A Preview of Upcoming 'Isotope: A Space Shooter'
posted May 24th, 2009 11:05 AM EDT by Blake Patterson in $2.99, Free, Retro, Shooter, Upcoming Games, iPhone games, iPod touch gamesIsotope Games has just provided us with details surrounding their upcoming iPhone title, Isotope: A Space Shooter.
Isotope: A Space Shooter is a retro arena shooter in the vein of Geometry Wars and Robotron that features the the added dimension of certain RPG elements. According to the developer, Isotope maintains a 30fps framerate with hundreds of enemies, bullets, and effects on screen.
Features listed by the developer:
- Fast and Frenetic gameplay with tons of enemy mobs.
- A Full Campaign Mode with over 30 missions.
- Earn credits from missions and spend them in the store to expand your arsenal of ships, modules, abilities and satellites.
- 40 different ships to purchase and level up.
- Purchase and equip modules to increase your ship's effectiveness.
- Use abilities like mega laser, blackhole and time stop to turn the tide in battle.
- Equip satellites and have them fight by your side.
- Take your leveled-up ship and compete in survival mode with online leaderboards.
- Play the game exactly how you want to play it with 5 different control schemes.
Isotope has been submitted to the App Store and a free, lite version will precede the full $2.99 app by one week. Stay tuned for a much closer look at this one.
See the developer's preview video.
Another game where the extent of the design is basic photoshop layer styles and the shape tool.
Outer glow is cool and all, but please don't overuse it.
WOW! Impressed. Looks nice. Day One. Hope it delivers. Already submitted…I love the world of iGaming
Have you played GeoWars, Squid Yes! Not So Octopus!, and the other million games that share the same design? That's the aesthetic they're going for. You clearly have no clue on what you're talking about.
Exactly what I'm looking for, I hope it has decent sound effects the visuals are great. Too bad I'm a stickler for 99c games,
Wow! The Geowars like games are coming thick and fast. This one looks really promising. And the video was very good. I could see somehow how the game play works which is nice; )
A space shooter with a well thought out concept. I can't wait.
Count me in! Looks good fun and I like how there is both a Campaign and a Survival Mode.
Constant 30 fps eh? Is that with a first or second generation iPod touch?
(for those who still don't know, the fastest iPhone/iPod touch is the second generation iPod touch, the slowest is the first generation iPod touch).
Is there any chance that Apple's new software might tweak the speed of the older iPhone or iPod Touch for better performance? It'll never bring their speed up to the upcoming iPhone, though. This can't be helped since Apple is building faster mobile devices every year. Users will just have to limit their game choices to suit their particular model iPhone/iPod Touch. Apple will have to tell developers to rate the games speed for a particular model.
Both surely to be left in the dust by the 3rd generation ones?
Sweet, Isotope got onto touchArcade! I'm one of the developers and just wanted to answer some of the questions.
Yannis Brown (http://www.groovyaudio.com/credits.htm) did our sound effects and they are terrific.
The 30 fps comment was based on testing on the first and second generation Iphone.
We will be putting out a iphone hardware gameplay only video at some point so you guys can judge for yourselves the sound quality and framerate.
Thanks!
Gratz ujp, looks great! Can't wait to buy it, day one!
Looks nice.
"40 different ships to purchase and level up."
Can I see the difference between the new ships?
Yep, the ships are visually different. There are different sprites for the different ships (not every ship has a unique sprite though), and different ships have different guns (laser, spread, reflect, knockback bullets, etc).
It's only simple on the surface. A few strategic decisions to make when you dig a bit, which is the the pull for me.
oops, I meant to post this in the Kryzer section. Doh!
Yes this game has a completely original soundtrack & professionally crafted sound design to give it a very distinctive sound along with it's distinctive look.
We're very excited for this game to hit the shelves, shoot'em ups are my personal favorite genre to make and play!
Some iphone titles we've helped provide audio for are: DropShip, Topple, Topple 2, Mazefinger, Star Defense, Dr Awesome, Pudge, Biggest Brain and a slew of other iphone titles.
I've released a video for those interested of how the music was composed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGfDhfKadMI