[Global Killer] Going mobile
There are quite a few updates that the team had take into consideration while moving Global Killer from the PC to the WinPhone 7. It’s a new audience and a new opportunity to expand our game to be an ideal fit for the mobile market. We discussed a straight port of the game to the phone which would have only involved a few graphics changes and a controls update. However, the game as it was built would not have lent itself well to mobile play experiences. The controls and UI updates are very important to games but somewhat obvious with this one, so I’d like to discuss the market we’re approaching and the updates that we’re making to the levels in more depth.
[Global Killer] Oh man, it’s back!
So you play as this asteroid, flying around space like crazy and smashing into planets. Every time you smash into a planet smaller than you, you get a little bit bigger. Every time you smash into a planet bigger than you, well, you lose and have to start over. Sorry about that.
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