Vous pouvez donc, si vous ne l’avez pas déjà fait, vous procurer MiniTURN pour 0.79 € ici.

N’hésitez pas à en parler à vos amis. Il faut que ça tourne !

                          

When we began working on TURN, we wanted to give the game something “original”, a sort of special USP (unique selling point) that we can build upon. At that time we settled a brainstorming, actually it was more a gross meeting than a real brainstorming, to discuss about that “strong” point of TURN. And we choose one thing, one adjective: HARD. And we were wrong…

TURN’s gameplay is quite fun by itself: you move your character, you turn the room, everything falls. Difficulty is what makes the game something more than a simple toy. Without difficulty TURN is just a kind of nice snowball. But if the challenge is too hard, and especially too hard too soon, you lose that “instant fun gameplay” and the game turns (a really appropriate verb for that game, sure) out to be a real headache. We didn’t understand that. Since by working on TURN we became sort of “TURN pgms” (progamers, not to be mistaken with programmers) we didn’t realize that the game was that hard. Actually it became something more of a challenge for us to create rooms which were nearly impossible to solve. And we were awfully wrong…

For someone with the right brain and the time to spend at overheating it, TURN Episode 1 (the first version) was perhaps one of the best puzzle games on the AppStore. We received such praises by hardcore puzzle gamers, since our game was long (nearly 300 rooms) and hard (rrrrr). But they were drowned in the middle of many complaints about the game difficulty and especially the fact that it wasn’t forgiving at all: any mistake and you could end up having to start a room all over. We listened to that demand, and we began to think about loosening the difficulty noose. And that time, we were right.

We first thought about making some tips available to the player through the game. But we also realized that we would have to make some levels easier. And by doing this, we found that the game was still a good game for us “TURN pgms”, and actually it was probably “more fun”. So we started a real complete introspection, and a new project was launched: creating a game that relies only on delivering the instant fun gameplay of TURN: MiniTURN was born. We now think that MiniTURN is the good game for iPhone’s audience. And we hope that we’re right.

                          

• La sortie de l’iPad, quel impact dans le monde du jeu vidéo.
• L’annonce de la Nintendo 3DS, la nouvelle console de chez Nintendo.
• Le passage de Bungie chez Activision pour le développement de nouveaux jeux.
• Le fameux DRM de chez Ubisoft.
• Miniturn, notre nouveau jeu sur iPhone

Puis nous avons débattu du sujet épineux des heures supplémentaires dans le monde du jeu vidéo, dès fois que vous vous posiez quelques questions suite à des affaires comme EA Spouse.

                          

Or ici à Creative Patterns on est très attentif aux retours des joueurs, et on a reçu bon nombre de cri de désespoir à propos de la difficulté du jeu. Enfin soyons honnête, vous aviez tout à fait raison, le jeu était indéniablement trop dur pour un premier opus. Et le plus problématique est que cela pouvait nuire au fun assez basique et instantané que le gameplay de TURN peut procurer.

C’est d’ailleurs ce que nous voulons vous procurer aujourd’hui avec le petit frêre de la famille TURN: MiniTURN !

Plus facile, plus mignon, avec un relooking graphique et des niveaux entièrement refaits, MiniTURN est assurément la meilleure façon de mettre le premier pied dans l’univers et le gameplay unique de TURN.

Le jeu est disponible sur l’App Store pour 1,59€.

N’oubliez pas de nous faire part de toutes vos remarques et suggestions, on les attend avec impatience. Vous faites partie de l’équipe !