[Iphone app] Holy Moly Dragons - Tower Defense

bugo · Apr 2011

New FREE version on the Appstore! Now it's your chance to try it!

I am here bumping this thread to request help from polycounters to at least download the free version so we can pump it up on top free list. Please help us out getting more numbers so people could know the game. Thanks, appreciate anybody help!! If you don't have an iphone you can download from iTunes

Facebook fan page added: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Holy-Moly-Dragons/202727769767407
Help us out getting people to know the game!

Finally launched. Have fun!

Please let us know what you guys think. I'm excited to see what anyone says.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/holy-moly-dragons/id429604358?mt=8

VIDEO: [ame]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyRNmPgMXJA[/ame]

Gamasutra Postmorten: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AdamReilly/20110414/7435/Holy_Moly_Dragons_Postmortem.php

JasonLavoie · Apr 2011

Post screens in here bugo, we're too lazy to go look at screens on itunes :P

Also post a video (if you have one) to help persuade us to go and buy this cool looking game

seforin · Apr 2011

and I bought it, congrats dude!

bugo · Apr 2011

You asked the video, you got it, it's on the first post!

bugo · Apr 2011

seforin wrote: »

and I bought it, congrats dude!

Hell yeah! One purchase, if you guys purchase please let me know. I would love to hear any feedback.

hawken · Apr 2011

First, congrats on the release! ( I know how much of a ball ache it is)

My only crit so far is that the dragons are basically the same model with different colours. Would have been nice to see 4 different dragons.

bugo · Apr 2011

they are slightly different, on iphone the more drawcalls ypu have it gets reeally slow, but I hear ya! It's a good feedback. Thanks Hawken!

bugo · Apr 2011

one purchased? Come on guys, you can do better then that to suppport the poor developers

Eclipse · Apr 2011

I just snagged a copy as well. I just got an iPad 2 and am really sad to see that this isn't in "HD". I only played through the first level so far since I am at work, but right off the bat I would love to see this at full, crystal clear, resolution on my iPad. Other then that it seemed fun. I will post more the further I get

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slipsius · Apr 2011

just picked it up. love TDs, this is going to be addicting.... i can tell already. lol but you had the key to my heart from the start.... dragons

slipsius · Apr 2011

one thing id like to see actually, besides the obviously HD, is if you tap an enemy, it shoudl focus fire on them.

Eclipse · Apr 2011

slipsius wrote: »

one thing id like to see actually, besides the obviously HD, is if you tap an enemy, it shoudl focus fire on them.

That would be great! I haven't played a TD game that did this (but i don't play much of this genre really) but that would be really awesome

. I second this.

Jeremy-S · Apr 2011

If I had an i-device, I'd buy this. I like TD games, and dragons are kinda cool too.

slipsius · Apr 2011

Eclipse wrote: »

That would be great! I haven't played a TD game that did this (but i don't play much of this genre really) but that would be really awesome . I second this.

geoDefense on iphone does it. its a nice feature when you have that 1 little guy that got past and by the time it gets to your last towers, those towers are already attacking the next wave.

bugo · Apr 2011

Hey Slipsius, thats a great idea man, thanks for sharing it, unfortunately that would change the whole balance of the game, perhaps for the next Holy Moly Dragons?

Still, I appreciate your guys feedback. Please get on gamecenter so we can compete over there on challenges and such!

Also if I can ask for you guys to share it on "facebook" that would help increase selling too.

bugo · Apr 2011

Post morten of the game posted on gamasutra first page:

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AdamReilly/20110414/7435/Holy_Moly_Dragons_Postmortem.php

Funky Bunnies · Apr 2011

awesome work and congrats bugo!

hawken · Apr 2011

also, something slight, but having a massive button on the top screen for "credits" is a total waste of UI, unless you desperately need for people to see your name, this can be easily relegated to the settings screens.

Actually come to think of it, theres no credits screen on any of my studios apps...

bugo · Apr 2011

well, we didn't have many other reasons to not setup over there, and since we are only 2 developers we felt the need of using it as portfolio too.

But yeah, you are right, we could have switched options to credits and vice versa.

I feel sad they don't do credits there ...

Ben Apuna · Apr 2011

Congrats on making your own game Hugo!

It looks fun, but sadly I have no iDevice to play it on.

Best of luck with sales

Lamont · Apr 2011

Gonna buy it. But would be more awesome on the iPad:)

bugo · Apr 2011

Yeah, we will be working on an ipad version real soon. Android version will come available as well

Thanks Ben!

r_fletch_r · Apr 2011

bugo wrote: »

Android version will come available as well

fuck yeah

, I'll be all over that

Congrats on the game

bugo · Apr 2011

Thanks for letting me know man.

hawken · Apr 2011

bugo wrote: »

I feel sad they don't do credits there ...

I'll be sure to bring it up with the boss...

bugo · Apr 2011

hahaha, for sure man, any work deserve it.

Ged · Apr 2011

nice art, any unique gameplay features? theres a lot of TD games out so Im just curious what is different in this one.

notman · Apr 2011

hawken wrote: »

I'll be sure to bring it up with the boss...

hahaha, I don't think he realizes that you're the boss

I just checked iTunes and you appear to be getting some great reviews. I'm sure the purchase will come... be patient

slipsius · Apr 2011

Ged, you cant upgrade all the towers just with money. you need food, that, from what it seems, randomly drop off enemies? and you get some in clusters if a big wave of enemies is coming. so you have to use it sparingly. but you can also use the food, instead of upgrading, to use spells that will kill clusters of guys almost instantly. and its not the typical they follow one path type TD thing. they basically go through a forest, and you just block off holes to make them go where you want. i play ALOT of tds, but this is a pretty good one!

bugo · Apr 2011

Thanks slipsius, yes, we have are not doing a huge open field, or a restricted path, it's also a puzzle to find the best path. You have to be accurate and think what's the best bet so the creeps make the larger path.

I am happy you are having fun with it.

bugo · Apr 2011

Good news, we got featured on the new games list on the appstore!

bugo · Apr 2011

We are having an EASTER SALE of 99 Cents, go for it, it's only until day 25th.

bugo · Apr 2011

Hey, we just added our facebook fan page, please help us out to get more people to know the game. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Holy-Moly-Dragons/202727769767407

bugo · Apr 2011

New FREE version on the Appstore! Now it's your chance to try it!

bugo · May 2011

I am here bumping this thread to request help from polycounters to at least download the free version so we can pump it up on top free list. Please help us out getting more numbers so people could know the game. Thanks, appreciate anybody help!!

Lamont · May 2011

I'll post it all over.

bugo · May 2011

Yay! Thanks Lamont!! You da man!

sverbeek · May 2011

downloaded, how well has it done so far?

bugo · May 2011

its going ok, we are reaching 2000 paid downloads, and around 6000 players in total. So around 1/3 is getting hacked copies, which is kinda sad.

Lamont · May 2011

How are you tracking hacked copies?

bugo · May 2011

the amount of people playing on GameCenter, that means we are not certain, because there might be people that are not on GameCenter.

As a note, the game was days ago in the "popularity" list on "Installous", at least a friend told me.

Lamont · May 2011

Either way, that blows. No way to tell exactly who I guess? You'd think there would be a way being that they have to make an account on GameCenter to play.

Mark Dygert · May 2011

I picked it up a few days ago, I like it. For the first 8 environments it was really easy then as soon as I got to Frozen Fortress 1 I can't get past it. I'm sure I'm just being retarded but it seems like it took a major jump in difficulty?

The creep spawn seems random, at first I would play once, fail and then set up to deal with what just beat me and I would get different creeps... knowing whats coming as in a little "next piece queue" would help prepare a little better?

It's fun, that sucks about the piracy...

bugo · Apr 2012

haha, were you able to to pass it until today? Let me know.

Fortunately there's good news about our game, it's finally passed to Brazil, so it's selling in one more country (my country)

bugo · Apr 2012

So, after a while we stopped the development of this since it seems people were not so much more interested on tower defense games, but more into angry birds or sandbox stuff.

But here's a sneak peek of some of things I was working on:

Things like that were supposed to be on a future HD version. All characters in game area about 250-300 tris only.

bugo · Sep 2013

Hey guys, our game is now 100% free, no ads, just play...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/holy-moly-dragons/id429604358?mt=8

[Iphone app] Holy Moly Dragons - Tower Defense

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