After spending all day playing my game to the high levels with my iPhone tethered up to my laptop, testing for all manners of bugs, I finally feel that I’ve made enough progress to warrant losing my spot in the queue and resubmitting my binaries.
I redid the way the game alerts you when you are under attack. The way I had it before, it would tend to spam you with vibrates, especially later on in the game, and I hear Apple dislikes that a lot. Now, it still plays the knocking sound, but only vibrates if your health is too low, or is being lost at a rate fast enough to make you lose in under a minute. This seems long, but it’s nice for later in the game when you don’t care if you have 10 stickies pounding at your wall, as you have 10,000 hp and are saving your bombs for the waves of 40 at a time.
The game is really smooth now, my girlfriend played it for an hour up to level 25 without any crashes or bugs. That’s a new record.
After this I’m going to sit and wait. The game is stable enough in my eyes that Apple won’t reject it for that reason, but if something else bothers them I don’t want to waste any more time adding new content until I get a green light.
And by sitting and waiting, I’m going to start the school work that I have not been doing for…about 3 weeks now (although one of those WAS spring break).
. I also owe a lot to my other testers who provided me a lot of valueable feedback.
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