Nice!!! Happy to play this on my iPhone but just got an iPad 2 and will definitely take the update for a test flight.
Hello, We have submitted the update. Here is a picture of a tattoo on the leg of a friend of our illustrator: Cheers, lauri ad / treehouse ltd
Fan-freakin-tastic!!! can't wait to fire up the game on my 4G touch when the upgrade hits. Apart from retina are there any other changes?
Well, two biggest are multiplayer dogfight up to four players locally (two via Game Center) and two player survival co-op game modes (either local or Game Center). Some rebalancing was also done. And graphics / textures were redone to be more detailed. And we added a new slightly bigger enemy plane with tailgunner. Performance optimizing was done to fit in the new multiplayer so that it wouldn't slow the game down. And clouds are tad more 3d now. And I may have forgotten something. Just a warning, we also changed icon and the name (for the better, we think). Name is "Dogfight 1951" (or something along those lines).
i like the new icon, but i also liked the old one. is the friend going to put the new one on the other leg now? thanks for the continued work on this game. now you should create some iap for say a buck or two to double the levels
Changes sound great. New icon though doesn't fit. I preferred the old style one. Is that a wolf? I don't know... Doesn't look like it represents the game well. I'd rather you brought back the old one. May be keep the red background but bring back the skull art. Just my 2 cents.
Yep, it's a wolf We want to see if we get bit more Appstore visibility with icon like this. Old one felt stylish but it didn't jump out and I think the mood and content was apparently misread into something sinister. New icon matches the perk illustrations we have in the game. But we'll see, if the new icon has negative impact we can change it. There are more skulls in the game now, but it will take some work to see them.. Cheers, lauri ad / treehouse ltd
Some of my favourite games have the worst icons. I'd rather a good game with a lousy icon than the other way around. Saying that, this new icon is not terrible- just not as baddass as the old one.
Well, I am glad that you don't have your heart set on the new icon. How about this: red background that you have now with bone-colour skull art? That will create good contrast and attract exactly the kind of people who would be interested in this game? How about it? or a biplane firing machine guns. Perhaps you can prepare a few icons and we vote on it? This forum could be a great source of info.
Whoa!!! I love this game!!! I thought it was abandoned. This is really awesome news!!! Time to fire this baby back up again >:3
Uh oh, it seems our attack wolf is unloved! The sad truth is that apparently (at least we believe so) some potential customers were turned off from 1951 because of our skull icon. When we were doing the current update we had a second round of icons and some pretty nice skull-themed ones but problem remained: they were still skulls. And many people read skulls as something lot more sinister than our game actually is (making subconscious totenkopf-connection of some sort). That's why we felt we had to change the icon from the skull to something else with a 50s vibe and more apparent airplane connections (goggles and hat). So we went with a 50s style, cartoony insignia similar to those that were painted on the warplanes during that period. We are interested to see if the new icon with a new name brings 1951 some new players (well those and Retina/HD/Multiplayer). However rest assured: in case we need to change the 1951 icon a third time we will organize a voting round of some kind on these forums. Cheers, lauri ad / treehouse ltd
The black on red icon is striking, but I find it hard to see that it's a wolf. There is too much going on in the icon - it is too cartoonish, with too many extras (e.g. sunglasses). It needs to be more obviously wolflike, in my opinion. The white diagonal stripes (on the red background) may also be a hindrance. I loved the previous icon but I understand the need to change; hopefully third time lucky!
