Hi Chad, are you still playing all of your games yourself? I wonder if they are "sticky" enough? Bit hard to tell from the screen captures - they don't really stand out to me in the screenshots. But I like word games so will check out Letters!
While you got the OK for the Letterpress UI from the creator, I wonder if anyone else who's unaware of that would notice and think you're a clone and ignore you?
I released my first ever iOS game* last week and it's a word game like yours. Not sure if we (two man team) just got lucky, but overnight we hit millionth game played and we've hit #1 word game in 30 countries at one point or another. People are playing about 3-5 games per second at any given point of the day which amazes me. The game took us four months to make - a month on the core mechanic and the rest polishing.
I have a pipeline of game ideas I think are very good so definitely intend to make more.
Hexiled looks great! The graphics definitely stand out (especially the space theme). I'll play it tonight. Best of luck.
I do think the OP's apps look a little too much like Letterpress. If I had seen them in the App Store, I would have dismissed them as a ripoff and have never given them a chance...
Also, the font in the Letters app doesn't look as professional as Hexiled, Letterpress, or SpellTower. Even in the app icon, the letter L's font weight varies, and the 2 feels italicized in a weird way. See: http://i.imgur.com/MV2SAQK.jpg
It's funny you should say that as the font in Hexiled ended up being the very, very default Arial Black and the icons are almost entirely based off Font Awesome. I paid a lot of attention though to consistency where possible (colours, use of caps, "voice" of the game, etc) but there's a lot of room for improvement.
Thanks so much for the encouragement. We've had a great experience launching the game. I'm on Twitter at @isaacforman if you have any feedback about Hexiled.
Nothing wrong with default fonts... :-) I've used many an app that uses nothing more than Helvetica (Neue).
Maybe it's just taste, but I found Letters' font to be too rounded. It's like Arial Rounded, and reminds me of Comic Sans. Letterpress's font is also a little rounded, but for some reason it looks more professional to me than Letters' font.
While you got the OK for the Letterpress UI from the creator, I wonder if anyone else who's unaware of that would notice and think you're a clone and ignore you?
I released my first ever iOS game* last week and it's a word game like yours. Not sure if we (two man team) just got lucky, but overnight we hit millionth game played and we've hit #1 word game in 30 countries at one point or another. People are playing about 3-5 games per second at any given point of the day which amazes me. The game took us four months to make - a month on the core mechanic and the rest polishing.
I have a pipeline of game ideas I think are very good so definitely intend to make more.
* Our game: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hexiled/id881274996?mt=8