Blast Monkeys Free for iOS & Android

Yobonja · January 26, 2011, 5:34am

Hey everyone - first time posting here - I recently picked up corona and this is my first game with it.
It’s a fun little physics puzzle/action type game with 25 levels. We’re working on more and we’re probably going to have the bulk of them in a separate 99 cent app, But this game is free so check it out.

itunes link: Blast Monkeys

Also, @Ansca Devs: I want to release on android, but I get some pretty bad graphics glitches like some display objects showing the wrong texture and others showing garbage. Has anyone else seen this? It also happens with Bubble Ball on my phone. (both apps use the director module) I use an HTC Desire.

-Angelo [import]uid: 12822 topic_id: 5549 reply_id: 305549[/import]

Yobonja · January 26, 2011, 7:35pm

I Just put up a gameplay video for the game:
Blast Monkeys Gameplay Video

-Angelo [import]uid: 12822 topic_id: 5549 reply_id: 18956[/import]

bonesmalone133 · January 26, 2011, 9:09pm

Wow the video looks awesome, can’t wait to download it! [import]uid: 5786 topic_id: 5549 reply_id: 18963[/import]

Yobonja · January 27, 2011, 1:30am

Thanks! Your reply made my day, I hope you like the game! [import]uid: 12822 topic_id: 5549 reply_id: 18990[/import]

reddotinc · January 27, 2011, 1:54am

It does look really really good, will have to give this a download later!

Good luck with the sales

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Yobonja · January 27, 2011, 3:34am

Thanks! Your game looks awesome, and so does your website!

Your post inspires me to put some screenshots up here:

(…I didn’t realize I could use the img tag!)

-Angelo
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jhocking · January 27, 2011, 6:04pm

downloading now, this looks cool.

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bonesmalone133 · January 27, 2011, 6:22pm

Downloaded yesterday and couldn’t stop play, very fun! 73/75 bananas…so close! Seriously though this game is really great and I can’t wait for more levels…I have left you a review on itunes also. [import]uid: 5786 topic_id: 5549 reply_id: 19149[/import]

Yobonja · January 27, 2011, 6:33pm

Thanks guys! That is really great to hear! We’re really glad you like the game.
We are making more levels as I type this, so look for an update soon!

-Tobiah [import]uid: 12822 topic_id: 5549 reply_id: 19152[/import]

carlos_m_icaza · January 28, 2011, 10:19am

Ok - Monkey See Monkey doooooooooo

+1

V engaging .

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synthesis · January 28, 2011, 10:51am

Great job! Nice graphics and nice looking game mechanics. Good luck with it! [import]uid: 9492 topic_id: 5549 reply_id: 19269[/import]

tbaker0000 · January 28, 2011, 12:56pm

Just noticed this game was listed on “The Game Trail” - best free games of the day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufSqo-pi6f4&feature=related [import]uid: 7587 topic_id: 5549 reply_id: 19285[/import]

Yobonja · January 29, 2011, 2:58am

@Carlos Thanks for the tweet!

@synthesis Thanks!

@tbaker0000 Yeah I noticed that too - I saw Blast Monkeys as the thumbnail to a related video and was very confused… but I was happy to see it there! Turns out Tobiah had submitted our video to their site, and they included us in their daily video - nice!

@jhocking Yeah I was really tired - so it seemed funny at the time to write (free, awesome) but I see what you mean. Thanks for checking it out anyway

And, We’ve been featured in New and Noteworthy in puzzle and kids for both the US and UK app stores! A lot of clicks have been coming though here - so thanks for the support everyone!

-Angelo [import]uid: 12822 topic_id: 5549 reply_id: 19392[/import]

Yobonja · February 9, 2011, 2:05am

Hey guys, just wanted to let you know we submitted the update to the store.Info and screenshots here.

And we have an android version on the market now! Check it out here.

If any of you have android phones I would greatly appreciate a download and a report on how the game runs on your device, since I only have my HTC Desire to test on.

I’ve also tagged the game as ‘beta’ since we’re experiencing some issues with the game, like a long loading time on the first startup, and some audio playback issues. (we ended up taking out the background music for both of those reasons) So please let me know of any other bugs I need to track down

Thanks,
-Angelo [import]uid: 12822 topic_id: 5549 reply_id: 21669[/import]

Sid_T · February 12, 2011, 9:40pm

Hi Angelo,

I just want to say that you did really good with Blast Monkeys, we (me and my daughter) enjoy playing it. However, I just did the update and now the game crash right after the loading screen. It was working perfect before the update. I thought I’d let you know so you can look into it.

My device: iphone 3G
ios: 3.13

Anyways, good luck with it and looking forward to your future releases

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Yobonja · February 13, 2011, 2:24am

Hey Sid.

Yes, sadly we are aware of the issue. It turns there was a bug in the update with the way we integrated OpenFeint that unfortunately causes people who updated their game to crash.

A fix has already been submitted to the App Store.

In the mean time, you can fix your game by deleting the app from you device and redownloading it from the app store. This will however make you loose your saved progress =/

Sorry about that. It is really great to hear you and your daughter enjoy the game though! We hope you like the new features in the update once you’re able to play it. We’ll post here when apple approves the fix.

-Tobiah [import]uid: 12822 topic_id: 5549 reply_id: 22540[/import]

Sid_T · February 13, 2011, 4:23pm

Hi Tobiah,
Ok sounds great, I’ll just leave the app on her iphone alone and won’t update until it’s ready. It’s hard to explain to a 4 year old why the game isn’t working all of a sudden lol. I’ll wait and will do the update on my phone when it’s ready.

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Phil_MP · February 14, 2011, 9:43pm

Hi Angelo,

I just tried the game on my HTC Desire (will have someone test it on an older G1 if you’d like). It runs smoothly (except for some physics slowdowns that happened a few times).
Pretty fun, I finished all the levels, now I need to get more bananas to unlock the special levels ;).

Had one question for you, how did you manage to have it installing directly on the SDCard ?

Best,
Phil
Moving Player
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Yobonja · February 14, 2011, 10:57pm

Awesome yeah, a G1 would be great since I just built the app for 2.2 so I could have the move to SD feature. And it happened to fix performance issues on the Droid X.

I wonder what other phones have been fixed, in particular the milestone…

To get the app to install directly to SD, set installLocation to “preferExternal” in build.settings like this:

 android =  
 {  
 versionCode = "1002",  
 installLocation="preferExternal"  
 },

Glad you like the game, even if it’s still beta on Android

-Angelo
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Yobonja · February 16, 2011, 5:28pm

The fix has been approved by apple!

So like Sid if your game was affected by the crash-on-update bug, you can download the newest update from the App Store and your game should work again!

We’re sorry for the inconvenience the last update caused. Please tell us if you have any more issues or questions.

I can’t wait to hear what you guys think of the new features in this version. In the mean time we’ve been working on a full paid version of the game which will come out soon.

Enjoy!
-Tobiah [import]uid: 12822 topic_id: 5549 reply_id: 23365[/import]