Popular iOS publisher/developer, Artificial Life, will be bringing 30+ titles over to Android starting in early 2011. Artificial Life has made and published a variety of applications and games for iOS that have become quite popular. Some big name companies have had games published through them as well including Adult Swim, Overture Films, and more.
Tag: platform games
It’s good to see some more quality platform games hitting the Android Market. A new one released a couple of days ago by Carbon Crystal Games called Droid Odyssey looks like another very promising one to add to the list. Currently in beta form, this game offers up classic platform-style gaming but with a twist!
The title’s a lie, since cows can fly! But they definitely can’t swim… Roll and hop your strangely-shaped cow toward the portal, physics-style, using Bongo-gravity as your guide. But, don’t forget the stars!
Connect2Media and HandyGames have gone into an agreement with GlobalFun regarding the distribution of their games following the developers recent announcement regarding liquidation. In the agreement Handy Games will publish Crazy Cats and UFO Afterlight exclusively on Android in most territories while Connect2Media will do the Israel and Egypt distribution.
Box Fox (a.k.a Box Fox Lite) is a platform game in the alpha stages of development and although it is in the alpha status, you can download and test it out. Developed by Corroding Games, Box Fox is a platform game with a heavy focus on puzzles which you solve by moving objects, stacking boxes and things of that nature while you collect all the gems on each stage.
Mad, crazy, Chuck Norris like skill and probably drunk judging by the picture. That is what Herman the Hermit is. Developed by VisualDreams, this is a 2D platform jumping game although with how the graphics look in the preview screenshots saying that it is 2D seems a bit of a stretch. It looks a lot more 3D than 2D graphically.
Any iPhone user should have heard of Doodle Jump, and now every Android user should hear of the name Abduction! 2. This new game by Psym Mobile offers the same simplistic joy of jumping as high as you can, and also throws in a storyline (more of a objective type system) where you can save your cute animal friends and get to the goal in record time.
All you old school Super Mario Bros. game lovers who have been dieing for a platformer of similar style on your Android phone can now sleep peacefully at night because OrangePixel has heard your prayers. Jumpy is the name of the game and it will bring you back to the good ole days of Super Mario Bros games and you can now have an exclusive sneak peek of it before it’s released.
Psym Mobile, developer of the popular series of games Abduction! and Abduction! World Attack, recently held a close Beta sign-up for their upcoming game Abduction! 2. Since then word has been kept under wraps about this latest installment into the Abduction! series of games and this new addition is sporting some seriously cool features. Want to know more?
Hella Umbrella, developed by Ramblin’ Wreckage, is a very unique platformer that can now be had in beta form from the Android Market. I snagged the beta and gave it a very thorough run through. Although the beta has only three levels they have a great rang of difficulty. The first level starts you off as a basic training level to get you up and up on how the game plays.