Phoenix is modern arcade game, action packed and stunningly beautiful. It is based around an infinite challenge, where players attempt to reach the highest score possible while facing increasingly difficult opponents. The game is aimed at short gaming sessions for the lost minutes during the day. Phoenix delivers true easy-to-pick-up, hard-to-master gameplay. The AI director tunes the difficulty depending on a players performance, and combined with procedurally generated content, always generates a unique playthrough. Player high scores are tracked in unique location based leaderboards, allowing players to compete with players in their country, province or hometown.
Motivatie: Phoenix brings the shoot'em up genre to the masses by taking popular existing genre elements and bringing them to the next generation. By using procedural content and the adaptive AI director, we ensure that no single playthrough is the same. Phoenix also solves the problem of having only one gigantic leaderboard for all players, which is demotivating for new players and does not provide any target for improvement. Instead, Phoenix leverages the location services of modern mobile devices to provide a leaderboard for the players city, which immediately provides a context and a target for the player. When a player improves, he or she can then move on to conquer the province, country and continental leaderboards. Over 200.000 players are enjoying the leaderboards already, together submitting well over 20 million scores. The recent Phoenix HD update improves the graphics dramatically, pushing the newest iOS devices to their limits. The all new parallax scrolling backgrounds provide a dramatic backdrop for the intense action, powered by incredible particle effects. We did not stop there, as Phoenix HD also runs at a silky smooth 60 frames per second, making the experience even better.
