RSS
Home
New GadgetsProlific iPhone game developer (and self-proclaimed “first-party” developer) Ngmoco has been busy lately. The company is working hard on developing Star Defense, which is expected to be their next big blockbuster hit. At the same time they’ve had the time to develop and release more bonus levels for their previous hit Rolando.
Star Defense is a hybrid RTS/tower defense game, and it looks gorgeous. While the “fighting bugs in space” theme calls to mind the visual look of Blizzard’s original StarCraft, the gameplay is entirely original. Endless hordes of aliens run across the playing field, which isn’t the flat square of most TD games but instead a sphere or cube that players must rotate in order to see the entire playing field. Graphics and sound effects are top-notch, and show tremendous amounts of polish — this truly does look like a “first-party” game.
Touch Arcade has a new hands-on look, complete with video. They note that the graphics (planets, units, and background stars and nebulae) are “impressive” and also that the gameplay “feels very solid. Make no mistake, tower defense fans are in for something special.”
When Ngmoco announced last month that they’d added new “secret levels” to their popular game Rolando, they promised more. They’re delivering, with a 1.2 update that includes two levels, “Torrid Twist” and “Excavation,” announced in a post to their company blog. Rolando Lite users get a secret level as well — “Hidden Hills,” part of the game’s 1.1 update. The blog post promises even more secret levels between now and the release of Rolando 2 this summer!
