Hopefully, you’ve all heard by now that Pocket Monkey Games has come out with a new game called Swingaling. Hopefully, you’ve all purchased a copy (right?). If you haven’t, let me tell you a bit about the game to whet your appetite because it’s a super rad game.
With Swingaling we were looking to change a lot of things: Art, game play, everything. The art is most noticeably different. It’s a cutesy, rounded, colorful style that allows you to really get into the idea of flinging a squirrel-like-ball through the trees into a cracked out dust bunny (didn’t I tell you this game was rad?).
Picture Doodle Jump, but in horizontal fashion. Your objective is to gain yardage and avoid baddies by swinging from tree top to tree top. We’ve adopted the casual “pick up and play” style Doodle Jump taught us to love and formed it into a game of our own.
Here’s a couple pictures of said cute-squirrell-ball.
I’m going to claim Slugston, a slug tied to a propeller, as my favorite baddie. He’s cute and angry!
Our concept designer, Koreena, and I want you to see an inside look at our game production that you won’t have seen anywhere else. Voilà! Our first rough draft drawings of the characters!
To see how our game has evolved, you’ll have to buy the game to see for yourself. And we’ve got a sweet deal for you if you’re planning on looking into Swingaling. This game normally goes for $.99, but on MONDAY the 19th ONLY, PMG will be giving you a chance to download it FOR FREE in the App Store. Yep. Fo’ free. So set your iPhone alarms for Monday and grab yourself a free game :) And then tell your friends.
Hopefully this promotion will get you excited for PMG’s OTHER upcoming games, one of which being Nerdzilla, which I’ll write about on my next post.
If any of you have purchased Swingaling, leave a comment! That way we'll know who you are, find you, and love on you. Bet on it.
As always, follow me on twitter @pocketkelsey
xoxo K
4 comments
UhOh / 18th Oct 2009
Ok it is cool and all that this lady makes games but do they also own this site? if not, its cool to see a developer be active on a good site. Ps swingaling sounds dirty. 0_o
Left Hook / 18th Oct 2009
Highly doubt that Pocket Monkey Games owns AppGamer dude! Really enjoyed reading it though, haven't tried Swingaling yet but might pick it up soon :D
Chris / 18th Oct 2009
To clarify, Pocket Monkey Games don't own AppGamer.net (I do) but we have given them this blog to give you guys a bit of an inside look into indie games development :-) Naturally we won't be reviewing PMG games anymore (conflict of interest) however you can get that content from the various other sites. Hopefully this blog will have more value for you guys. Again, a big thanks to Kelsey for giving us this insight!
EvenSteven / 17th Oct 2009
squirrel??!?!?!?! thought it was a monkey. When will pocket monkey actually make a game about MONKEYS? its still cute tho