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Review my app: Social Break (the fun way to check Twitter)

Hey all - I've recently launched a new iphone app called Social Break which blends together 80's style gaming with your Twitter timelines. I'd love to get your thoughts about it - there are two versions, the free and the premium. The free (ad-supported) version is available at:

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/social-break-lite/id508942059?mt=8

and the premium version is at:

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/social-break/id498187188?ls=1&mt=8

Here are some promo codes for you to try it out (once they're gone, they're gone!):

T99LA33AP4WF MYR3P46NXNE6 93KPXHJ6H7HA FY9NE7YHMWK4 JH43A66RR3M7

Thanks guys and I look forward to reading your thoughts!

Andy

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So this game loaded up, and here are my thoughts: (thanks for the promo code)

1.) I like the idea of a game to check Twitter. I didnt like the idea at first, but only hitting star tiles to show tweets is pretty interesting.

2.) Movements are very fluid. The slow-down effect when a Tweet shows up is just great.

3.) Have you considered as levels advance, to incorporate multiple retro-styled games? Maybe asteroids after 5 levels, etc? Of course this would require a great deal more development, but done in the same style - it would give significant reason to play the game to the end (and keep discovering hidden games)

4.) The bit graphics are done quite a bit now, and overdone in some cases. Yours are good, but I think they could be sharpened up a bit, especially for a retina display. Pixels are great, but there is a healthy blend of using colors that pop with pixel graphics (see League of Evil).

Overall, awesome job.

Hey - thanks for taking the time to reply so thoroughly :) I definitely think 3 is the path I could take with future developments to the game, a brilliant idea I hadn't considered!

Appreciate the comment about making the graphics sharper, especially if I wanted to take this to the iPad 3 etc...

Thanks :)

Awesome. I'll look forward to future updates. One last suggestion:

Consider incorporating sharing options when you die, or when you complete a level. Having people tweet out a link to the game (and your Twitter handle) would be great for virality.

Feel free to shoot me an email anytime you'd like! I love seeing great ideas come to life, and would be happy to give feedback on future ideas.

Just used the code : 93KPXHJ6H7HA

Will give my thoughts in another comment.

Interesting way of having a twitter feed.

I understand that the concept is around collecting all the tweets.

Just my thoughts:

- The tweet block can be an avatar image of the person who tweeted

- If the tweet has a photo, maybe the background of the play area can change to that

Hey, I did initially have the blocks as the avatar image but it ended up looking a bit untidy. I do think the idea of the background changing to twit-pic's etc... would be quite interesting to play around with. Thanks for the feedback!

Awesome. Looking forward to future updates to the app.

Also, it would be fun to have a few more sound tracks.

This game is addictive :)

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