them in here and I'll reply when I can

[oooooomonkey]

Well I'm really happy with "the act" I think I own all of the laser disc style games on ios and this is a fantastic addition to my collection.
Took about 30-40 mins to finish but the animation is brilliant and the swipe controls work really well.
While it might be short the same could be said for most laserdisc games it's just that in something like dragons lair it's so damn hard you spend most of your time dying :-) which makes it seem a lot longer.
Overall I'd say if your a fan of the genre (which I am) then there's plenty to love here and for £1.99 you get to see the game through, im sure it would have cost more than that start to finish in the arcades.
I'd rank it up there with "Road Blaster" and "Dragons Lair" as one of the best laserdisc games and I'm sure I'll come back to it again and again like I do with the others.

One thing I'd say that could be added to give it some extra life would be leaderboards and achievements, both road blaster and cobra command have these and it gives that bit extra motivation to replay for people who care about these things.

Other than that, more more bring me more laserdisc games I love them.

[Dan@Chillingo]

Originally Posted by oooooomonkey

Well I'm really happy with "the act" I think I own all of the laser disc style games on ios and this is a fantastic addition to my collection.
Took about 30-40 mins to finish but the animation is brilliant and the swipe controls work really well.
While it might be short the same could be said for most laserdisc games it's just that in something like dragons lair it's so damn hard you spend most of your time dying :-) which makes it seem a lot longer.
Overall I'd say if your a fan of the genre (which I am) then there's plenty to love here and for £1.99 you get to see the game through, im sure it would have cost more than that start to finish in the arcades.
I'd rank it up there with "Road Blaster" and "Dragons Lair" as one of the best laserdisc games and I'm sure I'll come back to it again and again like I do with the others.

One thing I'd say that could be added to give it some extra life would be leaderboards and achievements, both road blaster and cobra command have these and it gives that bit extra motivation to replay for people who care about these things.

Other than that, more more bring me more laserdisc games I love them.

Really glad you liked it! Great summary of the game, it's great to see that it delivered what you wanted as a fan of the genre.

[lord-sam]

Love the art style; reminds me a lot of Disney's 101 Dalmations.

I would like to see a gameplay video though, not quite sure how it works...

[GeekyDad]

Not my type of thing, but I am pretty wowed seeing this level of animation created from the ground up for iOS at that price. Hope it does well.

[Janders]

This is an AWESOME game! I love how it is a departure from what most are putting out. The emotion shown on the faces of the characters is delightful and subtle. This reminds me of a bright, animated, Heavy Rain for iOS.

[Appletini]

Originally Posted by GeekyDad

Not my type of thing, but I am pretty wowed seeing this level of animation created from the ground up for iOS at that price. Hope it does well.

It might just be the way you phrased that, but to clarify, this was originally designed as an arcade game a few years ago; it wasn't created for iOS specifically. I hadn't actually heard of the original game, but it didn't take long to find out about it after noting that the animation in the trailer was far too good for it not to have been designed for another platform.

[Blodia]

Dirk the Daring, OB-GYN. Must buy.

[Collin]

Man, I don't see how this isn't a bug... I'm running with the cart in the scene where he's trying to save his brother. I made it past the first leg where you go right. Suddenly, I'm running backward with the cart. If I manage to dodge everything while going backward and I'm in the middle or left "lane" I get smacked by the Scottsman (he's the first that I've passed on my backward run) and if I'm in the right "lane" I hit the nurse). I've tried every variation of movements I can think of to get past this point, and nothing's working...

If I move quickly so that I should run into the Scottsman, I smash into garbage cans. Most frustrating.

Should I be running backwards for this part of the level?

[edit] I made it through by way of guessing where things should be if I were moving forward, then it did a weird visual flip and I was back to running forward. Most strange.

[Zaraf]

Great game! I'm really enjoying it.