As you might have guessed, the new mini-games featured in our previous Developer Diary are of course not the only new gameplay features, which have found their way into Galaxy on Fire 2™ – Supernova, the upcoming add-on to our popular open space shooter for iPhone and iPad. To make sure that Supernova™ will be keep the players entertained for many hours and offer a lot of thrill and excitement for novice and veteran players alike, we have also added a lot of new mission types to the forthcoming expansion pack. One of the coolest and most interesting new challenges – at least in my opinion – is without a doubt a novel gameplay mode called bounty hunting! Yeah right, in Supernova you can totally follow in footsteps of Boba Fett & Co and hunt down the galaxy’s most wanted criminals for a handful of credits! In our fifth Developer Diary for the second add-on to the Galaxy on Fire™ saga, we want to give you some more information about the unique procedures and mechanics of this new gameplay feature and also give you a little teaser of the amazing rewards that you might lay your hands on if you decide to make a living as an intergalactic bounty hunter. more...
Galaxy on Fire 2 – Supernova – Dev Diary, pt.5: For a Handful of Credits
May 16th, 2012 | 13 CommentsKeith T. Maxwell rocks the Mac App Store again in Valkyrie Full HD
May 16th, 2012 | 9 Comments
The very first text I ever wrote for Fishlabs was a blog entry announcing the launch of Galaxy on Fire 2™ Full HD, the stunningly beautiful sci-fi epic that hit the App Store on August 16th, 2011. Today, exactly eight months later, the title’s hot-headed protagonist Keith T. Maxwell is about to rock the Mac App Store once again with the release of the extensive add-on Valkyrie™ Full HD. Graphically, the new expansion pack is as much a visual treat as the main game and features, among others, completely re-designed 3D models and texture sets as well as sophisticated OpenGL shaders and breath-taking special effects! Content-wise, the highly anticipated add-on is jam-packed with all kinds of spectacular new items, assets and features such as five new Vossk and Deep Science space ships on the one hand and tons of highly destructive new weapons and extremely helpful new gadgets on the other. And story-wise, the new adventure has a lot to offer to the players as well as it contains an all-new storyline with full English voice action and dozens of new missions, characters and settings! more...
Entering Premium-Space: Galaxy on Fire 2 HD blazes onto the PlayBook
May 3rd, 2012 | 8 Comments
Being a hotshot pilot and space explorer through and through, Keith T. Maxwell, the charismatic protagonist of our award-winning sci-fi action game Galaxy on Fire 2™, has already taken a whole lot of different platforms and systems by storm – such as the iPhone, the iPad, the Xperia PLAY and the Mac, just to name a few. However, since he’s not the kind of guy, who rests on his laurels for too long, Keith is always eager to continue his cross-platform triumphal procession and successfully breach into as many new eco-systems as he can. The latest platform he’s set foot on is Research In Motion's classy tablet computer known as the BlackBerry® PlayBook™! With its stylish design and powerful capabilities, the PlayBook is a perfect match for a high-end 3D spectacle such as Galaxy on Fire 2 HD! more...
Galaxy on Fire 2 – Supernova – Dev Diary, pt.4: An Introduction of the new Mini-Games
May 2nd, 2012 | 34 Comments
Every experienced Galaxy on Fire 2™ player will surely know that it takes way more than just good piloting skills and a reckless attitude to hold one’s ground in a war-torn universe populated by all kinds of belligerent aliens, ruthless pirates and cutthroat space traders. Sure, if you just wanna survive within this hotter-than-hell environment, open eyes and alert senses in the cockpit of your Phantom fighter might be all you need. But if you wanna work your way up in the system and make a name not only as the galaxy’s best fighter pilot, but also as its most successful purveyor of rare commodities and highly sought-after innovations, you’re gonna need some other talents as well, such as cleverness and dexterity. So far, these skills were most needed to succeed in the tricky “mining” mini-game – which drove more than just one space adventurer to the borders of madness when his drill slipped sideward in the very last second and caused the harvested asteroid to explode only a short moment before the valuable core had been reached. more...
Galaxy on Fire 2 – Supernova – Dev Diary, pt.3,5: Exclusively at Pocket Gamer
April 27th, 2012 | 7 Comments
Hello space pilots, we’d like to fill you in on the latest changes of our Developer Diary release policy. As already mentioned, we will henceforth no longer publish a new Developer Diary for our upcoming iPhone and iPad shooter Galaxy on Fire 2 – Supernova every single week but only every two weeks. In addition, we will henceforth no longer publish our Making Ofs on our blog Tuesdays but on Wednesdays. Ironically, this does not mean that you’ll have to wait for new information from the Supernova front a little longer, but rather will you be able to get that information a bit earlier in the future! You wonder how that’s possible? Well, we’ve now decided to give PocketGamer an exclusive heads up on our Dev Diaries. Hence, they’ll receive the articles in question a couple of days in advance and if they consider them worth posting, they’ll publish them on their pages before we do so on our blog. more...
Galaxy on Fire 2 – Supernova – Dev Diary, pt.3: The new Star Systems and Planets
April 17th, 2012 | 53 Comments
With more than 100 planets spread over more than 20 star systems governed by four major factions, the Galaxy on Fire™ universe is pretty huge. And even though thousands of intergalactic explorers and cartographers have been roaming all over the galaxy for centuries, there is still an almost infinite number of places amidst the stars, which no human eye has ever seen to date! Beyond the final frontier, there are mysterious planets hidden from our scanners by thick shades of cosmic nebulae, remote systems so far away that even the most advanced space ships could never reach them and strange dimensions located way outside our own space-time-continuum. In Supernova™, the upcoming add-on for our popular space combat and trading simulation Galaxy on Fire 2™, the players will be able to discover and explore several previously unknown star systems and head off to a lot of new worlds, whose orbits had never been penetrated by a Terran vessel before! more...
Galaxy on Fire 2 – Supernova – Dev Diary, pt.2: The new Storyline and Characters
April 10th, 2012 | 56 Comments
Last week we kicked off the series of developer diaries for Supernova, the highly anticipated second add-on for our epic sci-fi shooter Galaxy on Fire 2™ for iPhone and iPad, by giving you some first-hand insight into the design of the new logo. Today we wanna fill you in on the backstory of the new expansion pack and let you know more about the enthralling new adventure that awaits the reckless fighter pilot Keith T. Maxwell in Supernova™! In order to do so, we’ve sent a bunch of questions over to Bernie Duffy from Dublin, Ireland, who is our guest writer for the Galaxy on Fire 2™ - Supernova installment. Bernie studied filmmaking at Purchase College in New York and worked in various capacities in film and theater for over a decade before making the move into games five years ago. He believes himself to be at the fore of a creative mass-migration from the film industry into games. Bernie is also a space-opera nut, which may be reflected in some of the new GOF material. Since he came up with some very detailed answers, the following interview should be a mandatory read for all iOS-pilots! Hope you enjoy it! more...
Galaxy on Fire 2 – Supernova – Dev Diary, pt.1: The Design of the Logo
April 3rd, 2012 | 23 Comments
In many cases, the logo is the very first thing that a gamer sees of a new title. Whether it is part of a magazine ad, an online banner, a website header or the box artwork, the logo catches the user’s eye right away and he will henceforth closely connect it to the product it represents. Hence it is all the more important that the logo is designed with care, thought and skills in order to make sure that it really hits the nail on the head and reflects the respective title’s unique character as good as possible. For Supernova™, the upcoming add-on for our award-winning iPhone sci-fi shooter Galaxy on Fire 2™, we wanted to create a logo that gives the fans an idea of what to expect in the new expansion pack on the one hand and still bears the distinctive colours (literally and figuratively) of the well-tried franchise on the other. Or, if you’d like to say it differently, the logo of Supernova should scream “Novelty” and yell “Tradition” both at the same time. This isn’t an easy task, of course, and hence our Art Director Marc Nagel went through more than a dozen different concepts until he came up with a design that has good chances to end up in the final version of the game. more...
The Droids are back in Town – Fishlabs at Droidcon 2012
March 27th, 2012 | 2 Comments
On March 13th and 14th, our Marketing Manager Marc, our Junior Marketing Manager Daniel and our Android Lead Programmer Holger went to Berlin, where Fishlabs took part in the fourth instalment of the Droidcon, the world’s largest independent Android developer gathering. The line-up of the event featured renowned hardware manufacturers such as Sony, Nokia and Intel as well as popular gaming companies such as Fishlabs, InnoGames and Xyrality and the programme was jam-packed with lively speeches and interesting lectures. At our booth, we had showcased the Android version of Galaxy on Fire 2 and introduced Fishlabs Entertainment to a widespread audience consisting of students, journalists, associates and potential business partners. All in all, we had a great time at Droidcon 2012, met a lot of cool people and were able to make quite a few promising new contacts. more...
Out now: Keith T. Maxwell returns to iPhone 4S and iPad 2 in Valkyrie HD
March 9th, 2012 | 30 Comments
Everyone who has ever laid eyes on the floating behemoth of destruction known as the Valkyrie station will surely know that it’s one of the most impressive structures in the galaxy. With its heavy armour, advanced weaponry and enormous size, this titanium-clad stronghold of steel is truly a sight to behold. And believe me… you ain’t seen nothing yet, until you’ve seen this super-heavy colossus of carnage in High Definition on the pin sharp display of your A5 dual core chip-powered iPhone 4S or iPad 2. There’s no denying that the orange nebulae of Scion that shroud the station have never looked more impressive, the band of space pirates that circles it has never looked more threatening and its snappy yet strangely charismatic commander Alice has never looked more charming than in Valkyrie HD, the hotter-than-hell new version of the first Galaxy on Fire 2 add-on specifically optimized for the latest generation of Apple devices! more...