Star Ride 1.3

Star Ride 1.3 is now available.
New in this version: OpenFeint support, with achievements, leaderboards, friends, Facebook and Twitter.

Enjoy

Star Ride Free

Star Ride Free was just released.
This version is a free FULL version of Star Ride, with some advertising banners(none during the gameplay).

This version replaces the old Lite version

Have fun

1.2 out now

Update 1.2 is live now. Enjoy

Update 1.2

We just uploaded version 1.2 of Star Ride, right now is in review.
What's new:
- Facebook support: you can now send your scores on a new global leaderboard on Facebook, and publish a feed story in your profile to share it and challenge your friends.
- New controls: you can now pause the game with a pause button, located on the top right corner of the screen. You can also swipe up to jump instead of double tapping. The new controls are explained in a new overlay tutorial.
- Minor fixes: gameplay rebalance, some stability and performance problems solved. Fixed some crash issues with Geocade.


The update should be online as soon as Apple approves it.
Stay tuned.

News and reviews

The famouse iPhone app review site, AppVee.com reviewed Star Ride, giving it a nice 4/5.
"Star Ride is a fun and rewarding game with a unique style and appearance. The hand drawn graphics are high quality and give the game loads of charm. The sounds are captivating and soothing. With all the cookie cutter Apps in the Store, Star Ride is a nice burst of fresh energy. If you like carefully crafted games with nice feel and pick up and play ability, Star Ride is a must have."


Guardian.co.uk also included Star Ride in its "10 essential iPhone games of the summer" chart. You can find the article here.
"A gently soothing oddity which requires you to propel a hand-drawn character into the night sky by leaping from star to star. The synth-laden music and twinkling sound effects lull you into an almost hypnotic state. Perfect for stressful commutes"

Stay tuned for news on the next update.

New updates and new price

Hi there.
First things first: the bug in the italian version has been fixed, and the patch is available today on the appstore. Again, sorry for the inconvenience.

Also, for a limited time only, Star Ride will be 50% off! Now you can buy Star Ride for just 0.99$
Have fun!

Star Ride 1.1 is out

The first update was just released on the Appstore.
Now you'll be able to share your score online, thanks to Geocade.com support for global and geotagged leaderboards.
Have fun!


Update:
There's a problem with the italian localization, instead of the localized text, a debug place holder is displayed. Sorry for the issue, but during the playtest it was working fine :/
Anyway, we sorted out the bug and submitted a patch to Apple.


italian version:
C'è un problema con la localizzazione italiana: invece del normale testo, viene visualizzato del testo di debug. Ci scusiamo per l'inconveniente, durante i test funzionava tutto correttamente. Abbiamo risolto il problema e sottoposto la patch alla Apple, sarà disponibile a breve.

Star Ride Lite

Today Star Ride Lite was released. The lite version has a 1.000 points cap, and won't let you save your score.


We're still waiting for Apple to approve Star Ride 1.1, we submitted the update a couple of weeks ago, but the release of OS 3.0 is slowing down the review queue, so be patient ;)


Update:
There's a problem with the italian localization, instead of the localized text, a debug place holder is displayed. Sorry for the issue, but during the playtest it was working fine :/
Anyway, we sorted out the bug and submitted a patch to Apple.


italian version:
C'è un problema con la localizzazione italiana: invece del normale testo, viene visualizzato del testo di debug. Ci scusiamo per l'inconveniente, durante i test funzionava tutto correttamente. Abbiamo risolto il problema e sottoposto la patch alla Apple, sarà disponibile a breve.

Star Ride update

Just a quick update:
We are working on the first Star Ride update, in fact, we are ready to upload Star Ride 1.1 ;)
We added Geocade.com support. Geocade is the world's first location aware social gaming network for mobile devices. You'll be able to upload your score on a global server(optionally with your geographical location) and view the leaderboards from all over the world or just your country.
We hope to submit the update to Apple monday or tuesday, stay tuned.

Star Ride is out

Finally, Star Ride made it to the App Store.
You can find it here on iTunes.
We want to thank once again everyone that supported us in this project and everyone that will decide to support us in the future :)

Good news, bad news

Just a quick update:
Star Ride has been approved by Apple, and is ready to hit the App Store.
The bad news is: our dev contract isn't active yet, so we need to keep waiting for the green light. We'll keep you posted.

Special thanks

As stated in the last blog update, Star Ride is in the review stage, we just can't wait for the release date. What I never mentioned is that the game will be localized in 5 different languages: English, Italian, French, Deutsch and Spanish. We really want to thank the people that helped us in the final stages of development.
Anique Schellenberger and Michele Pace - Deutsch version
Daniela Ronzano Desvignes - French version
Luigi "RayX" Catuogno - Spanish version
A special thank to Massimiliano Marsiglietti for his support.

Star Ride in review

Just a quick update.
After some testing(and OS 3.0-proofing ;) ) Star Ride 1.0 is ready.
Right now it's in Apple's review queue, I'll keep you posted.

Music and sounds

A talented artist joined our team for this project.
His name is Federico "Grim" Fanelli, he recorded all the sounds for the game and composed the main theme that you can hear in the gameplay video in the previous post.
Go to his Jamendo page to listen to his record, "Prossimo Numero Zero".

Gameplay video

Screenshots

Main menu

Game screen

Flying

Game over

Saving the score

Star Ride Devlog

Star Ride is an upcoming ability based game for iPhone and iPod Touch.
In the game you simply control your character with your finger; the goal of the game is to jump from star to star, to reach the highest score.
It's very easy to pick up and play, making it the perfect kind of game for iPhone and iPod Touch.
It features hand drawn graphics and an original music score that contributes to create a surreal and unique atmosphere.

Star Ride is in the last stage of development, we're expecting to submit the first release to Apple within the end of April.

Feel free to contact us via comments or to our mail address: starridesupport@gmail.com