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Nicita

Member Since 23 Feb 2015
Offline Feb 03 2016 09:48 AM

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In Topic: Ghoul Catchers is Live. Let's Talk?

10 March 2015 - 01:36 AM

Honestly, looking at experience in the game development field, a massive loading test for something like this isn't that easy. Launching an app fully tested on all devices, ESPECIALLY one that has to trigger events cross-platforms (in this case, the JS servers, Facebook/Apple and Neopets) is pretty tough :< I'm pretty forgiving, myself, in this case -- but then, I don't rely on this as a source of income at all, haha. I just see it as an additional feature that I can enjoy on the side :)

That said, I reached level 40 8D Now occasionally playing a level to get those pesky extra stars. 20 more or so to go, all in the last 20 levels >>.. I do think they made some very obvious game mechanic mistakes, though, particularly about the activation of power-ups in unexpected rows, the generation of new ghouls that get added and the shuffle algorithm. Boop.


In Topic: Comastar, Viola fired -- TNT downsized?

09 March 2015 - 11:54 AM

Breaking! JumpStart posted on the Neopets Facebook!

 

To our Neopets Members and Community:

Unfortunately, a recent restructuring of our resources means a number of respected employees working on Neopets are no longer with the company. JumpStart appreciates each and every one of our employees, and it was a sad day to have to say goodbye to our friends. While it’s disheartening to see team members leaving the company, we are incredibly thankful for everything they have done to create Neopets.com and the passionate community that surrounds the site.

 

Moving forward, we want to make it absolutely and unequivocally clear that we are committed to Neopets! Neopets is NOT CLOSING in any way. To the contrary, we plan to produce new content, update the site, and dedicate valuable resources towards improving site functionality, including lag and site stability. In fact, the recent launch of Neopets Ghoul Catchers on the iTunes and Facebook platforms confirms our dedication to launching new and exciting content for existing and new Neopets users.

 

As we move forward and establish new goals for Neopets, we want the community to know that we are fully committed to the success of Neopets. We will work to support, improve and expand Neopets with our best resources and most creative minds. We thank you for your unwavering support of Neopets and we believe you will be as excited about the future as we are.

We wish all of the amazing former Neopets team members the very best life has to offer and we are grateful for their time at Jumpstart.

 

- David Lord, CEO of JumpStart

 

https://www.facebook.com/Neopets

 

Heh, I see it's old news & was already posted in a new topic. Thought I'd keep it restricted to one topic & that's what you get 8D Oh well. Thoughts?


In Topic: Ghoul Catchers is Live. Let's Talk?

07 March 2015 - 06:56 AM

Heh, so impatient as I got, I tried the Facebook version (Win7, Chrome). I hooked it up to my main, and then hooked my main to Facebook (got some errors, of course, because what else). On my desktop, it loaded just fine, have been playing, but it has not been rewarding me with anything on-site. I then discovered that with my wonderfully square desktop monitors I can't see the elements on the side, I can only see the board. For some levels, you're required to use power-ups to start a level, which I can't see on those monitors (with some batshit clicking around you can sometimes get the level to start without using the power-up). I tried resizing the window, changing resolution, didn't really help.
 
Tried on my laptop (widescreen) in Chrome, there it wouldn't load at all, keeps hanging on the loading screen. Tried on my laptop in Firefox, and now I'm seeing the full screen for the first time xD Definitely needs some tinkering & ironing, this :p
 
It's definitely a lot more responsive on my laptop too, I'm noticing >> Have a lot of meh's about the actual gameplay (..definitely not on par with Candy Crush), but it's alright :) Can indeed imagine that if they don't cap the NP you can make off of this every day that it's going to have a severe impact on the economy.

In Topic: Free Faerie Quests "Month"

07 March 2015 - 12:24 AM

Battle Faerie today :3 Cost me a whole 70np, hah!


In Topic: Ghoul Catchers is Live. Let's Talk?

07 March 2015 - 12:22 AM

Heh, and so a reddit user posted 'omg I'm getting 100k NP an hour from this! This will be amazing, times are changing, I'll be so wealthy!' ...of course not realising that if it's the case that it's that easy, everyone else will also be getting the same amount & crazy inflation.

 

Curious to see what effect this'll have. Still waiting for Android :<


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