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jonask84

What's missing to make a great Memory Game?

For a few months now, I've been trying to put together a simple little memory game. The idea is to keep the game simple and fun, focusing on the core mechanic and put a lot of work into polish. Make it look and feel solid.

In my opinion there are too many half-assed games and apps out there, that makes Android look bad compared to say IOS.

That's why I'm trying to make this little game, Pixel Memory, the perfect memory game.

Any feedback on how I can better do that is more than welcome!

Thank you for your time

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Posted Sep 7, 2011, 5:52 PM UTC

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NoozeHound•

Installing now, will report back.

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jonask84OP•

Thanks, much appreciated!

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NoahTheDuke•

haha I almost posted, "Play Pixel Memory first!" before reading the post.

Truthfully, I haven't played it in a while, so I'll have to try it out later tonight, but I think my only problem was lacking the Market version necessary to make in-app purchases, and being sad I couldn't/can't get the extras. Otherwise, it's pretty freakin' sweet.

Oh yeah! The only thing I'd suggest reviewing is the time it takes for a pair of unmatched, revealed tiles to spin back hidden. I've found that I sometimes move too fast, and end up with one tile sitting revealed, causing me to mischoose, and thus, mismatch my tiles. Messes up my speed trials.

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jonask84OP•

Awesome, thank you very much :)

I've been working at it for a few months now polishing (hope you like some of the new features!) and I was thinking it's time to close it up.

Your point about the speed of the flipping is something I've heard from a few other sources too, so I'm trying to fix it in a meaningful way :)

Thanks for the feedback

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elgubbo•

i like it, its simple fun and well made. one thing: the "canvas" does not fill my screen completely. thats not a big deal it just would look even more polished if it did :)

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im_an_android_dev•

Check out Match Hack

https://market.android.com/details?id=air.com.gamecook.MatchHack

You earn costumes and weapons by playing a simple match game, and you take on damage when you don't make a match.

It adds a whole new thrill to simple memory games.

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