Hey everyone,
this is the first post from our new corporate account. We’re the Bit Barons, indie devs from Munich, and we’ve just released our first game with Unity 3.1 - Astroslugs. Astroslugs is a colorful and soothing puzzle game for PC and Mac that is extremely easy to pick up. It features interesting puzzles which require you to fit a number of different shapes upon a board. You fill all available spaces with all the available shapes to solve each one.
We have focused on simplifying the role of placing pieces – there is no moving pieces into place and clicking buttons to rotate and flip. Instead, you use your mouse to draw them into place, while drawing over an already present shape will remove it. It’s a very simple mechanic which anyone can easily understand.
The story of the game revolves around the evil but slightly incompetent Astroslugs who strife to leave their home planet and conquer the universe. Their only problem: They have no source of energy to jumpstart their space craft. Now they turn to you to fix this problem and get them on their way to the stars.
Want to play Astroslugs? Here are the links to the PC and Mac OSX demos. We’re looking forward to hear your feedback.
- https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/downloads.bitbarons.com/Astroslugs_101_BB_WIN_DEMO.exe
- https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/downloads.bitbarons.com/Astroslugs_101_BB_OSX_DEMO.zip
More Screenshots (click on the for the big versions on flickr):
Future development:
It’s no secret that we’re working hard to bring Astroslugs to more platforms. The production of Astroslugs for iPad will begin right after this first release. It will probably be available in March/April 2011. Afterwards we’re going to work on the iPhone and Android versions of Astroslugs. We’re also working on the concept for our next game, currently titled “Astroslugs Adventures” for which we’ve been granted a loan by the federal state of Bavaria. We’ll keep you posted on the ongoing development.
