Board 8 > I don't know what a Chester is, but I hear you can finally buy one!

(+) Yeah! (+)

getting the trial now

this game is on the top rated for XBLIndie right now, aww yeah. I 5 starred it to keep it up there!

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also aga

email [email protected]

they do "Xbox Live Indie Gems" every week, email him info on your game, chances are they will try it out, and if they like it, it'll get spotlighted, get its own big post on joystiq.

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Going to a poker gathering shortly, and a bunch of guys there have 360's so I'll be plugging your game when I'm there. I think most of them are just FPS fans, but we'll see if anything comes of it.

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OK MY MINI REVIEW after playing the demo.

POSITIVES
-Fun mix of platforming and SHOOTING POW POW
-Great sense of humor in the tutorials and game over screen, and when you level up.
-Already some cool little extra touches to the platforming, like the huge bubble that slows you down.
-Great Art Style, and obviously there is more than one, the sketchbook one was the only other one I got so far, and I thought it was quite good looking too.
-Crazy addicting RPG elements, you can unlock more characters to play and art styles, and you can level up those characters. awesome addition that I didn't expect at all.
-Great music so far

NEGATIVES
-Early on platforming can be a little tricky, it's more sensitive than most games imo.
-As much as I love the art, it can be a little distracting, one time I died and really wasn't sure why, I didn't see the enemy/trap that did it. I think it was one of those spikes from the ground.
-NO CHECKPOINTS ;_; i'm a puss ok.

overall, for 240 MSP, pretty easy purchase. 400 MSP would have also been a no brainer. if this was on XBLA being sold for 800 MSP, I might want a little longer demo to gauge it out, but yeah, no reason not to check this one out.

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oh according to the difficulty screen, only the hardest difficulty has no checkpoints. well on normal they are not terribly frequent >_>. although you at least keep your stamps and EXP when you die, which is nice.

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I think Im getting better, no deaths on the 2nd level! using other characters is awesome, since they play a little differently. I can't help but wish you could aim up and down, but it's not a huge deal. really enjoying this. the default art style for level 2 was crazy cool. I'm trying really hard to just stick to default chester and art style my first time through, but it's getting tough!

how often will you get updates on the amount you've sold?

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Another possible way to get some publicity.

http://www.xblafans.com/

if you give them review copies of indie games, they seem to review them. It's a decently big blog considering it's just about XBLA, they actually get breaking news sometimes, and end up being sourced by bigger blogs

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bahaha, Im getting excited to rank this one in my list for games of 2011.

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congrats! will buy when i get back to the states

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Eagerly awaiting the PC version, congrats on the release!

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Just a small issue I'm having, not sure if anyone else is having it, but when playing with the stick as opposed to the d-pad, I tend to accidentally slip through a few platforms and become deaded. Doubt this'll be much of a problem on the PC, but there are a few parts past the intro level where it became very easy to hold down the stick. Not sure how to best apply it or if it's my fault because I hold a controller weird or something, but just a brief criticism I noticed.
This should hopefully be fixed in the patch that is currently in review!

I'm not sure if I'll ever play it more than once, but I will buy it for you!
Woo, thanks!

Does the "!" next to a stage only indicate whether you've found the spaceship part, or does it apply to all secrets, like that 8-bit style I just found?
Shows for both.
White = 1 secret unfound
Red = 2 secrets

Edit: Well that was an "interesting" level. I jumped off the checkpoint ledge with CW3, and ended up just floating in space forever.
Should also be fixed in next patch. >.>


i will buy five of the PC version

ETA?
Plan on adding quite a bit of content for the PC, maybe three months.

this game is on the top rated for XBLIndie right now, aww yeah. I 5 starred it to keep it up there!
Sweet, thanks!

also aga

email [email protected]

they do "Xbox Live Indie Gems" every week, email him info on your game, chances are they will try it out, and if they like it, it'll get spotlighted, get its own big post on joystiq.

Nice, thanks a lot!

Going to a poker gathering shortly, and a bunch of guys there have 360's so I'll be plugging your game when I'm there. I think most of them are just FPS fans, but we'll see if anything comes of it.
Hooray word of mouth!

-As much as I love the art, it can be a little distracting, one time I died and really wasn't sure why, I didn't see the enemy/trap that did it. I think it was one of those spikes from the ground.
-NO CHECKPOINTS ;_; i'm a puss ok.
Yeah, the frogs are a little too short at times. I am giving them hats to solve this. <_<
Also adding in some more checkpoints.

I think Im getting better, no deaths on the 2nd level! using other characters is awesome, since they play a little differently. I can't help but wish you could aim up and down, but it's not a huge deal. really enjoying this. the default art style for level 2 was crazy cool. I'm trying really hard to just stick to default chester and art style my first time through, but it's getting tough!

how often will you get updates on the amount you've sold?

Sketch Chester can aim similar to the saw blades of Mega Man.
And unsure on sales updates, still none though.

Another possible way to get some publicity.

http://www.xblafans.com/

if you give them review copies of indie games, they seem to review them. It's a decently big blog considering it's just about XBLA, they actually get breaking news sometimes, and end up being sourced by bigger blogs

Already shot them one, thanks though!

congrats! will buy when i get back to the states
<3 Thanks!

The ending is currently a little lackluster, so don't get too angry at the end of World 3.
Current patch adds a little ending-ish, next one will add a final boss and a better YOU WIN screen.

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Purchased and link-whored the trailer.

Game beated, or at least I think so. >_>
Is that really it, at the end of world 3? Nothing?

Anyway, time for feedback, I guess.

I really liked the game. The different art-styles are awesome. I usually played the stages with their default styles, but when I occasionally switched styles, I notice how much work must have gone into all of them.

Here are a few suggestions though:
- Some stages could use more checkpoints. Others are fine though
- The difficulty seems to be very inconsistent: World 3 had a bunch of stages that were easier than some of the stages in world 2.
- Generally, I thought the controls were very tight, but I had some problems with accidental wall jumps because I wanted to double-jump next to a wall.
- The big one: health drops. I'm not exactly sure how I would have changed this, but this was a real problem. Sometimes I'd find a bunch of health drops, which made the stages very easy, while the same part could be really tough if I didn't get so lucky. I would suggest more health pickups simply scattered throughout the stages, rather than being so dependant on the highly random enemy drops. Maybe weaken their effect to avoid the game being too easy.

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Haven't beaten the game yet, but I'm on World 3-3.

I don't get the need for more checkpoints. I felt there were enough. Icehawk just sucks at platforming. <_<

Poor Icehawk. >_>

- The difficulty seems to be very inconsistent: World 3 had a bunch of stages that were easier than some of the stages in world 2.
Yeah. I suck at telling how hard levels are. For the PC build I may to a larger testing and tell people to grade how hard levels are.


- Generally, I thought the controls were very tight, but I had some problems with accidental wall jumps because I wanted to double-jump next to a wall.
Very annoying problem. Wall-jumping has been slightly altered in the next patch.
If you pressing against a wall you will do a normal jump instead, and you can do wall jumps form holding A now. This makes going up those narrow wall passages easier, as you just hold A without bothering with the thumbstick.

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It's okay, I will likely need the checkpoints even more than Icehawk.

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hey bidoof, go look at my score at ms splosion man GOD. i rool at platformers

also aga, I liked Chester enough where it inspired me to try some more indie games. Some pretty good ones, only one I bought was Tic Part 1 though, amazing game.

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Tic always looked pretty promising, still need to try it out myself.

And ouch, currently sitting at a 5% purchase/trial rate.
I have a feeling this may be the last time I do something on XBLIG.

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So you haven't made the big money yet? >__>

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I just did some advertising for you on my facebook. Hopefully some people will check it out.

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for what it's worth, I accidentally left the game on the trial screen for a while and my demo ran out, lawl. so I dunno if that counts against it. I bought it after my 2nd "demo run through".

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Loving the game, Aga, just got some heads up things in case you are unaware.

In world 2-1, the background has some minor graphic hiccups when you head left towards the ship part, nothing really outrageous, just some minor twitches.

And at parts it is possible to stand on the walls without sliding down, I was able to do this after getting the ship part in 2-2.

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From: Icehawk | Posted: 9/2/2011 8:49:29 PM | #072
for what it's worth, I accidentally left the game on the trial screen for a while and my demo ran out, lawl. so I dunno if that counts against it. I bought it after my 2nd "demo run through".

I made up for it, I didn't bother with the demo.

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Bought it. Gonna play it in a minute. Been telling as many people as I can about it, too.

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Let me know when it's on Steam/PC. Until then, be proud -- you did something I often dreamed about as a kid.

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Oh, I donated a lot of money to this - time to buy!

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Congratulations ma.

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no 360 argh ;_;

I'll be buying dis posthaste on steam, anyways!

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http://www.xblafans.com/what-we-are-playing-week-of-september-4-25235.html

2 guys on XBLA fans playin chester!

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i tried the demo

i got to the second level and fell through the floor and then the demo ended

=(

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not on PSN? ah well.

From: Icehawk | #082
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2 guys on XBLA fans playin chester!

nice!

From: TimJab | #083
i tried the demo

i got to the second level and fell through the floor and then the demo ended

=(

Yeah, happened from me setting the down thumbstick detection too sensitive. Fixed in the path that is taking forever to get through review. (Seriously, the XBLIG system is garbage.)

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rammtay posted...
not on PSN? ah well.

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Maybe eventually. >.>
PC is my next target market! Just need to polish the hell out of this game.

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Hey congrats! I'll be sure to buy it. By the way, one hint. Make a tvtropes page for your game. Seriously, a friend made a tvtropes page for his self-published novel and got like 50 extra buys the first month he posted the tvtropes link >.>

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I've never really known what tvtropes is. <_<

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It's basically a wikipedia for listing devices like "works where the main character turns out to be the son of the villain:
Examples:
*star wars(containing a link to the star wars page that describes every narrative device star wars uses)

It's really popular and all so...yeah. It's perfect for free advertisement if you know how to use it and list your game under every conceivable example.

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Ha, I almost want to try to work in every single example they have. MILLION SELLER!

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It would take FOREVER to list it under every possible example by yourself, but hey I'm sure b8 would be willing to help with that.

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From: Haguile | Posted: 9/4/2011 1:52:27 PM | #090
It's really popular and all so...yeah.

It's also extremely easy to waste hours of your life going there.

http://xkcd.com/609/

That pretty well sums it up.

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Question: Was Ratchet and Clank an inspiration at all? Because using and leveling up all these characters is incredibly addictive, and it reminds me a lot of using all the ratchet and clank weapons to try and level them all up

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I did a second Facebook shoutout after one of my friends thought my first was due to hacking. I must make it clear that all should buy this game.

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From: Icehawk | #094
Question: Was Ratchet and Clank an inspiration at all? Because using and leveling up all these characters is incredibly addictive, and it reminds me a lot of using all the ratchet and clank weapons to try and level them all up

Not really, can definitely see the similarities though. =P

From: muddersmilk | #096
I did a second Facebook shoutout after one of my friends thought my first was due to hacking. I must make it clear that all should buy this game.

XD I wouldn't put it past me! Thanks.

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