19 August 2013
App of the Week: Little Galaxy
This week’s App of the Week comes to us from Bitmap Galaxy, a small studio based in Slovakia. This three-person team had a vision to create an “endless” game with a simple one-touch control and intuitive design — a game that could be easily learned and played for hours. They also aimed to create a game that appeals to players’ emotions with a lovable character and storyline. From this, Little Galaxy was born: an arcade game set in space, featuring a small boy that jumps from planet to planet in search of a new home.
Upon launching Little Galaxy, you’re instantly transported to space, with the mission of helping the main character navigate the universe. Each planet is in constant rotation and it’s your job to transport the little boy from place to place by tapping the screen when he’s aligned with another planet. While it’s important to collect stars along the way, it takes skill to aim properly and avoid sending him into the abyss.
The team worked with Corona SDK to build Little Galaxy, spending their free time polishing a game to delight players. When asked about working with Corona on the project, lead developer Peter Janosik told us, “Thanks to Corona SDK, it was easy to rapidly prototype all of our ideas. For us, this was definitely the most interesting part of the project.”
Bitmap Galaxy relied heavily upon Corona’s display APIs during development. Peter noted that, “It’s really easy to work with sprite sheets and transitions; it saves a lot of time.” The team also reviewed new Corona features regularly and found that having access to Daily Builds helped them discover new API calls to resolve issues quickly. Additionally, they relied on Lua Glider for debugging needs and TexturePacker for sprite sheet support.
Download Little Galaxy from iTunes for $1.29 and watch for the game’s release for Android soon!
André
Posted at 17:03h, 19 AugustBeautiful job, just downloaded and will be leaving a review soon.
Jordan Schuetz
Posted at 17:24h, 19 AugustLooks amazing! Well done 😀 btw my family immigrated from Slovakia! 😀
Matt
Posted at 22:20h, 19 AugustWow, that looks awesome, simple, beautiful and so much fun! Well done!
Bitmap Galaxy
Posted at 00:27h, 20 AugustThank you guys! It’s our first game, so we are proud of it 🙂
RichieLoco
Posted at 00:37h, 20 AugustThis looks amazing. Will download and take a look later.
Chevol
Posted at 05:57h, 20 AugustNice!
Martin Edmaier
Posted at 13:33h, 20 Augustgreat game good luck guys… you should make a thread in toucharcade forum maybe it gets feature….
Bitmap Galaxy
Posted at 01:11h, 21 AugustThanks for tip Martin, forums are there ( http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=200895 ). Anyway it seems to be almost impossible to get featured …
Bitmap Galaxy
Posted at 07:59h, 22 AugustI said impossible, but maybe something will happen soon 🙂
Me
Posted at 22:32h, 22 AugustWOW I love it!! Beautiful and amazing! Excellent job guys!!!
Johan
Posted at 23:39h, 22 AugustVery cool, best of luck with this
Cleverson
Posted at 09:53h, 23 AugustHi,
Great game, congrats!
I have one question. Did you hire someone to work in the game trailer, which is excelent by the way? Or did you do by yourself?
Bitmap Galaxy
Posted at 23:16h, 25 AugustThank you. It was made by us, as all content and stuff around like web etc
Nick
Posted at 22:49h, 23 AugustVery nice. I’ve been seeing alot of these radial gravity type games around. Gravity Ghost for one (been in development for quite a while). I’ve also test flighted a couple of games that are similar as well from people using other sdk’s.
It’s great to see other peoples take on using the game mechanic.
Cool looking game, looks fun!
-Nick