ANN & Feedback - Maggie the Gardener

[Roman Budzowski]

Hi
We are very pleased to announce Maggie the Gardener. This game is introducing to casual gaming world hires graphics of 1024x768 resolution. You can download it from here:

Game website:
www.anawiki.com/game_mg.php

Download link:
www.anawiki.com/download/maggie.php (8,5 MB)

Screenshots:
www.anawiki.com/screens/mg/start.jpg
www.anawiki.com/screens/mg/garden.jpg
www.anawiki.com/screenshots_mg.php

Requirements:
Let's say it needs 3d gfx card and some memory. Didn't test it much, so please post your lowend specs if you can :)

Story behind:
Maggie loves gardening. She plants flowers, bushes, designs fountains and places dwarfs. Her gardens are known in neighbourhood. Every year Maggie win's Best Garden prize. Can she win this prize this year? With your help for sure.

We plan to add online garden gallery and probably some kind of story line, but as it is now it is great stand-alone product.

Any kind of feedback appreciated. New ideas, background, flowers or objects propositions, etc.

all the best
Roman

[whisperstorm]

It looks really interesting! Checking it out now.

Just an aside, Maggie looks like she's the mom of the test dummy child that pops out of the bed in Monsters Inc. :)

[Sirrus]

Great art...
But, its not technically a game?

You're selling it for only $6.95, but you've obviously put a good amount of time into the assets. Why not just continue on with it and turn it into a full game?

[NemesisPica]

Not play yet,but the graphic is great!

BTW,for a casual game, 1024X768 sometimes is a bad thing,isn't it?
(from other expert's say and my observation)

[Roman Budzowski]

But, its not technically a game?


How do you define a game? ;)
But you're right, it's not what we are used to play. It is more of a sand-box type of game for kids or people that want to spend some time planting stuff in a creative way :)


You're selling it for only $6.95, but you've obviously put a good amount of time into the assets. Why not just continue on with it and turn it into a full game?

Do you think that price is too low for the game at it's stage?
Will definitly continue our work on this product. What do you think would compliment it the most?

BTW,for a casual game, 1024X768 sometimes is a bad thing,isn't it?
(from other expert's say and my observation)

I'm sure as hell it is, but someone has to make that step forward :D We may do low end version of it (640x480), but so far we are happy with the quality of assets as it is. It is not a regular game so maybe it will not hurt sales that much.

best
Roman

[chanon]

I'm getting a 404 not found error on the download link

[bondarchukv]

Hi!

Game looks interesting for gardeners :)

But I don't want to buy game. Why?
Because I'm already know that in full version I will get only 3 additional backgrounds. And that’s all.

I think you should limit some items in trial version and promote these items in NAG screens, so user will see that after purchasing full game he will get "full" version, fulfilled with new items and so on.

imho :)

[Roman Budzowski]

I'm getting a 404 not found error on the download link

Thank's for pointing this out. Works now. I wonder for how long the link was broken :mad:

But I don't want to buy game. Why?
Because I'm already know that in full version I will get only 3 additional backgrounds. And that’s all.

Hmm, but you have limited time in the demo (30m)... so if you like gardening hopefully unlimited time and 3 more background will make them want to buy. Anyway, next week will add online garden gallery that will be available only in the full version so that'll be another nagging feature :)

regards
Roman

[Curiosoft]

I think it's an interesting toy.

Although...I wasn't exactly sure what to do after a while.

I was hoping I could tend and grow the garden. I was hoping there was a simulation.

The artwork is cool.

I with the "load" would be replaced with "Play"...that is more clear IMO.

Also, it would be cool if you can output the final garden into a background image for the desktop.

Take care,
Curiosoft

[Teeth]

I have some feedback on the website.

In bold in the list of features is "Great for women, girls and kids". I know the casual market is defined in terms of stereotypes but this just seems like sexist stereotype enforcement to me. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

[Roman Budzowski]

"Great for women, girls and kids". I know the casual market is defined in terms of stereotypes but this just seems like sexist stereotype enforcement to me. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Thanks. Should I delete it or rewrite the sentence (please help me with this cause english is not my native language).

Roman

[spellcaster]

Great for everybody!
For for all ages!



You can also add quotes:
"Wow! This is fun!" - Diana G.
"I love this game!" Steffanie Z.

[Teeth]

Yeah that's more like it. "For all the family", or similar.

[RohoMech]

heya Roman, its a pretty neat "game", its really not my idea of fun, but the music, graphics, etc, I can't really find too much fault with it...

I would suggest having some tooltips, or some help bubbles...for me most things were clear, but I didn't quite get that right-clicking would delete stuff, took a moment to try out stuff before I got it.

also, and this would be a huge task to undertake...but I think animations would help out soo much. Thinks like butterflies, or bees, even birds flying around. Even the plants swaying in the breeze...that'd be cool.

In terms of making it a game, I have a few ideas, PM me if you'd like to chat.

Anways, good luck with the idea, its pretty different.