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IDESIGN IPAD 2 BUYERS’ GUIDE Gaming on the Edge Through five releases in three years and a widelypublicized legal battle, Mobigame has shown how a small team can win fans by executing well on big ideas. Despite its relative youth, the iOS game market has already seen some developers release scores of lowestcommon-denominator games over the last three years, many gaining fame - or at least notoriety - in the process. You won’t find Mobigame’s name among that group. The small Parisian developer has instead chosen to focus on quality over quantity, rewarding early customers with subsequent improvements in free updates, practices that have earned near-universal acclaim for its releases. A moody and stylishly flat-shaded action puzzle game called Edge was first, challenging players to manuever a cube across static and moving platforms, learning gravity-defying 76
IPAD 2 BUYERS’ GUIDE IDESIGN 1 2 6 7 8 3 4 5 tricks along the way. No virtual joypad was needed; intuitive gestures controlled all the cube’s movement, even as the levels began to demand new skills, a brilliant touch interface that demanded no visual overlays. Edge quickly became a top pick of iPhone and iPod touch users before abruptly disappearing from the App Store due to a claim from a trademark troll, sparking a successful industrywide movement to invalidate the mark. The game saw multiple releases, removals, and award nominations, finally re-emerging permanently with Retina Display and iPad support. Mobigame followed Edge up with the finger-twisting puzzle game Cross Fingers, a heavily multi-touch title that could not have been done on any other platform, and an oddball title called Truckers Delight: Episode 1. Based upon a deliberately crude music video that quickly became an Internet sensation, Truckers Delight took inspiration from Sega’s OutRun series of driving games; it’s the only Mobigame title that doesn’t have a special iPad mode, and then only because its art is deliberately blocky - an ode to the 16-bit generation of driving games. But as jagged as the pixels were in Truckers Delight, Mobigame shifted to more realistic art for its next two games. First was the gritty and violent puzzle/action hybrid Perfect Cell, which has players control dangerous, flying octopus-like creatures making their escape from a secure military base; a swipe-based control interface becomes more challenging as players manage three creatures at once. Then Mobigame joined with human rights organization Amnesty International to release the thought-provoking Bulletproof, in which gamers are expected to save a man from a firing squad, presented from a first-person perspective. Every title’s control scheme is invisible - and obvious. While Mobigame remains a small developer, its ideas are anything but; already its game designs have inspired multiple play-alike titles, and have inspired smaller studios looking to enter the iOS space. The lesson: edgy concepts with intuitive but tricky controls can make great games. 1 Edge on iPad 2 Perfect Cell 3 Edge on iPad 4 Edge on iPad 5 Bulletproof 6 Truckers Delight: Episode 1 7 Cross Fingers 8 Cross Fingers 1 4 6 8 2 3 5 7 9 77
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