We are at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco right now to present Radio Flare. I’m happy to remind you that Radio Flare is a finalist for the Audio Achievement in the 2009 Independent Games Festival Mobile Competition. If you are there come visit us at the IGF Mobile Pavilion at Moscone North. You can find us there from Wednesday through Friday.

We are also at work perparing the next update to Radio Flare. Until the release of the update the game is on sale for $ 0.99!

UPDATE 22/02: We just dropped the price of Radio Flare to $2.99 / €2.39. See our updated press release and news post for further info.

Vienna, Austria, 02/19/2008

Radio Flare: First major update + Radio Flare Lite

Studio radiolaris is proud to announce the availability of Radio Flare Lite in the Apple App Store. The game is a free version of the musical shooter game Radio Flare. It is fully playable with highscore lists and two game modes featuring more than 50 enemy formations. At the same time we would like to advertise that Radio Flare is getting its first major update. Version 1.1 of the acclaimed musical shooter game features new stages, power-ups, more enemy types, and much crisper graphics.

“We are a young studio committed to producing great quality games. We listened to the audience and critics to learn what to make better in Radio Flare” explains Fares Kayali, one of the two founders of studio radiolaris. Martin Pichlmair adds: “We knew that we had got the game mechanics right but that the level design needed one more iteration. The game started out too easy and went too hard later on. We balanced it better in this release, made the difficulty curve smoother”

At this point we want to take the opportunity to thank all players, critics and reviewers for their valuable feedback. We received a lot of suggestions and have been working on improving your experience of the game. The result is a completely new experience of the game: More intensity, more action, more interactivity.

We are very pleased to let you know that Radio Flare is a finalist for Best Audio at the 2009 Independent Games Festival Mobile. We will present Radio Flare and Radio Flare Lite at the IGF mobile booth at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, March 23rd to 27th. Be sure to visit us, if you are there.

New in Radio Flare 1.1:
+ 2 completely new stages
+ Several new and challenging enemy types
+ Power-ups for greater gameplay variety and fun
+ Huge graphics update
+ A cleaner yet fancier menu interface
+ Numerous bug fixes

Radio Flare is available at the App Store for $4.99 (€3.99)
Radio Flare Lite is available on the App Store for free.

Radio Flare App Store link -

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=299937094&mt=8

Radio Flare lite App Store link -

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=305357269&mt=8

studio radiolaris – http://www.radiolaris.com
Radio Flare – http://www.radiolaris.com/radioflare
IGF Mobile 2009 competition – http://www.igfmobile.com/02finalists.html
Screenshots – http://radiolaris.com/radioflare/RadioFlare-Screenshots-Update1.1.zip
Gameplay Video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxw407Qwh8k
studio radiolaris is a newly founded game studio of Martin Pichlmair and Fares Kayali. The focus of studio radiolaris is on games about music. Both founders have their roots in electronic music, media art, and academic research.

We’re very pleased to announce that today Radio Flare was named a finalist for the 2009 Independent Games Festival Mobile. Radio Flare is a finalist for the Audio Achievement and stood out in a field of more than 100 entries. The IGF Mobile, an event that celebrates innovation in games for handheld devices, including mobile phones, DS, PSP, iPhone and iPod touch, is held during the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco on March 24th and 25th, 2009.