User:NOBODY/Unannounced mobile game
The unannounced mobile game is a mobile game that is currently in development. Unlike Gunbrick before it was announced, the unannounced mobile game has had very little exposure.
Development[edit | edit source]
Development of the unannounced mobile game began in late January 2013 after Nitrome accepted Rovio's offer to publish Icebreaker A Viking Voyage[2][3][4]. Rovio's involvement with the game caused the need for more people working on it, so those who were working on Gunbrick were relocated over to Icebreaker, while at the same time a separate team was put to work developing the unannounced mobile game.[5]
Development on the game continued during Icebreaker A Viking Voyage's development and after it[5], though despite its progress Nitrome did not reveal any game specific information about the game due to the tendency for fans to become upset over the long long gap between a mobile game's announcement and its release date.[5] The game was being worked on in June 2013. [6]
Near the very end of December 2013 Nitrome shared in a Nitrome blog post how the unannounced mobile game was progressing well and their plans to start a marketing campaign and reveal it when they felt comfortable doing so and when the game was almost finished.[5] In January 2014 the game was mentioned again, Nitrome also adding that it would be revealed when they had planned out all the game's previews leading up to its release[7].
The game continued to progress well in the new year[1] (2014), and as of May 2014 was in a very advanced state[8]. Despite this progress, the game was put on hold, though in January 2015 Nitrome said that it would make sense to return to the project. [9]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Game Developer's Blog - Nitrome: Metacrticis Best of 2013 → Comment by Nitrome: We're well on our way with the second game [second mobile game, which is not 8bit Doves because this comment predates the Nitrome Jam] :), 15 Jan 2014, retrieved 18 Oct 2014.
- ↑ Game Developer's Blog - Nitrome: 99% Done and BIG News Tomorrow!: There is also another reason however...something that has been going on behind the scenes since the beginning of this year [January] ...a secret! [This secret was that Icebreaker was being published by Rovio, revealed the following day] , 13 May 2013, retrieved 1 Nov 2014.
- ↑ Game Developer's Blog - Nitrome: More Nitrome Mobile!: When Rovio got involved as publisher of Icebreaker we needed more people on the team so that project [Gunbrick mobile, referred to as Top secret] was also put on hold while we finished it. We did however have another team start work on a different game [the unannounced mobile game] and they have since before the launch of Icebreaker be [sic] quietly working away at it., 29 Dec 2013, retrieved 1 Nov 2014.
- ↑ Nitrome on Facebook: comment: The secret iOS [Gunbrick mobile] game is still progressing well but we don't want to take away from any Icebreaker exposure so you will have to wait until after that's out before we reveal that! [Gunbrick mobile development was ongoing at this point, meaning that development on the unannounced mobile game has yet to start and that it must have to started in late January], 20 Jan 2013, retrieved 14 Oct 2014.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Game Developer's Blog - Nitrome: More Nitrome Mobile!, 29 Dec 2013, retrieved 17 Oct 2014.
- ↑ Pocket Gamer.biz: Studio Profile: Nitrome: With a couple of updates to Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage in the works, alongside two further mobile projects (Gunbrick and the unannounced mobile game)..., 7 July 13, retrieved 1 Jan 15.
- ↑ Game Developer's Blog - Nitrome: We're Back!, 2 Jan 14, retrieved 18 May 15.
- ↑ Game Developer's Blog - Nitrome: Nitrome Jam 2014! → Comment by Nitrome: We have a few mobile things in the works including the one that we previously alluded to revealing soon. That particular game is in a very advanced state and were just waiting for the right timing to start letting you all know about it., 30 May 2014, retrieved 18 Oct 2014.
- ↑ Game Developer's Blog - Nitrome: New Year? New Games! → comment by Nitrome, 1 Jan 15, retrieved 1 Jan 15.