Qpawn can be a little annoying as a beta tester, but I respect his skills. QuickHook and the guys at Rocketcat know how to handle beta testing properly. It was truely a great experience, and the developer input was great as well. I agree with everyone's feeling about the difference's between HC and SQH.
The rope slack used to be a lot worse in an early beta, and a lot of us had trouble playing through levels -- even qpawn couldn't play through the levels. I will say that the SQH rope mechanics do feel more natural, and are more forgiving than HC. It will just take time to get used to it.
Known bug, see next answer. We'll fix this in the next update, if we can. And we'll definitely fix this before we add any more prizes for beating nightmares/dev scores. There won't be any penalty for taking advantage of this glitch, though. We're just adding more stuff for getting the later achievements, anyway. No overt special treatment for beta testers. Unless we have some sort of in-beta contest or something. Chalk it up to them being very different games, despite the similar basic mechanic. The changes are to make things much friendlier for new players, for one thing. I would like to make final Hook Racing game for the iPhone, somewhere right between Hook Champ and SQH. But not anytime soon, we're going in a new direction pretty soon.
So how can I exploit getting the Crystal Hook? I somehow managed to unlock the crown last night too, I was a little confused but see its been addressed.
So if you have a checkpoint and start from there, if you go backwards in the level and die, you automatically go to the checkpoint before the one you started?
correct, if you die to the left of a checkpoint, you'll go to the previous checkpoint or if there's was none the beginning
Well I beat all the dev scores, except avalanche so far. The last magma level was decently challenging and im sure most people will not complete it or atleast beat the dev score if they even unlock it. My only request is that you add an overall score in the leaderboards(either with avalanche included or not or both) as I really used that as a determiner of where i was in relation to the community. Great game with the same addictive elements of high scoring with avalanche added. The challenge of the levels is way down compared to say the hat levels in HC, but I understand that making it more casual friendly in the beginning sells more copies.
I'm actually getting used to the controls a bit. However, may I ask out of curiosity how it makes it easier? I also hate the fact that you are such a tease for future games .
The Hat levels in Hook Champ weren't added until... I think it may have been 3 updates in? Maybe 2... We could add an overall scoreboard, probably not for the first update, though. We want to submit that soon. New players jammed their head into the ceiling constantly in Hook Champ, due to the total retraction. It made the game really hard to pick up. You still retract in SQH, there's just a minimum rope length from retraction. If we did a game like this again, we'd probably make a new equippable item category to change how your retract mechanism behaves. That way, people could customize it.
why not add the full retraction as a settings option? And Kepa- I owe you a Score Hermit apology. (Only testers will understand the reference....maybe.)
Oooh, an option to customize retraction would be very cool! That might even be a new element that would play into high score (speed) runs. It would be interesting to see the variation in times based on how the retraction level was set.
I have a question for Kepa. Without spoiling anything, can you say whether or not the secret achievement is already available, or will it be in an update?
Ok This is very weird. So i dud te last nightmare level in 10 minutes with about 10 coins and it says i have a score of 0???? What the efffff? Kep help me. Btw this is after i did the so called glitch by accident to unlock the crown. And if i was legit my 10 minute run should have unlocked the hat but i already had the hat and my first run on the last nightmare level got me a 0???
