Tapper World Tour
Developer: Square One Studios
Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Released: 2011
Platforms: iOS
Features
- Art by Don Bluth, famous for Dragon's Layer and animated films.
- Classic Tapper that has been refreshed with new mechanics, visuals, and fresh gameplay experience.
- Mini-games, leaderboards, and collectibles.
Contributions
- Created a content discovery system to facilitate planned content updates using the Cocos2D engine.
- Developed the majority of the UI. This includes the Mugs Collection, Postcards Collection, Map, Location, and Bar Select screens.
- Created the Shells Swap and Bull Riding mini-games.
- During the prototype phase, I developed a custom particle emitter system that brought each location alive with animations. **This system was replaced with fullscreen animated sprite sheets after I left the project.
The first iteration of the main menu featured a bartender that more closely resembled the classic bartender.
Later iterations featured two bartenders that could be used in-game.
The Mugs Collection screen was a fun screen to implement and had some interesting challenges. It had to work with the content discovery system I created so that new mug spaces for DLC would appear automatically. The mug silhouetttes are creative and are a great motivator to complete levels.
The characters and locations were styled in such a way to allow us to easily re-skin them for different themes. The biggest difficulty to overcome was in establishing anchor/pivot points for the characters and their different animations.
Reviews:
- IGN - "Tapper World Tour Review" - March 17, 2011
- Gamezebo - "Tapper World Tour Review" - March 22, 2011
- TouchArcade - "‘Tapper World Tour’ Review – An Updated Classic That Looks and Plays Better Than Ever" - March 17, 2011
- METACRITIC - "Tapper World Tour" - March 16, 2011
- Pocket Gamer - "Tapper World Tour" - March 16, 2011
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