Babel Rising
A million copies shifted and an iPad version on the way.
France – April 27, 2010 – Bulkypix and White Birds Productions today announced that Babel Rising, its award-winning tower defense puzzle game for iPhone and iPod touch, has sold more than 1 million units worldwide.
Babel Rising is a tower-defense game with a twist. The tower in this case is the Tower of Babel from Genesis 11:1-9, and you play God trying to keep the builders from completing the tower for as long as possible.
You accumulate points for killing humans with your various divine powers and for slowing the builders down. Your powers include the finger of God (invoked by touching humans), lighting bolts (swipe down with one finger), mighty wind (swipe across with one finger), a tidal wave (swipe across with two fingers), fireballs from heaven (swipe down with two fingers, and earthquake (shake the iPhone). Each power takes time to recharge, and depending on the destructiveness of the power, recharging time ranges from quick (finger of God, lightning) to slow (wind, tidal wave) to very slow (fire balls, earthquake). That means the stronger destructive powers can only be used occasionally. It should be noted that none of these divine powers do any damage to the tower itself, only to the humans. However, occasionally, God’s divine eye grows large and blinks. If you touch the eye at the critical moment, you can utterly destroy one level (but only one) of the tower.
"Bulkypix steps above other publishers by truly working hard to bring their games to market,” said Michel Bams of White Birds Productions. “No other company has managed to repeatedly raise previously unknown titles to the top of the App Store charts, making them into leading game brands as they have done with Babel Rising."
“As soon as anyone plays Babel Rising, they are happy and addicted,” promised Bulkypix COO and Head of Marketing, Vincent Dondaine. “The game has universal appeal. After all, who would want to pass up playing God?"
Anyone who wants to dive into this hugely addictive game can get the full version for just $0.99 on the App Store now.
About White Birds Productions:
Created in 2003, White Birds Productions is a video games studio based in Paris, France. Specialized in creating games with strong narrative aspects and famous for their graphic realizations, the studio has done more than 15 titles on the main video game platforms. On the iPhone, White Birds has got an ambitious editorial politic and wants to offer original and innovative contains in addition to adapt their most famous adventure games.
About Bulkypix:
Bulkypix is an award winning publisher and developer of games and applications for iPhone and iPod Touch. The company was set up by former employees of Vivendi Games Mobile in 2008. Bulkypix’s ambition is to create innovative games, such as Hysteria Project (won the French “Revelation 2009 Milthon Award, My Brute based on the famous PC Brand, BaDaBoo a simple and addictive casual games downloaded more than 650 000 times or Daily Quizz with 5 questions per day to learn and entertain you every day.
Bulkypix also develops and releases applications (cultural, commercial, and advertising). Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us if you have any projects you want to be published on the Appstore.