Friday, June 29, 2012

Survival Run with Bear Grylls



We just released our endless runner Survival Run with Bear Grylls, in which you must help Bear Grylls escape from a Grizzly bear while running through 4 different environments. The game aims to expand on the Temple Run genre and future gameplay updates are already in the works.

The game is currently available for free on iOS as a universal build and we are getting ready to submit the Android build as well.

We used Unity 3.5.2 Pro, EZ GUI, and Prime31's StoreKit and GoKit tweening library. We also created our own plugins to support iCade, rate our app, download wallpapers, and display a UIWebView. We initially used the robust iTween library, but switched to GoKit since iTween was performaing a massive amount of allocations and therefore garbage collections in the game. Object pools are created for every single piece, which was a massive improvement from just doing Instantiate/Destroy all the time.