This video that was in a comments thread for one of our posts and I wanted to bring it to everyone’s attention. The Gauntleteer achievement requires players to play survive 10 minutes of Gauntlet, and Zago-ITA pulled off one of the hardest achievements in Tilt to Live without losing a single life. This guy makes it look easy :). He knows how to tilt to live.
It is a 10 minute video, so if you want to see some of the highlights click here instead.
Hats off to Zago-ITA!
If you haven’t checked your iPhone app store updates lately, you may want to give it a check soon. Tilt to Live 1.5 is finally out. What’s new?
- Game Center Leaderboards – compete with your friends on daily and weekly leaderboards
- Game Center Achievements – bragging rights
- “Retina Display” graphics – High-res graphics for those with high-res devices
- Bug fixes carrying over from Tilt to Live HD
What is that you say? Where are the new weapons or gametypes? Well, the holiday season is full of miracles. See you then.
We had a major issue in the initial release of Tilt to Live HD that prevented a lot of international users from playing the game. We’ve been working as fast as possible to resolve the issue and getting a working version out on the app store. It’s now live and should be appearing throughout the different app stores within hours.
What’s fixed
- Non-US iTunes users no longer crash on start up
- Red dots now draw on *top* of pick ups. No more sneaky dots!
Update:
We screwed up with our review alert. A fix is in the pipeline and should be up live within a few days.
Wow, I was quite pleasantly surprised at the amount of response we got when asking for beta testers. We weren’t kidding when we said “small” as we’ve only got 20 or so spots to fill, but got a lot more requests. Sadly, not everyone will be able to try out the beta :[. I’ve sent out the beta e-mails so if you haven’t received one by the end of today, sorry, maybe next time! Thanks to all that have shown their support and for lending a helping hand in making Tilt to Live even more awesome!
So we’re close to wrapping up our next big update for Tilt to Live, but we’re in need of a little help from you guys. Some of the big new features in this update:
- Game Center Leaderboards and Achievements
- Gyroscope support
- Retina Display Graphics
We’re wanting to run this game through it’s paces on a nice range of devices. Anyone with a 3G, 3GS, or iPhone/iPod 4 are welcome to request an invite. What issues we’re potentially looking for:
- Game Center integration working (or not working) on older gen devices and being correctly disabled on 3.x iOS devices. In areas with less than ideal interenet connectivity/speed are of particular interest.
- Gyroscope support: (iPhone 4/iPod 4G only) Does it make sense?
- General feedback of any bugs or crashes discovered.
If you think you have the time and would like to give TTL 1.5 a test run on your device, just head over to our contact form and choose ‘Beta Request’ and fill in the info. We can’t accomodate everyone due to very limited ad-hoc space, so please only apply if you’re willing to give it an honest effort.
It’s finally out! Tilt to Live HD has hit the app store and so far the response has been phenomenal! You can download the game for free here!
Also, we’ve given out 10 free full version copies to our lucky subscribers of our newsletter. If you don’t want to miss out on a chance like that again you can always subscribe.
So the madness is over and we’ve got our stuff in line. Tilt to Live HD is set to hit the iPad App Store October 7th. Prepare for take off!
In case you woke up this morning wondering why Tilt to Live HD hasn’t hit the iPad app store yet, it’s because it has been delayed :(. And if you weren’t wondering, then we saved you the trouble, so wonder no more! We’re currently still going through the approval process, but once things are in order we’ll be sure to let everyone know the actual release date. It sucks that things took a little longer than expected, but hey, that is the way of the app store.
We’ve got a lot of neat Tilt to Live stuff in the works (iPhone and iPad included) along with some new projects, so it’s not all doom and gloom ;).
You can consider it in the mail if you used free, 5-8 day super-saver shipping. We submitted the release build to Apple yesterday, so we’ve penciled in September 30th the official release date. So on September 30th, barring some misfortune, expect to grab Tilt to Live HD for free. Free to play Classic with 4 weapons, $3.99 to own it all.
One thing you’ll notice immediately from this screenshot is the word “Score” where “Time” should be. While we were tweaking gameplay for the upcoming Tilt to Live HD, we invented a brand new Gauntlet mode; one that takes advantage of all this glorious space. It’s the same idea: survive weaponless in a barrage of dots, axes, and nasty surprises. But it’s no longer your time that counts. It’s how you use it.
What’s different?
- Everything.
- Dots, axes, and knives will be coming from all four edges of the screen, not just the right.
- No predictable formations, only chaos!
- No lives, you wimp.
- No depleting life bar at the bottom. Orbs give you points, instead.
- Orbs are more valuable if you collect them quickly.
- You won’t be graded on how long you last, but how many points you can gather.
Be on the lookout for TtL HD later this month. Classic mode is free to try, but this new Gauntlet is only playable in the full version.