Fingle maker Game Oven closes its doors with the launch of final game, Jelly Reef
Life is better down where it's wetter
Inventive app maker Game Oven has just released Jelly Reef - the studio's final game - on iOS. It will be out on Android later today.
Jelly Reef is almost nothing like the studio's previous games, like Bounden and Fingle, which were about local multiplayer, and encouraged touchy-feely (and slightly uncomfortable) physical connections.
Instead, this is a underwater roguelike about saving jellyfish, exploring undersea caverns, and avoiding deadly critters. Because the world is randomly generated, the game is different every time.
You don't really control the jellyfish. Instead, you exert pressure on the ocean itself which causes the jellies to move about in your current. It gives the game a nice feel as you calmly waft your hand over your iPad.
You can get Jelly Reef right here for £1.49 / $1.99.
The three-person studio Game Oven will soon be no more. The team revealed that "the artistic freedom" to make weird and experimental games "was getting harder and harder to maintain".
"All of us felt the financial pressure," the team wrote on its blog, "which removed much of the creative downtime we needed and gave us less and less time to think about new games or to make new prototypes".
