After a long wait, New World Revolution, creators of the Rocketbirds Soundtrack, has just released their new album, “Amazon Women from Space” – get it on iTunes here!
Wellp, we did it, we launched the PS Vita version of Rocketbirds today! It has tons of nifty new features, but above all… it’s frickin’ portable, which in my books is the biggest feature of all! Check out the video – we worked pretty hard on it, so any feedback will be greatly appreciated!
Despite losing the phone that was used to take these pictures (NoooOOOOooooo!), we did save three of them showing our “Rocketbirds for PC Steam” booth at Pax Prime last week! Thanks Sandra for sending these!
Yeah, we’re coming to Steam (finally! Fall 2012)… and if you Pre-Order your copy via GamersGate or Rain DG, you get Agent H playable character (the one who sings in the Vid… heh) and four awesome tracks by NWR.
Enjoy the Vid!
Two Ratloop-ians (the same duo that brought you Helsing’s Fire (IGF 2011 WINNER: Best Mobile Game)) have gone and created an iOs App called Introthing. It simplifies the creation of kickass introductory clips, like you saw in Guy Ritchie movies or in the opening credits of those 80/90s TV shows. Here’s some more info on the App. Or visit the page on the store. If you like it, please remember to Rate it!
The title says “ Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken is Available on PSN”, but then in Japanese. Yes, we launch on PSN in Japan today – and here’s our official Japanese Rocketbirds website!
Whew… we’ve finally gotten off our tired asses and updated the Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken webpages. It now includes links to the various trailers, reviews, screenshots, features yadda yadda yadda. Take a gander (pun?)
Our blogs, tweets and “Rocketbirds: Revolution!” updates have been non-existent lately, but I really wanted to try and combine a lot of info into one, compact and non-spammy post that may be fit to post. What a ride it has been getting our game through to launch for Playstation 3 and the phenomemal support we’ve been getting from everyone – This trip has been surreal!
But first, here’s the game’s new launch trailer which has racked up over 200k views since it was posted yesterday!
With the exception of Japan (soon) and Brazil, from today our game is available almost everywhere you have PSN - we’ve translated it from English into 10 different languages (French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Korean, Japanese, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese) and gotten it age rated for the different countries/regions that needed them, where we’ve received the entire spectrum of ratings starting with: Korea 18+, ESRB (USA / CAN) 17+, USK (Germany) 16+, CERO (Japan) 15+, ACB (Aus / NZ) 12-15 and PEGI (Rest of Europe) 12+. Hmmm… Say what?
Anyhoos, here’s a recap of what we’ve been posting on Playstation Blog (SCEA / SCEE) these past few months – enjoy!
19 July: Coming to PSN: Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken - Our first SCEA Blog post. Debut of the Early Alpha Trailer to the sound of New World Revolution’s “Double Agents”. We were going to Comic-Con San Diego!
22 September: Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken Hits PSN This October, Meet the Birds - Going from early concept sketches to arriving at the final charater designs for the birds, in scans and screenshots we show you how we got there.
23 September: Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken Brings Jet-Pack Poultry To PSN - Our first SCEE Blog post. Debut of the Preview Trailer to the sound of New World Revolution’s “The One”.
5 October: Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken Takes Flight October 18th - We show some before and after storyboards of two of the in-game cutscenes.
10 October: Rocketbirds: Couch Co-Op Mode Revealed - We delve into how we arrived at the pretty unique couch-co-op mode for the game. Debut of the Co-Op Vid to the sound of New World Revolution’s “Stars & Snakes”
12 October: Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken: From Flash To Full 3D On PS3 - We talk a bit about the 3D in Rocketbirds and getting the game working in stereoscopic 3D. Fitting it in 500 words or less is no small feat!
18 October:Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken is Only on PSN Starting Today - Debut of the Launch Trailer to the sound of New World Revolution’s “Once I Was Lost (Rocketbirds Theme)” – Kurti Files Remix
19 October: Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken Launches Today! - Launch Post in Europe / Aus / NZ
Some cool sites have reported on our short preview demo at Comic-Con! IGN reported: “We played it on the show floor here at Comic-Con 2011 and are happy to let you know you should be looking forward to it. Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken (as it will be known on PSN) is stylish and amusing”. DIY Gamer did a ‘Hands On’. Their opening line cracks me up: “Penguins think they’re so cute, but how cute do they think they’ll be after a face full of bullets from a chicken commando?”… “Jetpack battles in the game are also extremely fun, as you can fly anyone where on the screen and grief any and all enemies that are so unlucky as to find themselves under your fire” - they even even included a short, video of some parts of the game played at the booth!
Apart from it coming to Playstation 3 (end 2011 / early 2012), we’ve put together a list and are spilling the beans over all the cool stuff we came up with for “Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken”! You want to know what’s new since “Revolution”? Take a lookie!