Today I want to tell you about the next project I’m about to release. I created a new game together with Silvia.
Star Balloon is a breath of fresh air in a sea of asset flip puzzle games. A challenging match-3 puzzle game in which you steer colorful balloons in real-time to clear a path for a special balloon that will bring free internet to the world.
Star Balloon includes familiar mechanics of match-3 games, but runs in real-time. Whether you take action or not, balloons keep going up, swinging left and right until you take control of them. Balloons are controlled by tapping on a pair of fans located at both sides of the screen. The control is a bit challenging at first because fans blow balloons in the opposite direction, but very rewarding after you get used to it.
The game starts after the balloons in a factory are accidentally released to the sky. Some of the released balloons use experimental technology that gives them exceptional properties. The most important one is the star balloon, part of an ambitious research project to provide free Internet to the entire world, but in order to do so, it must reach first the stratosphere. The goal of the player is to clear a path for the star balloon to get through and eventually reach the stratosphere. The other balloons will get stuck to the clouds, blocking the way for the star balloon so make progress, but some of the exceptional balloons will be useful to clear the path faster.
This is the first paid game we release. You can buy the game here. Until the launch in 2019-11-14 you can pre-register it in the same link.
If you want to learn more, head to https://starballoon.arumastudios.com, or leave me a comment.
Rubén López 