Jetboard Joust Rockets (in VCS store)

[Jetboard Joust Rockets (in VCS store)]

Thanks very much for the review, Mockduck! Really glad you're enjoying it.

 

I will be posting a maintenance update in the next couple of weeks which should address the issue about health bars not being able to be seen at the top of the screen amongst other things. You are the second person to mention this in the space of a few days. As for the sound, this is kind of a matter of taste, I designed in to be very 'in your face' like Defender and some people absolutely love it. What I may do though is add a separate volume control for the 'warning' sounds like the 'low health' and 'abduction' sounds, I can see how these can get kind of annoying. You should have heard the first iteration of that abduction sound! 🤣 

 

Adding preferences is generally pretty easy, what's a PITA is finding space for them in the UI. Too many and I have to add another page which means there need to be a way of navigating the pages etc etc. Maybe I'll put the audio prefs in a separate category on the main menu?

 

Anyway, it was a really great review - thanks again for posting and for the feedback.

 

Also - I have seen reports about controllers not working with the game when connected wirelessly. I am trying to get some technical info from Atari on this but so far nothing has been provided. I'll continue to pursue this. It works fine on both my controllers wired and wireless.

[Jetboard Joust Rockets (in VCS store)]

4 hours ago, marss said:

Great game

Please, do plan more games for the VCS?

Thank you! I'd love to do more games for the VCS, it was actually a really straightforward platform to port to. Could potentially be a very indie-friendly console.

[Jetboard Joust Rockets (in VCS store)]

Hello Everyone,

 

My name is James from BitBull and I made Jetboard Joust! This is just a quick note to say that I submitted an update to Atari with the highscore entry bug fixed yesterday and they reckon they will probably have it live on Monday.

 

Apologies again for the inconvenience and thank you for your support! 

 

Game on!