Indie game developer Dave Young just released his RPG title CastleGuard2 onto the Android market. This is a 3D RPG using the ShiVa 3D engine which continues to impress me with what developers are doing with it in regards to games for Android. I had previously thought that Dvide Arts would be the first company to release games using the ShiVa 3D engine but I was wrong.
The Vacuum competition being held by Door-6 will be starting in 2 days so we thought what a perfect time to interview our friend, Jeremy Shafton CEO of Door-6. If you haven’t heard about the competition, this is the first one to be held with cash prizes on the Android platform with the top prize being $500.
Distinctive Developments LTD are the developers of a really cool pool game called Anytime Pool. This is a cross-platform social pool game where you can play against anyone who’s online whether on the iPhone, Android or PC as well as Facebook. If you don’t feel like going head-to-head with someone though there is also single player mode where you can go against 14 other characters.
This week has been a pretty amazing week not just for games on the android platform but also because CTIA happened this week with some great phones being announced. Here’s a highlight of what happened this week as well as a preview of some upcoming game news and announcements you can expect to see here.
Here’s a pretty interesting and entertaining social game called GrandMasterPixel, developers by OMGWTFGAMES !!1!, which has to be one of the top 5 best names for a developer that I’ve come across so far. The game is a sort of ‘Hot or Not’ style game except with pixel art that other people vote on in matches and the winner gains points and rewards.
I feel after giving Zenonia a bunch of playtime so far that I can do a good review of this huge game release by Gamevil. This game is massive (40+ hours not including if you want to get to lvl99) as well with a ridiculous amount of detail and polish. I picked up my copy the moment it hit the Android market and I’ve been playing it on and off as much as I can between working, it’s addictive.
Well it didn’t take long for my suspicions to come true. Just after posting about iMobsters, Storm8 releases another one of their big MMORPGs called Racing Live. This particular one is also a port of their iPhone version and boasts 4.2 million other players whom you can race against live according to Storm8.
Well it seems Storm8 has released yet another one of their popular RPG games onto the Android market called iMobsters. This game boats 1.6 million players already and a pretty smooth interface. This is a MMORPG so you’ll be up against all the other players trying to become the reigning mob boss.
Should you, for some reason, need a break from playing Zenonia already but don’t really want to give up the RPG goodness then there is always Puzzle Wars by Vandigames. Puzzle Wars is a blend of RPG and Puzzle Combat (match 2 blocks of the same type to do actions) style game play and is actually a pretty looked over game.
Blocks Battle Online, by developer Cloudroid, is a battle Tetris style game for Android. Compete against other players in battle Tetris goodness that’s been available for just over a month now and sports all kinds of features from avatars to item to use against opponents.