The official Bounce Evolution thread

[c0rt3x]

First off, let's thank Rovio for making this wonderful game!


I find it strange that this game - the game that's supposed to push the N900's hardware to the competition's limit (maybe a bit exaggerated) - doesn't even have its own thread.


Let's keep everything related to this game in this thread: videos, highscores, competitions, petitions, fan clubs and congratulations! And of course rumors about a possible sequel... or anything else related to this game for that matter.

Here's the officia Bounce Evolution video in HD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6JfxdWg0HI


Since some people already have the N900 device, what's your best scores for this game? Sharing is good... let's see who currently has the best score!

Which level was funnier in your opinion? Can someone possibly make a small review of the game? Hopefully Rovio will somehow get to know its drawbacks according to its testers (us), so their future projects will be even better.


By the way, Bounce is the only commercial (yet free) game for the N900 (Maemo at all), right? I wonder which agreements they have with Nokia, because "Bounce Evolution" is obviously a teaser... the big thing has yet to come! That's why they should know about Bounce's lacks, to possibly improve it later on.

[Rauha]

By the way, Bounce is the only commercial (yet free) game for the N900 (Maemo at all), right? I wonder which agreements they have with Nokia, because "Bounce Evolution" is obviously a teaser... the big thing has yet to come!
Nokia will propably publish it, as they did publish Rovio's Bounce Boing Voyage for Symbian and Ngage.

[r0eladn]

Ah yeah any information on official website and possible full game?

Would love to see a full bounce game with a whole lot of levels. perfect game for a device such as the N900 :D

if you can not wait, here is a simple flash bounce 'game':
http://www.bouncegame.com/index.html

[code177]

Holy crap. I just realised this is the 'evolution' of the game of the same name that I used to play on my old Nokia 7210.

http://www.mobilegamefaqs.com/revimgs_2/b/bounce_sml.gif

http://www.interstar.ua/mobile/img/phones/nokia_7210_add_74.jpg

[Rashoodz]

http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/gifs/bounce9500.gif

I want the Nokia 9210's Bounce please, it was awesome.

[NvyUs]

The evolution of the Little red ball

Bounce classic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmNiecuMqXQ
Bounce Boing Voyage(n-gage) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s81JUXd2RCc
Bounce Touch(remake of BBV)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lkfa3AgnJY
Bounce Evolution http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6JfxdWg0HI

[Rauha]

http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/gifs/bounce9500.gif

I want the Nokia 9210's Bounce please, it was awesome.

It's still included in some (or maybe even most) S30 phones.

[drm]

Is Rovio making any other games for the Nokia N900? It would be nice to have a few more quality games.

[c0rt3x]

The evolution of the Little red ball

Bounce classic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmNiecuMqXQ
Bounce Boing Voyage(n-gage) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s81JUXd2RCc
Bounce Touch(remake of BBV)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lkfa3AgnJY
Bounce Evolution http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6JfxdWg0HI

There also was a 2D version of Bounce Boing Voyage (S60/Symbian) for S40/Java called Bounce Tales - and believe it or not - it was better (at least in my opinion).

[RevdKathy]

I've never played bounce (I don't do any games except solitaire), but I can't wait to try that. He's so cute!

[smage]

OK,

I'm not getting any sound while playing Bounce Evolution. Otherwise my speakers/headphones work correctly. I tried a reinstall of the game, restart etc. but nothing helped.

Any ideas what could have caused this?

[talmage]

I'm going to buy Bounce Evolution if it's released in full. That's saying something because I don't play computer games and I don't get the attraction that they have for other people.

[Miika]

OK,

I'm not getting any sound while playing Bounce Evolution. Otherwise my speakers/headphones work correctly. I tried a reinstall of the game, restart etc. but nothing helped.

Any ideas what could have caused this?

The only three causes for sound loss I can think of are that the phone is on silent profile, volume is set to zero or the sounds have been disabled from the game menu. If neither one of these is the case here then it gets more difficult because this is the first time I've heard anyone having this kind of a problem.

[zehjotkah]

my highscores:

[aironeous]

I played it for about 5 minutes, it was fun. Took me a while to figure out i can jerk the phone upwards to make the ball hop. I'm not really into games like that so i just finished the first level and exited but looks like a nice game to show off to people.

[sanki]

I was playing Bounce Evolution when something weird happen. I have found myself between the clouds... somewhere in the air. Is this a bug or... what happened? I've attached a couple of screenshots.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2688/4419040191_8e385da313_o.png

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2746/4419891540_d1e35fe2a9_o.png

[TA-t3]

That's funny.. I haven't seen anthing like that cloud when playing. You jumped really high..

Now that I actually found this thread.. are there anyone from Rovio reading this? I know there's at least one member here working there.

The issue I have with the game is that it'll only play if you hold the N900 horisontally, which I never do. It's more like 45, or even 60 degrees vertical. To hold it horisontally would be really awkward. What about an update which calibrates the 'zero' position when the game starts, i.e. just like the 'sheep' application does?

(The above doesn't apply to the racing game of course, which only seems to care about the side-to-side accellerometers)

[ToJa92]

I was playing Bounce Evolution when something weird happen. I have found myself between the clouds... somewhere in the air. Is this a bug or... what happened? I've attached a couple of screenshots.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2688/4419040191_8e385da313_o.png

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2746/4419891540_d1e35fe2a9_o.png

I guess you got outside the map, this can happen with games. I remember playing GTA: Vice City one time and after jumping out of a car inside a tunnel I began falling outside of the world.. After five seconds the game crashed :eek:

[Miika]

The issue I have with the game is that it'll only play if you hold the N900 horisontally, which I never do. It's more like 45, or even 60 degrees vertical. To hold it horisontally would be really awkward. What about an update which calibrates the 'zero' position when the game starts, i.e. just like the 'sheep' application does?

Actually the current neutral position isn't completely horizontal, but instead the angle which you get when you put the phone on the stand. :)

We did consider allowing user to calibrate the sensor, but it would require adding all kinds of calibration screens, text tutorials etc because taking calibration from initial orientation is just too confusing. But I agree, it would be nice to be able to set the neutral angle based on personal preference.

[TA-t3]

Ah, but, as you know, the built-in stand has a useless angle.. :)
That's why we all bought the laser-cut stands from Fake! ;)

I tried starting the game with the N900 on the built-in stand, and indeed it seems to be in neutral position then. But I can't hold it in that position, even if I wanted to: The light from the fluorescent tubes in the ceiling is perfectly reflected at that exact angle, it's the most useless of all angles actually. It would be nice with either a different (more vertical) angle, or auto-adjust. Please take another look at the sheep application, auto-adjust isn't as unintuitive as you may think.

[rikisky]

is there a way to download more levels?. i just have the 2 of the demo one :x

[sanki]

That's funny.. I haven't seen anthing like that cloud when playing. You jumped really high..

Now that I actually found this thread.. are there anyone from Rovio reading this? I know there's at least one member here working there.

The issue I have with the game is that it'll only play if you hold the N900 horisontally, which I never do. It's more like 45, or even 60 degrees vertical. To hold it horisontally would be really awkward. What about an update which calibrates the 'zero' position when the game starts, i.e. just like the 'sheep' application does?

(The above doesn't apply to the racing game of course, which only seems to care about the side-to-side accellerometers)
I guess I did jump very high. I've tried to replicate it, but I haven't succeeded.

[Psymastr]

Is Rovio making any other games for the Nokia N900? It would be nice to have a few more quality games.

They made angry birds, but seeing how well that has worked out for them (so many paid app ovi problems) I doubt they are working on another game for n900 (since angry birds won so many awards on the iphone they will probably stick with that unfortunately)

[xxxxts]

my highscores:

My best is 6462m.

[mumble]

Just scored 42000, a big improvement over my previous best 13000. Could've gone further, but I fell off the track :x Is there any official high score tracker?