Curvy a game inspired by the second digital game ever

Curvy hits the iTunes store this Sunday. What is it? It’s a small game inspired by the second ever created video game, Tennis for Two.

„Tennis For Two was an electronic game developed in 1958 on a Donner Model 30 analog computer, which simulates a game of tennis or ping pong on an oscilloscope. Created by American physicist William Higinbotham for visitors at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, it is important in the history of video games as one of the first electronic games to use a graphical display.“

Tennis for Two David Zobrist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_for_Two

So what is curvy? When I saw this simple and beautiful first steps of video games I knew I have to make a small game honoring it. So I created this game called „Curvy“. As with my latest game Three Points I kept things simple but elegant.

Curvy Three Points David Zobrist iphone 5 David Zobrist Curvy iPhone Curvy Three Points

You play it with a simple tap which changes the direction of the ball. The ball reacts physically like a real ball so you will have to find right timing to get the control properly.
Your goal is to guide the ball towards the randomly appearing green balls, to score. If the Ball drops out of the screen you lose.

More about it tomorrow evening!

Good night,
Dave

PS: Since its Sunday now here the link:
https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/curvy/id914261017?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D2

Three Points – Handed over by the Technological Plant Mother

While tripping on salvia divinorum the technological plant mother handed me over the simple idea for the triangle game, Three points.

I did it within 1-2 Days, but it looked shit..
It was already handed in to apple but I had the feeling I had to show it to my partner in law, Sabba Keynejad.

He made me reject it immediately.
Sabba made the whole idea work and a whole series out of it to get it more attention.

It worked.

three points place 1 appstore itunes david zobrist

Small experiment – 1 app a day for one week

This week, actually since last saturday every day one app of a small series goes live.

So you can already check out the first 3 apps. I will also make gameplay videos later this week.

All follow the same rules, tap rotates the element you have to color match the sides to the incoming spheres.

two Two PointsTwo Points Puzzle game iphone 4
threeThree PointsDavid Zobrist Three Point Puzzle Game iphone 4
fourFour PointsFour Points Color matching game iphone 4