We finally took some recordings with a decent camera. Here’s a couple of gameplay vids – lots more to come: “Smashed” iPhone Game (1 of 2) from Hackdirt on Vimeo. “Smashed” iPhone Game (2 of 2) from Hackdirt on Vimeo. There’s actually a bug in these vids – we got a bit overzealous with bugfixes [...]
A tweak to the physics engine resulted a rather epic bug that we decided to video. Video setup: When you smash a block, it disintegrates into fragments*. You can smash these fragments into yet smaller fragments, and so on and so forth until they disappear. In this way, the game is somewhat similar to that [...]
We have our own level editor to make levels for the game. It’s kind of sekrit, but here’s a photo of it: We just took a photo of the screen with our iPhone for this; much of the user interface is not shown.
We received an email or two asking why all the screenshots are oriented in portrait and not landscape. The simple answer is that the game was originally designed to run just in portrait mode. However, we recently added the ability to play in landscape mode – some levels are simply better played under this mode. [...]
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A teaser of world #3 and world #5:
We wanted to take some video of the game in action ASAP. However, owing to equipment problems, we had to settle for a fairly low quality four-year old digital camera that could only take about 90 seconds of footage. The results are not good, but we decided to put it out there anyway. It’s some [...]
All the previous galleries and screenshots were really development screenshots. They were meant to show certain things we were trying out, ideas we had, cool things to show off, that sort of thing. Since the game is nearing completion, there are some parts that are pretty much locked down and will probably not change much [...]
“Smashed” is basically done. The hard stuff is done. All of the levels have been completed. Short of a bit of testing and polish, the iPhone version of the game should be submitted to the app store in a couple of days, meaning it will be out by the end of the month. So we’re [...]
I just added 8 new bloopers to the bloopers gallery.
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