Heroes of Might and Magic II port available! - Page 2

jim-ph · 06-30-2009, 04:36 AM

hello everyone, I'm Jim, the team-leader of the project "Palm Heroes". I will gladly answer your questions.

It's a all-original heroes project, everything developed from scratch, and we're porting it to iphone now. We're hoping to keep it FREE when the game is ready, and therefore began to collect donations for development:

http://www.iphone.palmheroes.com

About the donation stuff: I know, a freeware with donations-beforehand sounds absurd at first. Let me put things clear: the final app will be FREE - no ads, no lite-versions, no locked levels. Just the game with over 100 maps to play. We don't want to spoil the gaming experience - the app will be absolute freeware. But to make this port we need to work hard on the code and spend a lot of time and effort on that. We just need something to get by...

Check out the game video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3o78U8lVN0

I'll be posting here news on the development progress. If I miss anything, you can check out our forum thread devoted to the iphone version:
http://www.palmheroes.com/viewforum.php?f=32

The iphone donation page is here: http://iphone.palmheroes.com/
Our team will be glad if you help. It is CRITICAL for the project development!

To moderators: you can copy this post to the top of the thread - all the info I provided here is accurate and up-to-date.

wildonrio · 06-30-2009, 12:51 PM

Wow man, this looks awesome. I don't think we can jailbreak the 3GS yet but once we can, I'm gonna check this out and if it's good I'll be donating for sure, thanks!

By the way, any chance of releasing this on the app store? A lot of our users are becoming more and more adverse to jailbreaking since it really slows the phone's response time down. As far as I understand, Heroes is now freeware so I don't see why you should run into any legal issues.

jim-ph · 06-30-2009, 01:03 PM

we will, once the port is complete.

wildonrio · 06-30-2009, 05:01 PM

How close do you think you are to being done?

jim-ph · 07-01-2009, 05:16 AM

about 50% through... would be nice to be able at least to buy test devices for the whole team...

wildonrio · 07-02-2009, 12:05 PM

Is there any way you could let us beta test what you've got so far using non-jailbroken phones? I know there's a way to manually load apps on without them being in the app store yet.

jim-ph · 07-02-2009, 03:55 PM

testing 'the Apple way' (adhoc) just DOES NOT WORK. We've re-built the code 11 times, and the app doesn't load up.

styfle · 07-02-2009, 05:15 PM

Originally Posted by jim-ph

testing 'the Apple way' (adhoc) just DOES NOT WORK. We've re-built the code 11 times, and the app doesn't load up.

Bummer. Plenty of us here at EIC would beta test it for you

jim-ph · 07-06-2009, 04:45 AM

I hate to say this, but if the donations go on the same way, we'll have to make the game $2. We already have debts.

wildonrio · 07-06-2009, 09:58 PM

I don't think anyone would mind paying $2 for it. Hell, I'd pay $10 or more if it worked well. I'd just really like to test it out before I donate to make sure it's the real deal, and I don't want to jailbreak.

My sister's got a jailbroken one, I'll get in touch with her.