buttonmen iphone game case study
DESCRIPTION
Button Men (multiplayer iPhone game) - a quick-playing strategy game for one or two players; where the goal is to capture your opponents dice while protecting your own. The original game, created by Cheapass Games, was awarded 3 Origins Awards including Best Abstract Board Game of 1999.TRANSCRIPT
BUTTON MENBeat People Up. Right Now.
WHAT IS BUTTON MEN?
1,200 Apps Sold
HOME SCREEN
CHARACTER SELECT SCREEN
CHARACTER BIO SCREEN
FIGHT SCREEN
WIN SCREEN
Button Men is a quick-playing dice game for one or two players.
OUT OF 71 REVIEWS
39
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10
7
4
Polished, tight little strategy game“ ”
Fabozz - Customer from App Store
Just like the tabletop game“ ”
DaveStory - Customer from App Store
Just like the tabletop game“ ”
DaveStory - Customer from App Store
Nice concept, but beta-quality, deeply buggy software.
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BazookaTime - Customer from App Store
WHAT WE LEARNED
WHAT WE LEARNED
• Designing and Developing for iPhone is not the same as doing so for a website or flash-based game. Significant learning curve involved
• Subsequent games have been quicker and easier to produce
• Despite social-media efforts, good reviews on app sites and placement on Apple’s ‘Top 50’ – still very difficult to get that game ‘out there’
FUTURE PLANS
• Offer free app with two characters
• Release character expansion packs - 2 per pack
• Release new characters
• Release Multi-player
• Release High Score.
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