Hope this Christmas brings some good news for everyone, it sure did for us and the fans of L'il Pono. For all the people who do not own an iPad, the mesmerising tale of L'il Pono and The Magical Tree is now available on the awesome MangoReader website on PC and on the MangoReader App n the Android store !
MangoReader is a fantastic new platform that is going places with its interactive storybooks and the ability for users to create their own if they wish to. Christmas Magic has also been selected to be part of the Christmas Story pack which is also available as a separate app on the Google Play Store.
So, get clicky on these links and get yourself and your family a warm christmas tale and gift your friends the best xmas gift in town :) !
For people, who want the full epxerience of the game and the storybook, the game app is available on the Appstore for iPad here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/christmas-magic-+/id587804888?ls=1&mt=8
For people who don't game on the iPad, well, lets say soe awesome news is inbound in just a little more time : wink wink :)!
An update for Christmas Magic + is live now, updating the game to version 1.1. Its a major update for all iPad 3 owners who were having some problems with graphics.
iPad 3 is fully supported now and graphics will display properly on the retina displays now. If for some reason, the game wasn't working properly on your iPad till now, I recommend updating the game as some other bugs related to rating the game and memory management are also solved in this update.
Download here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/christmas-magic-+/id587804888?ls=1&mt=8
Also, just a reminder , the New Year Sale is still on ! So, get the update and then get all that you wanted to buy in the game at the lowest prices ever :D !.
Hullo one and all ! The Christmas Magic + team wishes you all a Happy New Year ! Hope you guys enjoyed your holidays a lot and had a lot of gaming sessions with family and friends. The holidays are over but the fun can continue on , and to make sure it does we are doing a massive sale in Christmas Magic + !
If you fire up your Christmas Magic + on your iPad now, you will notice a massive price drop on all in-game items and unlocks ! So don't wait anymore:
grab all those Magic Pots and Hints you wanted :) !
...and remember you can always Unlock a canopy to go the next set of puzzles.
For all those who love the ambiance of 'Chritsmas Magic +' you can unlock the original Music and Concept Art from the 'Unlocks' menu to enjoy it independently.
The Concept Art bundle is also nice peek into the making of Pono's world as it has many sketches that did not make it into the final game and has all the Storybook illustrations for your personal usage. They make great wallpapers for your mobile phones and desktops !
For example, this:
And then there's the 'Unlock Story' option for all you story lovers. If you are not the gamer type and just want to read a mesmerising story, then you can skip the game and just Unlock the rest of the fully voiced and illustrated story by tapping the story page or from the 'Unlocks' menu.
Christmas Magic + has something for everyone in the family and hoping this sale gives you enough incentive to invest in everything you wanted to unlock :) !
Don't let the Magic stop......lets keep it alive and kicking in the New Year ! Wishing you a Happy New Year everyone !
L'il Pono , the Magical Tree and all of its wonderful twinkling Fireflies wish you a very very Merry Christmas ! Enjoy, smile, spread love and warmth tonight and forever after ! Let there never be a home without light, without food and without love.....Let it be Christmas cheer all year round !
Just ahead of Christmas day, Christmas Magic +, our beloved little game for the iPad, has got the honour of being featured on the front page of the "Puzzles" section of the Appstore !
Here's the screenshot straight from my iPad :
Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, thats the second category where CM + has got featured on the front page, after the "Kids" section. It feels like a dream run to us, out efforts finally bearing fruits :) ! The game is being received extremely positively all over the world and it getting front page treatment from Apple, shows its attention to quality !
Christmas Magic + has been featured on the front page of the "kids" section of the Appstore !!!
That is a massive achievement :^) ! We, at P.L.A.Y.-Games, are overjoyed and humbled by this special treatment from Apple ! It feels ecstatic to see our charming little game performing well and winning hearts all over !
Don't miss out on what everyone is talking about, download the game now ! its free to play and wins over everybody's hearts in a jiffy ! Let the magic spread around this christmas !
Yes, the well received and widely loved adventure of L'il Pono is back on the Appstore this Christmas. We have worked hard and revamped the game's systems to make it work effortlessly on all iPads. The game also sports new effects and graphical improvements over Christmas Magic. Also, fans will notice new unlockables and re-vamped in-app purchases. Oh, and yes, there are free gifts for everyone and extra free gifts for Twitter users :) !
Christmas Magic has been featured in the "Whats Hot" section of many countries and with Christmas magic +, we intend to spread the Christmas cheer to every home out there ! Here's hoping every proud iPad owner enjoys Christmas Magic + as much as we loved creating this beautiful little tale. Let this Christmas be warm and glowing not just with light, but with Love, cheer and happiness !
Merry Christmas everyone, from L'il Pono and everyone at P.L.A.Y.-Games ! :)
Christmas Magic celebrates the #BecauseWeMay sale ! A group initiative of Indie developers to celebrate our independence to price our games as we wish ! The Base game is FREE and all in-app items are upto 70% off from 24th May to 1st June !
We have already hit MASSIVE download numbers on the very first day of the sale : more than 30 times normal ! and we are already featured on the "Whats Hot" section of multiple AppStore's, under the categories "Puzzles" and "Family" ! Its time to celebrate and rock the world !
So, its parties, Free stuff and Celebrations all this week !
Grab'em all this weekend ! Don't miss out on any in-game item at all ! Go..Go.. GO !!! :D
Hey guys ! Just a quick update before the weekend strikes us all ! Like I said in my previous post, our most awesomest game , Christmas Magic, has been featured on the front page of "What's Hot " on the Indian AppStore and we beat "where's My Water?" and "Cut the Rope" to the front page ! So, after our celebrations faded off a bit, we decided that we need to give something back to our awesome fans who made it all possible. After its because of your massive downloads that we are famous today !
So, Here we Gooooo.........
Yes, we are giving away free stuff inside the game all this week, starting this weekend right now ! :D Ain't that cool ! But cooler are our fans who made our game a hit !
So, just follow these simple steps to claim them :
If you already have the game, make sure its the latest version. Check once for updates.
Launch the game and you will be greeted by a message informing you about your free gift !
Log-in with either your Facebook or Twitter account to claim it there and then !
Enjoy the game ! Sprinkle some magic around with your latest free items you just got :D !
Spread the news to your friends and family while you have a great Weekend !
So, there you go, free stuff was never so easy ! :) In case you have been to buried in your life and have no idea about what I am talking about, check out the most awesome trailer ever made :
See that ! Now get that Magic into your homes ! Grab it while the magic is still fresh ! Though, Magic never really gets old, now does it ! :)
A MASSIVE good News : Christmas Magic has been featured on the front page of "What's Hot" under the "Puzzles" and "Family" categories, on the Indian AppStore ! Just found out while browsing the store ! We beat "Where's my Water?" and "Cut the Rope" to the front page ! :D !!! WOW !!! The game is being shown right next to Angry Birds, Snoopy's Street Fair and TinTin ! Our little game has made it big ! I hope it conquers other stores soon ! We are one step closer to world domination ! Ha Ha!
Here's the awesome trailer that is doing wonders for the game ! :
Its free to play, so that makes it even more important to download it right now !
This is the coolest thing ever ! All our efforts to get the game noticed are showing results now. Of course, this shows that the game is being loved by the audiences as there's no other way it could beat "Where's my Water?" and "Cut The Rope" to the front page !
This warrants a party , ladies n gentlemen ! I think I smell some home made cakes tonight :D ! Aha ! Off I go, with a spring in my step and smile mile wide :) ! I think I'll draw something cool, cooler than ever before to celebrate this moment of glory and triumph ! It isn't easy for indie devs like us to make it to the "Whats Hot" page, and when we do its only because of a good game and not any paid marketing ! Makes the moment of triumph even sweeter to savor ! :)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. IS BACKK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES ! ITS TRUE AND TRUEST
EVER ! :D (jumps all over his house, his garden and limps back after hurting his foot !)
yes, yes, yes .......oh ! the glee and the smug feeling and the ouch in my foot :) !
But that will come later, this post is first and foremost about
indie devs ruling the world and as true as the above statement might be,
it will have to wait. So, lets start again !
Hiya guys,
I know I promised something awesome from my drawing table, but thats not ready yet as I was busy with Christmas Magic's promotion, or shall we say trying to promote it ! Basically, I am being ingenius and trying everything I can to get it talked about on the internet!
Yes, but all that work does not stop me from checking around gaming sites, discussing on B3D forums and watching videos ! Like all internet denizens, somethings need to be done even during crunch times, that includes checking your Facebook and Twitter too, consiudering how important the have become for online promotions these days.
So, here I present to you, my mates and fellas, my unknown readers, and known firneds who never put a comment under my posts :P, the latest gaming news from around the net !
To start with , I present an awesome tech demo/trailer by an indie group who have created such magnificent wizardry with their keyboards and mice that my programming partner can't stop eating his nails out of his fingers and his fingers out if his hands and his hands out of his arms.........until he just regrows them all and can create this himself for our next game !
The trailer for RESET, a co-op puzzle game, it says, but I can't see any of that here, all I see is unbelievable realtime shaders and a cool art style for the robot and the car :
Big evil corporations gotta watch out cos new indie groups are moving ahead of them, even with their miniscule budgets! Human spirit, I say, can achieve anything with any kind of budget ! Love the tech shown here , lets hope these guys make it big and lets hope I make it big too, someday !
Second up is this total conversion mod for Crysis 2 ! Yes, I know Crytek has announced Crysis 3 recently, but frankly speaking, the trailer did not get me that excited for it. It shows small, constrained spaces and (seemingly)linear fights with thoe same stupid looking mechs and squids we had to drudge through in Crysis 2 ! Don't get me wrong here, I loved Crysis 1 and still play it sometimes, cos the game is just superb in its gunplay and freedom it provides in tackling a situation means unlimited replays are still fun. But Crysis 2 didn't match up to Crysis 1 in any way. It had worse art direction and limited gameplay areas. I was wishing they would bring back the matrix-like-sentinel-aliens of Crysis 1 in Crysis 3, but sadly that isn't the case.
So, downed and disappointed I sat down to look for things that are Crysis but could excite me more than the new Teaser and Voila ! Look what I found :
Aha ! Ain't that exciting ! A total conversion mod for Crysis 2 which seems to blend the jungle gameplay of the magnum opus with a sci-fi space twist to it ! Frankly, this has me more excited than the Crysis3 teaser and to imagine that this is by a smaller group and we won't need to shell out $60 for it ! I wonder how such groups get money for their food and rent ? I am sure there are no benevolent kings in any part of the world anymore, who would patronise art-forms like these and give the group a palace to stay in and food to eat while they rummage through their brains, hallucinating new experiences and materialising them inside computers ! Wish I could find such a patron ! From my own experience, making Christmas Magic for the iPad has been an excruciating 8 months of pen, pencils, papers, erasers, keyboards, swollen eyes in front of monitors, sleepless nights while my fiance waited for my calls which I forgot to make,...etc,....etc....! And now it turns out that we need to market it too, so which has turned into even more months of pencils, papers, keyboards, swollen eyes.......you get it ! Atleast our trailer has generated super buzz on the internet
and the game itself has generated a lot of word of mouth publicity for itself and hopefully it will pay for our bills now and help us fund our next project for the PS Vita. But working on total conversion mods which has no hopes of bringing any money to our homes and requires me to work full time to achieve a vision at par with a full game release !!!!!!!!! I have no idea how these guys do it !
and the third news I wanted to share with you guys is for all the S.T.A.L.K.E.R fans like me who were shell-shocked and heartbroken when S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 was cancelled .....the game is still dead, its not been continued, but, and its big BUT, its spirit has resurrected from the underworld and is readying up to shine on the world again !!!!!! YES ! S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is coming back , but as another title. The guys from GSC Game World which was closed midway in the development of S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2, have regrouped to form Vostok games and are continuing the legacy of STALKER with a new game called SURVARIUM ! Yes, it sounds strange, but just to confirm, lets hear it from the devs themselves :
So, its a new online shooter, presumably free to play , set in an apocalyptic environment like Stalker but may include more than just post apocalyptic Russia. ALso, the devs are even open to ideas from the gaming community and want to actively involve us in the development of the game ! THats awesome news and would be wonderful to see the inner workings of this group of guys I have admired so much over the years ! I, for one, have subscribed to their youtube channel and I advise that you should too, but its a free world, do what you like !
Have to sign off now, as my lightbox is screaming at me with its all its silence to come back and finish the awesome amazing work I have started and which needs to be shared soon with the whole world wild web ! Before it starts creaking towards me and gobbles me up raw and fresh, I need to end this post and get to work!
"creak...creaak..crrreeee...aa...k.k....! "
"Whats That ?"
"squee.aa.k..cre...ee..a..k... ! grrrrrr..r.r.r.r.....r.r"
"Its alright Mr. Lightbox, I still love you more than my computer ! Look, here, I come with my pencils and pens ! "
