Oort Storm: Best-of-Breed Space Shooter
Posted February 23, 2009 at 3:27pm by iClarified
FlipSide5 has announced the release of "Oort Storm", a best-of-breed arcade space shooter iPhone game in which players save the Earth from an onslaught of asteroids, mines, and other space debris across 9 increasingly challenging levels.
Oort Storm features a global leader-board, spectacular rendered backdrops and animations for the frantic space battles, and compelling gameplay. Utilizing all of the iPhone capabilities including full accelerometer support, 3D positional audio, and OpenGL accelerated graphics, it provides an immersive and complete gaming experience.
Users are raving about the game calling it "impressive", "stunning" and "one of the best iPhone games yet...".
"We've taken what we've learned to date and created a game to push the iPhone and iPod touch platforms to their limits." said Michael Stepniczka, Vice President of Engineering at FlipSide5. "Beyond the visual polish, users will be drawn in by the depth of gameplay, and can continue to come back and compete against other players with the online global leader-board."
Oort Storm joins the FlipSide5 product suite of Mancala, Touch Hockey, Tic-Tac-Touch and Touch4. FlipSide5 games are currently on over 6 million iPhones and iPods with over 1.5 million online iPhone games played a month. FlipSide5 has seen over 8 million downloads of their games.
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Oort Storm features a global leader-board, spectacular rendered backdrops and animations for the frantic space battles, and compelling gameplay. Utilizing all of the iPhone capabilities including full accelerometer support, 3D positional audio, and OpenGL accelerated graphics, it provides an immersive and complete gaming experience.
Users are raving about the game calling it "impressive", "stunning" and "one of the best iPhone games yet...".
"We've taken what we've learned to date and created a game to push the iPhone and iPod touch platforms to their limits." said Michael Stepniczka, Vice President of Engineering at FlipSide5. "Beyond the visual polish, users will be drawn in by the depth of gameplay, and can continue to come back and compete against other players with the online global leader-board."
Oort Storm joins the FlipSide5 product suite of Mancala, Touch Hockey, Tic-Tac-Touch and Touch4. FlipSide5 games are currently on over 6 million iPhones and iPods with over 1.5 million online iPhone games played a month. FlipSide5 has seen over 8 million downloads of their games.
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