"Prince of Persia : Escape"

[Norbert]

This iOS game will be released tomorrow.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/prince- ... 1435320545

[Norbert]

The game appears to be by "Ketchapp".
But supposedly it's an "official mobile game".
Says "Copyright © Ubisoft".

[realXCV]

According to Wikipedia, Ketchapp is a subsidiary of Ubisoft.

[Norbert]

According to Wikipedia, Ketchapp is a subsidiary of Ubisoft.

Okay.

Promotion on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BoCN8HIljEI/
And Twitter:
https://twitter.com/EstotyGames/status/ ... 0456585216

[Falcury]

There's a short movie as well, but that only seems to show up in the App Store app itself, not on the web page.
It looks like this game will involve lots of precice timing. And apparently you can collect gems.

[Norbert]

There's a short movie as well, [...]

In-game footage: https://twitter.com/ketchappgames/statu ... 0376820736

[lvcabral]

Looks really nice! And it has some Mininim "turn-n-grab" features

[Norbert]

As I expected (based on the preview video), it's an auto-runner game.
It's free, and to remove in-game ads one has to pay 3.49 euros.
One of the menu icons is a jacket. When clicked, it displays a "coming soon; stay tuned!" text, with in the background faded - vaguely visible - what appears to be the prince and some different looking heads.
So far, I've been unable to find a way to get an overview of the levels, nor to replay previous levels. (Maybe this is only possible after finishing all of them...)

[lvcabral]

Really disappointing, and full of annoying ads.
The 3d look is nice, but a waste, not being able to explore, forward only games are boring.

[Falcury]

I just tried it. I agree, the ads are really annoying. Nice sounds and environments with varying color schemes, though.
I haven't found any purpose to the gem collecting, so far... Maybe they're planning to use it as an in-game currency or something.
And they mention this in their description:

Enjoy tons of unique levels for you to beat!

While the levels are unique, all individual sections of the levels are repeatable elements that show up again and again. I guess you would expect that from this kind of game. Still, it's not like they put in extra effort handcrafting each level. (Maybe they're procedurally generated?)
Speculation: maybe the goal of the game is to 'escape' the ads?

[Norbert]

I haven't found any purpose to the gem collecting, so far...

If you have 100, it occasionally allows you to trade them in to start from a checkpoint or even skip a level, and gems reappear after a bunch of runs/time, so the gems make it impossible not to win as long as you just keep playing.

[...], all individual sections of the levels are repeatable elements that show up again and again.

I also noticed this.

[Norbert]

Fairly high res promo image.

[Norbert]

Now also available for Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... chapp.pope

[Aram]

Interesting game. but I do not like that all levels are repeated the same elements
I've reached level 231.

[Aram]

Level 171-192 -->> https://youtu.be/7TKBZK88pN0
Level 192-218 -->> https://youtu.be/f4CBeSb27hw