Medaverse Studios

We are happy to announce that we have released a ‘Lite’ edition of R-Bot VS for FREE. The Lite version is pretty much just like the full version with the exception that it only contains 1 map (which equals 8 fun levels). In conjunction with this new lite version we have also dropped the price of R-Bot VS to $0.99.

R-Bot VS Lite Edition
R-Bot VS Full Version

Medaverse’s Second game ‘R-Bot VS’  in now available to buy on the Apple App Store for $1.99. Click Here to go get it!

We’re Happy to announce that our first iPad game ‘R-Bot vs’ will be released on the Apple AppStore on Wednesday December 7th 2011.

Dover, New Hampshire – November 7, 2011 – In homage to the early arcade game days when Pac-Man and Donkey Kong ruled the video game world, Medaverse Studios announced Monday that their next game will be R-Bot vs.

R-Bot vs. is a throwback to the old tabletop arcade games and combines a classic game feel with modern looking graphics. In the platform game, players race to collect a given number of objects in order to capture the end level item first.

R-Bot vs. is a spin-off of another game still in development by Medaverse Studios and will be the second video game the studio releases. In October 2009, their first game Gravitronix, an action arcade-style game, was released to the Wii.

After Gravitronix was released, Medaverse Studios quickly put in development another game using the Apple iPad, but when developing the game realized there were many features they wanted to experiment with but would not fit into the game.

“We were learning new tools and implementing features to use as a placeholder and thought, ‘This is pretty cool! Why don’t we make it into a game?’” said Mike Lockhardt, co-owner and artistic director at Medaverse. “Then we thought to spin it off into a side game.”

Some of these features include making it into a two-person game, where players are able to sit opposite each other and play on either side of the iPad. In addition, the game is not just one-finger operated but has a directional and A-button.

“We hadn’t seen anyone who did that yet,” Lockhardt said. “It’s a new way to play the game that’s not a standard controller.”

Part of the experience in making R-Bot vs., according to Lockhardt, has been getting to know the software and its limitations, but he said in order to become a better game developer it is all part of the process.

“If you want to figure out how video games work, you need to work through each generation to take baby steps and work up,” he said. “You don’t get much simpler than the arcade games and they’re still popular. There’s a reason why Pac-Man and Mario are still popular after all this time. We’re still a baby company. We need to learn and grow.”

R-Bot vs. is currently slated for a late 2011/early 2012 release. Once the iPad version is done, Medaverse said they will be looking into bring it over to the iPhone/iPod Touch.

We’ve been a bit quiet on the news updates for the last couple months since we hadn’t hit any huge milestones. But we are now happy to announce that R-Boot vs. has just entered into beta testing.

We have already squashed some major bugs over the last week and the feedbacks we have received from people actually playing R-Bot vs. been pretty positive.

Update on the status of the game:
• 99% done with our art assets – Done! But a little bit of fine tuning here and there.
• 99% done with our Programming – Done as well, but we are fixing some bugs now that we are beta testing.
• 80% done of level design – Pretty much all done, but we are looking to add some more levels.
• 75% Sound Fixes – Putting in the FXs and making sure they sync up and sound right
• ??% Music – We have some, just need to add it in.

Our official press release should be released soon once we get some fresh screenshots and a couple short videos.

Stay Tune!
-Mike

Hi Everyone!

Just thought I would give everyone an update with what is going on over here at Medaverse.
We are going strong in the development of ‘R-Bots vs’ As it stands we are about;

• 90% done with our art assets
(Putting the final touches on a few things)
• 99% done with our Programing
(Actually we are done, but there is always that 1% chance of the unknown)
• 5% done of level design
(This is pretty much our last big hurtle and is actually getting chipped away pretty fast)

Sound FXs and Music we haven’t really touched much on at the moment. But that should be taken care of by next month. If all goes well we should be entering are first stage of Beta testing with in the next few weeks.

Since we are getting closer to jumping into beta testing we will be getting ready to release some screenshots and video of the game in action along with a official press release.

Stay Tune!
-Mike