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kinderappgarten.de

Joe — Tue, 01 May 2012 11:31:45 +0000

Our game Animal Run was reviewed on kinderappgarten.de.

The page has a lot of good articles on apps for kids, so make sure to have a look at it.

Bass Constructor: Creating a club dance hit has never been so easy before

Joe — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:09:17 +0000

This weekend I released my new app for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch: Bass Constructor. If you’ve ever dreamed of creating your own club/dance/house hit record without any prior knowledge this app is for you.

It was the best app start I’ve ever had and people seem to LOVE this little gem.
Here is a short demo song of how this app sounds. Get ready to be blown away:

And here are the first user reviews I received:

Beat_Machine: DrumPads for iOS

Joe — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:52:04 +0000

I recently released my new app Beat_Machine for iOS. A fun drumpad-computer simulation with great sounds. Here are the first reviews I got from my users so far. Thank you so much:

As you can see, some users complained about the virbation feedback and it’s already fixed in the current version.

Hack Of The Day: C++ Class Method Pointers

Joe — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:13:48 +0000

Function pointers are very handy in C++. But they don't work on class methods, here is a neat workaround, that even works with virtual methods.

Captain Backwater for Linux released!

Joe — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:06:59 +0000

I just finished the Linux port of Captain Backwater. You can order it here for only $5.99. So, what are you waiting for, ehh?

Watch the Trailer / Video

Captain Backwater for Linux

Joe — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:40:07 +0000

Yay! Captain Backwater is finally running on Ubuntu. And it wasn't that hard! I just had to fix some smaller cross-plattform issues. Here is the proof: I still have some problems with the sound, but I think I will get those issues addressed soon. At all Linux users: Watch the trailer now to know what awaits you soon If you want to support me, you can preorder now. You will get instant access to the Windows & Mac version. And you will get the Linux port as soon as I finished it!

Captain Backwater Trailer

Joe — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:13:35 +0000

I just finished the brand new gameplay trailer for my latest game Captain Backwater. I used FRAPS to recrod the gameplay and iMovie and the blockbuster template to cut it. As I'm very unexperienced with video-stuff I'm very satisfied with the result. I hope you like it:

Watch Captain Backwater Trailer on Vimeo

Hoist up the Jolly Roger

Joe — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:53:52 +0000

Captain Backwater is released. This is one of the most exciting parts of developing his own games. The day of the release. The day when you find out if the players love or hate your game. This is especially true for Captain Backwater. Believe it or not: The first email I got from Emmanuel (artist of Backwater) with the idea for pirate themed puzzle game was in April 2005 (!!!). Emmanuel attached some cheesy scribbles, here is the original scan: We had tried out some early gameplay mechanics in two or three prototypes. But nothing seemed to work out. Our game design was poor. Back then, Emmanuel worked with different looks and cel-shaders. After a few weeks (or probably one or two months - can't remember) we stopped working on Backwater. In 2007 I had a new idea for an interesting puzzle gameplay. I started to work on it with the "old" graphics from Emmanuel. This time for Nintendo DS, but progress was slowly as I started my new job at Gameforge. When I finished the game in December 2010 JoWood was interested in publishing it, but one month later they went bankrupt. What a great timing! This was the point when I decided to restart the project for Win, Mac and Linux. I've done it using BlitzMax and my own Horizon-Framework. Everyone I showed the game in the early stages loved the gameplay. Towards the end of the project I stumbled over a blog post from Andra Dogaru. She did an amazing pirate ship, so I asked her if I could use her graphics in the menu section of my game. Andra was excited and even overhauled her work. The result is fantastic I think: So, what's next...? I'm currently very busy with finishing the Linux version of the game. After that, I need to do a free, playable demo version - which is my most important marketing instrument for my direct sales. I also try to get the game into the big casual and indie portals. I also have already received some feedback from customers. They love it, but they also found some small issues I should fix in an update. I also want to add more languages to Captain Backwater. At the moment, the game is available in german and english. If someone of you is interested in translate it to your native language, please contact me.

The final steps

Joe — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:31:26 +0000

Captain Backwater is more near to completion than ever before. So, what happend during the last two months? First of all I was in holidays in Mallorca with some good friends for 10 days. It was planned to stay there for 7 days but we missed our plane back home (note to myself: never book a return flight again that starts off early in the morning). Here is a picture we took in the Megapark: Mallorca 2011 - I'm the one with Dennis' hand on my face. Back home I first analysed and organized the feedback of the nearly 200 beta-testers. The feedback was great, but it was also a lot of work to put every bug report and every feature idea into my issue tracker. Then I worked on a lot of minor and major bugfixes and thought about which features and ideas I wanted to implement into the final game. On the map screen the player now has two paths he can select from. The main path contains the path to treasure and fame. During game progression the player can collect hidden coins and catch some bananas. With those the player can buy/unlock levels on the second path, where he can rescue Captain Backwaters big love Mary'o'Malley. I also worked many, many hours on level design. The final game will contain 100 levels (80 + 20), but I will hopefully release level-packs later on and I also hope that the players will create lots of cool user-generated-levels using the easy-to-use level editor. Whats left is that I have to design the 20 bonus levels, then re-balance some of them and whats left after that is some polishing. Last but not least Emmanuel from Graveyard Dogs is working right now on the last missing graphics.

Get a free beta key for the upcoming indie hit game Captain Backwater

Joe — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:07:32 +0000

Captain Backwater, the new indie hit puzzle game, is near completion. This sunday evening I will start a closed beta test. For this I need you to have a look at the game and provide some useful feedback (if you'd like to). If you are interested to be one of the first one's to have fun with our little gem Captain Backwater (Mac OS X, PC Windows - Linux will follow soon) please follow those steps:

Follow Captain Backwater on twitter or become a fan of his facebook group.
All followers/fans will get a personal message at sunday evening (CET).
You play the game and you will have a lot of fun being a mighty pirate on treasure hunting.
If you have suggestions, ideas or problems you send me a message. (I will take every single reported issue or idea very serious!!!)

Oh, and by the way: Did I mention that ALL beta testers will get their name in the credits section of the final game? Imagine for a few seconds: YOUR name in a damn COOL game! True story! To be honest: This will be the best game I've ever made and I'm already very proud of it. But I really need your help to make it even better. Now it's your turn: