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Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery EP journeys to iPhone this week

by JC Fletcher on Apr 19th 2011 2:30PM

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, the artsy, jokey, pretty adventure game from Capy, musician Jim Guthrie, and artist Superbrothers, is launching a two-pronged assault on iPhone this week.

The iPad version of the game will receive a free update "shortly before Thursday, April 21st 2011" that makes it a Universal app compatible with iPhones and iPod Touches. At the same time, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP Micro will be added to the App Store. It's "the same exact videogame," but in a version compatible only with iPhone-size devices (3G and newer, but not "super smooth on 3G.")

"The S:S&S EP project began life on the smaller touchtronic machines," the announcement notes, "so many of the key art & design decisions were made with this very particular form factor in mind." The iPhone version is "definitely 'the way it was meant to be' - it's an entire little world you can slip into your pocket at any time."

Source: Sword & Sworcery EP

Tags: capy, capybara-games, iphone, mobile, q2-2011, release-date, superbrothers-sword-and-sworcery-ep

Reader Comments (16)

Awesome, I wonder how much? I say $4.99...

@darthdavid - Considering that's the price for the iPad version, they may undercut that by $1-2.

...and I've very content paying that price for this game.

@Nintendo Tim
I'm liking this new model of basically providing the iPhone version for free to people who get the iPad versions. How stupid was it, with Plants vs. Zombies, that if you paid the big money and got the ipad version, that you couldn't play it whatsoever on your phone...yet...if you bought the iPhone version, you could play it on either device? It provided little incentive to get the better one.

@Nintendo Tim
I stand corrected, for some odd reason I thought the iPad version was $10. Well then, $2.99 it is!

I wish I could go back in time and change the timeflow so android phones switch places with the iPhone. This awesome looking piece of software mustn't stay iPhone/iPad exclusive!

@(Unverified)
Why not? Maybe you are the one who shouldn't stay Android exclusive.

@(Unverified)

If Godwin's law states "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1"...what do we call the law that states "As an online discussion regarding an iOS application grows longer, the probability of a butthurt comparison involving Android approaches 1."?

@(Unverified)

When an android phone comes out with input lag anywhere near as low as an iPhone 4, lemme know and maybe I'll be willing to play some real games on it.

-sent from my HTC thunderbolt

Oh sweet, I got this on iPad but it'd be awesome to put this on my girlfriend's iPhone and hopefully wean her off of Angry Birds...at least for a little while.

I've been enjoying this game. It's not crackily addictive like Tilt to Live, or even Tiny Wings, but it's a true adventure game with plenty to explore. Tilt to Live is great when I'm waiting for a subway, but #sworcery is better when it's a rainy weeknight, and I'm stuck at home listening to the patter with a beer and a couple hours to kill with my Chillaxe +1 of Meditation.

Games like this make me want to buy an iPad. It's hard to justify a five hundred dollar tablet though, when I've already got a laptop and an iPhone (one takes care of surfing when I'm on the couch, and the other when I'm not at home).

I hope this plays well on the iPhone, because I've been looking forward to it for a while now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJpCFUEaVuM

I was hoping to get this game but was worried it was only for 3GS+, I have an ipod touch 2g which is supposed to be a little faster than an iphone 3g so it better be compatible.

I hope this will run on an 1st gen iPod Touch. The games are the only reason I still have it and tolerate iTunes in small doses.

@Samutz same. i have a 2g touch, and $3 on my account.

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