Updates
Things have been quiet here for a while, but all with a good reason.
We just finished a version of Hacker Evolution for the iPhone. It’s going to be available in the App Store in a few days.
Until then, here is a teaser screenshot:
Also, Hacker Evolution: Untold has been picked up for publishing, by IGN Entertainment’s Direct2Drive publishing service.
We are running a promo with them, so for a limited time, you can order the game and save 50% of the standard price (only $12.50 now).
Click the image below, to order your copy now:
A bit of spotlight…
Recently, our Symbian antivirus, exoVirusStop, has been picked by Phoload.com an featured on their front page. It’s nice to see whenever the success of our products is recognized.
See it yourself here: Phoload.com
exoVirusStop antivirus now offered for free
Since Nokia has discontinued manufacturing mobile phones with the Symbian Series 60 1st and 2nd edition mobile phones, and since we no longer offer our antivirus for that platform, we have decided to give it away for free to everyone. You can download it from:
There are no strings attached and no catches. Download the full version of the antivirus completely free, and keep your mobile phone free and secure.
Hacker Evolution: Untold - finally released…
With a slight delay (of 1 week) we have finally released the sequel to the original Hacker Evolution game.
I didn’t wanted to call it Hacker Evolution 2, because the respective numbering scheme is pretty much crappy, and the action of the game takes place before the time of the original game.
Those of you that have played the original game, will notice a lot of changes. We have added some new commands, the target maps are more real and interactive, and the game play itself has changed quite a bit. We have some new concepts as well. For instance, every server you hack, contributes to your global trace by a certain amount. But there is now the possibility to go back to the server and delete the logs.
Also, the way we have designed the levels, has changed a lot. There are levels which require a lot of thinking and balancing to get through (level 4 as an example) a maze of firewalls. You have to hack them in the right order to be able to bounce through the hacked ones and advance to the next ones. The depth of the levels has also changed a lot. You will explore office buildings, houses, entire locations or an abstract global level.
This will be pretty much the last hacker game engine I will develop. Over 6 years have passed since we have released our first hacker game, and it’s time to move ahead and come up with new game ideas. Don’t worry … we are not heading towards the billion polygon-blow-things-up games genre. There are 2 mains reasons to continue to stick around. One is that I will continue expanding the game with new levels, features (freelance infinite play, online multiplayer, etc). The second one is even better. Our next game, which will be the next chapter of exosyphen studios, will be entirely based on the current hacking simulation idea, except that we will take it to a whole different level. All the things you have enjoyed in our current games, will become a small part of a giant and immerse game.
Download and enjoy the game, if you haven’t done so, already…
Most popular iPhone web app
A while ago, a friend of mine (from HelipadHouse.com), showed me this cool little things called web apps, that are actually small web pages designed to run on Apple’s iPhone. The idea looked pretty nice and last week I decided to give it a go and play around with them. I made 3 webapps:
- WiFi Speed Meter (http://www.wifispeed.info) - measures the speed of your iPhone’s internet connection.
- Pocket Market (http://www.pocketmarket.info) - displays the latest prices for the commodities traded on NYMEX
- CeRetea (http://www.ceretea.com) - it’s a web app for the local romanian market, to help people find out to which fixed/mobile operator a phone number belongs.
And what turned out to be great after the next Apple site update … WiFi Speed Monitor became the no. 1 most popular web app of all categories.
See the screenshot:
Link: http://www.apple.com/webapps/index_top.html
Feel free to browse our collection on web apps, directly on your iPhone at: http://www.exowebapps.com