MonsterUp versions 1.5 and 1.6 updates and the future of MonsterUp

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Since nosotros reviewed MonsterUp, the crawly DoodleJump clone for Windows Phone 7, developer Karios Games has continued honing the game, pushing out 2 new updates. MonsterUp was already a very slick indie title, so how has it improved?

MonsterUp v1.5.0.0 changelog:

View more than online rankings in scoreboard screen
Concrete platform breaks with shield bonus
Small tweak to concrete platform graphics
Pocket-sized tweaks to game fonts
View and vanquish online high scores in-game
View your all-time all-time and current leaderboard position in-game
Transition effects in loading screens
Reduced special power recharging fourth dimension by 20%

MonsterUp v1.half dozen.0.0 changelog (pending certification):

Graphics color banding bug fixed
Bigger in-game buttons
In-game buttons' position changed
Small graphics tweaks
Minor tweaks to game fonts
Made in-game info more visible

Most impressive near these updates is the online loftier score integration. Score in MonsterUp is actually a measure of height; your high score is the greatest elevation you accept reached. With the new online high score integration, every other MonsterUp player's best height is clearly marked on-screen. This makes their scores far more than tangible than simply viewing them from a Leaderboard. It's piece of cake to imagine a player trying only a chip harder when he sees the next all-time score only a piffling chip above hum on the screen… The Karios Games website has also been fully redesigned to include (among other things) the online scoreboards, farther encouraging competition.

Follow the jump for sectional information about Karios Games' future plans for MonsterUp - and a new game annunciation!

The futurity of MonsterUp

It'southward no hush-hush that MonsterUp is heavily inspired by Lima Sky's popular game, DoodleJump. Until recently, DoodleJump hasn't been available on the Windows Phone vii platform, so WP7 gamers looking for a DoodleJump fix had to satisfy themselves with clones like MonsterUp (hands the best such game). Now that DoodleJump is coming to Windows Phone 7 soon, MonsterUp faces significant contest. Is Karios Games prepared for the claiming?

Fight 'em with quality

"Many MonsterUp gamers say that they believe it is already better than DoodleJump," creator Marios Karagiannis explains. MonsterUp's colorful, stylized art tin can hold its own against DoodleJump; the game also differentiates itself with multiple playable characters, near with unique special powers. It'due south too unlikely that DoodleJump's leaderboards will approach the quality of the loftier score integration plant in MonsterUp. Xbox Live leaderboards on Windows Phone seven are slow to load, don't integrate straight into their games, and are express to friends-only, making them useless to people whose Xbox Alive friends don't ain WP7 devices. And so again, DoodleJump is sure to take its own advantages, including numerous unique environments, enemies to defeat, and Xbox Live Achievements.

Xbox Live ambitions

Karagiannis is well-enlightened that Xbox Live games tend to outsell indie games on the Windows Phone 7 platform. While he develops games because he loves them, not because of profits, he does want to reach a larger audience. Karios Games recently practical to have MonsterUp go an Xbox Alive title. That's an uphill battle, as we've heard that simply 3 indie games accept ever been promoted to Xbox Alive titles post-release. Most mobile Xbox Live games and so far are ports of successful iOS titles and/or belong to established franchises.

More to come up

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What makes a franchise? Sequels! WPCentral has received exclusive first discussion about Karios Games' next championship, MonsterUp Adventures. Adventures volition intermission free from the DoodleJump mold and get a much more substantial game. The original MonsterUp will be renamed MonsterUp Archetype, and it will yet receive future updates. The official site for these and all futurity Karios games volition, of grade, be Kariosgames.com.

Information technology'due south ever great to meet a developer back up and refine their games afterwards release, and the prospect of more games with the MonsterUp characters is exciting. You tin grab the original MonsterUp or its free trial here (Zune link) on the Marketplace.

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