This week-end, our blog has been attacked and hacked. Fortunately, the site is backed up every day. But unfortunately, our theme was not !!
We are working on restoring it asap.
Archive for August, 2009
Fishing Cactus blog hacked
Monday, August 31st, 2009Interview on 9lives.be
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
We got interviewed by the Belgian gaming website 9Lives. The interview is in Dutch and for those you can read it, the article can be found here. We kept the initial interview in English for you to read.
DELL computers shipped!
Friday, August 14th, 2009DELL computers were finally shipped at the offices yesterday. 254 kilograms of pure power! Awesome screens, good overall performance. It was long wait but definitely worth it and for a reasonable price (sounds like a carpet seller no?). Now we can all play Team Fortress 2 at lunchtime and kick asses.
If you want to join us on our lunchtime TF2 game sessions, search for Fishing Cactus group on Steam.
Of course these computers will be also our tool to create Fishing Cactus’ next big hits.
:Shift: rated 2nd best iPhone game on GAMES TM
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
GAMES TM, one of the biggest UK games magazine has featured Shift and rated it 2nd best iPod game just behind Flight Control. Simply amazing!
You can find the small article here.
Thanks Michael Heald for the info and scan.
Fishing Cactus in la “Dernière Heure”
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Fishing Cactus got interviewed in La Dernière Heure, a Belgian newspaper. The article is talking about the game business in general in Belgium and how it can be difficult to survive in this country as a game developer. In this article, we try to give some hints about how we manage to survive through the current economical crisis.
Unfortunately it is only available in French but for those who read French, you can download the article here.
In the meantime you can simply enjoy the pretty picture 
1,200,000 downloads for :Shift Lite: and major update released
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
We are proud to announce that :Shift Lite: has been downloaded more than 1 million times on the iPhone. For us this is quite an achievement and worth saying.
There hasn’t been a lot of news around it but a major update has been released on :Shift: iPhone. Not less than 15 new levels have been added to the game experience as well as a new and mysterious end screen. We also updated the game file size and the package has now an overall size under the 10 megabytes size.
If you want to know more about the game I can only advise you to take a look at the game description here.
Perceived value, red ocean and pencils
Monday, August 3rd, 2009
Equilibrio is out for 16 weeks now and despite good reviews (from both press and users), highlights from Apple and quite high production values for an iPhone game, our title only sold only a few thousands units so far. So what’s happening here? Let’s try to analyze this.
