Futuremark Games Studios has published their second game. Hungribles was released on Thursday for both the iPhone (3GS and 4), iPod Touch (3rd/4th gen) and iPad (both 1 and 2). It is also being promoted as game of the week in 111 countries.
Jaakko Haapasalo, Director of Futuremark Games Studio says, “We are ecstatic to see Hungribles, our first game for iPhone and iPad, featured as Game of the Week. We welcome all our new players and invite them to share their ideas for enhancing the game further on the Hungribles website.”
For those unfamiliar with Hungribles, it’s a skill-shot puzzle game for iOS devices. Hungribles are tiny creatures with appetites large enough to create a sort of gravitational field around them. The game’s goal is to feed the Hungribles and make them happy. How? By using a glowing mushroom slingshot to launch purple foot pellets at them, of course. Points (which lead to a 1-3 star rating) are scored by feeding the Hungribles in creative ways, mostly involving using the gravitational fields of other Hungribles as well as walls and other objects in each level. In case you’re having trouble visualizing this acid trip, the launch trailer is right here:
To help promote the game, Futuremark is also giving away free Hungribles promo codes on their Facebook page. If you want to purchase the game, it’s $1.99 at the iTunes store.
If the Futuremark name isn’t familiar to you, its products certainly will be. The company is responsible for the 3DMark and PCMark franchises used almost universally for testing system performance. They are also the creators of the FPS space combat game Shattered Horizon.
On a personal note, I’ve been waiting for this game to come out since I first heard about it and saw a very early gameplay trailer. I spent a couple hours playing last night, and it is quite a lot of fun. First impressions: it has the puzzle and slingshot nature of Angry Birds, the cute graphics and gameplay of Cut the Rope, and the physics that Shattered Horizon is known for. At $1.99 it definitely promises to provide long hours of inexpensive entertainment. If you have an iOS device compatible with this game, I’d highly recommend it.
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