After 2,000,000 apps downloaded and more than 180,000 sold: SHIFT, that was initially developed by Armor Games as Flash game and adapted by Fishing Cactus on the iPhone in 2009 is now making its entrance on the PlayStation®Store: an improved minis version, available soon on the PlayStation®Network.

As part of an on-going process with Armor Games, we are currently in charge of the technical transition and enrichment of the title, which will be available on PSP™ (PlayStation®Portable) and PlayStation®3 through the PlayStation®Network.

This PlayStation®Network version called SHIFT extended will offer no less than double the content of the iPhone version and some new gameplay mechanics. It will definitly stand out from the other puzzle games out there thanks to its significant amount of content, its spotless realisation and its unique gameplay mechanics (you already know them if you read this blog). We expect to release the game before the end of this year.

Last but not least Shift will be published by Zallag. More info about the content of the game very soon (and trailer as well)!

Minim has been updated with a major fix on a bug preventing the game from running on iOS4.0 on 3G.

All should be fixed now.

For the last 2 years, I’m invited at the game design and project management school in Valenciennes, Supinfogame. I’m invited to attend the end of the year jury where students who are graduating present their prototype to a board of game industry professionnals. To give a little bit of context, each of the student has to present a game idea in their first year. At the start of the 2nd year, 5 to 6 of the ideas are selected to be projects developed for a total of 9 months. You can see some of the old projects here.

Students are in groups and can ask for external help (artists, programmers). Not to mention that they have no fund to do so (looks like a real indie studio). When getting external help, they are often working with professionnals who have some spare time, amateurs or team up with other, more dedicated, schools.

As an ex-student from the Supinfogame (I graduated 8 years ago, oooh growing very old), I’m amazed to see the number of growing and known people attending this jury. This is partly due to the increasing quality of projects presented. This year I’ve been really amazed by the quality of productions. Some concepts were very innovative and some of them were really more than prototypes, near finalized products.

Students presented us 6 prototypes: “Le marionnettiste” (The Puppeteer), “When Gods Play”, “Contre-Jour”, “Blork”, “The Uncanny Fish Hunt” and finally “Big Bang”.

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A good news for RollOut, our last iPhone game released about 3 three weeks ago has been selected by AppModo as one of the three best games of June on the Apple AppStore.

After being Top#1 Paid App in the French AppStore, let’s now hope we’ll get the same success in the US. Spread the word and in the meantime, here’s the link to the news: http://appmodo.com/24859/3-best-games-june/.

Powerball is almost here! I guess it’s time to start showing some of the goods then

No set release date yet, but you should be able to spin this baby very soon!

More screenshots coming, stay tuned!

We’re getting bigger, so we’re stocking up on ultra-uber-super servers space for all our techie needs…

…but let’s face it, it’s waaaay funnier to use this to store people!

Hello all,

Just to give you heads up on our trip to Shanghai, it’s now day 3 and I’ve met some interesting highly motivated Chinese companies who would like to work hand hand with Europeans to make cultural movies, and why not, games based on those movies! I’ve also had the pleasure to meet 2 of the most famous Belgian people int he world, an ex table tennis champion, Jean-Michel Saive and one of the best Belgian film Directors, Mister Jaco Van Dormael (He made Toto le héros and most recently Mr Nobody)

The expo site is amazing and super huge but with 600.000 people visiting per day, the queues are also amazing so some people can stand in the queues up to 5 hours just to go inside their favourite international pavillions!

Enough said, here are some pictures:

On board getting ready to GO for a 10 hour 30 minutes flight

First sign of China

Chinese Mobile phone network

Creative wallonia Conference

Virtualis’ Jean-Michel demonstrating the Virtual Studio to Jaco

Jean-Mi getting ready to spank some ass

And some famous Belgians on the board too!

Estonia Pavillion at Expo

I’ll post some more pictures in the coming days so you’ll have to be a little patient to see the rest!

Chi-chi