Digital Chocolate explains how Crazy Penguin will work as a NanoStar
From penguin to catapult to skirmisher
I'm getting intrigued by Digital Chocolate NanoVerse concept, which Trip Hawkins has been further explaining on his OMG blog prior to the release of the first two games NanoStar Castles and NanoStar Siege.
Simply put, NanoVerse is a virtual trading card-type system, which will work across Facebook and iPhone, in which various character cards can be unlocked, swapped or bought in packs and then introduced in any NanoVerse-supporting game, where they will then act in a power up or modifying manner.
In terms of the specifics of NanoStar Castles and NanoStar Siege, these are free-to-play games, each of which feature 10 different NanoStar characters, also free.
In total, the first edition of NanoStar characters will be 151-strong (smell of burning Pokemon anyone?).
Transformable penguinTrip uses the example of Crazy Penguin from the game Crazy Penguin Catapult to explain how it all works.
In NanoStar Castles, Crazy Penguin is a noble who turns into an catapult that launches him into the opposing castle to knock out opposing nobles.
In NanoStar Siege however, he turns into a unit called Bandits that unleashes a group of skirmishers at any spot on the battlefield you choose.
Other NanoStar characters will turn into items such as poisoned arrows, damage to enemy morale, traps, assassins or cavalry.
It all sounds very interesting. The only problem seems to be there's no mention of when the concept is coming to iPhone. The Facebook version will go live in March or April, but talk of App Store delivery, there is now none.
[source: OMG blog]
