ngmoco has lowered the price of all of its currently available App Store titles, in promotion of the upcoming release of the puzzle-platformer Rolando. Discounted titles include ngmoco’s most recent releases, Dropship and Dr. Awesome, along with the company’s previously released puzzler Topple. New prices are as follows:
As promised, ngmoco released its puzzle/surgery game Dr. Awesome, Microsurgeon M.D. ($1.99). Interestingly, the company revealed that in addition to working with Escalation Studios to develop the game, it brought in artist “Lord Mesa” and i-am-8-bit Productions for Dr. Awesome’s Trauma Center/Phoenix Wright-esque art direction.
As with arcade classic Qix — or its iPhone clone Bix ($0.99) — players section off the playing field, trapping bacteria and viruses. The game’s feature list follows:
Use your Tilt-guided micro scalpel to perform microsurgery
Isolate 16 types of viruses and bacteria to save your patients
Collect power-ups to help give you an edge in the ER
Save your friends, personalized from your contact list
Presented with Trauma Center-esque art and Qix-like gameplay, the title enables players to admit contacts from their address book as patients, and operate on them.
The studio plan to follow up Dr. Awesome’s debut with the release of Dropship and Rolando, the latter priced at $9.99, shortly afterwards.
If you didn’t catch if before, here’s a trailer for Dropship:
ngmoco currently has five iPhone and iPod Touch games planned for the holiday season, with 14 titles currently in development.
Following Apple’s briefing on iPhone games yesterday, where ngmoco showed off puzzle/platformer Rolando, the studio announced two upcoming games — Dropship (shown above) and Dr. Awesome, Microsurgeon M.D.
According to Offworld, both titles will be released as “fast apps,” ngmoco’s category for its bargain-priced games, like Maze Finger (free) and Topple ($0.99). The company has five iPhone and iPod Touch games planned for the holiday season, with 14 titles currently in development.
Dropship appears to be a flight game with vector environments; presumably, players pilot their craft around stages and shoot at enemies, while picking up stranded people to transport them.
The trailer for Dr. Awesome, embedded below, reveals a lot more — it’s a Qix-styled title with a light-hearted surgery premise and humor/graphics similar to what we’ve seen with Atlus’ Trauma Center and Capcom’s Phoenix Wright series for Nintendo platforms.
An interesting feature allows you to admit one of your address book contacts as a patient, essentially allowing you to operate on your friends (and enemies) for kicks. Neat!
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ngmoco has lowered the price of all of its currently available App Store titles, in promotion of the upcoming release of the puzzle-platformer Rolando. Discounted titles include ngmoco’s most recent releases, Dropship and Dr. Awesome, along with the company’s previously released puzzler Topple. New prices are as follows:
