help! need feedback for my demo video (180)

I don't understand this. Your game is now on the store for really long time and you still wanna make some more videos?

 

Hey, I haven't played the game yet, but from watching the video I see how much fun it can be!

Thoughts:

At the moment, I don't feel overly compelled to buy the game even though the game looks very polished and well produced and I could easily understand how to play the game from the video alone, it's largely due to the fact that this video is under-produced.

• Toooo long. 1 minute, 1:30 max is how long promotional videos should be. I lasted about 45 seconds into the video before I skipped around and turned it off.
• Needs exciting background music to get viewers excited
• What is up with those graphic artifact glitches that appear in the top left hand side of the screen? Or are they glitches...
• Would benefit from some titles explaining key game features
• Be sure to splash your logo and game name very clearly in the beginning and the end.

That being said, cool game!

 

since i played the demo i'm not allowed to comment on this video..

but first thing i noticed is the sound.. is this a new soundtrack you will have implemented in the upcoming version? if not how come youre promo sound is so different from you ingame sound.

and agree to mr waffle sup with your iphone? is the screen defective?
if yes and you can't make a video on a different device why not caputure
the game in the simulator?

6:30! lol wtf! .. i agree that the video is too long and well boring.. would you like to watch a video of tetris for 6 minutes? and i disagree with mr.waffle i think even one minute is too long for this kind of game.. you don't have 20 levels with bossbattles and explosions and special effects poping all over the screen.. so keep it short.. very short


ok i wanted to add some more.. but then the video was finished and i saw you already have videos on yourtube..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oQY7pC4RPY

why do you want to use this new.. sorry crappy video if you have already something alot better? .. i think its still to long but miles ahead of your attempt up there?

/me confused

 

same as the others:

WAY too long. I was bored after 45 sec. Try to keep your video to 60 to 90.
No, I didn't understand the gameplay, no I don't want how to play instruction on a promo video. (would be too boring). You create a promo video to get people exited and download your game, not to teach them how to play. It doesn't matter if we don't know how to play, but it would matter if you try to only show exiting stuff in your video... I don't know ... like powers up, big combos... chains.. That's should be enought.

I would prefer having the ingame snd than a snd track.

Hope it helps...

JC

 

Ok, video watched, answers below:

1. I didn't watch the whole thing. I watched it for about 50 seconds.
The music was kinda getting on my nerves, but it was fun watching the "finger" perform those combos.


2. Totally understood it. Maybe it was because I already saw some screenshots of your game in the forum, but then again I manage to understand it back then just by looking at the SS.


3. I'll buy it! Definetly my kind of puzzle!
But I was hoping you would explain more about what modes does it offer, and I really didn't enjoy the music - if it was on the game, I'd turn it off. Not that it is badly executed, but I don't like the style and I'm not sure it matches the game.

4. Nope. But as I answered on (3), I'd like to see more about the features of the game.

It looks like a very nice game, and the switch mechanics is innovative but intuitive!

*EDIT*
Oh yeah! What's with the messed screen?! That's kinda bad for the game's publicity

 

you want people to comment on the video and you forget that it was over 6 minutes long?!
and who cares about once upon a time tetris master videos. does your gameplay gets faster? i can't say i didnt watched the 6 minutes.. because the video is just boring.. and the broken iphone is actualy sad.

then you found to right place to ask a stranger to watch your video?!
and 2,5k is tons of hits? on youtube? something is off here.

possible you should work the negative feedback of that video INTO the video and since the other video you showed us is ancient aswell possible you should actualy invest time and work into something.

at the end of the day the product itself is not appealing, possible the gameplay is ok for a puzzler but the rest is not. one might think you would have grasped that by know, as you are an artist, at least i tought you are.
the hole product lacks any art direction, nothing really fits together.. its hold together by mediocrity.. and thats not good enough in a appstore filled with match3 similar puzzlers.

well no, you can't create a game in a void.. if you don't have the hardware, buy them.. if you don't have the money.. earn some.. somewhere else.
work at mc donalds or wherever.. a new ipod touch is a bit over 200$ , instead of giving away daily crap to stranger who doesnt help you at all to achieve your goal. you could spend that money into getting you into the game. 180 is old in appstore time.. it has no game center, no retina gfx its ancient.. either fix it or leave it be.. do the next thing. you don't develope a "brand" if you sit on a dead egg forever waiting for it to hatch.. you just wast time.

i noticed you are not even the actual seller of the game its mr.ma and from your post here and there i suppose you are the only one left with "headcase games" and 180, since you don't update the game you don't change anything.. how can you if you might don't even have a mac to compile the source one., if you even have the source to start with..

i don't know your situation, but from my pov you are doing it wrong and quite stubborn.

what you deliver doesnt look like the work of an professional artist who worked on several big titles..

well what can i say.. good luck ron.. you'll need it

 

Didn't watch the whole thing. 45 secs.

I sort of understand the way the game works.

It may just be not my sort of game, but no, I would not buy or is interested in the game.

Maybe 2 sentences about the basic concept of the game might help to break it up a bit, but not a whole explanation of the controls.

I get the concept you want to start simple and then move onto crazy combos etc, but it really doesn't work here.
You need to intwine the music with the mood. The gameplay needs to start simple and then merge to quick cuts and manic gameplay. A great example of this would be the Edge (or whatever it is called) trailer. It always manages to pull me in whenever I watch it.

 

i like public discussion because they are open to more than two pairs of eyes.
and you can get more out of it if there are more people involved into a discussion

and i know what it is to be independant.. doing this stuff for a bit over 10 years now and i manage to pay my bills with it.. i do alot of contract work but i design my own games aswell.. so i understand pretty well what it takes to be an independant and not be employed by some big companie. i had my share of bad times with 5digit debts and my god times with as much on the account.. so what?

i only tried to help and give some suggestions, at the end its your descision what you do and your on your own to make your own luck.

at the end of every day one should do a reality check and see if what he does actual leads somewhere.. one can spend alot of time hunting behind a dream which never comes true.. i did that once.. i failed.. i learned.. i changed and its ok now.

well to come back to the topic.

i think the edge trailer is good.. but edge has alot of variety in it.. its tenfold as complex as 180 so edge can show alot more in a trailer and still surprise the player with the next level ingame.. with 180 what you see is what you get.. there is not much more to it.. so its hard to make a good trailer for such games in general, so one must put in 10 time the efford to achive something similar.

 

My biggest issue with the video was the music, by far. I didn't enjoy it personally, I don't think its neutral enough for the masses, and I don't think it seems like it fit the game. I think madmud hit it pretty well though, if you are trying to shoot for a slowly building video into total hectic chaos, then that can certainly work, but ALL elements of the video have to contribute to that mood, otherwise it just doesn't quite convey what I think you want it to convey.

The music should start off slow for ex. Don't clip to new scenes very often early on. Then, as the music builds, keep switching from combo to combo, flipping tiles everywhere and getting massive chains. The chaos of the actual music and video (constantly switching scenes, hectic music) I think will aid in creating that feeling of really getting crazy.

I think I mentioned this before (and I know at this juncture its probably unrealistic for you), but if you ever get the time to update the game I think fancier effects would just add a world of appeal (shock waves, particle explosions, shines, etc). As unfortunate as it may be, the reality is your game can be the best puzzle game in the world (game play wise), but you first have to get people to think it LOOKS cool enough to even experience that game play.

Btw I think the game play itself looks really fun