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:
ngmoco follows up last week’s release of Dr. Awesome with Dropship ($1.99), an arcade shooter that features vector-styled 3D environments and dual-analog touch controls.
Gameplay in Dropship appears to be somewhat akin to the arcade classic Defender in concept, as players are charged with destroying waves of enemies and rescuing crew members stranded in alien territory. Dropship features 18 missions in its Campaign mode, with more to become available in the future as downloadable content. Three additional levels are available for download at the time of the game’s release.
In an interesting twist similar to Dr. Awesome’s personalized patient feature, Dropship includes the ability to import names from a player’s Contacts list. Friends and family members will appear in-game as distressed humanoids in need of rescue.
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:
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