Cheers, GOF fans. With Galaxy on Fire 2 SD being available for free for good and Galaxy on Fire 2 HD being temporarily offered free of charge, in-app-purchases have meanwhile become our most popular title’s most important way to turn in revenues. Hence we’d like to reward all those of you who like the idea of buying in-game credits by launching a 5-week-sale, in the course of which all five credit packs in GOF2 SD (for older iOS devices) and GOF2 HD (for iPhone 4S or newer, iPad 2 or newer and iPod touch 5G) will be offered at a spectacular 50% discount! We’ll start with the biggest credit pack today and the remaining credit packs will follow one after another on the weekends to come. To help you keep an overview over the individual steps and stages of the sale, here’s a table that shows you the new prices as well as the days on which they’re valid.[full]
| Date | Value | Old Price | New Price |
| March 1-3, 2013 | 10,000,000 Credits | 49,99 US-$ | 24,99 US-$ |
| March 8-10, 2013 | 3,000,000 Credits | 19,99 US-$ | 9,99 US-$ |
| March 15-17, 2013 | 1,000,000 Credits | 9,99 US-$ | 4,99 US-$ |
| March 22-24, 2013 | 300,000 Credits | 4,99 US-$ | 2,99 US-$ |
| March 29-31, 2013 | 100,000 Credits | 1,99 US-$ | 0,99 US-$ |
You can buy credit packs in GOF2 via in-app-purchase through the respective “credits” button in the space station’s hangar menu. We hope you enjoy this new chance to riches, everybody! See you beyond the final frontier (in a flashy, brand-new space ship)!
Let’s just assume the calculations of the Maya have been just as wrong as Khador’s early assumptions of how to stop the supernova in the correspondent second add-on to the GOF2 saga. If that’s the case, we’ll still be safe and sound tomorrow and I haven’t wasted some of my precious final hours on this blog. And honestly… the last 12 months have simply been too awesome and we still have too many aces up our sleeves to just call it a quits tomorrow. So let’s not waste any more thoughts on that stupid end-of-the-world prophecy and rather focus on the here and now instead. Since we’ll have company holidays from December 22nd to January 6th, this will be our final blog for 2012 and hence I’d like to take the chance to look back at the previous year and recap some of the most interesting, important and entertaining happenings and events of 2012 for you. After all, quite a lot has happened at the Fishlabs headquarters in the course of the past 365 days. So here we go.[full]
In early October we posted a blog that introduced you to a very helpful new resource for all ambitious space pilots, namely The Official Guide to Galaxy on Fire 2 by Fishlabs and Steel Media Ltd. Back then, however, this equally informative and entertaining compendium to the GOF2 universe had only been available in a specifically optimized HD version for iPad users. But that’s no longer the case! After many hours of hard work, our partners-in-crime over at Pocket Gamer have completely redesigned the Official GOF2 Guide and optimized it for the iPhone screen as well! That’s pretty amazing, because after all, this guide marks an essential collection of tips and tricks, as well as firsthand insider information, for newbie pilots and veteran players alike. So if you’d like to gather more knowledge about the GOF2 universe than Khador and Netor have combined, you’d download the official Pocket Gamer Guide to the most spectacular open space shooter on the App Store right away![full]
Earthlings… and other odd fellas! It’s your old friend Mkkt Bkkt again. I know, due to my dubious reputation, you’re sometimes a little skeptical when I make you an offer. But this time, I swear you won’t be able to refuse the amazing bargain I have in store for you, because I won’t be charging a single credit from you today. No, instead I’ll give you something for entirely for free. And that something is nothing less but the SD-version of Fishlabs’ award-winning sci-fi epic Galaxy on Fire 2! Yes, that’s right. In cooperation with the awesome gentlemen over at Free App A Day, the proud winner of the German Video Game Award 2011 in the category “Best Mobile Game” will be available for free download on the App Store from November 22nd to November 29th, 2012! It’s the first time ever in the title’s extremely successful two-years-stint on Apple’s world-famous digital distribution platform that it will not only be on sale for a reduced special price, but rather be available for download at absolutely no cost at all[full]
Almost four months ago, we posted a dev diary by the name of “Sorted Out” here on our blog. Among others, it contained a pretty kick-ass concept artwork of a heavily armed Terran fighter called the Dark Angel. Judging from the dozens of comments about it, our fans liked that ship quite a bit. I mean, almost everyone who posted about it on our blog or Facebook fan page said that they would have loved to be able to add that spectacular vessel to their personal fleet as well. And, guess what… that’s exactly what you’ll be able to do very soon! Next week, on November 21st, we’re going to launch a free content update for Galaxy on Fire 2, which will include the prototypes of three highly sought-after new vessels. Besides the Dark Angel it will also include a Nivelian fighter known as Ghost and a Vossk bomber known as N’Tirrk! Since both the Fishlabs team and the GOF2 fans really loved these designs, we thought that it would be a shame if they’d just end up in some folder of unused material.[full] And thus we decided to make them a part of the game instead. After all, we’re still very proud of the Supernova add-on and this is our way to say “Thank You!” for the awesome support you’ guys have given us over the years. Cause in the end, nothing says “You guys rock!” as loud and clear as a couple of kick-ass new space ships! And to make sure that all iOS gamers will be able to get hold of them at the same time, we’ve decided that the free content update will be released simultaneously in SD, HD and Full HD. So all iOS and OSX pilots will be able to enjoy the new ships on their devices, no matter whether it’s an iPhone 5, iPad mini, iPod touch 5G, iPad 2, iPhone 3GS or Mac!
Today the Apple family’s happy to welcome its newest member, namely the iPad mini. With its pin-sharp 7.9“ display and a comfortable weight of about 10 oz, the iPad mini is a more than handy gadget that ably closes the gap between its bigger brother and the iPhone. And the best thing is: Despite its smaller size, it’ll be able to run all iPad-optimized apps instantly and without further corrections or adjustments! That means that all fans, which are going to buy an iPad mini, will be able to play GOF2 HD on their new device right away. Of course, we’ve already given it a try here at the Fishlabs headquarters as well and the game performed really slick on the red-hot iPad mini. Due to its manageable proportions, the tablet lies well in your hand and its trusty A5 chip enables it to run the game just as smoothly as the iPad 2 does. For gamers on the go, the iPad mini makes a truly great addition to the Apple line-up, because you don’t even need a bagpack or purse to carry it around, but you can even put it in the pocket of your jacket and hence you’ll have it readily at hand all day long– not matter whether you’ve just got 5 minutes to kill until your train arrives or whether you’ll be riding home on the bus for 45 minutes.[full]
Beware, everybody! Tonight the full moon will rise again and myriads of goblins and ghouls will crawl out of their holes to celebrate the one and only night of the year that is entirely dedicated to them — All Hallow’s Eve! And even though that age-old tradition is no longer really cherished in the year 3598 A.D., we have still reserved a special place in our hearts for the scariest night of the year here at the Fishlabs headquarters. And hence we’ve come up with a couple of nice little special events to celebrate today’s rise of the ghosts and gremlins in a befitting way.
Don’t you hate it, guys? Even though you just spent a fortune on a new navigation unit, you still ended up completely lost in space because you sold your Khador Drive in Y’mirr system and didn’t know that there was no jump gate to lead you back. Or you had to wash dishes at a space longue for two years on end, because you’ve spent all your money buying Collectible Dolls for 9,000 credits a piece in Mido system, believing you were scoring the deal of your lifetime. Well, don’t worry! The times of clueless errantry between the different star systems are finally over. Thanks to The official Pocket Gamer Guide to Galaxy on Fire 2, which has been developed over the past couple of months by Steel Media and Fishlabs, you’ll now be able to cramp tons and tons of informative, interesting and entertaining GOF2 trivia onto your iPad! From blueprint receipts and travel routes to attack strategies and insider tips, the new GOF2 guide contains everything you need to know in order to save the galaxy from its all kinds of evil aliens and become the most prosperous space trader on this side of the final frontier[full]
The good thing about totally unexpected happenings is that they occur both ways… sometimes they throw you back a little, but sometimes they also play into your hands. Not even two weeks ago, it looked as if the simultaneous launch of our new open space epic Galaxy on Fire 2 – Supernova in SD, HD and Full HD had to be postponed for quite a few days due to an unexpected rejection of the Full HD version on the one hand and a number of subsequent iPhone 5 optimizations of the HD version on the other hand. During that time, we still had a glimpse of hope that we could make a September release, but internally we were more expecting the new expansion pack to be launched sometime in October. Since we didn’t know a specific release date ourselves also and didn’t know if and when the re-submitted versions would get an approval from Apple, we purposely kept all information about the release as vague as possible and also didn’t announce the exact dates of new submissions of the Full HD and HD versions publically. After all, there has always still been the chance that we’d get rejected again for one reason or another and if that had happened, people would most likely be even more disappointed than they were after the new add-on’s first delay. [full]
Let’s face it, guys. If it wasn’t for Apple releasing the iPhone back in 2007 and opening the App Store back in 2008, Fishlabs would most likely no longer be around today. And to this day, iOS is by far the most important and successful market for us. We understand that many of you won’t be affected directly by the newly added iPhone 5 optimization of Galaxy on Fire 2 – Supernova and hence might be quite a bit disappointed by our decision to add a number of new features right away, rather than adding them afterwards in the course of another update. We also understand that those among you, who’ve not yet moved over to the HD version of GOF2, might not be too fond of our decision to stick to our plans of releasing all three versions of the new expansion pack simultaneously, despite the fact that only the Full HD and HD versions had to be re-submitted. Though all of these things don’t seem to be connected to one another, the matter turns out to be more complex than it might appear at first. If all had gone according to plan, we would have launched the add-on prior to the release of the iPhone 5 and then added the additional features with another update that would have gone live at the same day that Apple’s new smartphone hit the market.[full] But as so often in life, things turned out quite a bit different than expected and now we really need to do everything we can to make our title appear as appealing as possible on the new device right from the start. The better it looks and performs on the iPhone 5, the higher is the chance that we‘re going to get a lot of media coverage as well as an international feature upon release – and these things can indeed be crucial factors that decide whether a new title becomes a success or a failure.
