Appy is doing something a little different for the Valentine's Day weekend. Rather than putting their games on sale, they're putting all of their games' in-app purchases on sale for $0.99 each. So every single IAP in all of their games - FaceFighter Ultimate, Trucks & Skulls, Animal Legends, and SpellCraft School of Magic - is $0.99. Even if it used to be $99.99.
It's certainly something different, I'll give them that. I think it'll be interesting to see how this sale pans out.
As Appy Entertainment sees 2 million SpellCraft School of Magic downloads, they prepare to release their next social game, Animal Legends. We spoke with Paul O'Connor, Brand Director at Appy about their new game and their experiences so far in the App Store.
Animal Legends is both a city builder, and an RPG battle game and has some amazing artwork and a huge number of character customization options. As you level up through the game, your animals gain special powers and equipment to help you fight through ever increasingly difficult levels in a Pokemon type battle arena.
Animal Legends will be released this week worldwide and Appy brings some new things to the social game scene. Not the least of which is a social game that is really social. The multiplayer is tuned for the mobile landscape where users play a bit here and there throughout the days. In Animal Legends, as you include your friends in your world you can use their built up creatures. Both sides get a little extra reward for doing so.
Paul O'Connor from Appy Entertainment gives us the background story of the game that revolves around the triumph over an evil Vampire Frog, Skulk. "In Animal Legends, the evil Vampire Frog, Skulk, has cast a blight upon the land, and you and your friends must defeat him by clearing back the poisoned forest, building up your fantasy kingdom, and questing for loot and glory in battle with Skulk's minions. The whole game is slightly unhinged, with rampaging Rhino Warriors, giant Ogre Bunnies, and other half-savage, half-funny animal opponents. The tone and story are light and the game is welcoming to casual players, but it is crunchy under the surface, allowing players to explore different towns and character builds, and to kit out parties with their friends taking advantage of the combos and special powers in the game's tactical battle system. Our motto at Appy is "Deadly Serious About Stupid Fun" and Animal Legends has the distinctive polish and sense of humor that we're known for. Our release video should give you a sugared-up taste of what the game is all about." Here's that video:
Interesting, an unhinged game about animals battling an evil vampire frog. Where did that come from? We asked Paul a little about the influences for Animal Legends to get some idea. "We are fantasy geeks of long standing, and the love of the genre that was poured into SpellCraft School of Magic is in Animal Legends. We have deep roots in creating fantasy worlds, reaching back to Oddworld and our own creation of Darkwatch in our High Moon Studios days, and our CEO used to be editor-in-chief of Malibu Comics, which brought all sorts of crazy original monsters and heroes to life. Animal Legends has been an opportunity for us to bring all these deep nerd obsessions together to brew up a new kind of RPG for this new touch-based, mobile computing generation." Deep nerd obsessions indeed, but the game still remains quite accessible. It's easy to get into and progress even if you aren't familiar with RPG games.
Hit the jump for more on Animal Legends, screenshots, and more from Paul from Appy on this new game.
I've no doubt that the prospect of a spellcasting form of Words With Friends is an exciting one to any sane iOS gamer. That's just part of what SpellCraft School of Magic is hoping to offer upon its release next month.
Gamers play a young apprentice wizard at the multiverse's most prestigious magical university in this free to play, in-app purchase supported game. The young wizard must save their teachers from the dungeons beneath the school by nursing magical plants, brewing powerful spells and doing battle with numerous monsters using strategy and cunning. It's going to be a potent mix of Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons with a great combination of social and roleplay gaming.
40 spells in all will be offered to help players up against over 100 different monsters. Combining card gaming tropes and other causal friendly concepts sounds like a pretty cool idea so far.
We'll be sure to keep you up on the latest on this exciting title. For now, check out the teaser trailer and screenshots below.
iPhone App - Designed for iPhone, compatible with iPad
FaceFighter Gold is a new version of the arcade fighting game FaceFighter from Appy Entertainment that we looked at back in June. This version, which is free today as part of Open Feint's Free Game of the Day site, includes all of the previous in-app purchasable expanded features of the previous version. This version is being released to celebrate over 3 million installs of FaceFighter thus far.
In addition to getting all of the previous versions expansions free, there are also some new features. The Wheel of Pain lets you choose from dozens of different attacks you can use while in the game. You choose your attacks from a slot machine type selection screen before you start each match. Also new in this version is OpenFeint integration.
FaceFighter Gold is a fun, easy to play arcade game and it's free today. Why not grab it?
