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Old 02-08-2012, 03:48 PM
Octavian_0406 Octavian_0406 is offline
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On a side note, Octavian, the developer of Brave Beak, dropped me a PM to see if I was ever able to download the game and say he was sorry for not being able to help. First of all, I completely understand that it wasn't his fault in the first place. Second, this is why I love indie developers. They actually CARE about their customers, even when their customers are getting their games for free. Thanks, Octavian! And if any of you guys like Doom style games, check out his product Bastards, which is a Western themed mod of the Doom iOS port. It's actually pretty fun.
No problem, PointOfLight, and thank you for the kind words!
I hope you will enjoy Brave Beak as well .
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Old 02-08-2012, 09:41 PM
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Once again thanks to everyone that tried to download Brave Beak for me. I don't know what changed, since I haven't heard from the Apple tech guy that was helping me yet, but suddenly I'm now able to download everything that was eluding me over the past few days.

On a side note, Octavian, the developer of Brave Beak, dropped me a PM to see if I was ever able to download the game and say he was sorry for not being able to help. First of all, I completely understand that it wasn't his fault in the first place. Second, this is why I love indie developers. They actually CARE about their customers, even when their customers are getting their games for free. Thanks, Octavian! And if any of you guys like Doom style games, check out his product Bastards, which is a Western themed mod of the Doom iOS port. It's actually pretty fun.
Apple support is bizarre. I've contacted them a couple of times where they told me they couldn't do anything but then shortly after the problem was solved, and I can only guess it was by them. Very confusing.
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Old 02-08-2012, 10:10 PM
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Apple support is bizarre. I've contacted them a couple of times where they told me they couldn't do anything but then shortly after the problem was solved, and I can only guess it was by them. Very confusing.
Well this definitely wasn't shortly. I contacted them Monday afternoon, and it wasn't until around noon today that the problem was fixed. The worst part is that the problem had actually been going on since last Thursday! I would have contacted them sooner, but apparently I'm the only download-aholic that was really affected by the problem.
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Old 02-08-2012, 10:43 PM
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Big Fish have released Strange Cases: The Tarot Card Mysteries for the iPhone. Seems like it was a former iPad-only release, but I might be remembering wrong.

They have also converted another Alawar game to their label-the first Sprill HdO. The Alawar version is not in the store, nor is the second game, that I could find. It seems to me that Big Fish must have purchased a division of Alawar or at least it's catalog, with all these conversions.
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Old 02-09-2012, 07:00 AM
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Big Fish have released Strange Cases: The Tarot Card Mysteries for the iPhone. Seems like it was a former iPad-only release, but I might be remembering wrong.

They have also converted another Alawar game to their label-the first Sprill HdO. The Alawar version is not in the store, nor is the second game, that I could find. It seems to me that Big Fish must have purchased a division of Alawar or at least it's catalog, with all these conversions.
I know on the PC / Mac side that Big Fish Games was one of Alawar's distributors, so maybe Big Fish talked Alawar into letting them distribute their games on the iOS side so they could get a bigger iOS library. It still seems weird, though, because I can't believe that the games will do any better under the Big Fish label, and now Alawar has to share the profits with someone besides Apple.
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Old 02-09-2012, 08:29 AM
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There were a few iOS games that they were already distributing from the games initial release on the App store. I don't have names right now (they are on my computer), but I'm certain I've seen them. It is definitely an odd situation. There are some other people commenting on it in the "To the Rescue 2" thread in the iPad section of TouchArcade.

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I know on the PC / Mac side that Big Fish Games was one of Alawar's distributors, so maybe Big Fish talked Alawar into letting them distribute their games on the iOS side so they could get a bigger iOS library. It still seems weird, though, because I can't believe that the games will do any better under the Big Fish label, and now Alawar has to share the profits with someone besides Apple.
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Old 02-09-2012, 09:06 AM
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There were a few iOS games that they were already distributing from the games initial release on the App store. I don't have names right now (they are on my computer), but I'm certain I've seen them. It is definitely an odd situation. There are some other people commenting on it in the "To the Rescue 2" thread in the iPad section of TouchArcade.
The sad reality is that we will probably never know, since I don't think anyone from Alawar visits these forums and personal inquiries into the matter seem to go unanswered.
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Old 02-09-2012, 09:40 AM
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The sad reality is that we will probably never know, since I don't think anyone from Alawar visits these forums and personal inquiries into the matter seem to go unanswered.
RUDELY unanswered lol
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Old 02-09-2012, 10:59 AM
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Here's a new game: The Tiny Bang Story HD. I've played this on the PC and it's tough in spots but pretty good. The artwork is fabulous.
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Old 02-09-2012, 11:26 AM
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Vampire Adalar HD Full Version is a hidden object game that is currently free. The iPhone version is free as well right now.
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