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Vampire Runner version 1.0.3 – some performance improvements

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

Since the last update of Vampire Runner we were experiencing some notorious performance issues on the Android version and that is why we focused our efforts trying to improve it. The main problem was having some stuttering from time to time and some really bad fps on some devices.

We updated Vampire Runner in the Android Market with all the improvements we made:

  • Improved performance.
  • Improved graphics.
  • Removed the energy bar
  • Fixed the instructions texts to be clearer.

Here is the QR-code if you want to easy access from your Android device:


Vampire Runner Android Market Vampire Runner Icon

Android Market

Hope this new version works better as it is working for us and enjoy the game.

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Vampire Runner Christmas Edition on Android Market

Friday, December 16th, 2011

We wanted to make something special for our most successful game and our players so we added some Christmas happiness to Vampire Runner:

Vampire Runner

The changes for this version were:

  • Christmas Theme – Presents, Trees, Christmas Hats, and Snow.
  • Musics are disabled the first time you run the game, to avoid a bug between OpenFeint dialog and LibGDX (you can enable the music in the main menu screen).
  • For the Android Version – We now support paging on our highscore screen so you can see more scores.
  • Created Vampire Runners Facebook Page and added a button to go there from the Credits Screen.

Here is the QR-code if you want to easy access from your Android device:


Vampire Runner Android Market Vampire Runner Icon

Android Market

If you installed and liked the game, please rate it on the market, and share it with your friends and everyone you know.

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Vampire Runner version 1.0.0 on Android Market

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

We were working hard to make a new release of Vampire Runner with some big changes.

Mainly, all graphics assets were remade by Estudio Egg, so the game looks tons of times nicer now. Take a look:

Then, we also improved game mechanics by adding different transformations to the vampire to move through different obstacles, so the game is a bit more interesting now.

Finally, if you play the game on Android, we also added OpenFeint integration, so if you already use OpenFeint with friends, you can compete with them to be the best Vampire Runner.

Here is the QR-code if you want to easy access from your Android device:


Vampire Runner Android Market

Android Market

The game changed a lot from what it was, hope you enjoy the changes.

If you installed and liked the game, please rate it on the market, and share it with your friends and everyone you know.

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Super Flying Thing – Update 09

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

There is a new version of Super Flying Thing available, here is the change log:

  • Changed to count the best time to end a level
  • Modified random level generation and changed random mode to be named training
  • Removed practice mode, go to training now
  • Removed Exit button, you can exit the game pressing back button on main menu
  • Added sound for the explosions
  • Added about us screen with links to blog and more games

Remember, you can play it right now, just follow the next links:

PLAY ON PC or PLAY ON ANDROID:

Play on Android

Hope you enjoy it.

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Vampire Runner – Update 02

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

We added some new features to Vampire Runner and also fixed some bugs.

Here are new screenshots:

Here is the change log:

  • Added the best 25 scores during the game (with blood marks).
  • Added an instructions screen showed before start playing.
  • Added pause screen to pause the game and/or return to main menu.
  • Changed game over screen to let you play again faster.
  • Changed main menu screen to show buttons to other screens.
  • Changed wall tiles to something nicer than a black rectangle
  • Changed the profile name to be limited to 15 characters.
  • Fixed a bug when showing highscores on small resolution devices

If you want to play it on PC, you can click HERE.

If you want to play on Android, you can click HERE and here is the QR-code for easy access:

Hope you like the update.

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Vampire Runner – Update 01

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

We have published Vampire Runner on the Android Market and added a dedicated page on the Games list.

As introduced earlier, Vampire Runner is a Canabalt like game where you have to run as far as you can, in this case as you are a Vampire you have to run from the sun light.

Here are some game screenshots:

For now the game has some issues with of text location on small screen devices, I didn’t want to scale everything because fonts look bad when scaling them but could be the only way of making things screen independent.

If you want to play it on PC, you can click HERE.

If you want to play on Android, you can click HERE and here is the QR-code for easy access:

Some stuff to do to consider the game as completed in some way:

  • Fix the text location and color issues
  • Make nicer and more defined obstacles
  • Add a second background to give another idea of movement
  • Add some music and sounds could be great too

As always, hope you like the game.

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Testing Android controls on libGDX PC application using libGDX remote

Friday, September 9th, 2011

When testing our games, sometimes we only need to test the game controls on the Android devices, not all the game, and deploying it on the device is always slower than running it on the PC.

The LibGDX library provides a way to send your Android device input data to through the network, one of the possible uses is to control your libGDX PC application with it.

Here is a demo video using the remote input, made by libGDX team:


(note: magic starts after minute 2)

In the case of Super Flying Thing, we need it when testing and debugging some controls that cannot be tested directly on PC like the TiltController for example (we need device orientation data). Recently, we starting using it also to test and customize other controls like the the ClassicController (despite it has a bit of lag in some cases).

Sadly, my camera is also my android phone so I can’t make a video of how we are using it.

One interesting point of this is that we could use multiple android devices (and probably other devices like iPod/iPhone/iPad/others) to create multiple wireless controllers for PC, and that, for example, could be funny if we want to make a local multiplayer game.

Another interesting point is that you could implement your own remote input server to read the device input data sent by the GDX Remote Android Application, so you wouldn’t be forced to use libGDX in your server application.

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Super Flying Thing – Update 08

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

There is a new version of Super Flying Thing available, here is the change log:

  • Added replays to show how you died a lot of times :P , could be disabled if you don’t want to watch it.
  • Changed the Splash screen to load all stuff once to improve performance during the game and to show loading progress.
  • Changed screen buttons, moved them up to avoid touching the ads when trying to touch a button.
  • Changed to avoid showing a title bar when the game started.
  • Changed Settings screen, moved controllers stuff to another screen.
  • More performance improvement.
  • Fixed (probably) the bug of OutOfMemoryException when the game was left open for a long time.

Remember, you can play it right now, just follow the next links:

PLAY ON PC or PLAY ON ANDROID:

Play on Android

Hope you enjoy it.

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Super Flying Thing – Update 07

Friday, August 19th, 2011

Hi everyone, we found a little tiny bug that made our game run different in different phones, so in some phones the ship would move way faster than in others, and that make the game a little too challenging (impossible to control, always dying, lots of fun).

The other big changes in this updates are some stuff trying to get the game to run better on phones that aren’t the latest and greatest. For now the background will start disabled but you can enable it by going to the settings page (it looks really nice :-) but it is expensive to show in some phones, in the future we will try to test the phone or start with the background enabled and detect if it is an issue and suggest to the user that he can disable it to get better performance).

As always, a change log:

  • Fixed a bug making the game run different on different devices, some times almost not playable
  • Added settings to enable/disable background to improve game performance (disabled by default)
  • Added new controller named TargetController which allows you to specify the point the ship should go
  • Added a second background which moves with the camera giving a basic idea of parallax
  • Changed ship animation to have more frames to be smoother
  • Changed internal stuff to improve performance.
  • Changed the graphics (background, walls, color of portals)

Also, we have a new gameplay video:

Remember, you can play it right now, just follow the next links:

PLAY ON PC or PLAY ON ANDROID:

Play on Android

Hope you enjoy it.

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Super Flying Thing – Update 06

Friday, August 12th, 2011

Readers, I know there are some, there is a new update of the game, should be available on Android Market already.
We added different controllers and we are testing how they feel and what method of control people like best.

As always, a change log:

  • Added more levels and fixed previous ones.
  • Added different controllers to test.
  • Added level preview on level selection screen.
  • Added settings screen which lets you choose different controllers and test them.
  • Added message to show which level is being previewed
  • Added animation to visited planet to differentiate easily between start and destination planets.
  • Changed ship to receive damage instead killing it instantly, so you now could survive in some cases.
    Fixed a bug with lasers.

Remember, you can play it right now, just follow the next links:

PLAY ON PC or PLAY ON ANDROID:

Play on Android

Hope you enjoy it.

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