Oyatsukai Games

Fractal Combat to Android

Davide — Wed, 01 May 2013 07:31:47 +0000

Fractal Combat for Android is almost out of the beta testing !

The game will be free to play, it will run on both phones and tablets and it will require Android OS 4.0 or above.

Though we’ve spent quite some time optimizing for performance, hardware will still play a big role on the smoothness of the frame rate. So, your experience may vary, but hopefully it will work well on most recent devices.

Anyhow, stay tuned for a release within the next couple of weeks !

Some more about the 1.1 of FCX

Davide — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 09:18:17 +0000

Here’s another teaser… a new character is coming into the scene !

…and boy, does he hit the gym ! (^^;)

A little preview for FCX 1.1

Davide — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:20:19 +0000

Here’s what the alternative paints are going to look like for the 1.1 version o Fractal Combat X..

..working on !

The full-screen Final Freeway 2R experience

Davide — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:11:35 +0000

All you need is an HDMI adapter ! ;)

Fractal Combat X is out!

Davide — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:56:09 +0000

Fractal Combat X (or FCX) has already been out for a few days.

The feedback so far is pretty positive, the the real success of the game will depend also on the press coverage, aaaand Apple’s positioning on the App Store/iTunes.

Will the game make it to the front page of the store?
We certainly hope so, but it’s not an easy feat these days, especially for those like us publishing solo.

Wish us luck 8)

The next Fractal Combat

Davide — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 10:17:35 +0000

We’re working on a sequel of Fractal Combat.. little time left, lots more work to do.

Stay tuned !

iPhone 5 working well

Davide — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:08:52 +0000

Both Final Freeway 2R and Fractal Combat updates are out with support for iPhone 5 resolution and of course iOS 6.

The reception has been pretty good.
The press seems to have a sweet spot for FF2 and both TouchArcade and BGR mentioned the game in relation to the iPhone 5 update.
BGR went as far as putting FF2 in their “Best apps for the iPhone 5″ list !

- BGR: Best apps for the iPhone 5
- TA: Ten Games on iPhone 5 vs. iPhone 4S

iPhone 5, we are on!

Davide — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 21:48:08 +0000

iPhone 5 hit the stores today, and already sent an iPhone 5 version of Final Freeway 2R to Apple, with Fractal Combat soon to follow.

FF2R will also add Joypad compatibility. Joypad is a system that converts an iPhone or iPod Touch into a controller for a game running on an iPad. It works really great and it’s free! So, make sure to try that one out ..if you have an iPad.

Anyhow, with some luck, these updates should be out by the beginning of October.

Have fun!

Final Freeway Coin hits the App Store

Davide — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:15:16 +0000

Our oldest and most successful racing title finally gets a free edition, namely Final Freeway Coin.

This is the full game, but with a twist. Each play requires a coin and coins can be earned by beating a simple (but not too simple) memory game.

Check it out on the App Store !

Fractal Combat 1.2: some tech details

Davide — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:13:54 +0000

If you’re somewhat bent towards development, or somewhat curious about it. There’s a blog post about some details on a couple of things that happened for the latest FC update.

Touching lightly topics such as: procedural vs compression, DCT transform and voxels as an acceleration structure.

A couple of excerpts:

What’s the tech angle on that ? ..it’s the shift from procedural to compression. Two things that are in fact closer than they may seem. They are both about synthesizing data from a given source.

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For that raycasting I used a generic voxel structure. In this case, the ray is converted from world-space to the local-space of the object/voxel and again, a 3D line is (virtually) rasterized to select the voxel cells that contain polygons that may be hit.