Back at the Unite Conference in 2008, Unity added the ability to publish for iPhone. After the conference, we stuck around and did a game jam with some friends. I made up a basic character and control scheme for an iPhone boxing game, which would later become Touch KO. Matt and I have been working on this as a side project of our own since about January. I chronicled the development pretty thoroughly on my own blog, so I won’t bother rehashing too many details here.

Anyhow, here we are many, many months later and Touch KO is now out in the App Store as an all new Blurst game! Apart from all the work Matt and I put into it, our good friend Mike Heald also did some awesome work on the game’s graphic design elements. It’s not quite as quirky as other Blurst games, but it does add some new Blurst achievements and a leaderboard. If you have an iPhone or iPod touch you should check it out! There is even a Blurst Ballroom level and a pair of Blurst trunks among tons of other shameless plugs for various friends of ours.

Our iPhone robot combat game, !Rebolt! has finally made it through approval purgatory and is now available in the App Store for $0.99!

Go buy it! (iTunes)

Adam and I began work on the prototype as a weekend-long project for TIGJam 08, but it quickly turned into our most ambitious iPhone project to date! After ten weeks of hard work, we’re happy to finally have it out for folks to play! We hope you enjoy it as much as we do! Maximize your score, collect data to learn humanity’s ultimate fate, and maybe you’ll even find one of the Bonus Missions!

In case you missed the final trailer, here it is again!

!Rebolt! Trailer (iPhone) from Flashbang Studios on Vimeo.

Raptor Copter has become our first Unity-made iPhone game to hit the App Store! We’re making it available for a limited-time price of $0.99. The game is a loose follow-up to Off-Road Velociraptor Safari. Instead of a jeep, you have a Chinook helicopter, but the basic game loop is the same: Capture raptors, drop them into factories, and teleport their sweet meats to the future.

Raptor Copter iTunes Link

Raptor Copter uses your Blurst.com login for leaderboards and achievements!

Matt and I have been working very hardly (get it?) for the last couple weeks to wrap things up with !Rebolt! and I present you with the final trailer this fine Friday evening! As you can see in the trailer, the future is quite different to the present. There are no more elephants. There is no more unethical treatment of elephants either. Finally, robotic beings rule the world!

The game should be complete and sent off to Apple within a few days, so we hope you are all ready to engage in robotic destruction and collect important artifacts from a long-lost, primitive civilization.

We’ve been hard at work in the Game Mines here at Blurst, toiling away at bringing sweet FunOre® to the surface for processing and your eventual enjoyment. In addition to Minotaur China Shop, we have two crews working on iPhone games. We’ve briefly mentioned !Rebolt! before, a game by Adam and Matt Mechtley. And the second game? Raptor Copter, under extraction from deep within a rich dinosaur vein:

Shawn and Ben are currently wrapping production on Raptor Copter. We’ll announce a launch date and pricing details soon…

In addition to Minotaur China Shop (soon, we swear), and the rest of the community features here on Blurst, we’re also working on three iPhone games slated for November launch.  Check out the Singularity Cannon in !Rebolt!, a sweet robot-combat game by the Mechtley brothers:

!Rebolt! Singularity Cannon Trailer from Matt Mechtley on Vimeo.