Review: Islands Missile Invasion

Midlet-Review reviews Islands: Missile Invasion

Score 8/10

"Lunagames, one of the leading mobile game producers, has certainly nailed it this time with Islands: Missile Invasion. Following along the lines of the classic “Battleships” game, Islands: Missile Invasion has brought new meaning and excitement into this genre."

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Mobile Games Blog: Lunagames CEO comments on user generated content

Extract from Mobile Games Blog:

We asked Richard Hanzenberg, CEO of Lunagames about his expectations for user generated content in upcoming mobile games from Lunagames.

"Based on our initial user-tests I can say we’re really enthusiastic about what user generated content can do for games and mobile services in general. We believe it will both increase the lastability of titles and stimulate people to share the game and its content far more often with friends. Although our solution works equally well on 2.5G, we thinks that user generated content will be particularly interesting in a 3G environment." said Richard Hazenberg, CEO of Lunagames.

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Lunagames confirms all new Air Traffic Controller 2007 to feature user generated content

Following the success of the original Air Traffic Controller (ATC) introduced late 2003; Lunagames has now confirmed that the all new 2007 edition will hit the market late 2006, featuring ground breaking Web to Mobile features enabling users to make new levels online and play them from their mobile instantly.

The original version sold over 400.000 copies worldwide with spin-off titles like ATC Night Flight and ATC Crazy Planes released in the following years. Kitty Brown, VP at Lunagames explains: “We believe that the success of ATC was mainly driven by the original now referred to as ‘one-thumb’ type game-play, combined with the popular theme of large Aircrafts”.

Although ATC07 will stay true to its unique one-thumb style game-play Lunagames has put allot of new features in the game to add to the overall experience, including:

• Day and night missions
• No fly-zones
• Hot air balloons
• Emergencies “May Day, May Day”
• Various Aircrafts, including jets, props, and airliners
• Weather conditions including clouds and wind effects
• System malfunctions
• 50 missions (levels)
• User generated content: Make your own levels online and upload them to your phone for endless fun

Lunagames is currently in the final phase of play testing in which the game-balance is perfected and the new Web to Mobile features are enhanced. Dennis Medema, Head of Game Design comments: “The ability for gamers to make their own levels through the online level editor has really shown to be a great differentiating game feature. We’ve seen that people sharing the game with friends is near three (3) times higher by enabling user generated content as apposed to our regular games tested”.