Kerala based game development company Csharks recently launched their award winning online game ‘Platform Golf’ on the IOS platform on the 18th of September 2012 and the Android version in August this year. The game was earlier released on the web platform as well, and has won awards at Mousebreaker competition. The game is launched in two different versions for the iOS platform, a free Lite version and a universal HD version with more levels.
Platform Golf is a physics game with a golf simulation game play in which player has to get the ball to the hole through the platforms. The main challenging feature of this game are its tricky levels and realistic physics. Using the touch controls we can select the power and angle of the throw. The levels are designed so that the player needs to have careful selection of platforms through which the ball gets to the hole.
There are 25 levels designed with gradual increase of difficulty. Game has an GameCentre leader board for iOS and Scoreloop for Android. Game has social sharing features so that the players can share their winning status of each levels and final score on twitter and facebook.
The game also has achievements feature in which player will be awarded with some trophies when finishing some specific tasks in the game.
Speaking to Animationxpress.com about the game Eldhose P Mathew MD & CEO shared,” We originally designed this game as an online game and developed it in flash. However, it turned out to be a success and won an award too in the Sports Games Competition by MouseBreaker. So we decided to port the game to the mobile platforms. We have created iPhone and Android versions of the games with entirely new art and level designs and have added more challenging levels.”
“Game idea is evolved from one of our own games in which there is platform based game play. We thought about a sports game play implementation on such platforms and that’s how we decided on the Golf game play based on platform terrains. Android game porting took around 45 days and iOS took more than 60 days as we have launched two different versions of the game for iOS.”
Elaborating more on the team behind ‘Platform Golf’ Juwal Bose, Creative Head at Csharks said,” A team of 6 people work behind this game which includes producer, artists, programmers & tester. 2 artists have worked on the game, most for the design & art creation along with the level design. It took us around 30 days to finish the game art and level designs.”
“The USP of the game are the following:
- Easy to learn
- 25 challenging levels
- Smooth physics
- HD Retina graphics for iOS
- Social sharing features
- Achievements in game play
- Online Leaderboard
The game was highly successful on the web platform and was even awarded for the same. We have got a good response from the Android platform within one month of its launch. The iPhone HD version was just released last week and I hope it will cross the game play statistics of Flash and Android versions.”
Csharks is a game development company from Kerala managing game development for many platforms, which includes flash, html5 and unity for Web, iPhone, iPad , Android for Mobile and Facebook for social games. Csharks is also developing Advergames, E-learning games and other interactive entertainment applications.