Friday, December 19. 2008Four towers... almost done?
Lots done in the past few days! Here are Arrow, Earth, Ice, and Electricity in their (almost?) finished form. Fire is modeled, and just needs tweaking... each render of Fire is taking 5 minutes, so it might be a while. I might set up a render farm for the remaining towers as they will all use particle systems.
I abandoned the color scheme. And therefore, made Arrow red and Electric blue. Earth might get a re-texturing to make it darker... I'm not sure about it yet. You'll have to trust me on the electric animations... OMG they are cool!  Sorry this is taking so long. It is a combination of things, but one of them is my perfectionism. Since I decided to do the 6 stage models, I'm going to do them right.   ---------BONUS!---------- 
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I think you need to change the earth back to the dark brown you had it at. The color scheme helps a lot and the way you have it the arrow towers are very close to color to the earth. Just seems off to me.
The rest of the updates look fantastic, Fire is a bit weird but not sure what else you could do with it.
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2008-12-20 06:37
Ya, the more I look at it, the more unhappy I am with the Earth. It is supposed to be granite, but it is way too light. It is a pretty easy fix.
I'm not happy with Fire, it is a work in progress. I think I'm going to make the metal part of it either black or silver. I do like the spikey grill thing tho. As always, thanks for the input!
#1.1
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2008-12-20 07:37
Chad, I feel that for the earthen towers if it were me id make it more mountainous and ridged and darker. BUT with that being said I also do like your design, and I do agree with Wulfsige's suggestion of go back to darker. Now with that being said, Chad your towers look AWESOME man! You rocked it on electricity towers, those look amazing i wasn't a big fan of your first posted design of electric but these take the cake for sure man that's so awesome! I honestly don't think Fire looks too bad?? Maybe some tweaking but I thought it looked very cool. Man I sure am impressed.... kudos Chad, this is sweet my friend.
#2
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2008-12-20 08:05
If you think the electric towers look cool in a screenshot, wait until you see them animated!
Thanks again for your comments Jeffrey!
#2.1
on
2008-12-20 09:14
Really nice!! It's only earth that doesn't really cut it. The others are awesome though. Especially the electric one!
#3
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2008-12-20 09:55
hey chad. First of all, this is the best app I have ever had!!! Period!! I even convinced four of my friends to start playing this game, even though I'm sad to say it was hard to convince them because they thought the screenshots looked bad. But this is by far my favorite game and beats feildrunners by a long run. I spend this game even more than anything on my computer/xbox. Secondly Im just wondering how long this update is going to take?? I was looking at your list and saw that you have a lot to change, and if you keep at this rate it should take another month or two... Is that how long your expecting?
On another note your towers look amazing! I really like the electric towers and the arrows a lot. The fire isn't bad at all, and I think that earth looks decent but maybe a little... Smooth looking? I think your doing a great job on changing the graphics. I think that the only thing you could add to this game besides better graphics and bug fixes is a suvival mode. That would be great! Thanks for the amazing game!
#4
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2008-12-20 14:14
I like all of them except for the color of the Earth towers (go darker, as others have said), and I'm not a big fan of the level 5 and 6 Fire towers.
Maybe add a step between the current level 1 and 2 that looks like a bonfire (teepee style). Then you could drop the two odd spring-like ones and the final fire tower could be a huge burning man effigy thing. If done right, it could look really badass: http://tinyurl.com/4ojs8f
Yes, the fire is far from finished. I'm not quite sure what I'm wanting yet. I think it was more of a test of the fire rending abilities of 3ds max.
#5.1
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2008-12-22 11:37
Hey, thanks for the great game. I play it more than any other on the iPhone.
I like the ice tower best, because it gets both bigger and more complex as it levels up. Earth gets more complex but smaller, which seems inconsistent with it becoming more powerful. Electric seems to get smaller between level 3 and 4. Cheers, and nice job.
#6
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2008-12-21 12:28
larger isnt always better..smaller is sometimes more powerful all in all great updates, but i agree that the color scheme needs to change on the earth towers
#6.1
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2008-12-21 16:42
Earth #6 only appears smaller in the screenshot. The star at the top actually pulses bigger/smaller.
#6.2
on
2008-12-22 11:39
wow, really nice
the depth of the game convinced me to buy it in the first place, and when this update comes out, I think your sales will grow dramatically. Really nice work, "I can't wait" (but will wait gladly)
#7
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2008-12-22 20:00
hey bro thanks again for the great game, can't wait for the update, but don't let your customers stress you out. take your time in creating a nicely polished product. and thanks for answering all my question so quickly and in depth. if you have time, you should make a lite version with maybe just the first level or so. I think you could get a lot more publicity that way, and I think boost your sales a lot. the only weaknesses are your graphics, (for now) and exposure. I know you are a one man team, and you are a developer, but if you can just get some more exposure and get rid of the bad reaction when people see screenshots, you could definitely soar up to top 25. you probably already know most of this, but I'm just trying to help. thanks chad.
#8
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2008-12-26 16:22
Thanks for the support. I did come to realize it is all about the screenshots. And that is my main goal. I figure the gameplay is already there, the hard core TD'ers love it. Now to tap into the general public.
I do have an idea for a "lite" version, but it will be done different than anything I've seen on iTunes so far. 
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2008-12-26 17:39
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