[Project] A Day in the Woods

Wahooney

Hi all,

Keith Boshoff here! Co-founder and Technical Director here at RetroEpic Software.

We're very flattered to be asked to include A Day in the Woods for the rAge 2013 stand, so here is our formal submission, ahem:



A Day in the Woods is a sliding tile puzzler by RetroEpic Software. Using your customizable sprite, the goal of the game is to guide Red Riding Hood through 60 fiendish levels! Avoiding bears, wolves and giant spiders and enlisting the help of woodsmen, bunnies and beehives! Find grandma before the Big Bad Wolf does!

Check our trailer out here:

Download for PC/Mac: http://retroepic.com/aditw

or

Desura: http://www.desura.com/games/adayinthewoods

Enjoy!

Pomb

heh thought this was cool : http://www.indiedb.com/games/adayinthewoods/news/a-day-in-the-woods
marketing.... so weird.

dammit

I'm bumping this thread (rather than creating a new thread) because we're getting close to re-releasing A Day in the Woods on IOs :)

You can check out our newly updated website if you'd like to purchase the PC version (R45) : retroepic.com/our-games/a-day-in-the-woods/

Otherwise I'll keep this thread up to date with developments, release dates etc :)

dammit

Good news! We've finished out game trailer (with special thanks to Tim Harbour for doing the music) and we're getting some press coverage!

Take a look at the final trailer and share on your social platforms, please :)



And then take a look at some of the press and share/recommend too please :)

http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/A+Day+in+the+Woods/news.asp?c=64382
http://www.htxt.co.za/2015/03/16/sa-made-pc-puzzler-a-day-in-the-woods-to-get-ios-release/
http://www.slidetoplay.com/games/a-day-in-the-woods-by-retroepic-software/#a-day-in-the-woods-coming-to-ios

MutantPigeon24

Congrats guys :)

Just saw a mention for your game, on Gamezebo, for the re-release on iOS.
Always nice to see local talent on international sites :D

http://www.gamezebo.com/2015/03/16/tile-swapping-puzzler-a-day-in-the-woods-coming-to-ios/

dammit

A few more places I've spotted our game:

http://www.gamersftw.co.uk/a-day-in-the-woods-is-coming-to-ios/
http://toucharcade.com/2015/03/17/a-day-in-the-woods-ios-trailer/
http://www.appreviewdaddy.com/hex-grid-puzzler-a-day-in-the-woods-gets-enhanced-mobile-version-in-april/

Plus some chinese and indonesian sites. One or two russian sites too :)

Sadly, the only local site to pick up the news has been htxt so far.

mattbenic

I am super stoked about this, I've said for ages this'll make a great iPad game. Good luck :)

Chippit

Very slick trailer, well done! The whole presentation is really charming. Like Matt, I'm looking forward to seeing it available!

dammit

^_^ Thanks everyone!

dammit

We got a blog post up on Gamasutra too :)

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/MeganHughes/20150320/239373/Level_design_is_difficult.php

mattbenic

Did you guys rework the piece assets for the re-release? I don't remember that beautiful chipped wood aesthetic being in there before?

Gazza_N

LTTP, but I think the trailer's excellent. It's concise, entertaining, and gets everything across it needs to for me to know what the game's about. Bloody well done.

vintar

I must say that this game is not my cup of tea but it looks stunning!

Pomb

@mattbenic Yes we reworked most of the assets and removed the paper trees, we tried making as many of the assets wood carved as possible.

Thanks for the kind words guys.

dammit

Indie Game Magazine picked up the story yesterday :)

http://indiegamemag.com/a-day-in-the-woods-is-sweeter-on-ios/

tbulford

Looks like you guys are getting a lot of really good exposure, that's great. Good luck with your release.

Tuism

Really good work guys, congrats, and it looks like it's already doing great things :) Woo! :)

dammit

With one day left until we launch (aaaarg, nail-biting commencing in earnest) we're got an exciting announcement to share:

http://www.retroepic.com/a-day-in-the-woods-coming-to-oculus-rift/

dammit

We're live on the app store!

https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/a-day-in-the-woods/id971018854?mt=8

AngryMoose

dammit said:

With one day left until we launch (aaaarg, nail-biting commencing in earnest) we're got an exciting announcement to share...

dammit

AngryMoose said:

dammit said:

With one day left until we launch (aaaarg, nail-biting commencing in earnest) we're got an exciting announcement to share...

>.< Definitely April fools, haha!

AngryMoose

It could actually be pretty neat if it was real!

Gazza_N

I should have known when I tried my standard eye-crossy technique on that image and got no stereo effect. You guys got me good. -_-

Also, 'grats on the release! Good luck!

dammit

Update for the game was released today - bug fixes and crowning pars :)

TheFuntastic

Finally got round to playing ;)
Are the shadows meant to look like this? Ipad 4 ios 7

TheFuntastic

Also just found a token for Ginjah. I really like the cross promo, but then having to make me tweet felt a bit shady ;)

AngryMoose

Yeah, shadows are also pretty low res on my Ipad mini. Would probably just look better without them on lower hardware TBH :)

dammit

Thanks for the feedback, guys. We've actually tried removing shadows and it just makes the whole thing look weird and floaty. We're looking into alternatives for the lower hardware devices :)

In case you're curious, the tweet for Ginjah is: "How’d he get in there? I just found a laughing Ginjah tile in my A Day in the Woods game! bit.ly/Ginjah @retroepic" to which Ginjah will reply. If you'd like to tweet that *anyway* we'd appreciate the promotional efforts :)

Also, you can follow Ginjah @Ginjahcat

dammit

Doing a bit of an art dump because, let's be honest, these are beautiful:

dammit

Hey Everyone!

Some exciting news for A Day in the Woods. We've been entered into the Unsung Heroes competition (details: https://unsungheroes.spilgames.com/). There is a massive $50000 publishing contract is up for grabs for the winner.

Unsung Heroes has now set up a Facebook page and asked the entrants to post to it. Apparently, likes and comments (reviews?) by gamers will give the judges an indication of which games deserve to win - so all likes and comments on the RetroEpic posts here will be appreciated: https://www.facebook.com/UnsungHeroesSG/posts/893330497371901

Thanks!

dammit

Also, a small request. In the iOS store, you need a minimum of 5 reviews before any of your reviews show up to visitors to the app page. We're currently sitting on 4 really super positive reviews. Now, obviously, I don't want any dishonest or bought reviews, but if you have bought the game and are enjoying it, please do take the time to post a review on the app page. We'd really appreciate it :)

mattbenic

Um, did the manual cam get removed? I wanted to show someone closeups of the pieces, and I can't for the life of me find it anymore :/

dammit

@mattbenic - Unfortunately, the controls for it on the mobile devices had a tendency to bork out completely. We have plans to get it back in at some point :) In the mean time, you can scroll up for the close up images of each piece (though, I guess that doesn't solve the problem of showing someone else)

mattbenic

*ragequit* :p

Ok, I totally understand the problem, look forward to having it back though :)

dammit

We had quite a bit of interest in how we did our modelling for this game, so Hannes put together a tutorial if anyone is interested :) http://www.retroepic.com/a-day-in-the-woods-character-design-tutorial/

dammit

So, I'm trying out the remarketing side of Google Adwords and created my own little square image advert - and then this popped up on someone else's youtube (which makes me feel pretty cool):


If you see any of the ads around, lemme know :)

dammit

Anyone happen to have any Amazon Android devices? Kindle Fire etc. Need some specialised testers.

EvilRabbit

Really pretty stuff Nik - well done guys!

dammit

Good news! A Day in the Woods has been chosen as a finalist for the Unsung Heroes competition. More info soon - as soon as the final list has been released I'll share it here and with press :)

EvilRabbit

Congrats guys!

dammit said:

Good news! A Day in the Woods has been chosen as a finalist for the Unsung Heroes competition. More info soon - as soon as the final list has been released I'll share it here and with press :)

AngryMoose

dammit said:

Anyone happen to have any Amazon Android devices? Kindle Fire etc. Need some specialised testers.

I've got a few. Fire, fire hdx version 2 I think, and maybe 1 or 2 more.

dammit

The awesome news keeps rolling in this month.

First, we found out that only 22 finalists were selected for the Unsung Heroes comp (out of more than 300 entries) so to be one of those was pretty neat :D Still need to get in touch with press, but that will happen later today.

Also, Pocket Gamer posted that we're the 4th top iOS game for the last 3 months based on QI reports:
http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/Quality+Index/feature.asp?c=66293

dislekcia

dammit said:

Also, Pocket Gamer posted that we're the 4th top iOS game for the last 3 months based on QI reports:
http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/Quality+Index/feature.asp?c=66293

That's awesome! Thanks for pointing out that metric, I like that people are trying to do something like this. I also like that DD is at number 11 ;)

dammit

In case you don't see the press, please do click this link and vote for A Day in the Woods for the Unsung Heroes comp. We need votes (again) for this part of the process. http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/unsung-heroes.asp We're the first on the list, so little thinking or effort required :D

PowerCat

Just voted :D

How many Votes have you got so far? :P

dammit

@PowerCat I have no idea! I don't think there's anyway for us to see that at the moment. It would be really interesting if the info was public so we could see how're we're doing :)

dammit

So some of you (with SA accounts) may have seen an App Store Spotlight email go out that looked a little like this:



We saw a bit of a spike from this with a bunch of South African's buying the game and now have this review:

A tile game like no other ★★★★★
by PeterJHB - Version - 1.0.0 - Jul 11, 2015

I saw this game advertised via mail from Apple - the tag line? Locally developed games. Quick check into 'local' and the devs hail from the same area I do! I've only played a few levels and already I like this game. Simple. Yet different. Great graphics and subtle humour. My wife will probably love it, too. Keep it up, RetroEpic! Edit: I've played up until L20 - Honeypot Huddle.

Thanks to everyone who bought A Day in the Woods over the weekend :D

Sonicay

Voted for your game, not coz you asked, but because the game really is a good game. Well done guys.

dammit

^_^ Thank you @Sonicay

dammit

For those who have been holding out and waiting for the Android version, wait no more:

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias=mobile-apps&amp;field-keywords=a+day+in+the+woods
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.retroepic.adayinthewoods&hl=en

dammit

Good news! We've made it to the top 5 for the Unsung Heroes competition! Thanks to everyone that voted for us :D

http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/A+Day+in+the+Woods/feature.asp?c=67525