August 21st, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Connected Gaming | No Comments »
Lunagames today announced the newest release in the Air Traffic Controller series called “Air Traffic Controller 2007” following the massive success of the original version back in 2003. The game will be available in Q4 (or late 2006 as they say) 2006 and will allow connectivity between web and mobile for consumers to build new levels themselves online and play them on mobile.
“We believe that the success of ATC was mainly driven by the original now referred to as ‘one-thumb’ type game-play, combined with the popular theme of large Aircrafts.” said Kitty Brown, VP at Lunagames.
The new Air Traffic Controller has not only been upgraded on the connectivity level, but also introduces new elements into the game like no fly-zones, hot air balloons, emergencies, weather and much more. The game will feature 50 levels excluding the levels build by consumers over the web.
“Lunagames is currently in the final phase of play testing in which the game-balance is perfected and the new Web to Mobile features are enhanced”. said Dennis Medema, Head of Game Design. “The ability for gamers to make their own levels through the online level editor has really shown to be a great differentiating game feature. We’ve seen that people sharing the game with friends is near three (3) times higher by enabling user generated content as apposed to our regular games tested.”
We asked Richard Hanzenberg, CEO of Lunagames about his expectations for user generated content in upcoming mobile games from Lunagames.
"Based on our initial user-tests I can say we’re really enthusiastic about what user generated content can do for games and mobile services in general. We believe it will both increase the lastability of titles and stimulate people to share the game and its content far more often with friends. Although our solution works equally well on 2.5G, we thinks that user generated content will be particularly interesting in a 3G environment." said Richard Hanzenberg, CEO of Lunagames.
