Fast-paced arcade strategy game Galcon [App Store] has seen a substantial price drop to $4.99 this morning.
Galcon is a fast-paced arcade strategy game set in space. The game begins with a galactic playfield filled with planets of varying size. The green planets belong to the player, neutral planets are grey, and planets of any other color belong to the enemy. The goal is to take over all the planets.
The game original debuted at $9.99 and received a very positive review from us as well as our readers.
After a substantial update in late August which added multiplayer game support, any remaining complaints about price seemed to disappear from many of our commenters.
Still, the developer has dropped the price to $4.99 and also recently bumped the version number up to 1.3. The latest version added:
- Galcon music
- Color blind option
- Enhanced Multi-Player interface
Galcon is available in the App Store for $4.99.
Just watching the video was great fun!
I find this quite addicting. I hope this gets released soon!
Looks like a lot of fun! Hope it comes with that type of music. :D
music was half the fun.. :) like three or four commodore 64 put together to make music.
Thanks guys,
The music is a direct capture from the game's own soundtrack, which has been composed by the excellent and talented Jonne 'Purple Motion' Valtonen.
@Frand: Woah, Purple Motion? I am a huge PM fan. Ever since I saw Second Reality for the first time, I was hooked. I've recently gotten back into MODs on modern machines and it's been good fun.
The iPhone game Vector Blaster has excellent MOD music by Mick Rippon. Check the artist's website: http://www.mickrippon.com/
I remember buying games from Fathammer back when I had a Tapwave Zodiac. They had some pretty good games for it, and eventually went on to make some more for the Gizmodo. Seems they had a lot of talent, but kept developing on a dieing platform. :) Anyway, hopefully we will see some of their old games get update to the ipod.
Oh sorry if that last comment seems random, just noticed the fathammer logo during the video. I'm guessing that Secret Garden must have bought the IP from Fathammer.
Secret Garden, eh? :D
If you liked Stuntcar Extreme on the Zodiac, you'll be happy to know that Jetro was the lead engineer for that game, and he's a co-founder of Secret Exit. I (Jani) worked at Fathammer as a game designer and producer for four years before starting up our own studio.
It feels good to be able to bring our work to a platform that isn't dying :)
@Frand
Spin looks like a lot of fun. Have you submitted it to Apple yet?
Some polishing still remains, but soon.
Oh I am loving the visuals, the concept and the music. This is exactly te kind of fun gameplay and gfx and music I am looking for for games on my Touch. As soon as you release it: I'm in! Keep it up: this is fantastic. I keep replaying the video.
a sequel to sce would be awesome. As would Firehammer or Hockey Rage. I'll be keeping my eyes peeled.
If you liked Firehammer, did you check out Angelfish? It was the spiritual sequel, and was released on Gizmondo at least. I remember playing it on the Zodiac, and it looked really good on that screen... but I can't remember if that build was ever available in public. It might have been just an internal test when Tapwave had already become defunct.
The good news is, Angelfish was released as a free PC download before Fathammer went belly up, and that zip file should still be floating around the intertubes.
The name of the file was something like Fathammer_Angelfish_WinXP.zip, see if you can hunt it down. It's a lot nicer than Firehammer in every aspect.
anyone know when this will be released or if it has been even submitted?
What about the price?
Price is $4.99, and we just got word that our app should be ready for sale.
@Frand
That's awesome news. I'm excited about all the games you guys have coming out. I definitely be looking for this.
I'm happy to hear that :)
I also started a thread here in the Touch Arcade forums, with a longer, longer post about stuff that was done for this release.