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Just released: Fruit on Rails

My first game written with Slick2D.

For more information goto;

http://fruitonrails.3qc.nl

Many thanks for the great work on the Slick2D library.

Jacco van Weert -- 3QC Games

there is no demo or I'm missing something ?

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Demo, yes... currently not.

The next thing I will be working on.
Currently I am glad that finally I finished the game

Excellent looking game. I can't wait to try a demo or see the game in action. My suggestion would be to reduce the amount of text on your website and a more proffesional blurb on your buy page.

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Windows 7 x64, 4GB RAM DDR3, 3.3ghz AMD Athlon II X3 455, AMD Radeon HD 6800 series.

Thanks,

The buy page: Does it contain too little info? Where are you pointing at?

>I can't wait to try a demo or see the game in action
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If you are willing to provide me some feedback on the game I could give you a coupon to get the game for free.
Just, let me know.

Isn't better have a public fast-play-demo version of the game? No one will buy your game without trying it

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looks really cool, at least from the screenshots. Are you distributing it on android?

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Yes you are right.

At least a short trailer is done.

http://youtu.be/5UhgQ1H7Bus



Yes, that's a goal, Fruit on Rails is very well suited for the tablets... I have my own abstraction layer which already generated the Android code.
But this is based on the Android Canvas, and the FPS was limited to 25 FPS.
So now I will extend my layer with another target, I didn't get SlickAE to work, perhaps libGDX or direct Android OpenGL.

Linux is still a target but the Linux test still show some issues according to the sound, frame-rates, screen sizes and some more

In my abstraction layer I have also have PlayN (from Google) as an target, I didn't touch that part for a while but if it's work it could open the way to HTML5 and iOS?

By "blurb" I mean this following text:

It just seems to be little off-putting. It is the only non-technical info on the page and my eyes were lead directly to that line. I would suggest something like "3QC Games is a small indie game developer. Fruit on Rails is the first release of 3QC Games. We take great lengths to make your gaming experience a great one. If you have any problems, you can contact the developer directly: info@3qc.nl. We will personally respond to you with the utmost urgency." Just a suggestion.

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Current Testing Machine:
Windows 7 x64, 4GB RAM DDR3, 3.3ghz AMD Athlon II X3 455, AMD Radeon HD 6800 series.

Yes, that sound much better, I replaced the text.

Thanks

The "Fruit on Rails" demo is ready to be downloaded;

http://fruitonrails.3qc.nl

thanks! All my comments are about this demo and IMHO:

Nice and relaxing game. For new trains maybe you can show an indicator (for example in tutorial map before a new train appears, I can hear some sound of it). I don't like too much text in this kind of game, keep it balanced to game mechanics
You can also animate fruits, in particular eyes and smiles ?
You can also speed up transitions? In menues are just too slow

I see a future for this kind of game on facebook or google + , well done!

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Thank you for your comments.

"New train indicator"... well there should be a visual (as well audio) indicator on place where a new train will arrive.

The fruit has a simple animation (just pick randomly 1 of the 4 states).... I am/was planning to animate the "mood"... angry looking fruit when they must wait...

where is "new train" icon ? I've missed it
Fruit mood is a good idea!

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There "should" be a red circle with a black '!' sign popping at the entrance when a train enters the field.