ULTRATRON for Win32, MacOS X, and Linux (Webstart)

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#1

That’s right, finally decided Ultratron was done. If you could swivel your browsers herewards:

http://www.puppygames.net/downloads/SetupUltratronDemo.exe (6.5mb, Win32)
http://www.puppygames.net/downloads/Ultratron_MacOSX.zip (4mb, Mac OSX 10.3+)
http://www.puppygames.net/applets/ultratron.jnlp (4mb, Linux / Webstart)

and have a blast, I’m sure you’ll have a least a bit of fun 8)

If you’ve got Puppytron already I’ll be sending you a free keycode for Ultratron. Sweet!
Otherwise… no buy page ready yet, manana probably…

Cas :slight_smile:

#2

just played through my time on the Demo. Looks great! :slight_smile: Definitely seems finished to me. I must say, you set the bar for the rest of us really damned high :wink:

#3

excellent, game plays very well now, the new additions/changes are great. Theres no doubt that the game is fun (and looks good), it will be interesting to see how well it does.

#4

I love it! The little things seem to be ironed out and it has even more polish. Perfect!

Definetly one I am going to buy…just get that page going!

#5

I’ll advertise it a bit in my signature (another board). My sig gets about 10k impressions per month. Hopefully you get some more traffic that way (either way there are 700+ pages [with that sig] to crawl, which should help too). :wink:

#6

wow that’s impressive too!

#7

Thank you very much everyone :slight_smile: Esp. oNyx! That’s a great thing to do.
(Talking of which oNyx, you’ve been, like, active on these boards for years but I ain’t seen a game out of you yet!)

Cas :slight_smile:

#8

Heh. Yea… I’m horrible unorganized and the only games, I somewhat finished so far were JM4k and TinyRivers, which were both rather minimalistic.

Well, beeing a one man army doesn’t really help. My art skills are rather mediocre and it also takes ages… at lest I’ll have photoshop again pretty soon now (I’m even slower with gimp).

Got the green light for some ok-ish contract work… that means a) I’ll have to start a business and b) it should yield enough cash to get me rolling (+some new tech). Either way I won’t have something ready to sell within the next month, therefore I decided to use that sig space for something else in the meantime.

I hope it will turn out ok-ish. :slight_smile:

#9

Write the code and I’m sure Chaz will be interested in doing the graphics if the game rocks.

Cas :slight_smile:

#10

Code it and they will come… huh? :slight_smile:

Erm… on a side note… on your website… put the game name in the title. If someone searches for this game, your page should come up #1 (more $$$ for you ;)).

edit: Heh. Today you are already on #4 for ultratron (yesterday you weren’t even under the first bunch of pages :o)
edit²: Most SEs seem to rate the file-name of the document higher than it’s directory… So, you might want to change the structure of your site a bit. Eg "page/gamename"¹ instead of “page/gamename/index.php”.

[¹ SEs love clean urls and another benefit of clean urls (clean URIs) is that they don’t need to change ever. Even if the underlying tech is changed. (If it’s Apache you can do that via mod_rewrite.)]

#11

I’m sure if you make a good game Ace (my artist) would be willing to help as well :slight_smile:

#12

so I’m out surfing for games for my Mac and what do I stumble upon? http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/action_adventure/ultratron.html

#13

A bit off topic, but I notice that Tribal Trouble made it onto the MacWorld magazine cd & got a decent mention in the mag. Is this all word of mouth or are elias, cas et al doing some marketing? :slight_smile:

#14

No marketing to speak of really… although I think Elias is going to start doing a bit.

Cas :slight_smile:

#15

That’s awesome.

I love the sounds effects and the glowy graphics. The progress meter is really nice too. The missile effects and explosions are the best.

Grats!

#16

Hi,

Got my upgraded CD-Key, good to see us early-adopters rewarded ;D

Awesome game, great fun.

My only annoyance is that the stupid gold bonus guys always hits me. Unlike the other trons, there is no warning for him, he just flies out. How about just making him dissapear or something instead of hurting you?

Cheers,

Will.

#17

I’ll consider it for 1.3 :slight_smile: (Which will hopefully have gamepad support in it too, and probably batched hiscore upload if it fails the first time)

Cas :slight_smile:

#18

ooh, I like that.

One thing I noticed is that Ultratron won’t let me launch via webstart in offline mode. Is this by design?

Will.

#19

Yes, by design - seeing as the game is connected to the internet to work properly (hiscores, registration) it made sense to get Webstart to enforce this for me.

Cas :slight_smile:

#20

Good job, yet again.