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Journals / Re: "Peng's Adventure" iOS / Android Release Oktober 1. 2017

« on: September 20, 2017, 04:49:57 am »

Ohh ... there are answers!! Thank you so much guys for your words! I'm not here to start a long discussion. I'm just here to say THANK YOU TO YOU ALL !!  But now i'm gone .....

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Journals / Re: "Peng's Adventure" iOS / Android Release Oktober 1. 2017

« on: September 18, 2017, 12:43:18 am »

My dear Stencyl forum friends.

"Pengs Adventure"  is on Android store now since almost a month and it's in Apple's AppStore available since 2 and a half week.
Since then i had only 100 Downloads (on Android and iOS together!) . To be honest. I'm sad and disapointed. almost 2 years i worked hard for this game. It has cost's me so much energy and money i didn't have. I asked my parents to give me 199$ to buy the Stencyl Licence. And hey.... i'm 46y old, married and 2 kids. But i have no Money at all. So Peng's Adventure was my hope for a better life. 20 Apps i made the last years. Many of them are shit. But there are also some Pearls like Balanzze , Pleezz or Peng's Adventure. but not a single App has brought me more than 10$ win. I ask me, are my apps really such a shit. i decided to instant stop furher developing. I loved it, but i have to life to and my Family also. I can't afford. In my opinion there where so idiotic Apps in both stores with a huge sucess.... "Fidget Spinner Apps, or "Apple Pen parody Apps" and so on... you know what i mean. It's hard for me to see all the sucess around me with such shitty apps.  Don't get me wrong ! I know, my apps are no masterpieces !! But i think some of them are good enough to get a bit more attention ! But i hate Marketing from the bottom of my Soul. So this could be the Point why my apps don't have success. With Peng's Adventure i made a Account at MailChimp and wrote 139 Emails to Homepages like TouchArcade and so on. But from 139 Emails only 3 are opened and only 1 klick on a link inside the Email. Thats horrible and takes my Motivation for further Projects. I think, enough is enough. I had 2 Burnouts the last 7 years.... i gave more than i can give. So all i can do is to say "Thank you" guys here at stencyl for the Software itself, the help and Support.  Thanks for about 5 years of stencyl (my first apps i made with appcelerator Titanium). Under the line i had more to pay for Software licences, Apple Developer fee and so on than i made Money with. It's so ridicolous ! and sad. But i wish all the best to YOU other developers for YOUR Apps.... May the force be with you !!

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Journals / Re: "Peng's Adventure" iOS / Android Release Oktober 1. 2017

« on: September 07, 2017, 08:06:01 am »

Great ! Thank you for your feedback.... and what do you think about the "Endtro?" Have you recognized the "hidden" Joke ? (Hospital and Nooo!!!!) :-) i can't say more, because of spoiler alarm :-)

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Journals / Re: "Peng's Adventure" iOS / Android Release Oktober 1. 2017

« on: August 31, 2017, 12:25:18 am »

Thanks guys for your feedback. I will see what i can do .... in my personal opinion it's not to hard, i think it's way to easy. One of my daughters (9 Years old) can play this game from start to the end with less than 15 Fails ! But anyway, maybe i will repositioning the camera so that the penguin is a bit more on the left side of the screen.  THANKS !!

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Shared Resources / Re: Free Music Resource for Your Games

« on: August 30, 2017, 08:36:57 am »

Hi Eric Matyas!

I want to inform you, that i used 2 of your great songs in one of my games "Peng's Adventure"

See here: http://community.stencyl.com/index.php/topic,52147.0.html

Thank you so much for your work !! If i should make some money with "Peng's Adventure" i will pay for your work !

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Journals / Re: "Peng's Adventure" iOS / Android Release Oktober 1. 2017

« on: August 30, 2017, 01:04:50 am »

First of all, thank you for your interest !

Here the YouTube Link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85p8OjrbWkU

And here the Link to the Android Version i already released (iOS is coming soon  October 1.)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.HansjuergWuethrich.PengsAdventure

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Journals / "Peng's Adventure" iOS / Android Release Oktober 1. 2017

« on: August 26, 2017, 05:54:40 am »

I'm happy to announce , that "Peng's Adventure" will be released on Oktober 1. 2017
It was a hard work with lots of frustration for me and it was 2 years in development.
But.....Finaly it's done ! Thanks god !

IMPORTANT:
I also want to say a big big "Thank you!"  to one of Stencyl's  Forum Member " Eric Matyas" and his free MusicPool:  http://soundimage.org/
I swaer, if i should made some money with "Peng's Adventure" i will pay you  for your work ! Eric Matyas is also a part of the "About" Screen inside the App ! THANKS !!

Here a short Promo Video:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/rnTnuvFgStE" target="_blank" class="new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/rnTnuvFgStE</a>

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Ask a Question / Re: What does this mean ? ( fixes to scaling Mobile/Desktop)

« on: August 14, 2017, 09:29:16 am »

Thank you very much for this information !

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Ask a Question / What does this mean ? ( fixes to scaling Mobile/Desktop)

« on: August 07, 2017, 06:06:45 am »

Good day to everyone !

I found on the "RoadMap page from Stencyl" something i can't explain to myself. May i ask someone else , what does this exactly mean "fixes to scaling Mobile/Desktop"



i hope he does NOT kill the "Stretch" function ! That is the best thing in stencyl !!

Thank you for eventually answers :-)

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Ask a Question / Re: How to reduce the size of a game?

« on: July 18, 2017, 07:30:47 am »

If you have animated sprites with let's say 24 Frames, try to do it in 12 Frames or so. If you have a lot of sprites, you can gain a lot of space only with this simple method. Another thing are backgrounds! You can gain a lot of space if you try to make your backgrounds (scrolling Backgrounds?) not so large. I had 10 Levels with 10x 3600pixels width backgrounds. That was insane ! Now  i use the exact same background scaled to "only" 1200 pixels and the effect in game is the same. You can't see if this background is 3600 or 1200 Pixels width as a player, especially when the background is scrolling. But the space you gain is exorbitant (Megabytes) .. I also only use 2x scale in my game (not4x) this brings a retro feeling (Pixels) with this methods i gained 20 to 40MB

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Ask a Question / Re: actor running into invisible wall with camera behaviour

« on: June 06, 2017, 10:31:20 pm »

This happens often and comes due a false click with an empty Tile onto your sceen.
Select your whole scene with the "black Arrow cursor" and you will see, there is 100% something in the way of your actor (An empty tile or something like this !) for sure !

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Ask a Question / Re: What is in the making ?

« on: May 23, 2017, 10:35:55 pm »

Stencyl 3.5 has already transitioned to the non-legacy version of OpenFL

That's great to hear ! Thank you Rob1221

but as with all major updates like this, it will take some time until the new version is up to par with the old version.

I fully understand ! Thank you

Your information was a help for my current project... Thanks

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Ask a Question / Re: What is in the making ?

« on: May 21, 2017, 11:19:34 pm »

the next OpenFL seems to be a big step.

I think also, that this would be a bigger thing for stencyl and it's community !

In my personal Opinion i think OpenFL in it's current version is a bottleneck for Stencyl. All wishes for stencyl has to to with OpenFL.   

Thank you for your answer

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Ask a Question / What is in the making ?

« on: May 19, 2017, 02:50:34 am »

Hi there !

I'm a stencyler since many years . At this moment i'm not a paying customer, but i will soon renew my subscription. As a non paying customer i don't have access to the Beta branch for Stencyl, but i'm interessted about whats coming next, whats new ? Is it possible to give some information about the next big things in Stencyl ? Thank you !

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Chit-Chat / Stencyl on Steam ?!

« on: March 27, 2017, 04:04:48 am »

Just a thought of mine !

Construct is on Steam
Fusion is on Steam
GameMaker is on Steam
Leadworks is on Steam
Sky Game Engine coming soon to Steam (Vote for it on Greenlight)
App Game Kit is on Steam
Game Guru is on Steam
GODOT Game Engine is on Steam
Coppercube is on Steam
Gamelooper is on Steam
Game Creator 001 is on Steam
Cry Engine is on Steam
StingRay Game Engine is on Steam
S2 Engine HD is on Steam
and so on and so on.....

Ever thought about selling Stencyl on Steam?