Banana Paradise

[ReubenNick]


**Presents**


Welcome to our official TOD thread for Jumpbutton Studio's current project, Banana Paradise. Banana Paradise was not the first project we worked on. In the beginning, there was another, but the fact that JBS is run completely by volunteer developers, we had to put our original project on indefinite hold. Many of our original developers fell away from the family in favour of more profitable ventures or solely because they lacked dedication to the team. At that point, we no longer had the assets to complete our original project. Those of us who were dedicated to the team and our goals decided to start small and work on more manageable projects.

We started by taking a barely formed tangent idea from our original project…A monkey who wanted to protect his most prized possession: an ENORMOUS banana. Through much debating, and a little unintentional innuendo, the name Banana Paradise emerged, and this side-scrolling defense game we're currently working on was born.

At the time, the entire game was designed solely for smartphones, consisting only of a lone, nameless monkey protecting a large banana from slugs emerging from either side of the screen.

However, as we inducted more willing developers into the Jumpbutton family, we developed much bigger plans for our creation than stomping slugs. In fact, we had five other ideas! The three most formed of these ideas were a side-scrolling, banana-wielding hack-and-slash monkey adventure, a banana-finding monkey hide and seek game, a Jetpack Joyride inspired monkey flying simulator and a ninja-monkey wall-jumping agility-heavy monkey parkour sidescroller.

Many of these ideas are still in their infancy, and may not even be implemented into the game.

This is where you all come in!

**How can you help?**

We are currently trying to get our project known and gather feedbacks and opinions on our development in order to create a game not only we ourselves would enjoy playing non-stop, but a game that many others would love to play. You can support us by liking our [page](https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jumpbutton-Studio/184204351650536), subscribing to our [channel](http://www.youtube.com/user/JumpButtonStudios), watching us on [IndieDB](http://www.indiedb.com/company/jumpbutton-studio), taking part in community questions which will be featured in our sneaks (our first question was featured in episode 2 of the weekly sneak, it isn't too late to include your voice!) and lastly by sharing what you see on our page. The bigger the support, the higher our motivation in getting Banana Paradise and more 'secret' information released.

Please visit our channel and watch our weekly sneaks, a total of currently three episodes which should give you an idea of what our project is about. If you have any questions, feel free to ask in here and I will answer them when possible.

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Here is a little inside look at what we are currently working on.

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>! Still a work in progress but we couldn't hold back on showing a small teaser haha. Our YouTube page is going to be having a makeover at some point, just not sure when.
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>! It might be obvious what this sketch is about, but how exactly will it turn out? Subscribe and follow our weekly sneaks as we aren't that far away from revealing information on this and many other things.
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>! Ah, we've got quite an interesting plan for our community! Like our facebook and follow our YouTube for upcoming information. Those who enjoy competition or just sharing their achievements will surely love this feature.
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>! I wonder what this could be? Maybe you'll find out in our upcoming sneak release later today. Stay tuned!
>! **Interested in joining the family?**
>! You can always send an application to [email protected] and a link to a portfolio of some sort. Include information about yourself and your skype name as that is how interviews will be carried out.

[Zopto]

*,* maaaaan i love it cant wait!!!!

[Mal]

This isn't a project; this is a cry for free advertisement for a game that hasn't even been started or fully conceptualized. Good luck.

[aaaron]

> _that hasn't even been started_

Wanna play it? I'll be happy to send you a copy of it.

[Mal]

> Wanna play it? I'll be happy to send you a copy of it.

Sure, I could use a laugh.

[ReubenNick]

Haha Rpny let him assume what he wants. Bud, if you've got nothing better to say in this thread please stay out. If we needed free advertisements, I have a list filled with better places and connections to people. We are only here to share our project and get some feedback from this community as well.

[Mal]

> Haha Rony let him assume what he wants. Bud, if you've got nothing better to say in this thread please stay out. If we needed free advertisements, I have a list filled with better places and connections to people. We are only here to share our project and get some feedback from this community as well.

If you sincerely wanted feedback from this community you would have given something to provide feedback for aside from giving nothing but a long-winded explanation as to why your previous projects failed (which works against you). In other words, you need to do more than just pitch your Facebook page and Youtube channel.

[ReubenNick]

> If you sincerely wanted feedback from this community you would have given something to provide feedback for aside from giving nothing but a long-winded explanation as to why your previous projects failed (which works against you). In other words, you need to do more than just pitch your Facebook page and Youtube channel.

Hey bud, read the quote below and actually watch the sneaks before making your replies.

> Please visit our channel and watch our weekly sneaks, a total of currently three episodes which should give you an idea of what our project is about. If you have any questions, feel free to ask in here and I will answer them when possible.

[Mal]

> Hey bud, read the quote below and actually watch the sneaks before making your replies.

> **In other words, you need to do more than just pitch your Facebook page and Youtube channel.**

[ReubenNick]

The video will tell you what we need feedbacks on.Take the time to watch the sneaks and you'll know what to provide a feedback on. I am not just pitching those links for the hell of it; they are filled with things you can give feedbacks and comments on. When new things come up, I will properly make a post in here. Everything we've already released, you can check them out on those links.

I have other things to do and re-posting information that has already been released about our project will be a bit of a time consumer when it can easily be read/watched on provided links.

[Zopto]

idk why you two fighting if

**[ஜ۩Akatsuki۩ஜ](http://www.touchofdeathforums.com/community/index.php?/user/65538-%e0%ae%9c%db%a9akatsuki%db%a9%e0%ae%9c/)**

faill in one project he is free to start new one …..

if some one dont like it just dont post msg or just say i dont like it blah blah chage that do that....

but noooo there is alweys a fight -,-(like kids of 6 years)

[ReubenNick]

Anyhow, going back on topic. Those of you who might be lazy to click on the links and skim through provided information; our current question we're asking for viewers ( If you watch weekly sneak episode 2 ) to help us decide on is whether you'd prefer playing the game with a drawn or pixelated style. We are also offering the option of having both to please either side if that should get the most amount of votes. Below is a preview of both unanimated.

 or 

There is the both option also. Ignore the size difference as it's fixed in the game.

[Zopto]

i vote for draw 

[JustinSD]

Brb playing Psithyroi, let me know when you have a client out and I'll switch.

Sarcasm aside :3

It looks tad promising, please don't ditch this. I'd like to see what may come of it.

[ReubenNick]

> Brb playing Psithyroi, let me know when you have a client out and I'll switch.
>
> Sarcasm aside :3
>
> It looks tad promising, please don't ditch this. I'd like to see what may come of it.

Hope you're enjoying the lovely updates we're making for Psithyroi 

Sarcasm aside 

We never ditched Psithyroi. Though yes, Banana Paradise wont be placed on hold as Psithyroi is.

[ReubenNick]

Episode 4 of our weekly sneak has recently been released, go check it out [here](http://youtu.be/tB1rBH54AVo) and get a taste at how our environmental artist will be going about designing the world in which you will explore as a Monkey. Next week won't be about Banana Paradise though, but rather a look at what our web department has been working on. Please share the video, subscribe and include your thoughts/ideas! Also below you can see the full version of the teaser found inside the spoiler. We decided to leak this out as we've taken a new route with the YouTube background due to the soon to be forced new layout.


[Exception]

So, I went to watch your video.

20 seconds of your logo Woohoo.

25 seconds of extremely fast swapping artwork, with very little time per image to actually look at it for what it is in detail.

Followed by 30 seconds of your logo. Yay.

Followed by about 20 more seconds of fast swapping artwork, again.

Followed by your logo, for the remainder of the video.

2 minute video. ~50 seconds of it is actually demonstrating something.

In your defense, I had my volume off, so I assume there was a voice-over, but you would want to make something actually to the point.

[Synergy]

If you want a good example of update videos, look at those for Overgrowth by Wolfire.

[Mal]

> So, I went to watch your video.
>
> 20 seconds of your logo Woohoo.
>
> 25 seconds of extremely fast swapping artwork, with very little time per image to actually look at it for what it is in detail.
>
> Followed by 30 seconds of your logo. Yay.
>
> Followed by about 20 more seconds of fast swapping artwork, again.
>
> Followed by your logo, for the remainder of the video.
>
> 2 minute video. ~50 seconds of it is actually demonstrating something.
>
> In your defense, I had my volume off, so I assume there was a voice-over, but you would want to make something actually to the point.

Surprised someone else decided to call him out on pitching his youtube channel and Facebook page.

[Wing]

> Surprised someone else decided to call him out on pitching his youtube channel and Facebook page.

His youtube channel only talks about Banana Paradise, and the voice over has a fair bit of information. From what I can see, there are no reason for him to advertise his youtube channel other than to share the information.

[Mal]

> His youtube channel only talks about Banana Paradise, and the voice over has a fair bit of information. From what I can see, there are no reason for him to advertise his youtube channel other than to share the information.

He offered nothing here. ZooooOOOOOoom. Sound that shit made when it went right over your head.

[Wing]

> He offered nothing here. ZooooOOOOOoom. Sound that shit made when it went right over your head.

Well, it makes sense to me. Why would he re-write all the information for you to read when you can listen to it? I guess he could have embed the videos in to the OP, though.

[ReubenNick]

> So, I went to watch your video.
>
> 20 seconds of your logo Woohoo.
>
> 25 seconds of extremely fast swapping artwork, with very little time per image to actually look at it for what it is in detail.
>
> Followed by 30 seconds of your logo. Yay.
>
> Followed by about 20 more seconds of fast swapping artwork, again.
>
> Followed by your logo, for the remainder of the video.
>
> 2 minute video. ~50 seconds of it is actually demonstrating something.
>
> In your defense, I had my volume off, so I assume there was a voice-over, but you would want to make something actually to the point.

Each video has a purpose and yes there is voice over. There is always the pause option if it was too fast for you, but I'll keep the thought in mind for sneaks after the 5th episode.

> If you want a good example of update videos, look at those for Overgrowth by Wolfire.

Thanks. We recently started the sneaks so if its not to your taste, sorry. We do it how we are able to.

> Surprised someone else decided to call him out on pitching his youtube channel and Facebook page.

> He offered nothing here. ZooooOOOOOoom. Sound that shit made when it went right over your head.

I offered links with information  and a short information about the project. If there's any specific offer you'd like let me know and i'll see what I can do.

> Well, it makes sense to me. Why would he re-write all the information for you to read when you can listen to it? I guess he could have embed the videos in to the OP, though.

I'll look into embedding the videos later on.

[Mal]

> I'll look into embedding the videos later on.

Go to the video, click on "Share", then "Embed". Copy/paste.

[ReubenNick]

> Go to the video, click on "Share", then "Embed". Copy/paste.

Thanks, though I already knew how to embed videos. Anyhow, as I said, I will look into embedding the videos later on. I won't be doing it until after we've released our next video.