President and COO of Sega of America Simon Jeffery has left the house of Sonic, hitching his executive wagon to iPhone developer and publisher ngmoco—you know, the one former Electronic Arts exec Neil Young co-founded in 2006.
Leading iPhone game publisher Ngmoco has no plans to release exclusive games for the newly announced iPhone 3GS, instead offering a more creative way to take advantage of the new model’s increased graphical power.
Star Defense is Ngmoco’s take on tower defence games. Yes, that means yet another tower defence game for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Ngmoco’s LiveFire, a multiplayer first-person shooter designed from the ground up for the iPhone, is a valiant attempt to bring the fast-paced genre to the portable, but still needs quite a bit of work.
It was, by most accounts, a grand success.
I was able to spend a few minutes earlier today with Ngmoco’s upcoming tower defence game, Star Defence and was pleasantly surprised with the iPhone game’s potential.
Neil Young, founder of iPhone gaming guru ngmoco:), kicked off GDC’s iPhone gaming panels with a talk on how Apple’s little monster has revolutionised the game-making and game-playing process.
Ngmoco:) announced Rolando 2 for the iPhone this June and Rolando 3 will follow nine months later. Their other game in development, Star Defence, should be out “soon.”
After years of being a punch line among hardcore gamers, Apple has gotten serious about gaming, they just happened to use a cell phone and not a computer to do it.