We are finally able to talk a little bit about one of the projects we’ve been working on for the past months.

With the recent press release regarding Shaun White, Fishing Cactus is now able to proudly say that they have been heavily involved in the development process of Shaun White Origins on iPhone alongside AMA and Ubisoft.

The game is making its way to the App Store this December and is truly the best snowboarding game you’ll find on the iPhone, with some exciting new features such as an asynchronous multiplayer system through a ghost that you can send to your friends.

This unique 3D snowboarding project has been truly an amazing experience for Fishing Cactus and working with the Shaun White property a real pleasure for us all.

For those who want to know more about the game here’s the official press release from Ubisoft with some crispy details about the game. Enjoy!

Ubisoft is excited to present Shaun White Snowboarding Origins on the iPhone thanks to a collaboration with Advanced Mobile Applications (AMA Ltd) who will be in charge of developing and publishing the game on this new platform.

Shaun White Snowboarding Origins is expected to launch worldwide in December, closely following the launch of Ubisoft’s Wii console version. This title will encompass everything Shaun White and the iPhone reflect, including Shaun’s extensive community-based cult following.

The game will present a unique and iPhone specific snowboarding experience featuring:
• Four slopes spanning all corners of the globe – Chile, Japan, Spain and the USA
• Strong 3D graphics and quality audio
• Inventive controlling
• Ghost sending and playing option to share challenges, scores and tricks with your friends and the rest of the world, including a world ranking leaderboard
• The possibility to attempt and execute snowboarding tricks including ollies, tail grabs, melon and indy grabs, as well as spins and flips!

We are currently deploying our own web store and soon you’ll be able to buy some really cool Fishing Cactus stuff. Amongst the different goodies you’ll be able to find on the store, there are shoes, skate boards and tons of other extra quality stuff directly coming and designed on Zazzle.

To give you an idea of what will be available, just take a look at the following shoes, don’t they look AWESOME?

Not to say that buying something in the shop also helps us a little bit financially

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 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

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.