A Long Way Home - finally available in the Windows 8 store

jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
edited June 2013 in Announce Your Game!
It took 8 months, but I finally got A Long Way Home published in the Windows 8 store. Many of you followed along in the original thread two years ago when it was first released. Since then it was ported to Android, the iPhone and Mac App store. I'm happy to bring it to the Windows 8. Going through and making the necessary changes made me remember how much fun I had making this game, even if apple did muck up the featuring of it :)

A Long Way Home in the Windows 8 Store


Reviews of A Long Way Home
"A Long Way Home has all the hallmarks for an indie sleeper hit on the iPad." - Pocket Gamer

"Not many mobile or tablet games actually evoke an emotional response, but this game does." - The Smart Phone App Review"

"If you're up for patient, thoughtful gameplay that makes for an evocative experience, you should give A Long Way Home a shot." - Touch Arcade

4 Stars - Touch Arcade

"Only a handful of games for the iPad can produce an emotional response, as A Long Way Home did for me. I hope it can do the same for you." - Appolicious

Comments

  • BoomshackBarryBoomshackBarry Member Posts: 712
    Yeah this is a great game, really hope it does well for you on Windows!
  • quantumsheepquantumsheep Member Posts: 8,188
    Congrats, sir! Hope it finds a brand new audience on a brand new platform!

    QS :D
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    thanks guys! we'll see how it goes. it took about 10x longer than all my other apps combined to get this one ported.
  • UtopianGamesUtopianGames Member Posts: 5,692
    Best of luck!

    Darren.
  • atxryanatxryan Member, Microsoft Team Posts: 117
    This really is a fun game! Best of luck! Try to get it promoted again via outside game media and I'll point it out to folks internally.
  • atxryanatxryan Member, Microsoft Team Posts: 117
    it took about 10x longer than all my other apps combined to get this one ported.
    Can you elaborate on what took so much longer to port this time?
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    edited June 2013
    it took about 10x longer than all my other apps combined to get this one ported.
    Can you elaborate on what took so much longer to port this time?
    it was a bunch of small things. The biggest was with the changes in 10.3 that broke my old rules that used interpolate for rotation. I had over 100 scenes with multiple actors in each one, many of which had to be altered manually.

    The other big thing was the controls, since GS does not support multi touch on Win8 yet, and not all devices have an accelerometer, i had to rework all three control schemes.

    finally there was a few small bugs I fixed, removed Game Center stuff, and redid the opening.

    the rotation one was the biggest hurdle though, i did not want to open 100 scenes and fix them manually until stormystudio mentioned a fix in another thread a week or so ago.
  • The_Gamesalad_GuruThe_Gamesalad_Guru Member Posts: 9,922
    edited June 2013
    Hmmm I have to put windows on my external hard drive and port Puck It!
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    Hmmm I have to put windows on my external hard drive and port Puck It!
    I bought parallels just to do this. I've got a small 30GB win8 install on my macbook that I boot into to do functional testing. Once that passes I load it onto a win8 tablet to check touch controls.
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    For those of you who have Windows 8, can you download A Long Way Home and give it a review? There is a free 1 day trial right now, so it won't cost you anything :)

    http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/a-long-way-home/6fd473e5-fc4f-42a4-ac01-3bb0dbb8c916
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