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Belated Tournament Results, 2/19/12 ... whoops

What with President's Day and my wife's birthday totally spaced taking a screenshot of the leaderboards yesterday, but the champion was joseph7099 with 2878781. (I came in second, with my personal best score ever of 2755228.)

And the competition is already crazy this week. I haven't seen scores over 3 million since the last big game-mechanic-tuning-change, but this week we've got 3 and 4 million!

 

Tournament Results, 2/12/12


justinwyma is this week's world champion!

Man, I didn't even place this week...

Tournament Results, 2/5/12


jumsimbab87 is back, reclaiming the championship title.

Notice those green arrows? You can scroll through the leaderboards now. I had to implement that just so I could take a screenshot of the top spot, because the competition has really picked up, and this was the best I could do this week.

You can't not look at it!

I fairly regularly check the Chrome Web Store to see how high sixty second shooter is in the listings. This is the first time I've seen it like this:

In the large size! Just last weekend, with help from Cathy on the design, I redid my logo art. Looks like it's paid off - there must be an actual human at Google who judges whether these tiles are worthy.

Also, following advice from Lars Doucet (and cribbing extensively from his press release of Defender's Quest) recently did a press release on gamespress.com, a place where anyone can do a free press release about their game. It almost immediately got duplicated on Gamasutra and some other sites, and I saw an immediate spike in website activity and installs. Before that, I'd been cold-calling various game websites and been getting mostly ignored, so. This is something.

Tournament 1/29

There's a new sheriff in town, joseph7099!  Congratulations!



Tournament Results, 1/22/12

Congratulations to Vuktorrr!

(That's a new personal best for me, too.)

Other good news - sixty second shooter has broken over 5000 installs in the Chrome Web Store, and thanks to its super-high rating (4.94 stars) it's on the third page of the store ... if you sort by Rating. So I'm happy about that.

Fan Pages

sixty second shooter needed some, eh?

Equal opportunity here:

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sixty-Second-Shooter/147543672027135

Google+ - https://plus.google.com/114552086249462940863

 

Smoother Trailer

Couple friends told me that I could do a better job on the framerate of the sixty second shooter trailer. I thought it wasn't really solveable - a browser game has some issues: FRAPS won't record a browser game and Bandicam seemed just kinda slow.

BUT, these three things helped a lot:

• Added motion trails to the bullets - I'd been wanting to do this for a while, because even when you're mostly holding 30 you still see some nyquist limit artifacts. It worked really well! After I did it I asked myself, "Why didn't I do that a long time ago?"
• Recorded the video on a faster computer. (Duh.)
• Used a smaller browser window and a smaller bandicam window. People viewing it in the Chrome Web Store or Youtube are going to see a small window anyway, right?

Voila.

 

Trailer video

 

Part of me didn't want to make a trailer - because it takes almost less time to install and play the game than it does to watch the trailer. But EVERYBODY said I should. So I did. Ta-dah!

New music!

Teo Acosta has done a new music track for sixty second shooter. I love it. What do you think?

In other news, it has broken 4000 installs on the Chrome Web Store. Not bad for a game with no promotion to speak of, methinks.