The game revolves around a ceremonial rubber ball belonging to the god which must be returned by the second hour of night otherwise the Lords of the Night will not be appeased.

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Welcome to developer George Péchy

Tell us a bit about Etherfield Studios and how/when you started the company?

Etherfield Studios is a small creative development studio, based in Budapest, Hungary. At the moment there are 5 of us, programmers, graphic designers a 2D, a 3D artist and a musician. Everyone has some experience in game development. We’ve started a year ago. At that time we were working on a Flash-based project. Someone came up with the idea to try to create an iPhone version as well. We’ve started to “dig” ourselves in it, and finally we stopped the Flash project completely to focus on the iPhone application.

What attracted you to get into app development for the iphone?

As soon as Apple introduced iPhone it was clear that it has a lot of potential. The way you can reach millions of possible users through a single media was really attractive.

What software do you use when creating apps?

Basically Objectiive C, C, C++  for programming, Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator and 3DS Max for the graphics.

What was the inspiration behind the ‘Pitz’ game?

N+ inspired us greatly.

Why did you choose that particular visual style?

The visual style comes from “Bellfort”, our unique fantasy world. We’ll introduce it in every game we’ll develop.

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How long did it take from initial creative idea to App store?

Nearly 8 months. But it’s because Pitz is our first project. We’ve collected a lot of experience from this long period, and we’ll incorporate it in our future games.

What have you found really helpful during development?

The development forums and the feedbacks from different development communities. Also “the red book” was a great help at OpenGL.

What problems did you encounter creating it?

There were only smaller problems, basically at the coding.

What were your biggest issues or problems during development?

The optimization for the hardware was a problem during the early stage of development.

How did you go about marketing your app and which had the best return?

It’s too early to say anything about the best return yet. As we don’t have a strong connection with international sites, we’ve tried to send our application to as many forums and sites as we could.

What hints or tips would you give to budding developers?

Take your time on preparation! Keep your quality standards very high!

What does the future hold for Etherfield?

We want to be known as a development company with high quality applications, we have a lot of ideas and we want to show it to the world.

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Pitz is a new puzzle game for the iphone by Etherfield Games.   The basic premise is to guide a bouncing ball through a series of challenging environments against the clock whilst collecting coins as you go which give you more points / time.

The clock does not click down in seconds as you would expect, but in points and the more coins you collect the more points are added and the quicker you finish the level the more points you earn.

Pitz is very challenging until you get to grips with the control scheme and becomes more rewadring the more you play, graphically it is very bright and vibran and also has a great soundtrack.

My only criticisms of the game are that it does not have the app name on the front screen, the only place where you see the name Pitz is the app icon and the very short loading screens between levels, there is no online leader board, which for a game that encourages you to finish a level with a high score is a little strange, the control positions on the display are not marked out well enough and unfortunately it reminds me far too much of Zuma both in the look of the game and in its (wonderful) soudtrack which is a shame because it actually plays very well.

Looks:       Bright and vibrant, very Zuma though.
Controls: Difficult to get used to (and see) very good once mastered.
Sound:      Excellent cheery Soundtrack. Good in game sounds.
Overall:    A worth while app and good addition to your collection.  There is better out there at the price point though.

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