I just finished the main game of Nightmares from the Deep: Davy Jones Collector's Edition.  Hope to get to the bonus chapter tonight or tomorrow.

This is the 5th CE that I've finished since April 20.  I haven't bought anything since that same day, so I've actually made progress is reducing the number of unplayed games in my inventory.

lilyr wrote:

Where did you read about BZ's contract with BFG ending Tirama?

I didn't.  But other than porting their games to iPad, BoomZap has not released a HOPA since Dec 2014.  The ART and AK updates are now 5 and 6 months old, respectively, and there's been no updates to fix bugs.  BF CS claims they can't access an individual's AK or ART game.  Nobody has mentioned anything about any BoomZap games in beta and May is almost over.  

Ergo - BZ has completed their contract to supply BF with games and now can spend all their time making games for mobile phones. They feel they don't need a publisher to sell games through the apple store so they don't need BF.

Maybe there's still a game or two that needs to be ported to iPad, but I won't be buying them.
 

TiramaSue wrote:

I think I'm most shocked at the shoddy workmanship in the last updates. 

Pride in their workmanship must have went out the window.  I don't know how bad it was since I stopped playing AK before the final update.  It is a real shame that a game as good as AK is left dangling with no closure to it.

 

sunshinej wrote:

TiramaSue wrote:

I think I'm most shocked at the shoddy workmanship in the last updates. 

Pride in their workmanship must have went out the window.  I don't know how bad it was since I stopped playing AK before the final update.  It is a real shame that a game as good as AK is left dangling with no closure to it.

 

They certainly made it obvious that they weren't interested in the game any more and wanted to spend their time elsewhere.  There was 7 months between the last 2 updates for ART.  I don't think they took 7 minutes to QA it.  Yes, it's that bad.

I know people are comlaining about Eipix not being Blue Tea and that the Dark Parables series is now ruined, but I don't get the complaints that the fragmented objects that are assembled or no longer beautiful and delicate.  They were ugly and clunky looking, lacking fine detail, in the Jack and the Beanstalk story, and one game maybe two before that.  Don't know about the game Blue Tea did after Jack but before Eipix came aboard.  Was too disappointed in the last 2 to check it out.

 

I finished the 3rd Nightmares from the Deep.  Something about the artwork with the people semsed a bit off.  Or maybe I'm just too picky.

I thought the second Dark Parables was the best, storywise, lengthwise, artwork.  The third one wasn't bad, and seemed to continue the storyline from the second.  I thought it was an interesting concept that all those women who married Prince Charming had been married to the same man/frog.  I was looking forward to the stories of the Little Mermaid, Cinderella, and I can't remember who the fith wife was, but the next games was the Red Riding Hood Sisters. 

At that point, it felt like a second series had started, one that I didn't like nearly as much.  I played teh Final Cinderella and Jack, but didn't bother buying Rapunzel after looking through a walkthru and seeing that the fragmented objects were once again lacking in detail and beauty.  I wonder just how long ago Blue Tea started making games for mobile devices?  I get the feeling that the last DP's they made, their hearts and minds were elsewhere.