Try it here if you like.

We hooked it up with a simple facebook LIKE button, and added some metrics thru google analytics. The marketing we did was basically posting on a couple of relevant sites/forums that we found.

The response was not really overwhelming, I don´t think we hit more than a thousand players total, and having taken the bold step of stamping halloween all over the game, I think the window of opportunity is closed for this time. Getting people to find and get attracted to what you´re offering is a lot harder than we thought. One possible next step for this particular mini-game would be to publish it on Kongregate or some other more consumer-oriented games site.

We are trying to document what the process a bit.

Here is a teaser:

Eggs Forum
Indie DB

The idea was to take one of the simplest and most boring games known to mankind and try to make it more interesting and hopfully fun and addictive!

Behold Dungeon Memory, a souped up Memory game with RPG elements.

Try out an early alpha here:
Dungeon Memory Alpha

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It´s been an interesting couple of days. Eggs HD passed the scrutiny of the app review staff and was released in the wild on monday (11th). Of course I bought the app, downloaded it, and BAM!. The app wouldn´t even start but crashed on launch.

Panic at the disco.

Pulled the app from sales immediately, and started the obligatory headscratching.

Turns out Unity and iOS 4.3 will absolutely not work together. After reinstalling and recompiling and some more headscratching, including the humbling experience of setting up provisioning certificate development bla bla bla profiles, I got Eggs HD to practically the same state it was in previously, although this time compiled with iOS 4.2.

Started to think a bit about how to go about fixing the issue with app store. I made the decision to create a new app, and scrap the old one. The only reason for this is that the only possible marketing boost an indie developer can get is by being “new and noteworthy”. With approval times around 10 days, if we would update the already published version we would definitely stand the risk of never ever making it into the “new and noteworthy” category.

So it is, I create a new app, this time called “Eggs in HD”, since the old name was already taken

Having worked up some steam during the process, I then proceeded to demand/beg for, what Apple call “expedited review”. some time later on i got this response;

“Thank you for submitting your request for an expedited review.
We are working hard to process submissions as quickly as we can and expect to complete the evaluation of your request within 1 to 2 business days.”

Kind of what you would expect. They would review my request in a couple of days. But at least I felt like I had done what I could to alleviate the problem.

When I woke up this morning I got this very nice mail from them;

“Thank you for contacting the App Review Team to request an expedited review. We have made a one-time exception and will proceed with an expedited review of Eggs in HD.”

Eggs in HD was ready for sale by the time I read the mail.

Rollercoaster is the work I think of.

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The fruits of our toil will be available soon, first as an iPad HD version, and later as an update for iPhone and iPod Touch. The new update will contain high resolution updates in graphics, new levels and a tutorial where you visit Grandmaster Tamago´s Dojo to learn all the basics. Also a nicer 3D menu system will be included in the update.

We have also put a lot of thought to a slew of new games that we want to make, as well as a possible sequel to EGGS. We are now looking into finding funding for our new ventures and things look bright! We have gotten a lot of attention from some publishers who are interested in working with us.

I want to thank all our customers and fans, and hope we will be releasing more entertainment for your pleasure in 2011!

I have made an updated version of Eggs sensei, and he can also bee seen in the new 3D menues and in the turorial we are making for the update coming soon in January.