Posted by Ross
Mon, 16th Dec 2013
So, goodbye 2013. Another year has passed in what seems like no time at all and it’s now time for us to start getting ready for Christmas.
Here at Laughing Jackal 2013 was the year of the Vita, as we released our first two full Vita games. The first of these was a remake of our last PlayStation mini, Hungry Giraffe.
Our other Vita title for 2013 was the gory OMG HD Zombies, a massively enhanced remake of one of our most popular minis, OMG-Z. This Vita remake actually ended up taking longer to put together than the original, due to all the new features we added.
Also on the Vita we’ve been hard at work on the firefighting Roguelike, Flame Over. Flame Over is already one of our best looking games and we’re looking forward to sharing more details with you all next year. It’s been a long road and far more eventful than we could have ever imagined (and a lot tougher) but we think you’ll be super-impressed by our awesome fire system once we’re happy to release it into the wild. :D
2013 was also the year that Laughing Jackal moved to PC. Not only did we help our friends at Ghostlight port Agarest: Generations of War to PC, but we have also been working on a PC port of OMG HD Zombies which should be ready to release in early 2014. If you’d be interested in helping us move things along by taking part in our closed beta, please do get in touch with us via the contact form.
That’s all from me in 2013. I hope you all have a very merry Christmas and that Santa brings you all your gaming wants.
See you next year!
Until then you can join us on our Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Google+ pages, where we will be posting all the news from Laughing Jackal.
Posted by Ross
Fri, 6th Dec 2013
Hi everyone. Some of you may remember that we mentioned we were working to bring one of our games to PC in a previous blog. Well I can now reveal that the first Laughing Jackal game to come to Steam will be OMG HD Zombies, a PC remake of the highly acclaimed PS Vita release.
While we do have a working build in the office at the moment we’re currently in the process of adding the features and options that PC gamers expect such as resolution settings, leaderboards, mouse/keyboard and gamepad support, trading cards plus cloud saving.
OMG HD Zombies is a massively enhanced remake of the critically acclaimed OMG-Z (PSP) which currently sits in the top 10 PSP games of all time on Metacritic. For those of you who never experienced the simple joys of zombie-popping first time around, the zombie virus in OMG HD Zombies is the result of a virulent fungus that causes its zombified victims to EXPLODE when attacked. That’s pretty cool in itself, but if any infected matter lands on another zombie then they explode too, causing a chain-reaction tsunami of gore! Wise to this, as a highly trained Riot Cop you’re able to take down hordes of the undead with a single well-placed rifle round.
The Vita version of OMG HD Zombies, on which the Steam version is based, has added a host of exciting new features:
New Graphics – All of the original PSP artwork has been completely redrawn to make the most of the PSVita’s higher screen resolution
More Zombies – More zombie classes have been added and with each zombie having more death animations this means much more gore!
More Levels – 19 brand new levels, plus all existing levels have been re-worked bringing the total to 100 levels of zombie slaying action!
More Upgrades – Now featuring 100 upgrades to unlock!
Trophies – 12 new bronze, silver and gold trophies to unlock.
New Comics – a specially extended comic book intro and two new comic book endings have been added
Prestige Mode – Complete the game to 100% Platinum standard to unlock Prestige Mode and receive a Leaderboard multiplier. “Prestige” up to 20 times for some truly HUGE scores!
Lastly, I can tell you that we will also be running a closed beta for this game. If you would be interested in helping us please contact us using the contact form with your email address, date of birth and the details of the PC you would be testing it on.
That’s all for now. I’ll be back next week, but until then you can join us on our Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Google+ pages where we will be posting all the news from Laughing Jackal.
Posted by Ross
Thu, 28th Nov 2013
Hi everyone. I hope you all enjoyed last week’s post giving our thoughts on the latest consoles. I was planning on announcing our first ever Steam game, but to be honest, given that the PS4 is released tomorrow, I’m not terribly sure that many people will be listening.
So, instead I’ll just hope that all of you who have picked up (or will soon be picking up) a new console, enjoy it! And I’d also like to invite you to make us all very jealous by telling us how you’re finding your new console in the comments.
Until then, I’ll leave you with the following video to get you in the mood for the PS4 launch. :) See if you can spot all the references. :)
That’s all for now. I’ll be back next week, but until then you can join us on our Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Google+ pages where we will be posting all the news from Laughing Jackal.
