Creeper World: Evermore has launched!
http://knucklecracker.com/forums/index.php?topic=8787.0
If you are a Creeper World fan, it would be nice if you'd go there, play at least one map and rate the game. :)
Edit: Wow.
(http://knucklecracker.com/forums/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8806.0;attach=6310;image)
Edit2: Virgil, those red notices on the KC pages. Why don't you make them hyperlinks directly to the game on Kongregate?
The game just went 'super public' on Kong (as in it just got it's initial rating after 300 plays). Let the games begin!
Quote from: Grauniad on November 21, 2011, 02:59:36 PM
Edit2: Virgil, those red notices on the KC pages. Why don't you make them hyperlinks directly to the game on Kongregate?
I have just made both lines links to the game on kong.
You have about a .15 lead over the next highest rated game, except that game has over 16k ratings, so it's hard to move the rating for that game either way... your game can still change drastically with just one rating.
The rating will bounce around like crazy for the first bit... that's why it's a good thing for anyone reading this to vote 5 stars. That helps keep it high in the beginning so it gets more exposure. I've seen really good games flame out on kong thanks to early down voting... and never recover. But, the support community for a game (if it has one) can help offset this.
Booyah!
(http://knucklecracker.com/forums/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8806.0;attach=6312;image)
Awesome! I think this is a great idea to drum
up interest Virgil. Well done! ;D
Creeper World will always "sell itself" when
you let it. ;)
If anyone is having trouble with the survival mode, I recommend using *LOTS* of drones - this works better on some maps than others (you need a fairly flat space for drones to do their bombing runs efficiently, I've been finding Nov. 18 to be a good map for this. To give a good idea of what I mean by *LOTS* of drones:
Spoiler
(http://i.imgur.com/CRZZE.png)
I have lots of blasters disarmed - if the creeper starts overflowing (ideally you should be using drones to prevent this from happening as much as reasonably possible), you can turn them on, but whenever possible you want to be using drones to hit the creeper instead of blasters since they are much more energy efficient at killing creeper. I'm still trying to finish this run so I'll see how high I can get on it.
EDIT: Started losing control of the map at about 1250 intensity emitters, but I dragged it out another 10 minutes after that to about 1350 intensity emitters (4:05:32).
905347 Blaster Shots, 5765 Drone Sorties and 19172587.65 creeper killed.
Wow... well done.
More energy you could have run all those blasters and hold your line after you started losing control... ;)
Kithros is just as good at CW as he is CW2. Why am I not surprised?
Wow. There are complaints filtering in on the comments at Kongregate that indicate some players could not finish levels in 60 minutes and were then caught by surprise when survival mode kicked in. Pity, I'm sure those people aren't giving it 5/5. :(
I mean really. That's *slow*.
Quote from: Grauniad on November 22, 2011, 12:46:50 AM
Wow. There re complaints filtering in on the comments at Kongregate that indicate some players could not finish levels in 60 minutes and were then caught by surprise when survival mode kicked in. Pity, I'm sure those people aren't giving it 5/5. :(
I mean really. That's *slow*.
Maybe they "accidentally" pressed the turbo button? :D
i just posted this on kong comments
In the full version of Creeper World, you can play every day of the year from year 0 to year 9999. If there are 365 days in a year and 10000 years thats 3 650 000 levels. If they each took you 10 mins to do, more of less of course, you would be playing for 36 500 000 mins. That would take nearly 70 years. So gl! XD
Will survival mode be added to the full version in an upcoming patch?
I always wanted to include survival style missions in the custom Campaign I never quite got round to finishing and publishing but they wouldn't work under the totem/collection mechanics
Am i the only one haveing problem connecting to ArmorGames after their new site ?
And the problem doesnt last for mins or hours , its days =P
I'll keep trying so i can rate the game there too =D
I too have been struggling with AG.
Yeah, AG appears to be really messed up. The domain was redirecting to an IP address last night and I couldn't log in at all.
It only loads the title and search bars for me. No games or anything. Weird...
Try refreshing the page completely and see if that works. They appear to be up and "fine" when I just tried them a few minutes ago. I was able to get into CW:E. Of course all of the comments on there say the game won't load so they are down ranking it... Folks don't realize that the game won't load if "armorgames.com" doesn't appear in the url (and they were redirecting the site to an IP address last night).
Quote from: dd790 on November 22, 2011, 07:40:23 AM
Will survival mode be added to the full version in an upcoming patch?
I always wanted to include survival style missions in the custom Campaign I never quite got round to finishing and publishing but they wouldn't work under the totem/collection mechanics
if it is, i suggest taking out the 60 min time limit, and setting the intensity increase in the map editor, along with if survival mode is possible.
For me AG still resolves to an IP address and I'm unable to log in.
Quote from: Grauniad on November 22, 2011, 09:58:35 AM
For me AG still resolves to an IP address and I'm unable to log in.
Yeah the IP adress doesnt allow us to login to do anything as rating or so .
Been an problem since they started changeing it to V3 .
But it is nice to see that the game was uploaded =) ,
so you got an lucky moment there i guess =P
There was an issue getting it uploaded.... so I had to work with the site owner to get it fixed up. Hopefully they will get back in good shape for the upcoming 4 day weekend (in the US).
I hope so , they might not enjoy it to much , guess thay have to solve alot of nagging =P
And i hope you all have an nice Thanksgiving =)
I just love the comments on Kongregate that goes something like this: "I've build a boatload of xyz and I'm kicking butt in survival mode..."
Yea right. Post back in an hour, or two.
The survival mode reactions are pretty funny... good data points for evaluating what should go into a full version of survival mode.
What stat's are people finding most interesting? Take a look at the various kongregate stats... some of them seem to indicate people are competing for some of the stranger things. Things like "peak structures" I expected to see go pretty high... spore hits not so much.
Quote from: virgilw on November 22, 2011, 01:37:05 PM
What stat's are people finding most interesting? Take a look at the various kongregate stats... some of them seem to indicate people are competing for some of the stranger things. Things like "peak structures" I expected to see go pretty high... spore hits not so much.
While I doubt they're doing it with this in mind - it's a completely reasonable strategy to use blasters instead of SAMs to shoot the spores as they land instead of shooting them down. It actually has a lower energy cost, but unless you're in a very small building space it will take a lot more blasters to cover everything than it would SAMs.
Virgil, do you have an *in* at Armorgames that might be able to explain what the problems are they are having? I'm unable to log in and rate the game. I noticed it has already a lot more plays than on Kongregate, but I'd like to get in and play and rate/comment.
I've sent them an email about the problem.... I'll post back if I hear anything.
For me, the problem has cleared up. Not sure why I can get in without issue but others still have a problem. Very strange.
yep, cleared up for me as well. More than 12 hours after it started.
Edit: They 'fessed up to "DNS issues." (http://twitter.com/#!/armorgames)
Edit 2: Wow, Virgil, I hope the complaints on the game page re loading is mostly due to the AG issues. Your rating is being hammered by it.
Yeah, there has been some issue that has prevented the game from loading even after the dns issues were resolved. I don't know if it was the original version that got corrupted during the upload, dns poisoning, caching issues, or what. The game loads for me fine on different machines I have tried... but I am all behind the same local dns servers. I see some comments on AG that indicate it starts working if people refresh the browser.
These problems came at a bad time so the game took a big ratings hit.
The ArmorGames site owner tells me that things should now be good with the CW:E and that it should load and run fine now. Hopefully, that settles the issues and the game can start to recover a little bit of its rankings now.
Yeah i was abel to login and rate the game now =) and ofcourse set it as an favorite =)
I wonder what this guy on the Kongregate site is going to say in another half an hour, or maybe an hour? :)
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I gave myself 5 minutes to set up, then hit survival, and not only am I still going more then half an hour later, but I have nearly pushed it all the way back! XD
Or this one...
Quoteclicks on survival and starts flying his city around saying " king me bi***"
We should make a thread "Best comments on the Flash sites." :)
Quote from: Grauniad on November 23, 2011, 01:12:12 AM
We should make a thread "Best comments on the Flash sites." :)
Done. ;)
Interesting, the #3 (CW:E) and #2 (Mushroom Madness) games are now neck-to-neck at 4.33. CW:E has been slowly gaining, over the last few days. Let's hope it overtakes this weekend.
It's a good race to watch... I've noticed the slow climb over the last day from 4.29 to 4.33 so if the trend continues it should make it. But, you never know....
CW:E is now second with 4.33 #1 has 4.41
Well i did start the games infront of CW-E to rate them down =P
I know its a bad sportsmanship thing , but why not , i can rate them up later if i want to =)
Quote from: virgilw on September 23, 2011, 05:10:49 PM
Yeah, don't down vote other games. Vote how you would rank them, or don't vote at all on them.
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Evermore is .08 behind the top game
Evermore is winning the Weekly for $250
I like seeing the low scores of kong players, reminds me of the old days
Quote from: J on November 23, 2011, 11:47:50 AM
Quote from: virgilw on September 23, 2011, 05:10:49 PM
Yeah, don't down vote other games. Vote how you would rank them, or don't vote at all on them.
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I know i should feel bad , but after playing the games abit more , i dont .
But the game on first has nice potentials =)
i love the new map daily with Evermore. and the survival mode is awesome.
also can't wait for the flash for CW2!
;D
CW2:A is being worked on... and I'm pushing hard to get it released in December....
Congratulations on your well-deserved second place in the Kongregate monthly competition that closed yesterday. I see the .05 gap to the #1-rated game was just a bit too much to close. Second place is a major achievement.
(http://knucklecracker.com/forums/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8806.0;attach=6376;image)
Have you done any comparisons with the rate the various Flash games on Kongregate are being played and how many visitors they are driving to this site?
Edit: I think that now, with the game not prominent on the home page, the number of plays (and new players) may drop off significantly?
second place is amazing. Great job Virgil!
Actually, the contest doesn't end till tonight.... The end of the month is the submission deadline, but judging doesn't end till later.
"Each eligible Submission will be judged upon the following criteria (the "Judging Criteria"): 100% popularity based on the average five-star user rating on Kongregate.com as of 11:59:59 p.m. PT on December 3, 2011. Each submission must have received a minimum of 30 ratings to be eligible. "
Things still look like a solid 2nd place finish, though.... which I am very happy with.
$1000 dollars for Virgil!
Is that a new pool i see in his backyard...? ;D
Pool? Ha!
This is more like it:
https://store.unity3d.com/shop/
Quote from: virgilw on December 28, 2011, 04:15:35 PM
Pool? Ha!
This is more like it:
https://store.unity3d.com/shop/
do you ever relax?
Mayby he does at night. Another $1000 dollars are coming! (I know the contest hasn't ended yet but CW2E is 2nd for a week)
Please add survival mode to the full version. :'(
Really love the game, I saw it on Armor Games, and have played pretty much every mission since it was released there. I was looking through the stats, and noticed that I kinda ranked in just about every one, I took a screenshot, and I would really love to prove that it isn't fake or whatever.
http://imgur.com/wrHdi (http://imgur.com/wrHdi)
When you play more allmost everything goes up. The things that aren't going up every game are the things that really count (for example, try to improve longest survival time). Apart from that, nice to see that there are more players who love the game!
Quote from: Grauniad on December 01, 2011, 09:14:49 AM
Congratulations on your well-deserved second place in the Kongregate monthly competition that closed yesterday. I see the .05 gap to the #1-rated game was just a bit too much to close. Second place is a major achievement.
(http://knucklecracker.com/forums/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8806.0;attach=6376;image)
Have you done any comparisons with the rate the various Flash games on Kongregate are being played and how many visitors they are driving to this site?
Edit: I think that now, with the game not prominent on the home page, the number of plays (and new players) may drop off significantly?
I've beaten a lot of games on that list. lol. Besides creeper world, Pursuit of Hat is my fav.