It's polished but I doubt it'll ever make top 10.
I am a puzzle addict. I am basically your target audience, and I'm not interested at all in purchasing this game.
One of the main things is because it looks like a cut the rope clone, why would a lesser quality clone of cut the rope get into the charts, when cut the rope already exists and did it better?
And secondly, these puzzle games directed at the casual crowd should look completely self explainable. When I look at a cut the rope level I immediately know what everything is and what everything does.
With this game I look at the key and the little buttons like the plus sign, and think what the hell does that do? It doesn't looks straight forward to me, and the plus button doesn't even make sense. (why is a plus sign a magnet?)
Also, some of the graphics just look friggin ms PowerPoint buttons/clipart.
I am not attracted to this game at all, and usually I jizz in my pants at the thought of a new polished puzzle game. (though I'm a sucker for innovation, and maybe that's really why I'm not attracted to it)
I also am not a fan of the color scheme. Its not vibrant enough, the graphics and buttons don't seem to tie in well, it seems like bits and pieces were taken from all over the web. It looks like an arts and crafts project.
There's many other CTR clones with way more polish, there was that catch the egg game that looked just like CTR, and save yammi, etc.. When you can buy an array of games that has the same concept and looks better for 99c I don't see any reason to buy this game, that's all.
That's just my personal opinion though, all games, even game salad games, seem to make some sales, no matter what.. So I'm not saying it won't sell, I'm just saying I personally wouldn't be interested, as a avid puzzle fan, though some new people to iOS would probably like it.. When I first got my iPhone/iPad my standards were much lower.. But now after many years I've grown to crave the creme of the crop in the AppStore, only enjoying games that are unique in some way and too of the notch polish.
Polish isn't just meaning that every graphic and sprite is polished on it's own..like all your groahics separately look relatively polished.l but all together it kinda doesn't.. It just doesn't look fluent to me, but then again I'm used to chillingo quality polish, and that's probably an unrealistic achievement for smaller dev teams/indies, though not really since many of my favorite games game from indies and had upmost quality of graphics, world of goo, grooh, basically any games in my signature. So a dev shouldn't really let polish/fluent graphics slide just because they're a small team, others have done it.
Grooh is the most beautiful, unique game I've ever seen, and was featured by apple for 3 weeks in a row, and grooh never got to the top 10 so you can't really basevanything on anything. The game really means nothing. Even if it's polished to the nines, and has awesome unique gameplay, without correct marketing you'll probably fail, but even that is a success in a way because atleast they made a top quality unique game.. That's a very hard feat in the AppStore.. It doesn't happen much.
After taking a second look, my main gripes are:
The plus symbol button
The minus symbol button
The color of the robots face is too bright and doesn't match nicely with the theme (too much blue)
The theme is too blue and plain
The black blocks are ugly and too pointed
The buttons with words (like "latest") look very amateur looks like a random ms word document that a 12 year old created about her cats.
The icon is too cluttered, it looks like a utily app rather than a game
Why is the key green? Is there any reason for this? It just looks random
The whole theme consists of blue and green, there isn't enough variety, too many shades of blue is just off putting, looks like you are purposely only using greens and blues to target a male audience when the puzzle cafoegory is dominated by female players. (68% female)
So don't be afraid to add some more color.
Other than that the game actually would look pretty good. The plus and minus symbols are the worse, it flutters the game and looks absolutely confusing. And for that reason, I wouldn't download it.
Currently addicted to: Duet game, Threes, Tengami, Oquonie, Platforms Unlimited, Perloo, Wave Wave
Last edited by Snozberry; 10-15-2012 at 03:33 PM.