Pandemica, World’s First Multi-player AR iPhone Game Launches

Pandemica melds fast-paced arcade-style gaming with augmented reality

12.01.2009 – XMG Studio has released the world’s first multi-player, augmented reality game for the iPhone 3GS. Pandemica is a fast-paced arcade-style shooter game that challenges gamers to search the world around them for invading alien organisms and eliminate them or be eliminated themselves.

In Pandemica the gamer is advised that the world is not as it seems. Recent advances in sub-space technologies have revealed that Earth is inhabited by a variety of alien organisms. These organisms are harmless while existing under the cloak of sub-space invisibility, but when they are exposed, using a sub-space bio-scanner, they become visible and they become violent. It is the gamers’ mission to eradicate the organisms — at all costs.

Unlike other games where a gamer is virtually transported into a make-believe world, Pandemica uses the iPhone’s augmented reality (AR) capabilities to superimpose the Pandemica game environment, filled with alien organisms, on top of the view from the iPhone’s camera, bringing the game right into the gamer’s world.

Pandemica has three single-player game modes (Mission, Endless and Time Attack) to challenge the gamer and improve skills. The game also has two multi-player modes (competitive or cooperative defence) that allow up to 4 players to connect over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi.

Pandemica is available now through the Apple iTunes Store for $1.99 in the United States and Canada. Check local iTunes stores for local pricing.

About XMG Studio

XMG Studio is a cutting-edge developer of games for mobile devices. XMG puts special focus on incorporating features and effects that will create fun, compelling and entertaining games, such as augmented reality, advanced graphics and unique gameplay modes. XMG’s first game, Pandemica, was released for the iPhone 3GS in 2009 and have a strong roadmap of games to be released in 2009 and 2010.