MicroMonster roars onto mobile
Multiplayer battling over the network or Bluetooth
While the larger mobile games publishers focus on single-player downloadable games here in Europe, there's an increasing number of developers putting their efforts into connected games. The latest is German developer Biting Bit and its new game MicroMonster.
It's a real-time multiplayer fantasy combat game, which sees you pitting your assassin, blade warrior, cyborg, psionic or, er, Gorok against the monsters of other players. It works over the mobile network, although you can also play against a friend via Bluetooth.
Win fights, and your monster's skills get boosted, allowing them to get better equipment. There's also an interesting business model - seen most often in online PC games in Korea and China - it's free to download the game and you don't pay a monthly subscription fee but you do pay for weapons, armours and other kit for your monster, from Biting Bit's online shop.
"We consider this a very fair model for the players' benefit," says Biting Bit's Reidar Hörning. "This way the game can be played just for fun and without permanent fees."
There's a single-player mode, of course, which lets you train your monsters up by working through quests. We're certainly intrigued, and will be investigating MicroMonster further in the coming weeks. In the meantime, you can check out the game's website.
