GameResort LLC recently released an iPhone version of their 3D game Downhill Bowling [App Store].
Like regular bowling… except you control a bowling ball as it charges down some crazy slopes with jumps, coins, bombs, cannons, speedups, sheep, grow and shrink pickups and mushrooms. Did we mention the raccoons?
The game lives up to its name with the curious goal of steering a bowling ball down a hill while trying to knock out bowling pins and collect coins. Stranger still, it’s actually kind of fun.
GameResort is offering a Lite version [App Store] which gives you a taste of the game with the first level. They have also dropped the price of the full version from $4.99 to $2.99.
Finally, this developer video shows off a later (more complicated) level:
App Store Links: Downhill Bowling Lite, Free, Downhill Bowling, $2.99
Very nice article, Arn. Winner of best, unique statement of a TouchArcade article goes toooo....Arn for " Imangi's first entry into the world of non-world games"
The cool crap you'll read on the Internet at 11pm est, on a Thursday night. :D
I'm wondering: couldn't the developer include random levels to play in?
@aaron. not the way it's set up now. If you watch the video, you'll see the levels are very specifically set up. Jumps and paths. These are "levels", not just "going down some random mountain".
Arnold is right, the levels are created by hand with specific terrain and goals in mind.
However, we have tossed around the idea of having a randomly generated infinite slope as a specific level. I think that would be a lot of fun. We're also considering polishing up the level editor we used to create the trails and releasing that as a free download. Perhaps in a future update.
We are definitely planning on adding more trails. The trail map actually scrolls to the right and up the mountain. It's disabled for this first release since we are still working on the additional slopes, but there is lots of room to expand.
Keep the feedback coming!
Thanks,
-Keith
It looks nice and kills a bit of time. These type of games seem to be the most appealing to me. Thanks for sharing the review.
It reminds me quite a bit of TuxRacer.