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Lima Sky手机游戏《涂鸦跳跃》下载量突破1000万次

发布时间:2011-03-16 12:47:32 Tags:,,,

据venturebeat报道,由兄弟组合Lima Sky工作室开发的手机游戏《涂鸦跳跃》,目前在iPhone、iPad和Android平台的下载量已超过1000万次。

尽管这是一项了不起的成就,但在这个手机应用繁荣发展的年代,越来越多原本默默无闻的独立开发者,都可以通过创建一款游戏迅速吸引数百万用户,并因此而成为家户喻晓的名字。

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不过Lima Sky的项目运营并不仅限于开发游戏,他们在今年1月还与环球影业进行了市场营销合作,在《涂鸦跳跃》中交叉推广后者即将上映的真人与动画合成电影《Hop》。

《涂鸦跳跃》是一款出自克罗地亚移民Igor Pusenjak及Marko之手的游戏,这俩兄弟在2008年成立了Lima Sky工作室。该游戏在两年前开发完成,现在已成为一个颇具知名度的游戏品牌。游戏邦获悉,在游戏开发之初,Igor负责构思创意,并在画板上勾勒出游戏草图,而Marko则主要接手应用编程的工作。

据Lima Sky所称,《涂鸦跳跃》很快将在iOS(包括iPod Touch、iPhone和iPad、iPad 2)平台推出多人模式版本,以及《涂鸦跳跃》主题玩具、漫画书等周边产品,另外还将进军含Kinect体感控制系统的Xbox 360主机游戏平台。游戏邦认为,在《涂鸦跳跃》的品牌扩张过程中,Lima Sky采用了与Rovio一样的发展策略(后者的手机游戏《愤怒的小鸟》下载量已突破1亿大关)。

在与环球影业的合作项目中,《涂鸦跳跃》支持玩家开启一个神秘的复活节关卡,以该电影主角的视角来体验游戏。《Hop》是环球影业与Illumination Entertainment电影制作人Chris Meledandri共同推出的第二部影片,影片中的复活节兔子由拉塞尔·布兰德(Russell Brand)配音,将于4月1日正式上映。

在《涂鸦跳跃》中,玩家可以使用iPhone、iPod Touhc或iPad的倾斜控制功能,引导Doodle the Doodler在方格纸中跳跃。这款游戏自发布以来,已成为娱乐圈中的一个热词,美国著名电视节目主持人吉米·法伦(Jimmy Fallon)曾表示自己也是《涂鸦跳跃》玩家,热门电视剧《生活大爆炸》、影视明星雷恩·威尔森(Rainn Wilson)、乐队组合乔纳斯兄弟(Jonas Brothers)也曾多次提及该游戏。

在最近的慕尼黑DLD大会上,Igor Pusenjak表示因为持续保持更新,《涂鸦跳跃》至今仍然大受欢迎,Lima Sky还授权GameHouse发行了这款游戏的Android版本。(本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译,转载请注明来源:游戏邦)

Doodle Jump scores 10 million mobile downloads for two brothers

Doodle Jump, an enormously popular game on the iPhone built by two brothers in New York, has been downloaded more than 10 million times across the iPhone, iPad, and Android mobile devices.

That’s quite an achievement, but one that is becoming more and more common in the age of mobile apps. Indie developers who were virtually unknown are now becoming famous and fabulously wealthy because they created a game that resonated with millions of mobile users.

The company isn’t sitting still. In January, it announced a marketing deal with Universal Pictures, which plans to cross-promote the app in promotions for its upcoming live action and computer-animated comedy, Hop.

Doodle Jump comes from humble indie roots. Croatian immigrants Igor Pusenjak and his brother Marko (their company is called Lima Sky) created the app two years ago, and it has become a sensation, particularly in my household. Igor got the idea for it and sketched the game on a pad in his living room. Marko did the programming.

Lima Sky says it will soon launch multiplayer gaming for iOS (Apple iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad and iPad 2 devices), Doodle Jump on the iPad, a Doodle Jump line of toys, a Doodle Jump comic book, and a Doodle Jump game for the Kinect motion-gaming system on the Xbox 360 video game console. In all of these extensions of the Doodle Jump brand, Lima Sky is pursuing the same kind of strategy as Rovio, which has had 100 million downloads of its Angry Birds mobile game.

In the movie deal, Lima Sky let its Doodle Jump users unlock a secret Easter level within the game and play as the film’s leading character. Hop is the second film from Universal Pictures and filmmaker Chris Meledandri, producer of Despicable Me, at Illumination Entertainment. The film, which features Russell Brand as the Easter Bunny, will be released on April 1.

In Doodle Jump, players guide Doodle the Doodler on a journey up a sheet of graph paper, using the tilt controls of the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. Since its release, the game has risen into the cultural stratosphere, getting plenty of play and mentions from the likes of Jimmy Fallon, The Big Bang Theory, Rainn Wilson, the Jonas Brothers and others. Lima Sky was founded in July 2008.

In my panel at the recent Digital Life Design conference in Munich, Igor Pusenjak said the game has stayed popular thanks to frequent content updates. The company has also licensed the game to GameHouse, which has published it on Android phones.(source:venturebeat)


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