Hi all, Everyone loves a preview! We here at Rodeo Games wanted to give you guys a sneak peak of our upcoming game HUNTERS: Episode One. Designed from the ground up for the iPhone and iPad, HUNTERS is a turn based strategy game. HUNTERS: Episode One, is in review with Apple and will be hitting the App Store very soon. Subscribe to the TouchArcade YouTube channel Rodeo Games is a team of four friends hailing from EA, Codemasters, Criterion and Lionhead. We decided to strike out on our own and create games for gamers, solely for iOS devices. For more info, visit us at www.rodeogames.co.uk
Glad you guys like it. We'll be throwing out more info (including a gameplay trailer) over the next few days, so stay tuned. For any immediate questions that simply can't wait, feel free to ask them here!
the teaser was a bit cheesy with the ipone.. but the screenshots look gorgoues.. this is jagged alliance in space? so its like incubation? say yes! the "episode" subtitles rings a few alarm bells.. so - how long/short is the first episode? - whats the release price? - will there be an ipad version? (you show an ipad on the website) - will it be universal? - how will the other episodes be distributed? IAP? seperate apps?
There's more info on their web site, including a very brief clip of gameplay in the trailer video (not the teaser). One thing I noticed in the feature list is that it seems you get contracts every day (real time) and you have to complete them within 24 hours of real time. For a TBS game on a mobile platform, that seems...risky I think. TBS games aren't meant to be rushed to begin with, and those who play on mobile devices usually only play for bits at a time. Maybe if the contracts are really short, and only take like 20 min. to play, that would work, but how complex/strategic could they be then if they only take that amount of time? Graphics do look good, and the team members seem to have strong game dev backgrounds. Site said the game is in review now, so I guess we'll see.
Thanks for the questions! Ok, let's get into it. We're all fans of XCOM, Jagged Alliance, Incubation, Syndicate, (I could go on). So, yes, certain elements from all those games have inspired our design. HUNTERS: Episode One is the full game we've created. We intend to support Episode One with updates and content for quite a while. Episode Two will be a sequel, but we are literally in the "throwing ideas around" stage for that! HUNTERS: Episode One will be a free download giving you full access to the daily missions. We do need to make a living though, so players will need to unlock the full game if they want to level their characters past lvl2. This will cost £2.99 / $4.99 / 3.99 We are releasing simultaneously on the iPhone, iPad and iPod. We also support the iPhone4 retina screen right out of the box! We shall be releasing an actual gameplay walkthrough very soon, for now though........ Subscribe to the TouchArcade YouTube channel
Looks really cool, when are you planning to submit to apple? The teaser says February 2011 and it's already the 14th, so only two more weeks....
Thanks Mr Ice! We submitted to Apple last week. You'll be seeing it in the App Store within the next week.
Game looks really good. You should start promotion now before the game comes out. Will await full gameplay video. Will you ever make a action or adventure game with this engine, like Dungeon Hunter 2 or iDracula?
Thanks for all the positive feedback! @Arta, we have a whole load of games that we want to make. I'm sure we'll continue to build on our engine for future titles. Finished filming our gameplay walkthrough video today. Watch out for it on Thursday / Friday!
Cool. This looks amazing! I've been waiting for a game like this for a while. It reminds me of playing tabletop games when I was a kid. Did you play anything like that when you were making your game?
Would that be Commander Shepard For King? Just finished Mass Effect 2. Literally one of the best game experiences I've ever had! Down to business then. We're all huge gamers at Rodeo Games. We regularly hold board game nights in our offices, BattleStar Galactica and Space Hulk being the favourites at the moment. All of us grew up and were involved with tabletop stuff like Games Workshop. Personally I had a fairly sizeable Chaos Warhammer Army, and Wood Elf Blood Bowl team. I guess everything we play influences our work to a degree. It would be impossible not to! However, we designed HUNTERS to be the game we always wanted to play.
Cool bio. You guys should do well in the Appstore. Can you tell us more about how the game works? Gameplay video? Have you started contacting review sites yet?
