PARALLAX - a retro space survival shmup

General (non-technical) New Apps / Works in Progress
#1

— coming on July 15th! —

PARALLAX - a retro space survival shmup for iPhone, iPad & iPod touch
New Trailer --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrwifKk5EZQ
Teaser --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXE8K9GpmDA

Hi all,
this is finefin from canupa.com

I’ve been a flash developer for many years now and I’m developing for iOS for about two years. As coding for iDevices can be quite cumbersome I was flabbergasted how awesomely easy the Corona SDK is. For a flasher like me it’s like hopping on another train with surprising ease.

It took half a day to read through the docs.
Another two days to code the core of the game
(it’s a port of a flashgame that was never released).
I’ve spent the last 10 days with polishing, promo stuff, adding achievements etc.

And hopefully we’re going to upload in the course of next week…
So, take a look at the trailer!
-finefin
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#2

Good job finefin!
I love so much the retro gaming!

Marco Bologna/GuGuGames
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#3

uploaded the binary yesterday.
and I will throw a bunch of promocodes in this thread as soon as the game is online.

stay fresh!
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#4

update!
we’re going to release friday in one week, the 15th of July!
take a look at the new (awesomest!) trailer,
I updated the original post!

oh… and if anyone of you has a review site and want to make a pre-release video, don’t hesitate to ask for a promo code :wink:

cheers
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#5

PARALLAX is out now on the appstore

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/parallax/id445444981?mt=8

check it out and tell me what you think!

cheers,
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#6

@Canupa

I really enjoy the game! Spent a long session the other day trying to get that high score. So long in fact, that my left arm was sore from moving so much on the iPad! I placed #40 on Openfeint, that’s all.

Good Job on the game!

Now I will make a request: When I touch the ship to control it, the back seems to snap to my fingertip. I touch it in the middle, but it snaps to the back. I don’t know why but I really want to control it by touching the middle. Can’t you make it so that where I touch the ship is where I stay “connected” to it?

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#7

wow… had no idea this was made with Corona… =oD [import]uid: 68342 topic_id: 11679 reply_id: 48671[/import]

#8

it’s a while since initial release and meanwhile we updated the game several times. Now it has formations, boss enemies, ranks and some more eyepopping powerups.

@ChunkyApps and we also added relative controls :wink:

so if you didn’t play the game for several weeks, you should get the latest update (v1.4) and have a re-visit you won’t regret :slight_smile:

cheers
-finefin [import]uid: 70635 topic_id: 11679 reply_id: 59105[/import]