Totem Tribe released

It has a fairly active forum on BFG, so it is indeed very odd that it's not in the top 100.

 

You have to look at it from their point of view... if they're going to feature a game, why should it be one that potential customers will think "This was for free at gamehouse yesterday. I should check there more often"? Or even worse, BFG's loyal customers talk to other players about it & find out that way.

The top 100 thing might be unrelated. Another game that I think saw given away for free there is sitting at #1 on mac charts.

Your game is doing very well at all the other portals I've seen list it though - congratulations! Maybe you don't need BFG this time around

 

@Jake: The game gets flame icon when it gets into top 20 list on BFG. If Totem Tribe reached #13 then it would got flame icon... but if it was removed from top 100, then why should they keep flame icon?

 

I think too many devs with that attitude is what has got casual game developers into the current mess...

 

According to CasualCharts as well it got to #13:

http://www.casualcharts.com/games/detail/totemtribe.html

Weird how it mysteriously disappeared...

 

Why do you think its weird that a company pulls a lame stunt like this? companies do that (and far worse) on a daily basis, we just dont often hear about it.

Sad to hear it happening, but thems the breaks when you work with partners who are in a far stronger position.

 

Maybe you could ask them about it Yaroslav?

If they have pulled it for some reason, isn't it good to be informed, and know why? Sure, they may or may not tell you, but surely it's always good to have a positive relationship with these guys, and understand exactly why they made the descision they did.

Generally, I think you get much more milage from people (which is what all big companies are anyway) by being polite and respectful, and creating a win-win relationship. Just an idea!

 

Berserker, if you talk to your business partners the same way you talk to the people on this forum, I can start to imagine why you are in this situation. Do you have to be so agressive? No, so don't be.

JC

 

Yes, I did read through the whole thread.

I assuming you refer to the above. If I was in your situation, I'd be in contact with BFG, let them know I apprecieate they have their reasons for making that descision, and that I accept it.

I'd also want to know what guidelines they have, what kind of behaviour they like (i.e. what makes them happy and want to push my game) and what they don't like from their developer partners. Their guidelines may or may not match up with where I want to go; but there is no harm in being aware of them.

Also, I played your demo; I mostly liked it (I love these kind of games) but thought there were one of two places you could have polished a bit more. On the scrolling, it seemed quite granular. It could have been better to have a granular target for screen x and y, but move to that location smoothly, like with a gravity or momentum effect. Also, it seemed to hang (pause) at some point, and you can't even move the mouse; it was for longer than 2 seconds on my laptop.

Hope that's useful feedback to you.

Kindest Regards,
Jamie.

 

I did read it from the beginning. I see that you were told that they would not promote it but that's not the same as actually removing it from the top 100 using some naughty fixing - that's what I meant ask them about. Perhaps you'll discover that due to the lack of promotion it simply didn't make enough sales to stay in the top 100, but it's weird that it got to 13 and was then gone, you'd expect it to slide out over a week or so...So something odd seems to have happened and it's worth (politely) getting an explanation to end speculation imho.

 

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