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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To celebrate the launch of the iPad 2 in Europe DarkWave Games cut the price of Master of Alchemy.
Both the HD iPad and iPhone versions are on sale at $0.99/€0.79 for the weekend so everyone can play it on a brand new iPad 2.
Gamification has a couple of very interesting objectives that we are going to explain in details in this post.
The first one is “to encourage an active and measurable behavior”. The implementation of gaming mechanics is one of the most efficient way to involve people in activities on the site or service. It’s a really special participation because it’s an active one: the user does something!
It’s obvious that an active contribution is more efficient than a passive one because the communication message is connected to the action itself and is melted in the context of the experience.
In this kind of environment lies another fundamental advantage: the behavior of the audience is measurable, gathering data based on actions that users do inside the game. In this way, it’s possible to profile the audience, focusing better on the target user or expanding the target audience.
Gamification is a meta word that is gaining popularity day after day.
The first part of it is made by game, a term often associated to fun and amusement without any particular purpose.
There’s more: gaming is not only that but taking advantage of interaction is becoming a powerful means to convey messages of every kind.
Among them you can consider the improvement of customer management, build loyalty and maximize the performance of employees and partners.
It’s a really different point of view that shift the focus away from the traditional gaming market, based on the production of titles that have a great appeal on young males, and that can reach different demographic categories.
We were interviewed by iPader.it about the strategies that led Alittleb.it to open the DarkWave Games department and to develop Master of Alchemy.
We explained our concentric diversification strategy, how alittleb.it’s skills and experiences can be very useful for game development, why to develop multiplatform production assets, how the created know-how is a competitive advantage in developing game-based marketing instruments (e.g. advergames and social games) and gamification systems for alittleb.it’s clients.
Unfortunately, the interview is available only in Italian…but maybe google translator could help you.
Master of Alchemy iPhone, iPod, iPhone4 (Retina support) version is finally out on iTunes – http://itunes.apple.com/app/master-of-alchemy/id373516946?mt=8
To celebrate the success on the iPad and launch on the iPhone/iPod/iPhone 4, for a limited time, iPhone version price is only 0,99$ (66% sale), iPad HD version only 2,99$ (40% sale)!!!
Moreover, Chillingo & DarkWave Games have created the Master of Alchemy Contest: Tweet Your Perfect Potion! Create a Crazy Combination to Win – http://eepurl.com/NxmP
Tweet Your Perfect Potion and Win a Flip Video Ultra HD Camcorder + the Copies of the Mystical New Puzzler
Master of Alchemy HD Reviewed by Destructoid | darkwavegames.com – Official Blog.
“While your typical iPad game looks great, ones this polished in both looks and gameplay are still few and far between. Recommended.”
Score: 8,5/10 – and everybody knows how much they are brutally honest and impartial!! 🙂 We are really proud of our game!!!
Read the full review here: Review: Master of Alchemy (iPad)- Destructoid