There was a recent thread on TouchArcade in which one Blackjack developer was pointing out the unscrupulous actions of another. The "dirty" developer was buying other devs games and then one starring them and calling them garbage - with multiple accounts. He also happened to be rating his own app positively each time. Pretty low tactics.
Our game Roadkill Cafe doesn't really fit into any specific game category so we haven't really run into those tactics yet. On the other hand, getting noticed out of the gate requires a lot of know-how that we didn't have. There are quirks and tricks to the app store that aren't immediately obvious, but the poor design implementation can be used in a developers favour.
Still, too little is too late. We've gotten stellar reviews from several sites (and one mediocre review), but the real impact seems to be from getting chosen by Apple to go up front. Do that and you're golden. At least for a week.
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There's a significant issue with the iTunes review system though... and that's "Review on Delete". For every app you keep that you love, you have to log into itunes, find the app, and rate/review it. If you're deleting one, you get to rate it on the spot. This puts substantial weight towards one star reviews from the people that hit and run on tons of apps.
So far, when I've deleted it's usually because the game "wasn't my thing", but I've rated based on the production quality of the game. No one stars from me, But I imagine my approach is not the norm.
Plate 1: An alien anteater with 4 eyes. Plate 2: The skin cut off cookie monsters face. Plate 3: Pelvis bone and butterfly in stomach. Plate 4: A giant knocked flat on his back with a dragon's head escaping from his ass. Plate 5: The rabbit from Donni Darko reaching out to hug me. Plate 6: Bill the Cat Plate 7: A beard I wouldn't be caught dead in. Plate 8: Two wolverines climbing a stack of garbage. Plate 9: The FreeBSD Demon plush toy Plate 10: Panicked aliens running from a facehugger.
These were my first impressions of each. No attempt to get around them with trickery by reading what is expected to be seen. So, where am I at psychologically?
Awesome! Under the rules of homepathy that water is now imbued with lightning! Somebody needs to get a distribution deal. With the markup we can finance that Mars mission way ahead of schedule.
But the Brits initiated the action on their home turf and merely stored the information remotely. So to meet your Amsterdam analogy they would need to smoke pot in the US, and fly to Amsterdam to exhale. The prostitute analogy... well, that one get's a little complicated.
This is scary stuff. I saw a documentary on hurricanes a few years ago and the meteorologists were quite sure that hurricanes are essential to the ecosystem. What we have is a planet filled with life that has evolved with these weather patterns in place. If we disrupt one significantly, what other effects could cascade from it.
Think global warming is bad? What happens when we disrupt the natural convection pump in the ocean and stall a current. (This last part was not in the documentary, just an outcome I would dread to see as a result of this tampering)
When I bought my Civic DX in 2002 it was 28 dollars to fill the bone dry tank. After Katrina, it cost 64 dollars at the max. I wanted to drag some oil execs out into the street and try some parking maneuvers on them that day. I haven't tanked up in two weeks, but it was around 40 then.
Did they finally fix the bugs?:P I couldn't even play it because it just crashed over and over in the first dungeon so I gave up. I'd really been looking forward to it after playing Arena but ending up waiting until Morrowind to try another of their games.
First thing you need to do is stop mixing up your measurements. Your new countrymen may not appreciate it. It's not a metric shit ton. It's shit-load. This is an imperial measurement equal to 2^4 "ass loads".
The measurement you are looking for is "metric fuck-tonne". It's 2.24 shit-loads. Know your measurement system. You'll never know when you need it.
The US Patent Office should be eliminated. It doesn't serve its intended purpose, and the way patents are reviewed indicates that the people examining them either don't often have a clue on what is obvious or non-obvious, or that there is massive corruption and the finances of the examiners need forensic investigation.
I think there are way to many lawsuits out there, usually motivated by greed, but is it possible for people to launch a class action lawsuit to simply stop an entity from operating?
It seems like the concept of free market economy and all-encompassing corporate patents are at opposite ends of the spectrum.
Although the internet is the largest library of information ever known, it's a library where people hold riots in the archives, monkeys throw shit from the chandeliers, and someone is constantly editing the books to suit their own view of the world.
I love the internet. I just wish that there was a mode in browsers to choose only to be able to see/search educational/literary material:) Actually, is there a search engine that specializes in that? I don't want google's safesearch to protect me from naked people. I want it to protect me from MySpace pages and creationism.
I wrote in as well. Anyone else writing in, *do not copy and paste someone else's letter*. Form letters have almost no value for consideration. To have the most effect this is how they rate feedback from constituents (according to a politician I talked to years ago, it might have shifted slightly)
- personal visit to constituent office - phone call to office - hand written letter - email - signature (form letters, petitions, etc)
If one person shows up in person FOR the warrantless searches, it's worth more than several emails. Someone should flash mob his office, but I don't know if they could actually find enough people in that area.
There's a pretty good explanation of it on youtube by a fellow who goes by the name Thunderfoot. It could use a bit more detail on zoonotics and how they become easily transmissible in human populations, but its worth showing to those family members and friends who say it's not a threat.
I find the concept of rape games distasteful, but I enjoy playing games where I get to shoot other people in the face. It must be cathartic because I haven't done it in real life yet.
If they have the tech to locate us and reach us either remotely or in person, they'll also likely have the ability to annihilate us without our being aware of their existence. All it would take is a very large rock, or a well directed solar flare.
I guess we can "prepare" for all eventualities, but maybe one of the first thing we might want to do is establish that we taste very, very bad.
If you want to mess with people who drool over her, tell them to put her picture and one of Jon Voight side by side, then look at their mouths. From then on whenever they look at her, they'll see him and find it nearly impossible to find her attractive. But that may only work on right brained people. If any left brainers can confirm, that would be interesting.
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There was a recent thread on TouchArcade in which one Blackjack developer was pointing out the unscrupulous actions of another. The "dirty" developer was buying other devs games and then one starring them and calling them garbage - with multiple accounts. He also happened to be rating his own app positively each time. Pretty low tactics.
Our game Roadkill Cafe doesn't really fit into any specific game category so we haven't really run into those tactics yet. On the other hand, getting noticed out of the gate requires a lot of know-how that we didn't have. There are quirks and tricks to the app store that aren't immediately obvious, but the poor design implementation can be used in a developers favour.
Still, too little is too late. We've gotten stellar reviews from several sites (and one mediocre review), but the real impact seems to be from getting chosen by Apple to go up front. Do that and you're golden. At least for a week.
There's a significant issue with the iTunes review system though... and that's "Review on Delete".
For every app you keep that you love, you have to log into itunes, find the app, and rate/review it.
If you're deleting one, you get to rate it on the spot. This puts substantial weight towards one star reviews from the people that hit and run on tons of apps.
So far, when I've deleted it's usually because the game "wasn't my thing", but I've rated based on the production quality of the game. No one stars from me, But I imagine my approach is not the norm.
Plate 1: An alien anteater with 4 eyes.
Plate 2: The skin cut off cookie monsters face.
Plate 3: Pelvis bone and butterfly in stomach.
Plate 4: A giant knocked flat on his back with a dragon's head escaping from his ass.
Plate 5: The rabbit from Donni Darko reaching out to hug me.
Plate 6: Bill the Cat
Plate 7: A beard I wouldn't be caught dead in.
Plate 8: Two wolverines climbing a stack of garbage.
Plate 9: The FreeBSD Demon plush toy
Plate 10: Panicked aliens running from a facehugger.
These were my first impressions of each. No attempt to get around them with trickery by reading what is expected to be seen.
So, where am I at psychologically?
Awesome! Under the rules of homepathy that water is now imbued with lightning!
Somebody needs to get a distribution deal. With the markup we can finance that Mars mission way ahead of schedule.
But the Brits initiated the action on their home turf and merely stored the information remotely.
So to meet your Amsterdam analogy they would need to smoke pot in the US, and fly to Amsterdam to exhale.
The prostitute analogy... well, that one get's a little complicated.
This is scary stuff.
I saw a documentary on hurricanes a few years ago and the meteorologists were quite sure that hurricanes are essential to the ecosystem. What we have is a planet filled with life that has evolved with these weather patterns in place. If we disrupt one significantly, what other effects could cascade from it.
Think global warming is bad? What happens when we disrupt the natural convection pump in the ocean and stall a current. (This last part was not in the documentary, just an outcome I would dread to see as a result of this tampering)
oh, and my sig is a mutation :P
When I bought my Civic DX in 2002 it was 28 dollars to fill the bone dry tank.
After Katrina, it cost 64 dollars at the max. I wanted to drag some oil execs out into the street and try some parking maneuvers on them that day.
I haven't tanked up in two weeks, but it was around 40 then.
-- interesting sig. joining the experiment--
Did they finally fix the bugs? :P
I couldn't even play it because it just crashed over and over in the first dungeon so I gave up.
I'd really been looking forward to it after playing Arena but ending up waiting until Morrowind to try another of their games.
I can totally picture Hannah Montana singing that! Awesome! :P
You have your own canyons? :(
That's pretty damn cool. I have a Honda Civic.
First thing you need to do is stop mixing up your measurements. Your new countrymen may not appreciate it.
It's not a metric shit ton. It's shit-load. This is an imperial measurement equal to 2^4 "ass loads".
The measurement you are looking for is "metric fuck-tonne". It's 2.24 shit-loads.
Know your measurement system. You'll never know when you need it.
Creating patents that essentially say "on a computer", once you filter down the hyperbole.
This was incredibly common during the dot-com bubble. Auction sites, stores, etc. It was ridiculous.
The US Patent Office should be eliminated. It doesn't serve its intended purpose, and the way patents are reviewed indicates that the people examining them either don't often have a clue on what is obvious or non-obvious, or that there is massive corruption and the finances of the examiners need forensic investigation.
I think there are way to many lawsuits out there, usually motivated by greed, but is it possible for people to launch a class action lawsuit to simply stop an entity from operating?
It seems like the concept of free market economy and all-encompassing corporate patents are at opposite ends of the spectrum.
Although the internet is the largest library of information ever known, it's a library where people hold riots in the archives, monkeys throw shit from the chandeliers, and someone is constantly editing the books to suit their own view of the world.
I love the internet. I just wish that there was a mode in browsers to choose only to be able to see/search educational/literary material :)
Actually, is there a search engine that specializes in that?
I don't want google's safesearch to protect me from naked people. I want it to protect me from MySpace pages and creationism.
I wrote in as well. Anyone else writing in, *do not copy and paste someone else's letter*.
Form letters have almost no value for consideration.
To have the most effect this is how they rate feedback from constituents (according to a politician I talked to years ago, it might have shifted slightly)
- personal visit to constituent office
- phone call to office
- hand written letter
- email
- signature (form letters, petitions, etc)
If one person shows up in person FOR the warrantless searches, it's worth more than several emails.
Someone should flash mob his office, but I don't know if they could actually find enough people in that area.
Oops. Meant this one instead.
There's a pretty good explanation of it on youtube by a fellow who goes by the name Thunderfoot.
It could use a bit more detail on zoonotics and how they become easily transmissible in human populations, but its worth showing to those family members and friends who say it's not a threat.
Are you talking about the C64 project or Twitter?
Definitely a broken system.
At least they didn't change his name to "Kinderfucker" or whatever the Swedish equivalent would be.
Big deal. I was molested at age 5. Does that count in your little pissing contest?
I find the concept of rape games distasteful, but I enjoy playing games where I get to shoot other people in the face.
It must be cathartic because I haven't done it in real life yet.
Don't ban. Study. Assess. THEN decide.
If they have the tech to locate us and reach us either remotely or in person, they'll also likely have the ability to annihilate us without our being aware of their existence.
All it would take is a very large rock, or a well directed solar flare.
I guess we can "prepare" for all eventualities, but maybe one of the first thing we might want to do is establish that we taste very, very bad.
You brought up a good point about the age. The closer you go back to Deliverance the stronger the resemblance.
If you want to mess with people who drool over her, tell them to put her picture and one of Jon Voight side by side, then look at their mouths.
From then on whenever they look at her, they'll see him and find it nearly impossible to find her attractive.
But that may only work on right brained people. If any left brainers can confirm, that would be interesting.