Phobos Children Daniel Gutierrez Alias Innovation arrives to the match-3 RPG genre! Welcome to the Chain-Action RPG "Phobos Children"! ■ GAMEPLAY Enemy's orb… Free Buy Now Watch Media DetailsInnovation arrives to the match-3 RPG genre! Welcome to the Chain-Action RPG "Phobos Children"! ■ GAMEPLAY Enemy's orbs keep falling through the screen, and if they reach your team they will receive damage! Destroy the orbs just tapping over them anywhere on the screen to blow them up. If you destroy three orbs of the same color in a row, you will attack back the enemy! Easy to play but fun and rewarding, you won't be able to leave until you get a perfect! Keep recruiting new characters for your squad, and make them stronger. Help the main characters in their quest! ■ CHARACTERISTICS - Action stages easy to play, difficult to master - More than 100 characters to collect - About 80 story missions on the first episode, and more to come! - Weekly missions and events - Score Attack mode, for hardcore players! - Lots of rewards - An engaging story that will bring you to a different world! - Offline game available for Story Mode. No downtimes! ■ STORY Year 2326. The I.S.S. Phobos, a space station orbiting around an extraterrestrial planet called "Saia", is suddenly attacked and evacuated. Lots of families get separated, hundreds remaining on the wrong side. Twenty years after the "Phobos Incident", the humanity come back to Saia searching for what they lost. Reina Diaz-Tachibana, a young and promising soldier, is looking forward to fulfilling her mission, and also to find her family. But on her way she will make new friends, both AI and Saia people, who will change the way she understand the world. The search for the truth is about to start. The year 2346 will change everything. Information Seller:Daniel Gutierrez Alias Genre:Action, Role Playing Release:May 14, 2017 Updated:Feb 10, 2018 Version:1.06 Size:71.5 MB TouchArcade Rating:Unrated User Rating: (2) Your Rating:unrated Compatibility:HD Universal jForsythe Well-Known Member Apr 9, 2013 167 0 0 #2 jForsythe, May 15, 2017 Will this be released in Australia.? Even puzzle and dragons isn't out in Australia. danialias Active Member Dec 22, 2016 38 0 0 Tokyo http://phoboschildren.com/game/ #3 danialias, May 16, 2017 Hi jForsythe, my name is Daniel, developer of Phobos Children. We plan to release the game in other countries soon, probably in the next update. Australia and UK will be included For everybody, looking forward to reading your impressions of the game! We can make this thread an AMA if you like, I'll answer any question about the game you may have. Also if you find any bug or have any suggestion, please let me know. We will try to solve any problem as soon as we can (we are a very small team but we will do our best!) If you want more info, here is the link to the beta test thread. There, Tychaeus helped us a lot to explain the game (apart from his great feedback during the testing period): http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=299074 And her I'm posting some extra images we have prepared for the next update, they make better job explaining the game than the current ones: We are preparing a new trailer as well, but it will take a bit longer. Hope that can pick your interest! Finally, If you like the game, please rate it in the App Store (thank you!), and and follow us at @MiraiLabo in Twitter, we are using it as a main channel for communication. Looking forward to hearing from you all! Daniel phoboschildren.com mirai-labo.com Tychaeus Well-Known Member Sep 23, 2015 572 9 18 #4 Tychaeus, May 16, 2017 Last edited: May 16, 2017 Man, I have really enjoyed being involved with the process (however small that might have been) of bringing this great little gem to fruition and WHAT a great dev team! I am already anxiously awaiting the first event (Tokyo Assassins, I presume) to be released as it was the one piece of the game I had little time to put any real test play into. I will be checking this forum pretty regularly as well so if anyone has any questions that I may help with as far as game mechanics/navigation definately feel free to ask as I am pretty comfortable with most of the systems and strategies at this point. Also as Daniel pointed out I have previously described some of the basics and what you can kind of expect from the game in the "upcoming ios games" TA forum of which there is a link posted above in Daniel's post. Happy space travels all! Sid andsoitgoes Well-Known Member Jun 30, 2010 2,673 58 48 In a van, down by the river! #5 andsoitgoes, May 18, 2017 Weird. I can't seem to find it in the Canadian App Store. I've tried everything but with no luck. Searched the app name, your name Daniel, and even your developer name Mirai-Labo �� Tychaeus Well-Known Member Sep 23, 2015 572 9 18 #6 Tychaeus, May 18, 2017 Yeah, Its apparently not available in countries other than US and I think Japan. Just grab it from the US app store or wait for the first patch/update which they said is when they will be releasing it in other countries. danialias Active Member Dec 22, 2016 38 0 0 Tokyo http://phoboschildren.com/game/ #7 danialias, May 18, 2017 That's right, sorry... For the time being we are releasing only in the U.S, Japan an Spain; we want to make sure everything is fine before opening to other countries. We will do it soon, though, probably on the first update. Thanks for your interest anyways, hope you can wait a bit more! imdakine1 Well-Known Member Aug 23, 2011 1,228 22 38 #8 imdakine1, May 18, 2017 Just downloaded and excited to try the game out! Looks interesting unsure what the IAPs will be as well if this is an online only game or not? Tychaeus Well-Known Member Sep 23, 2015 572 9 18 #9 Tychaeus, May 18, 2017 Last edited: May 18, 2017 The only IAP available is for "minerals," which are premium currency used to do a few things: Summon higher rank rare heroes to recruit, refill your stamina which is used to play missions, to give you a continue or revive you if you die mid battle (kind of a waste, dont use it for this as its valuable stuff!), and finally to purchase extra storage slots for characters and pets (they help you level a character faster). As for the online element. You do NOT have to be connected to play missions etc, but to access the variable daily missions, summon heroes from the gatcha draw, or be able to access limited time special events (I think at least) you nust have an internet connection. So only for certain specific elements which most of those elements can just be accessed later when you have internet access etc. nice huh? # By the way, they are VERY generous about giving the player many opportunities to snatch some nice lootz. Many ways to obtain free "mineral" currency. I recommend hitting the + symbol on the bottom left corner of the main screen (where you see your lead hero and all the gameplay options). The help or game tips section briefly tells you how and where to take advantage of these things. One that might be less obvious right away is a game play option/area (bottom right on main screen) called something like "town" or some such. Go there, tap the "data" text in top left area and select character collection. You get special rewards for collecting certain groups of heroes and level excel animals. Bah, might as well just post it here: also if you complete missions with a "perfect," you get special additional one time rewards like mineral, level upgrade animals, some side story heroes (usually of the better premium draw rank), or a bigger than usual pile of credits. There are 14 chapters each with 6-8 or so missions each, look at the bottom of the story chapters section and tap "perfect completion prizes." You can get one time only lootz for completing all missions in a chapter with a perfect and a super special reward for completing every single mission available with a perfect. If you dont get anperfect you still get rewards, so you can always go back if you fail to get a perfect # Please feel free to reach out if you have need of help with anything else....i know this shiz inside and out! # Uuuuh...just noticed ur name...."imdakine1." As in you are a kind person ooooor.....nooo...noway you are THE DOG, THE BIG BAD DaAWWWG....the hallway monitor!? Are ya? # danialias Active Member Dec 22, 2016 38 0 0 Tokyo http://phoboschildren.com/game/ #10 danialias, May 19, 2017 imdakine1, yes, as Tychaeus said the game is playable offline. You will need connection to play the events, daily missions and to draw the gacha. Also, from next update, you will need connection to receive Daily Rewards (connection rewards). The only IAP are "minerals", the hard currency of the game. Tychaeus explained hoy you can use them nicely. Let me know if you have any other question! danialias Active Member Dec 22, 2016 38 0 0 Tokyo http://phoboschildren.com/game/ #11 danialias, May 19, 2017 Last edited: May 19, 2017 By the way, on the next update we will start sending an exclusive character to our betatesters. If you are a betatester, please follow the instructions I gave on the e-mail so we can send it to you! (And please, rate the app on this thread as well . Thank you! ) (Wait, are you following @MiraiLabo at Twitter yet? Please do it! We are sharing lots of tips there) Shortdog5150 Well-Known Member Jun 18, 2015 48 7 8 Male #12 Shortdog5150, May 19, 2017 I'm enjoying this game! I recently just got back into these types of games. Here's a couple of others I've been playing(along with Terra Battle) 18 Dream World https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/18-dream-world/id1123803247?mt=8 Crash Fever https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/crash-fever/id1146722894?mt=8 Tychaeus Well-Known Member Sep 23, 2015 572 9 18 #13 Tychaeus, May 19, 2017 Hey, you mentioned from the next update you will need connection to obtain the daily rewards. errrr.....is this why I haven't received daily rewards at all yet lol? I sent a feedback message about it and thought it was a bug, I guess not realizing it had just not been implemented with the initial launch. That would explain it lol, was scorning beta bugs all over again # Hephaestus Well-Known Member Apr 16, 2014 151 0 0 #14 Hephaestus, May 24, 2017 I'm definitely enjoying this game so far...it's the first time I've seen a mechanic like this in a mobile game, and it means that even if you have weak characters, you can theoretically beat (almost) any content through skill alone if you're good enough (assuming the enemy leader doesn't have a direct nuke). I have a question and a complaint, though: Question: Are there any special types of XP fodder for quickly leveling characters up? Like metal minions in Terra Battle or metal dragons in PAD, etc? Complaint: 12-7 seems impossible to win without getting hit unless you are literally pixel perfect. It's the only mission I've seen that I feel is unfair, although I'm still only in the middle of zone 13. There's also one line of Spanish text in the English version in the cutscene for 12-8, Kamiyama's first line. Tychaeus Well-Known Member Sep 23, 2015 572 9 18 #15 Tychaeus, May 24, 2017 As far as fodder, there is the Friday only event missions that give you a crap load of XP, im almost rank 17 or almost 18 right now. As far as the mission....upgrade and rank up your characters so they hit harder when they hit, pay attention to what color the majority of the enemy consist of or what color orbs falling make up the majority and change up your party accordingly. I have obtained every perfect mission reward at this point (except for the last chapter which I am saving to complete after the first side story major event...which is coming soon in the first update!) and I know whatcha mean...some missions the orbs fall sooo janky and fast its laughable #, but I promise its doable, keep trying and implement the strategies I've laid out above. I have two rank C's and three rank B's, one of which had already ranked up once and the others are max lvl...this helps too # Tychaeus Well-Known Member Sep 23, 2015 572 9 18 #16 Tychaeus, May 24, 2017 Oh, also, to upgrade your party members much faster, farm the tues, wed, and thurs events to get those animal characters. Using the animals as fuel for upgrading your heroes makes it go reeeeeal fast#. Like I said, ive got two lvl 40's, two lvl 60's, and an 80....all leveled with animals as the upgrade fuel. Tychaeus Well-Known Member Sep 23, 2015 572 9 18 #17 Tychaeus, May 24, 2017 Ooooh, also just realized you were complaining about getting hit in that mission...if you are trying for perfects...it doesnt matter if you get hit...like an enemy directly attacks ya...perfects only come from matching every single orb in threes. But yeah, you can't let any orbs hit ya if thats what you meant. Hephaestus Well-Known Member Apr 16, 2014 151 0 0 #18 Hephaestus, May 24, 2017 Wait, really? I thought the animals were evolution material (due to Reina needing them to evolve) rather than XP material so I've been saving them. I have a ton of them. Thanks for that information. As for 12-7, I'm still disgruntled. I perfected 14-7 and got the extremely powerful character from there (not going to spoil which) but one part of the 12-7 pattern spawns the orb right on the bottom every few seconds. Having now completed all the missions I still think that's the only one that's unfair. Tychaeus Well-Known Member Sep 23, 2015 572 9 18 #19 Tychaeus, May 25, 2017 Yes, they are used both for faster leveling AND evolving, so lol...eeyeah...hoooorde them. Tues, Wed, and Thurs I don't play any other stages but the animal events. Also, I played a few beta builds so I know what character you speak of #. Dont worry, there is nothing to spoil for me hah. They recently tweeted their first event is coming up, and if its what I think...awwwwesome stuff to be had there, I cant wait. danialias Active Member Dec 22, 2016 38 0 0 Tokyo http://phoboschildren.com/game/ #20 danialias, May 25, 2017 Hi Hephaestus, Thanks for playing the game! I'm glad you like it. About the "cannon fodder" for the upgrades, Tychaeus answered already (thanks!). Try to upgrade characters using animals of the same color than the characters, that will give them an extra boost. And about the mission 12.7, I checked it and although it's quite challenging, it isn't in any way impossible. That way of appearing is what makes the orb pattern interesting, and after all that mission is very close to the end of the episode. Please note you have about one second to react, so try not to rush too much. You should be able to make it perfect after some tries, but if you can't let me know. We are really happy you liked the game enough to already finish the first episode, but on the other hand this put us on the pressure of having to release more content soon Because we are a very small team we can't do that at the same pace than bigger companies, but let me do a "sneak peek" of the next update: - First event (Tokyo Assassins). Starting date to be announced. - Daily Rewards: credits, FP and 1 mineral daily (for a limited time!) - A reward character for beta testers (Mirai, Rank A) - Now you can hear your own music or podcasts while playing (by an user request) - Added new Score Attack missions, from 4 to 15 (one for each chapter) - Hopefully some small extra improvements We plan to release this update in about one week. Stay tuned (You must log in or sign up to post here.) Show Ignored Content Page 1 of 4 1 2 3 4 Next > Share This Page Tweet Your name or email address: Do you already have an account? No, create an account now. Yes, my password is: Forgot your password? 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Hi jForsythe, my name is Daniel, developer of Phobos Children. We plan to release the game in other countries soon, probably in the next update. Australia and UK will be included For everybody, looking forward to reading your impressions of the game! We can make this thread an AMA if you like, I'll answer any question about the game you may have. Also if you find any bug or have any suggestion, please let me know. We will try to solve any problem as soon as we can (we are a very small team but we will do our best!) If you want more info, here is the link to the beta test thread. There, Tychaeus helped us a lot to explain the game (apart from his great feedback during the testing period): http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=299074 And her I'm posting some extra images we have prepared for the next update, they make better job explaining the game than the current ones: We are preparing a new trailer as well, but it will take a bit longer. Hope that can pick your interest! Finally, If you like the game, please rate it in the App Store (thank you!), and and follow us at @MiraiLabo in Twitter, we are using it as a main channel for communication. Looking forward to hearing from you all! Daniel phoboschildren.com mirai-labo.com
Man, I have really enjoyed being involved with the process (however small that might have been) of bringing this great little gem to fruition and WHAT a great dev team! I am already anxiously awaiting the first event (Tokyo Assassins, I presume) to be released as it was the one piece of the game I had little time to put any real test play into. I will be checking this forum pretty regularly as well so if anyone has any questions that I may help with as far as game mechanics/navigation definately feel free to ask as I am pretty comfortable with most of the systems and strategies at this point. Also as Daniel pointed out I have previously described some of the basics and what you can kind of expect from the game in the "upcoming ios games" TA forum of which there is a link posted above in Daniel's post. Happy space travels all! Sid
Weird. I can't seem to find it in the Canadian App Store. I've tried everything but with no luck. Searched the app name, your name Daniel, and even your developer name Mirai-Labo ��
Yeah, Its apparently not available in countries other than US and I think Japan. Just grab it from the US app store or wait for the first patch/update which they said is when they will be releasing it in other countries.
That's right, sorry... For the time being we are releasing only in the U.S, Japan an Spain; we want to make sure everything is fine before opening to other countries. We will do it soon, though, probably on the first update. Thanks for your interest anyways, hope you can wait a bit more!
Just downloaded and excited to try the game out! Looks interesting unsure what the IAPs will be as well if this is an online only game or not?
The only IAP available is for "minerals," which are premium currency used to do a few things: Summon higher rank rare heroes to recruit, refill your stamina which is used to play missions, to give you a continue or revive you if you die mid battle (kind of a waste, dont use it for this as its valuable stuff!), and finally to purchase extra storage slots for characters and pets (they help you level a character faster). As for the online element. You do NOT have to be connected to play missions etc, but to access the variable daily missions, summon heroes from the gatcha draw, or be able to access limited time special events (I think at least) you nust have an internet connection. So only for certain specific elements which most of those elements can just be accessed later when you have internet access etc. nice huh? # By the way, they are VERY generous about giving the player many opportunities to snatch some nice lootz. Many ways to obtain free "mineral" currency. I recommend hitting the + symbol on the bottom left corner of the main screen (where you see your lead hero and all the gameplay options). The help or game tips section briefly tells you how and where to take advantage of these things. One that might be less obvious right away is a game play option/area (bottom right on main screen) called something like "town" or some such. Go there, tap the "data" text in top left area and select character collection. You get special rewards for collecting certain groups of heroes and level excel animals. Bah, might as well just post it here: also if you complete missions with a "perfect," you get special additional one time rewards like mineral, level upgrade animals, some side story heroes (usually of the better premium draw rank), or a bigger than usual pile of credits. There are 14 chapters each with 6-8 or so missions each, look at the bottom of the story chapters section and tap "perfect completion prizes." You can get one time only lootz for completing all missions in a chapter with a perfect and a super special reward for completing every single mission available with a perfect. If you dont get anperfect you still get rewards, so you can always go back if you fail to get a perfect # Please feel free to reach out if you have need of help with anything else....i know this shiz inside and out! # Uuuuh...just noticed ur name...."imdakine1." As in you are a kind person ooooor.....nooo...noway you are THE DOG, THE BIG BAD DaAWWWG....the hallway monitor!? Are ya? #
imdakine1, yes, as Tychaeus said the game is playable offline. You will need connection to play the events, daily missions and to draw the gacha. Also, from next update, you will need connection to receive Daily Rewards (connection rewards). The only IAP are "minerals", the hard currency of the game. Tychaeus explained hoy you can use them nicely. Let me know if you have any other question!
By the way, on the next update we will start sending an exclusive character to our betatesters. If you are a betatester, please follow the instructions I gave on the e-mail so we can send it to you! (And please, rate the app on this thread as well . Thank you! ) (Wait, are you following @MiraiLabo at Twitter yet? Please do it! We are sharing lots of tips there)
I'm enjoying this game! I recently just got back into these types of games. Here's a couple of others I've been playing(along with Terra Battle) 18 Dream World https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/18-dream-world/id1123803247?mt=8 Crash Fever https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/crash-fever/id1146722894?mt=8
Hey, you mentioned from the next update you will need connection to obtain the daily rewards. errrr.....is this why I haven't received daily rewards at all yet lol? I sent a feedback message about it and thought it was a bug, I guess not realizing it had just not been implemented with the initial launch. That would explain it lol, was scorning beta bugs all over again #
I'm definitely enjoying this game so far...it's the first time I've seen a mechanic like this in a mobile game, and it means that even if you have weak characters, you can theoretically beat (almost) any content through skill alone if you're good enough (assuming the enemy leader doesn't have a direct nuke). I have a question and a complaint, though: Question: Are there any special types of XP fodder for quickly leveling characters up? Like metal minions in Terra Battle or metal dragons in PAD, etc? Complaint: 12-7 seems impossible to win without getting hit unless you are literally pixel perfect. It's the only mission I've seen that I feel is unfair, although I'm still only in the middle of zone 13. There's also one line of Spanish text in the English version in the cutscene for 12-8, Kamiyama's first line.
As far as fodder, there is the Friday only event missions that give you a crap load of XP, im almost rank 17 or almost 18 right now. As far as the mission....upgrade and rank up your characters so they hit harder when they hit, pay attention to what color the majority of the enemy consist of or what color orbs falling make up the majority and change up your party accordingly. I have obtained every perfect mission reward at this point (except for the last chapter which I am saving to complete after the first side story major event...which is coming soon in the first update!) and I know whatcha mean...some missions the orbs fall sooo janky and fast its laughable #, but I promise its doable, keep trying and implement the strategies I've laid out above. I have two rank C's and three rank B's, one of which had already ranked up once and the others are max lvl...this helps too #
Oh, also, to upgrade your party members much faster, farm the tues, wed, and thurs events to get those animal characters. Using the animals as fuel for upgrading your heroes makes it go reeeeeal fast#. Like I said, ive got two lvl 40's, two lvl 60's, and an 80....all leveled with animals as the upgrade fuel.
Ooooh, also just realized you were complaining about getting hit in that mission...if you are trying for perfects...it doesnt matter if you get hit...like an enemy directly attacks ya...perfects only come from matching every single orb in threes. But yeah, you can't let any orbs hit ya if thats what you meant.
Wait, really? I thought the animals were evolution material (due to Reina needing them to evolve) rather than XP material so I've been saving them. I have a ton of them. Thanks for that information. As for 12-7, I'm still disgruntled. I perfected 14-7 and got the extremely powerful character from there (not going to spoil which) but one part of the 12-7 pattern spawns the orb right on the bottom every few seconds. Having now completed all the missions I still think that's the only one that's unfair.
Yes, they are used both for faster leveling AND evolving, so lol...eeyeah...hoooorde them. Tues, Wed, and Thurs I don't play any other stages but the animal events. Also, I played a few beta builds so I know what character you speak of #. Dont worry, there is nothing to spoil for me hah. They recently tweeted their first event is coming up, and if its what I think...awwwwesome stuff to be had there, I cant wait.
Hi Hephaestus, Thanks for playing the game! I'm glad you like it. About the "cannon fodder" for the upgrades, Tychaeus answered already (thanks!). Try to upgrade characters using animals of the same color than the characters, that will give them an extra boost. And about the mission 12.7, I checked it and although it's quite challenging, it isn't in any way impossible. That way of appearing is what makes the orb pattern interesting, and after all that mission is very close to the end of the episode. Please note you have about one second to react, so try not to rush too much. You should be able to make it perfect after some tries, but if you can't let me know. We are really happy you liked the game enough to already finish the first episode, but on the other hand this put us on the pressure of having to release more content soon Because we are a very small team we can't do that at the same pace than bigger companies, but let me do a "sneak peek" of the next update: - First event (Tokyo Assassins). Starting date to be announced. - Daily Rewards: credits, FP and 1 mineral daily (for a limited time!) - A reward character for beta testers (Mirai, Rank A) - Now you can hear your own music or podcasts while playing (by an user request) - Added new Score Attack missions, from 4 to 15 (one for each chapter) - Hopefully some small extra improvements We plan to release this update in about one week. Stay tuned
