Following the FIFF in Namur, Belgium, Fishing Cactus has been nominated amongst 12 belgian movies to provide 3 gaming projects around the popular word: “crossmedia” as marketing support for two films: Torpedo (K2 & KAZAA, Matthieu Donck) and Approved for Adoption (Mosaïc Films, Artémis).
Torpedo pitch:
“Michel Ressac is a 35 year old men having hard time being successful in anything. His life is going to change forever when he learns that he won a dinner with his all life star, the famous cyclist Eddie Merckx.”
Approved for Adoption pitch:
“European on the heads side, Asian on the tails side. Cartoonist. 42 years old according to his civil status, Jung prefers to place his birth at the age of 5, when a policeman found him wandering alone on the streets of Seoul. He is one of those 200 000 adopted Koreans spread around the world.”
Stay tuned for more information about the advergames we’re creating for the movies.
More than 20 million players have enjoyed the Shift series of puzzle platformers on Flash, iPhone and Android. Today Fishing Cactus, Armor Games and Aksys Games are proud to announce once again a new venture in the Shift series with a brand new version which will be available for the Nintendo’s 3D handheld. The title? Shifting World!
For those who missed that piece of unique gameplay, Shift is a simple platforming game turned inside-out with the addition of a shift function that allows the player to flip between the black and white portions of the game map, forcing them to warp their perceptions to proceed. It’s pretty much perfect as it is.
Working for more than 2 years on the Shift series, we thought we can make this game even more perfect with a specific take on the Nintendo 3DS. Shifting World takes the shifting element from the original game (rotators, keys, doors, spikes) and adds an additional layer of complexity (and new mechanics) by allowing players to shift between 2D and 3D. As far as the changes made, the story has also been revisted and will introduce new twists in a brand new funky universe!
Game is planned to hit the stores early Q2 2012. Stay tuned for more and in the meantime enjoy the screenshots!
Let’s start with the big bad news of the day. Creatures 4 is delayed until Q2 2012 (no date yet). I know, it sucks, but let me explain the reasons for this fairly huge delay and why it will be a good thing for the game.
Thundergameworks and Fishing Cactus are proud to announce that today Trenches Generals deploys to the Wii and is taking no prisoners. It is available for download through WiiWare for 700 points in both Northern America and Europe. Trenches Generals provides a unique twist on the tried and true Tower Defense genre and delivers an immersive, engaging experience.
You command a band of brothers from the Royal British Expeditionary Forces as the defender of the Free World. Your troops must take to the field and defend your bunker from being overrun. Use the trenches on the battlefield to hold your ground in the no man’s land. Lead riflemen, mortarmen, snipers and machinegunners into a certain death to conquer futile dirt inch by inch. War is hell; welcome to purgatory.
The popular iPhone/iPad (that we created on iPad BTW) hit now lets you drop mustard gas on your loved ones using the Wiimote. Make no mistake though, this ain’t no lazy cell-phone port. Trenches Generals has been designed for the Wii from the ground up and has received extra care and polish compared to its mobile counterparts. 2-player split-screen combat is enabled, A.I. is tremendously more advanced and there’s a new Skirmishes mode that even features zombies. Zombies, baby!
We’re finally back from Gamescom and it’s been an incredibly exhausting yet satisfying experience. The Creatures 4 team worked extremely hard to get the game to the state it was at the show and while we’re still far from our goal, most of the guys on the team have not slept for some time and really worked their ass off to deliver the demo on time.
Since the lid on the project PR has been lifted I can now talk more freely about the game and give you most of the information you’ve been eagerly waiting for. Before reading on, please keep in mind a couple of important points:
Creatures 4 is more than a new chapter in the series. It’s a complete reboot for the Creatures IP and this means several things I will tackle in this post; most of all, it means that we wish the game to be an evolving product which will hopefully stay with us a long time. Free-to-play games live as long as there are players to support them and who allow us developers to listen to community requests and feedback to make the game better and richer with content. We see the initial version of the game as a starting point which we will improve upon with updates and new content.
As we announced last week, our hit game Woof the Dog is now featured on FreeAppDeals! Their app portal was launched recently and has several great upcoming deals on iOS /Android so pay them a visit regularly!
The folks atFreeappdeals.com are featuring two of our games! Currently NSD Powerball is on the first page and Woof the Dog is soon to follow! Now’s the time to get these two free games if you didn’t already!
And don’t forget aboutNSD Powerball Complete for a full-content version (all inApp included) of the game!
La mise à jour tant attendue de Paf le Chien a été validée aujourd’hui par Apple et elle est lourde en modifications! Fishing Cactus et Adictiz vous ont décidément préparé de très bonnes choses.
Avant de rentrer dans le détail, on pensait à vous remercier pour les nombreux téléchargements du jeu, en effet c’est plus de 750.000 joueurs iPhone qui ont pu déjà s’essayer au lancer de petit chien! Clairement nous n’espérions pas atteindre ce chiffre en à peine un mois et demi. Du coup au lieu de 1 nouveau objet, nous sommes arrivés avec une mise à jour intégrant 2 nouveaux objets! Du coté de l’Android, les téléchargements sont plus faibles (presque 100.000 joueurs) et pourtant nous avons une communauté stable qui grandit de jour en jour et qui est très active. Nous avons rencontré pas mal de problèmes techniques mais nous sommes en train de faire le nécessaire pour améliorer notre code Android et vous donner entière satisfaction sur un maximum de téléphones!
Alors au programme de cette update iPhone (la prochaine update Android aura le même contenu):
- Deux nouveaux objets, dont 1 est gratuit. L’os (objet gratuit) nécessitera des meilleurs joueurs une dextérité sans faille pour atteindre des distances encore plus folles!
- Ajout du Apple Gamecenter incluant 32 achievements ainsi qu’un classement mondial pour les meilleurs joueurs
- Possibilité de couper le son et la musique
- Nous avons fixé plusieurs problèmes avec les ailes en papier ainsi que la collision avec les poules
- Meilleure intégration de Twitter et Facebook pour partager encore plus facilement vos scores avec vos amis
- Réduction du nombre d’affichages de l’écran de publicité et ajout d’un timer
- Ajout d’un système pour évaluer Paf le Chien (on compte sur vous pour faire monter la note du jeu)
La prochaine étape pour le jeu est d’atteindre 1 million de joueurs, nous rajouterons alors encore un nouvel objet et quelques éléments bonus. On compte donc sur vous!
- Working on Creatures 4
- Working on 1 3DS project
- Working on 1 iPhone projects
- Finishing a kid game for PC/Mac
- Finishing 1 Serious Games
- Working on Mojito Engine
More than 20 million players have enjoyed the Shift series of puzzle platformers on Flash, iPhone and Android. Today 
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