Official screenshots for an upcoming iPhone game based on the Showtime series Dexter have been released. The high-quality shots show scenes from the game.
The game is expected to be released in the Summer of 2009 and will involve puzzle solving, stealth tactics, mini-games, and “slashing" with the iPhone itself (using the accelerometer tech).
Dexter’s interactions with other people require thought and strategy, as to not raise suspicions for Dexter’s “Dark Passenger". This means maintaining your “Mask" – if this meter goes all the way down, it is game over.
There will be two control methods for Dexter:
- you can tilt the iPhone left and right, then use the forward and backward buttons on-screen
- use a virtual joystick in the lower corner of the screen
The game has been scripted by one of the show’s writers and will be voiced by the Dexter actor Michael C. Hall.
We were suspicious of how the screenshots were of such high resolution (click on images for larger view) for an iPhone game, but the company reassured us that these are representative of the actual iPhone game:
Dexter is being developed on a proprietary engine designed by Icarus Studios. It allows for screenshots to be exported at a higher resolution than possible directly from the iPhone. However, these screens do reflect the graphics in the iPhone game, and to the same scale.
This game really looks great and has been anticipated, but having heard a complaint from an itunes review saying there are only ten levels, I feel this is turning out to be another sway-- amazing game with very few levels. The only solution is to add more in updates, but we don't know yet if this is going to happen. I think I will wait until the announcement of new levels takes touch arcade by storm.
Oh no, Rasta Monkey II thru XV coming soon, all for $1.99 each :(
Hmm, not half as fun as I thought it would be. Decent price though.
Amazing game! just played the first 4 levels it was really fun ,keep it up!
Hi people:)
I'm Noam from Nitako (developer of Rasta Monkey).
I'd like to answer the question asked here about the number of levels.
People talked about this game having only 10 levels. I just wanna say that we felt that we would rather give 10 long levels, with a lot of new game elements, instead of a lot of short monotonic levels. We felt that this would make a great deal considering the price. Still, after hearing you guys, we decided we will release more levels in a future update, but please remember this is the Intro price, and the update will probably comes out after the price increase, so please buy it now if you wanna get it in this price.
Thank you all for your support, it was an amazing launch!
Casual racial stereotyping FTW!
From the developer:
"Rasta Monkey is by far the best Iphone 2D action platformer out there."
lol
How many times have we heard a developer of an iTouch/Phone platformer state that theirs was the best one out there?
You devs have got to come up with a new opening statement. lol
Anyway, I'm getting this. Was gonna hold off on buying any more iTouch/Phone games, but that damned pot head monkey swinging off a tree, sliding down an s curve, popping up in the air and falling onto a half pipe and then popping up and and landing just right onto a pinball paddle so as to enter another s curve sold me. Clearly, although it uses different platforming mechanics, the developers were inspired by Sonic the Hedgehog's classic level design. Good stuff. And, IMHO, more than worth the 2 bucks.
Sold!
Noam,
Thanks for responding. I think ten big levels for $2.00 is more than fair. I bought the game and am really enjoying it. I am going to go post a review right now! :)
Yer gets my money.
I've loved the game until level 3.
Then the game didn't show those nice helping arrows anymore, and jumps became unpredictable for me. So frustrating... :-(((
Any tips?
I will be picking this up shortly since there are levels coming in an update.
When is Catholic horse coming out?