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Blade's Burden:Wild Hunt - Looking for playtesters for iOS and Android
bladesburden.comu/BladesBurden — 24 hours ago
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▲ 1 r/MobileGaming
Do you enjoy it when games let you rank up VIP status via non-$?
The typical VIP rank-up process includes spending money and getting VIP points included with whatever you bought. And then the VIP rank unlocks additional rewards based on your vip level.
Although some games also offer non-paying ways to rank up VIP (i.e. spending free currencies to rank up VIP). This can be smart for F2P players because it lets them gain some of the same benefits as spenders through smart resource-saving.
However I've also always felt a bit of a "badge of honor" having my F2P tag next to my name while competing against paying players. It feels good to compete and win in those scenarios, knowing that you're the underdog. If that "VIP0" player spends currency and ranks up to "VIP5", then they lose that badge and the competition no longer considers them a f2p player.
Would love to hear others thoughts & preferences on this.
u/BladesBurden — 4 days ago
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u/BladesBurden — 15 days ago
▲ 1 r/mobiledev
Just a light rant, not necessarily looking for advice but I'm always open to suggestions:
By guided tours, I mean those little tutorial things that every mobile game has the first 3-5 minutes of gameplay. They lock down the screen, drawing little circles w/ the rest of the screen dimmed, guiding the player to focus on and click where you want them to click so they can learn the systems of the game opposed to diving in blind.
Example from my game:
Seems pretty simple conceptually, but getting the screens locked, scrolling disabled/reenabled, timing correct (slow phones/devices don't always lock things quick enough), and everything else wired up is such a pain. It's pretty much the only feedback I've received from playtesters, and I've tested it myself so much more than any other feature of my app (which has a lot of features), and it's still my most troublesome spot despite only playing a single time at the start of the app. I've at least got it down to now only soft-locking the user (forced restart solves it if they get stuck) rather than hard-locking. But man, I'm impressed at some of these other games that handle their onboarding tutorials so smoothly.
u/BladesBurden — 16 days ago