The Hockey Experiment Multiplatform Release

Hey Everyone-

We recently finished our first game title using Unity and wanted to share it with the community. It was just accepted to the iTunes Store yesterday.

Ninth Dimension Studios is amped to announce the release of its first game title, The Hockey Experiment™, now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch, priced at $3.99. The game is also offered for the PC or Mac at a retail price of $12.99. From the unhinged minds of the development team comes a very unusual grouping of hockey players known as Mischievous Muckety Mucks™, who were brought to life through the use of full 3D graphics and Motion Capture Technology, resulting in one of the only complete Ice Hockey titles offered for the iPhone / iPod Touch platform.

This game title has been developed through the collaboration of Ninth Dimension Studios, a young and upcoming studio specializing in digital animation and 3D modeling, and Bitwise Design, Inc., a top-tier programming and game design company. This game has been developed solely by three individuals over the past five months. From Ninth Dimension Studios is Jonathan Sabella, creating all artwork and animation, and Brian Kritzberg, handling audio and musical score compositions. From Bitwise Design, Inc., Ray Graham, developer of published iPhone / iPod Touch titles such as Karnival and Hospital Havoc, coded the entire game.

THE HOCKEY EXPERIMENT™

GAME FEATURES

Fast-Paced 3-on-3 Arcade Style Hockey Simulation

Full 3D Graphics

Motion Captured Animations

Classic 8-bit Style Music

Exhibition and Tournament Game Modes

Two Difficulty Settings: Novice and Advanced

6 Uniquely Designed Preloaded Teams (iPhone Version Only)

10 Uniquely Designed Preloaded Teams (PC/Mac Version Only)

2 Achievement-Based Unlockable Teams

4 Additional Teams Available For Purchase (iPhone Version Only)

24 Humorous Achievement-Based Trophies To Earn

Totally Radical Power-Ups for Shooting, Checking, and Skating

On-Ice “Clutch-Shot” Positions Score 2 Points

Ability To Pull Your Goalie

Win Fights To Gain The On-Ice Advantage

Career Stats Keeper

OpenFeint Enabled (iPhone Version Only)

CLASSIC ARCADE FEEL UPDATED GRAPHICS
This game features old school inspired 8-bit music and classic gameplay, but is updated with fast-paced action and 3D graphics that are enhanced through the use of on-ice Power-Up Icons. These enable crazy-fast slap-shots, lightning-quick skating, and extra powerful checking. Need to score a quick two points? No problem, just skate over the on-ice “Clutch-Shot” areas where a score from this position is worth two goals!

BECOME THE GREATEST EVER TO GRACE THE MAGNIFICENCE THAT IS … UGHH, YOU GET THE IDEA
Play for all the world-famous Hockey teams you know and love, like um … well, like the Brothzillas™, you know, the team whose mascot is a dinosaur who pukes up Minestrone soup. There are way more teams to choose from, but we can’t seem to recall the names at the moment. Any who …

THINK OF THE WONDERS THAT AWAIT
Practice your skills in Exhibition Mode or shoot for the glory in Tournament Mode. Rack up enough career goals or wins to unlock cool new teams not available anywhere else. You can also earn special trophies as in-game milestones are reached, like the “Mmm, Generic Cheese Puffs” Trophy that’s awarded to those who have won their 250th game.

Thanks for looking!

Link to Game Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZl7p9RZIRA

The Hockey Experiment™ is now available for $2.99 (Originally $3.99).
Get Your Copy While Supplies Last!!!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-hockey-experiment/id369225815?mt=8

In celebration of being named a “Top 10 Finalist”, out of more than 50 entries, in the IndieDB.com Unity Built Games Contest, we are slashing the price on The Hockey Experiment™ to just $1.99. The Hockey Experiment™ is currently the highest rated hockey game in the App Store with a 4-star average review rating! Stop being such a “Noob” and download your copy today!

Watch for Version 1.1 to drop soon!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-hockey-experiment/id369225815?mt=8

Thanks
Ninth Dimension Studios

craving a new hockey game, I tried this out (got the expensive PC version)

first tried the game on novice but it was far too easy, think the score was 14-1 in the 1st so I cranked up the difficulty, it took about 3 periods to adjust to before I was dominating the advanced AI.

The goalies in this game are ridiculous in how terrible they are, there were games where my goalie had a flat out 0 save percentage, there’s times there will be a fanned pass that happens to go to the net very very slowly and the goalie still couldn’t stop it, I was wondering why there was so much emphasis on pulling the goalie in the bullet points which is strange as that’s usually used as a desperation move when you’re in a hockey game in order to attempt to score some comeback points, but here the extra player is by far more valuable than the goalie

I played firewagon style hockey and went 3 rounds of score around the area of 15-2 in tournament mode, for the 4th round I decided to try some New Jersey style neutral zone play to see how the AI would react, and in short they don’t, so you could score 1 goal, then just hover in the neutral zone and win every game on advanced, after that it said going on to round 5, I felt very bored at that point and decided not to continue.

Did not feel it was worth anywhere near the price of admission