Act of Fury is featured in the New & Noteworthy in the general section of the App Store in US and China, while appears as one of the most noteworthy in Games section for UK, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, France.
148Apps has also rated the game 4 out of 5 with a published review.
Act of Fury is now on iTunes.
The game is available at the great price of 1,99 $ / 1,59 € / 1,49 £ for a limited time only.
The first review is live and the game scored 4 out of 5 on The App Shack.
Videogames are designed around a core element: the player. The player’s role is to carry out actions aimed to get a reward, within the limits set by rules of the game. John Hopson has coined it “contingencies“: a set of rules under which the player acts, getting rewards and reinforcements. Experiencing different ways of rewards, different patterns of player’s response can be found.Read More
Our brain evolved in order to encourage the personal success of each individual, through out a system that rewards purposes; and these purposes get beyond the mere concept of survival, although it is basic element for animals. Games and fun activities, therefore, see their Raison d’être in correlation with our ability to adapt, and the evolution of this ability: we play in order to unravel in everyday life, metabolizing rules, limits and targets, in order to grow as individuals and coping with hardships.Read More
DarkWave Games will be at the Games Week in Milan.
During Friday, 4 November our lead developer Gabriele Farina will participate to the Wired conference called “Game Developers in Italy”.
On Saturday and Sunday part of the team will be at the stand F04 held by Indie Vault, demonstrating Act of Fury to the public.
If you’re in Milan and want to play our games please come and meet us at the stand!Read More
Project name: Act of Fury – Kraine’s revenge
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch Game – Innovative Shoot’em up
Client: DarkWave Games by alittleb.it
Technologies: UnderWAVE (our framework), C++, OpenGL, Objective C
Publisher: Forge Reply
Brief Description:
Act of Fury: Kraine’s Revenge is the firstborn of a new breed of shooters, where you don’t have to shoot because YOU are the weapon.
Kraine Severe has undergone mad experiments by the infamous Dr. Osvald Pernicious, leader of the Doom Legion. After a daring escape from the laboratory, he realizes he can transform himself in a mighty hurricane. His next step is easily taken: pursue revenge, destroy everything that tries to stop him.
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Our B2C gaming division, DarkWave Games, will attend GDC and Gamescom in Cologne.
A full lineup will be revealed during the event. Stay tuned for every detail.
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The third of the series of posts about the new objectives of game designers: today, game designers have to consider revenue issues and business models since the beginning of their creative processes.
Exploiting the power of “give and receive” social pattern certainly contributes to the strengthening of viral and attractive phenomenon and behaviours.
Reciprocity is a deep-rooted instinct in the human mind and many experts argue that it has played an important role in the development of modern society.
In social contexts, people interact with each other in similar ways: when someone gives a gift to you, you not only feel grateful and almost obliged to return the favour, but also your opinion of that person improves. Following this behavioural pattern is perceived correct; breaking it may cause a sort of confusion in the relationship between people.
In social games, players tend to behave according to this principle. Beyond enjoying the gifts received, doing the same can improve the personal image of the player. So, this creates a circle of strong viral and attractive reciprocity.
To fully exploit this type of dynamics, it is required to make the player’s actions observed – and therefore judged – by the other players. As game designers, it is particularly important to establish a clear sequence of in-game actions, which can create reciprocity expectancy, like “ Send gifts to your friends, and ask them to send one in return”.
Anyway, it is absolutely necessary to calculate very carefully this cycle: the feeling of “obligation” doesn’t always lead to expected results, particularly in long term, when it is perceived as a burden. The reciprocity effect is a double-edged blade with a great potential, but game designers should use it with attention and above all, with the skill to trigger it implicitly within the game.
GAMECITY is the Nickelodeon’s social meta-game, hosted into nickTV.it and connected to Facebook.
Accessing to the new GAMECITY’s section on the Nickelodeon portal NickTV.it, users will dress the part of a superhero, equipped of a super-vehicle too, called to perform continuous missions in a city populated by all the famous properties of Nickelodeon, like Spongebob, Avatar, The Penguins of Madagascar, Fairly Oddparents.
Playing to the games contained into GAMECITY, performing their missions, matching their friends, players will increase their levels, climb GAMECITY’s leaderboards and earn continuously new virtual items to customize their own avatars, new playing cards to increase their super-vehicles powers, awards and prizes to testify their progresses.
GameCity is developed with our Social Game Development Platform: LUDUM.
GAMECITY is a meta-game conceived to enhance at most the NickTV.it’s brand, exploiting all Nickelodeon’s properties (like Spongebob, Avatar, The Penguins of Madagascar, Fairly Oddparents an so on).
The main GAMECITY’s marketing objectives are:Read More