Firstly, we did a manic push to get Hoodownr on the Google App Store. This included a lot of coding and tearing hair out and learning about google's family friendly rules. Did you know that If you don't moderate ALL chats on your game, you're really not suitable for children?
We also had a local release party on 4.9.2015 in co-operation with Tornio and Haparanda youth councils. The new graffiti wall at Putaan Koulu was unveiled and our graffiti guy Writingmotor attacked the wall with about 100 kids. 100 cans of spray got burned quite quickly by the eager little graffiti artists.
We had a promotional tent with coffee and of course there was a DJ with a nice sound system. Everybody got well excited about the painting thing and we managed to hand out a few copies of Hoodownr early access.
For our own fun after 2 years with Hoodownr, we managed to throw a party at Tornio water tower. A very neat location on the top of the city, breaking our backs carrying tons and tons of lighting and sound equipment. Merja and Anna set up a great light show for the evening and people drank, danced and there was a really bad jam session as well. Anyway we felt lucky to get the venue and people told us later that they thought they had seen an UFO with the lights shining all the way to a harbor 15 km away.
Getting the app out there on google play has been really good. We've managed to have some visibility for our game on the local media and on Facebook as well. Two weeks ago we started getting more and more playtesters all over Finland to test the game and report bugs and feature requests. This has been a very good thing and many a bug and glitch was caught, debugged and fixed.
The early access version is still missing clan chat, achievements and some other stuff but is in a fully playable shape. All the rest will happen in the weeks to come. The app is available in Finland only until we are happy with the build and have all the key features in. We might do a release in Australia soon but we'd rather wait until we can move with a modestly complete build of Hoodownr.
So the days are more about responding to feedback and coding than writing blog posts. Currently our Facebook page tells us that we are very responsive to answer people's questions and that's the way we like it.
So the freely testable build of Hoodownr is behind this link and after downloading you can test it. If you're not in Finland, google will complain about your device not being compatible but that is not the case.
So please give Hoodownr a whirl, get a few friends to walk and explore with you. Give us feedback! Get an early access account and support development, you know it makes sense!
Best,
Sami
Hoodownr
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