Exciting days ... Kitten Sanctuary will be released for iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch on March 27th.
As an experiment, it'll be released at it's lowest possible price ($0.99). There's even a Lite edition to try out for free (featuring the first sanctuary location & 10 kittens). It is a bit worrying though ... there are so many apps released every day, will anyone actually play it!?
Yay, I just added an icon that shows up on iPads & iPhones when you bookmark the site to your Home Screen! Oh the wonders of modern technology
Also just fixed a weird bug causing horizontal lines to appear along all the page sections on Safari. I accidentally fixed it by making my page graphic 1 pixel high ... go figure!
13th Mar 2012 : Mac & iOS Games
Despite the lack of blog entries I've been really busy porting over lots of the games to Mac as well as developing a new PC game (more news on that next month).
The Mac games are actually a happy side effect of my attempts to get some of the games onto the iPad & iPhone. You can tell which games are available for the Mac by the little OS icons in the summary panels. Anyway, things are going well and my first app, Kitten Sanctuary, will be available from the App Store next week
15th May 2011 : Puppy Sanctuary
The release version of Puppy Sanctuary has just been uploaded. Thanks for everyone who left feedback, as always it was most welcome and a lot of your suggestions have made it into the final version of the game ...thank you!
Here's what's been added since the beta version:
10 new puppies to rescue.
You can now rename your puppies.
A new ruined city sanctuary location.
Seven new purchasable items.
Brand new alien-battling game mode.
30 new levels (80 in total).
Trophies screen.
Additional music track.
Brightness option.
There are several smaller improvements and tweaks too ... I hope you enjoy this release build of Puppy Sanctuary!
It's a couple of weeks late, the sanctuary section took longer than expected. Although similar in design to that found in Kitten Sanctuary, it has actually been written from scratch to allow for more interaction between puppies.
Anyway, it's beta at the moment, so I'm looking for feedback & suggestions, please check out the game's forum for more details. Also, the game is $4.99 while it's in beta ($2 saving) and all updates are free of charge (as with all the games).
I hope you enjoy it George
28th Jan 2011 : Puppy Sanctuary Backdrops
Here are some newly finished Puppy Sanctuary background images (Click an image to see a larger version). Hopefully these are final, although I haven't tried them in the game yet, so who knows!
28th Jan 2011 : Puppy Sanctuary Art
Well, shortly after posting the first Puppy Sanctuary screen, I released I actually didn't like the background art much!
It's been taking me a while (a good few months) to come up with a graphical style that I actually like for the game. I wanted something that looks nice and friendly but not too cartoony, and something that doesn't take ages to produce... the art for Memorabilia took me ages, and wasn't all that fun to produce (as it was 100% done using vector art, not a hugely satisfying technique).
There's been four full revisions of the game art since so far...
#1 A painted style, I was hoping to spend more time away from the computer by painting the game art on paper (pencil & water colors).
#2 The first attempt looked way to cluttered & messy when introduced to the game, so this version uses pencil drawings, colored in Photoshop. I like that the image looks less fussy and it worked better in game, but the pencil lines just aren't clean enough and my paper art isn't reliable enough to do a full game.
#3 This is getting back to how I did things in previous games liked Memorabilia. I quite like the style but it just seemed too plain, like it was missing something. Also, doing everything in lines and dots seemed too much of a step backwards
#4 The current style ... it uses dots and lines, but not nearly as many as Memorabilia, so it's nice and quick. I'm using shading for the first time to give depth and lighting to the image. So far so good
I'll post some backgrounds up later today.
Cheers, George
26th Aug 2010 : First Puppy Sanctuary Screenshot
Here's a very early screen shot of Puppy Sanctuary
It has a similar style to Kitten Sanctuary, but all the graphics are being redone from scratch, I'm using far more detail in this game. You'll notice some temporary elements being used from Kitten Sanctuary in this screen, like the 'Kitten Power' statue. Also, the puppy is in fact a kitten ... I haven't started on the actual puppies yet!
