But at the same time it is also packed with nods and homages to its predecessors. Galaxy on Fire 3 - Manticore tells a fresh story and introduces novel ideas to the franchise.
This allows us to link the game to its predecessors, without requiring people to play the old games first in order to understand what is going on in the new game. Galaxy on Fire 3 - Manticore is set in a hitherto uncharted part of the Galaxy on Fire universe. How did you balance appealing to series fans and onboarding new players who may not have played a game like Galaxy on Fire before? Then we got people in our team who joined us over five years ago and worked on the DLC for Galaxy on Fire 2.Īnd finally, there are new team members that joined us specifically for Galaxy on Fire 3 and brought in fresh ideas.Īll in all, the Galaxy on Fire team is one of the biggest standalone teams working on a mobile game these days! Yes, we still have developers on board who have been with the company for more than 10 years. So we went down a different path, introducing new ideas to Galaxy on Fire 3 - Manticore while simultaneously keeping the essence of the previous Galaxy on Fire games preserved: intense space fights in stunning sci-fi environments.Īre there team members working on Galaxy on Fire 3 - Manticore who have been with the series since the very start? a game like Galaxy on Fire 2 could not be re-created anymore. Yet, the mobile market changed significantly in the past couple of years and we reached a point where it became obvious that a game like Galaxy on Fire 2 could not be re-created anymore. If the fans and media had not shown that much love for our game, we would not even have thought about making a third instalment. Michael Krach: At its heyday, Galaxy on Fire 2 was really successful - both financially and critically. How did this legacy affect your thinking when developing Galaxy on Fire 3 - Manticore? : With the first entry launching back in 2006, Galaxy on Fire is one of the longest-running mobile game series out there. To discuss all this and more, spoke with Deep Silver Fishlabs Head of Studio Michael Krach to go behind the scenes on the game's development.
Perhaps the most fundamental change, however, is that Galaxy on Fire 3 - Manticore is the first in the series with a free-to-play model. Indeed, Manticore boasts visuals that would have impressed even on consoles back in 2006, swapping cramped feature phone displays for the high-fidelity screens of modern phones and tablets. Deep Silver Fishlabs launched Galaxy on Fire 3 - Manticore in December 2016.Ī full decade on from the launch of the original Galaxy on Fire back in 2006, comparing the two is perhaps the most stark display of how far mobile gaming has come in a relatively short time.
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