I am working on a generic RPG framework for BANG2D engine.
Our first game will be a Zelda inspired action RPG.
Here is a working prototype.
Right now…
Monsters work, combat works, kickback, works, monsters flash when hit, hit points work iPhone on screen controls all work, game engine speed is good, item indicators on top of screen all work… need real art of course… I need to make up a inventory screen and then we can build the actual game.
Mouse House / BANG2D are now up and running on the Wii.
After an 18 hour work binge I have the entire graphics system up and running perfectly.
I am currently working on:
1. Port of BANG2D / Mouse House to Wiiware the down load based Wii distribution system. Right now the engine has been ported to Code Warrior and is compiling for Wii. Next up I have to fill in a few abstraction layers for the Wii, example reading data from files. Right now I’m just a bit hung up on which APIs I should be using 
2. Improving the engine. There were a few features missing from the engine that are need for doing games past the scale of Mouse House. Examples are a fast culling system for drawing and for hit detection. This week I implemented a 2D Spatial Hash Table that basically divides 2D space into a loose grid of cell based on a Hash value. This results in like a x100 speed up for collision detection no matter how large the tile map or level size is.
3. We have a few more games in the works based on variations of the Mouse House engine. Alex has started work on levels and art for them.
4. Im slowly designing a number of data driven frameworks for different genres of games. This includes 1 for RPGs and 1 for games like that lawyer game on the DS.
Why post them publicly?
Because there is a lack of real iPhone app sales data on the net.
10/28/2008 - Units 1 - Price $7.99 - Gross $7.99 - Profit $5.60
- Only on sale for 1 hour
10/29/2008 - Units 34 - Price $7.99 - Gross $271.66 - Profit $190.4
10/30/2008 - Units 27 - Price $7.99 - Gross $215.73 - Profit $151.2
10/31/2008 - Units 31 - Price $7.99 - Gross $247.69 - Profit $173.6
11/01/2008 - Units 8 - Price $7.99 - Gross $63.92 - Profit $44.8
- Slow down after US Holiday? , Oddly none US sales were cut by 90% also
- Fell off Touch Arcade New release List.
11/02/2008 - Units 6 - Price $7.99 - Gross $47.94 - Profit $33.6
- Sales dropped more on Sunday…
11/03/2008 - Units 10 - Price $4.99 - Gross $49.9 - Profit $35.0
- Started a Sale made 2$ more…. or maybe its Monday 
- Still we are holding steady at about 50$ a day in gross sales.
11/04/2008 - Units 7 - Price $4.99 - Gross $34.93 - Profit $24.5
11/05/2008 - Units 9 - Price $3.99 - Gross $35.91 - Profit $26.1
- On the Plus side lower prices are generating more non US sales.
Which is something I have been wondering about.
Either way tho our sales data is so low its hard to even guess if price is really having any effect.
11/06/2008 - Units 29 - Price $2.99 - Gross $86.71 - Profit $60.9
- Soooo sales up X3 at $2.99… did we hit some magic impulse by price world wide?
- Stay tuned as we check out sales at $1.99
11/07/2008 - Units 33 - Price $1.99 - Gross $65.67 - Profit $46.2
- Unit count up more… Profits down… but higher Unit count could in theory
get Mouse House on some sales charts.
11/08/2008 - Units 26 - Price $1.99 - Gross $51.74 - Profit $36.4
11/09/2008 - Units 12 - Price $1.99 - Gross $23.88 - Profit $16.8
—————- Units 25 - Price $.99 - Gross $24.75 - Profit $17.32
11/10/2008 - Units 56 - Price $.99 - Gross $55.44 - Profit $38.80
11/11/2008 - Units 23 - Price $.99 - Gross $22.77 - Profit $15.96
11/12/2008 - Units 14 - Price $.99 - Gross $13.86 - Profit $9.07
11/13/2008 - Units 3 - Price $2.99 - Gross $8.97 - Profit $6.03
- Raised the price back up and sales fell through the floor.
- Will see if this lasts or if it evens out.
11/14/2008 - Units 7 - Price $2.99 - Gross $20.93 - Profit $14.07
- Profits up a bit… I swear we are just getting sales off of new eyeballs and not just people
who have been watching for price drops. I kind of figured it might go back up and stabilize a bit.
Any how interestingly with the price hike the last 2 days we are really only selling to the US now.
11/15/2008 - Units 4 - Price $2.99 - Gross $11.96 - Profit $8.4
- Ok next experiment time…now that we raised the price and sales are LOW… lets lower it 1$ and see if I can get back up on all the OMG this game lowered its price charts. Yes this is called gaming the system.
- Well I am thinking that with out eye balls we will always sell a small amount at any price and that .99 vs 2.99 really does not make a difference at all. Only Eyeballs do.
11/16/2008 - Units 3 - Price $1.99 - Gross $5.97 - Profit $4.2
- Units 3 - Price $2.99 - Gross $8.97 - Profit $6.3
11/17/2008 - Units 5 - Price $1.99 - Gross $9.95 - Profit $7.0
11/18/2008 - Units 5 - Price $1.99 - Gross $9.95 - Profit $7.0
11/19/2008 - Units 4 - Price $4.99 - Gross $19.96 - Profit $14.0
11/20/2008 - Units 3 - Price $4.99 - Gross $14.95 - Profit $10.5
11/21/2008 - Units 5 - Price $4.99 - Gross $24.95 - Profit $17.5
11/22/2008 - Units 2 - Price $4.99 - Gross $9.98 - Profit $7.0
11/23/2008 - Units 4 - Price $4.99 - Gross $19.96 - Profit $14.0
11/24/2008 - Units 3 - Price $4.99 - Gross $14.95 - Profit $10.5
- Sales about the same at 4.99 vs 1.99 we just make more money slow and steady.
Notes:
We made it to#46 on the NZ sales charts… this is funny since it only took 3 sales.
This week we start actively promoting Mouse House and maybe play with pricing or a sale and see if that has any kind of dramatic effect on sales numbers. Im not convinced that the price of all games quickly heading towards zero will be vert good for the iphone economy in the long run. Im also not sure if there is magic price point… say 4.99 or if the most important thing is just getting on the top 100 list :( which is also a bad thing long term if the only things that sell well are hit products priced dirt cheap.Also you can find additional sales data for the first few months the store was open over at http://blog.fieryferret.com/Also I have to say its my feeling after seeing the above PDF etc that a good game can make a steady 50-100$ a day even not being on the top 100 list.
I was able to move my main game loop from a fast NSTimer to a thread.
Last time I tried this was in April, at the time threading with GLES seemed horribly broken.
Any how changing this 1 features gave me like a 10 FPS speed up when no input was being processed.
Mouse House just hit final beta for iPhone Oct 24th. I should be shipping it off to the app store this week.Stay tuned for new screen shots etc.
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Software Development On The iPhone
St. Cloud, Minnesota - April 30, 2008 - An experienced software development team is seeking funding to bring networked applications for Mac / Windows / Linux to the iPhone using their new cross-platform engines, Bang 2D and Bang3D.
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With years of experience, Plaid World believes in designing tools and technology geared towards solving a class of problems versus one-shot application solutions. To this end they have developed two robust, multi-platform software engines allowing for:
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Plaid World Studios LLC is a Limited Liability Company located in St. Cloud, MN. Plaid World’s President, Chris Dillman, has published multiple products beginning with Final Impact in 1993.
Parties interested in learning more about Plaid World LLC, BANG 2D and BANG 3D should contact Chris Dillman at chrisd@plaidworld.com
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