Everyone's favorite tribal inhabitants known as the Pygmies are coming back next week in a brand new arcade spin-off game of sorts, and it seems like they're bringing their questionable love of dangerous things along with them! Developed from Bolt Creative, the same studio that brought us the insanely popular Pocket God, the upcoming Pocket God: Ooga Jump will be a vertical jumping game that is set to take the Pygmies all the way to the highest jungle treetops.In the game, players will use their device's tilt-based controls to help their Pygmy character pull off a number of massive jumps, in order for the little guys to bounce higher and higher and collect as many gems and items as possible! But of course, as we've already learned from our time spent with Pocket God, the world can be a particularly dangerous place for the Pygmies; and as such, they'll have to avoid a number of hazardous obstacles and hostile island animals if they ever want to make it back down to land in one piece.And those specific hazards and hostiles will come aplenty: from fiery falling meteors, to hungry spiders, to rabid monkeys hell-bent on catching the Pygmies and using their skin as some horrible flesh-based monkey masks, our fearless little heroes are going to need all of the help they can get! Pocket God: Ooga Jump will be released for iOS devices on October 31, 2013 for $0.99, and in the meantime, you can check out the debut trailer of the bouncing Pygmies in action right within this article.
Bolt Creative, the folks behind a little app called Pocket God, are hard at work on a new game called Ooga Jump. If that name rings a bell to you, that's because it's also the title of a mini-game in Pocket God. This new game will be based on said mini-game, because if you're going to copy someone, why not copy yourself?
Many religions argue that their God or gods have no beginning or end. On the App Store, however, it's common enough for deities to fade to black. For instance, Pocket God, one of the most consistently-updated games on iOS, will be receiving its final update this week. The Mayan apocalypse may be a myth, but for millions of tiny digital islanders, it's about to become distressingly real.
CityVille isn't the only game celebrating a milestone today. The Facebook version of Pocket God has reached its one millionth player and, unsurprisingly, all of those players have killed a heck of a lot of pygmies.
There was a time not so long ago where the game you bought was the game you got. Sure, you might be lucky enough to get a patch from the developer if there was a critical bug or some other such nonsense - but even so much as five years ago, free regular content releases seemed like a laughable idea. Thankfully, we don't live in the world of five years ago. Need proof? Bolt Creative has just released Pocket God's 40th free content update.
Pocket God—the iPhone game that lets you torture worshipping pygmies in an ever increasing number of hilarious ways—is slowly but surely turning into a franchise. In addition to the iPhone game, which is nearing its 50th episode, there's also an iPad game, and a series of digital comics. And now you can add Facebook to that list. Developer Bolt Creative recently teamed up with Quebec-based Frima Studio to bring the game to the world's largest social network, and Gamezebo recently had the chance to talk to both Bolt's Dave Castelnuovo and Frima's Jake Theis about what it's like taking a hit mobile game and bringing it to Facebook and why the series could be this generation's Sonic the Hedgehog.