Firetop Adventure - FREE for a few days!
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Firetop Adventure - FREE for a few days!
$0.99 <- FREE. Get it while you can, please leave a review in the app store if you like it
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Firetop Adventure takes place in a world cursed by a deadly plague caused by the minions of Old Karn, an ancient and supernatural evil. Your job is to find the three pieces of the lost Rubin Amulet, which, when reunited, can be used to gain entrance to Old Karn's tomb, where you can then do away with him.
Features
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-> Classic retro platform fun suitable for all ages and levels of gamer.
-> Two modes of play include Story Mode and Score Mode
-> 30 Story Levels over 3 chapters
-> 150 Score Mode levels
-> Auto-saves progress
-> Intuitive & responsive controls.
-> Complete all game modes and chapters to become King of Kildarn!
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Last edited by Kodo; 07-07-2011 at 07:18 AM.
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Looks cool I'll give it a try.
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Thanks dev!
It was in my wish-list
I love this world!
Last edited by foxmulderino; 07-07-2011 at 06:24 AM.
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Of course I just bought this a few days ago. Pretty good game
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looks nice judging by the screen shots! grabbing it now.. will leave a review
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I wasn't too sure about this one when it first came out, but I'm so glad I ended up buying it... =oD
Totally worth checking out while it's free!
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A game with lots of potential, but really hampered by not being thought through properly. Why is it in portrait mode? Portrait games needing two-handed control are uncomfortable and awkward - even for people with fairly small hands like me - and the controls are fiddly and unintuitive.
There's no need for either problem - the game area is such that it could easily fit on a landscape screen with zero modification, and several games have already demonstrated how you should control a platformer with only left/right/jump on a touchscreen.
Here's a quick mockup of a much better Firetop Adventure. Note: I haven't changed the size of any elements in any way, just moved them around and rotated them.
For control, you have the arrows for left and right, and if you press both of them you jump (try either of the :Shift: games to see how well it works). If you really want a separate jump button for going straight up, there's plenty of space above the direction buttons if you move the cloud ones up a bit. As a bonus the game now suits right-handed players and lefties equally well.
Obviously there's also now plenty of space available for making the score bar a bit better looking too (bigger text etc).
Last edited by Herosoft Ltd; 07-07-2011 at 07:50 AM.
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Herosoft Ltd
A game with lots of potential, but really hampered by not being thought through properly. Why is it in portrait mode? Portrait games needing two-handed control are uncomfortable and awkward - even for people with fairly small hands like me - and the controls are fiddly and unintuitive.
There's no need for either problem - the game area is such that it could easily fit on a landscape screen with zero modification, and several games have already demonstrated how you should control a platformer with only left/right/jump on a touchscreen.
Here's a quick mockup of a much better Firetop Adventure. Note: I haven't changed the size of any elements in any way, just moved them around and rotated them.
For control, you have the arrows for left and right, and if you press both of them you jump (try either of the :Shift: games to see how well it works). If you really want a separate jump button for going straight up, there's plenty of space above the direction buttons if you move the cloud ones up a bit. As a bonus the game now suits right-handed players and lefties equally well.
Obviously there's also now plenty of space available for making the score bar a bit better looking too (bigger text etc).
I trust you've played the game? Good comment though, and as said in the games release thread a landscape view will be used in Firetop 2, if it gets made, but the play area would fill the screen. Incidentally, the software used to create this game doesnt support multi-touch very well at the moment, so pressing both the direction buttons to jump would be out of the question, which would kind of blow a hole in your suggestion and is the main reason the controls are as they are
I'll add that feedback from those that have played the game has been positive about the portrait mode.
Last edited by Kodo; 07-07-2011 at 08:09 AM.
